Rebecca Zook is an online female math tutor who has been helping students get math into their brains for seven years. She blogs about learning at Triangle Suitcase . We’ve sorted the contenders from the pretenders and found five genuinely fun ways to help your kids learn math this summer. These unique technologies go way beyond the world of flashcards, and use surprising tools including rap music, adaptive technology, psychological research... 

We see Twitter being used for many different purposes , some of them less frivolous and actively positive . Enter another positive development, this time from federal judge and current First Lady of Pennsylvania, Marjorie O. Rendell.  Read More →

Facebook, Twitter, and social media are new tools in the online dating realm. While most solutions use Facebook or Twitter to do things like make it easier to sign in or populate their dating site with data, few really use the social graph to connect you with potential mates  Read More →

Ben & Jerry’s has never been one to follow the status quo when it comes to their ice cream flavors or their social media marketing tactics. Last month we flipped over their upside down status updates , but their latest move is making an even bigger social statement. The Vermont ice cream maker updated their Twitter account [ @cherrygarcia ] this morning to inform followers of their latest flavor announcement: Chubby Hubby, an all-time... 

Aimed primarily at small and medium-sized businesses without an in-house development staff, Sweb Apps is a new startup that lets you build a simple iPhone application using a series of web forms. The upside is you don’t need any specific technical knowledge to build up an app quickly (the company touts “in as little as 5 minutes!”), but the downside is the app interface and functionality are relatively basic. Still, for companies,... 

Wait a minute, this can’t be true. In a StudyBlue survey conducted by SurveyU, students went on the record to say that they are much likelier to spend more than three hours studying online each day than participating in any other online activity, such as using Facebook or other social networking sites. StudyBlue, an online academic network that aims to help students study smarter, used SurveyU’s high school and college student panel... 

In this post Jade Craven ( @jadecraven ) reviews Twitter Success Blueprint . Before I interacted with Sarah on twitter, I was so jealous of her networking skills.  Read More →