If you’re one of the millions of people who will be watching the Super Bowl on February 6th for the commercials, you may want to check out BrandBowl2011.com, a website devoted to ranking how well the events commercials resonate with viewers.

The site, sponsored by Boston.com provides instant feedback about each commercial during the big game by capturing certain phrases, catch phrases, names and brand names that are used in each commercial.

The more a phrase or name or other identifier is captured on Twitter, the higher rank that commercial receives. read more

Searches are beginning to flow out of Egypt once again after the government today restored at least part of the internet connectivity they had stopped when protests broke out in the country last week.

While some reports say the internet has been “turned back on” there are other reports that major social networking services, including Facebook and Twitter are still being restricted.

The move to suppress Facebook and Twitter amidst rioting shouldn’t come as a surprise as those networks had been used to fuel large protest meetups and to fuel anti-government sentiments. read more

Google’s Street View tech has made finding new places easier while supplying us with a steady stream of knowledge and expanding our urban barriers. Today, Google took the next step in location exploration by launching its streetview tech for museums.

The site, Google Art Project is exactly what you would expect from Google streetview but in a museum.

Eighteen months in the making, Google says it’s worked with 17 art museums including, Altes Nationalgalerie, The Freer Gallery of Art Smithsonian, National Gallery (London), The Frick Collection, Gemäldegalerie, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, Museo Reina Sofia, Museo Thyseen – Bornemisza, Museum Kampa, Palace of Versailles, Rijksmuseum, The State Hermitage Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, Tate, Uffizi and Van Gogh Museum.

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For web users who want a more intimate social networking experience Path with their mobile platform that offers only a 50 friend limit has become a popular destination and today the company has announced a round of Series A funding.

The company’s newest round of funding brings with it $8.65 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Index Ventures, Digital Garage Japan and First Round Capital.

That money comes after $2.5 million was originally raised in Angel funding from Index and First Round.

Path was founded by former Facebook employee Dave Morin and several other big names in tech and the site promises to keep away spammers by limiting the size of a persons network, leaving users to more closely choose who they accept into their network. read more

Unless you’ve been living under a rock recently, you’re already well aware of the growing civil unrest in Egypt. You most likely know about it thanks to Social Media, particularly Facebook and Twitter. However, many people are claiming Social Media is what sparked the revolution in Tunisia, Egypt and will do so again in any other country ready for revolution in the Middle East. If anything Social Media has only helped revolutions, not started them.

I’m not downplaying the effects of Social Media but I’m not exactly attributing the next overthrow of any Orwellian government to Twitter. Instead, it’s what the people are saying – that’s what responsible for revolutions. Twitter, Facebook nor any Social Media channel is not directly responsible for organizing millions of people in to overthrowing a government or staging protests – these are all thoughts that have been years in the making, – it has only been recently that acting on these thoughts en masse was viable. read more

Justin.tv in March will launch a new mobile app called SocialCam which will allow users to more easily upload their videos to their favorite social networks.

The announcement comes just 5 months after Justin.tv launched their first Google Android and iPhone apps, both which will receive the new SocialCam option.

Justin.tv developers quickly learned that nearly 90% of live broadcast videos from their first app were actually watched after they were posted online, leading them to look more closely at social sharing .

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