Some social networks sometimes by their very purpose generate a need that few really thought of crucial importance, consider what just happened.
I ran today into a @HuffingtonPost article tweeted by @TedCoine, titled “The End Of Capitalism — So What’s Next?“ by Klaus Schwab (Founder & President of The Davos World Economic Forum). I first tried to share the article through Pinterest but surprise! I got a message that no large images were found in the article: Continue Reading…
Much has been said about Google modifying the way it is searched and it switching to semantic. Semantic meaning: human speak rather than what it currently uses: machine speak that humans can understand.
On the other side of the ring, is Facebook. The mastodon social network has done well enough with advertising and Facebook credits to allow it an IPO — latest and highest valuations are putting it at above $100 billion. But that was only the end of the beginning. It is now a public company and the pressure is on for revenue growth.
Where’s the money on the web today? There’s a lot in “big data”. Who’s the king of big data today? Google is probably one of them. And how does Google make money from “big data”? By making it easily searchable to two million queries every minute. Continue Reading…
On March 30th, Facebook will switch all profiles and pages to the new timeline display.If you haven’t made the switch yet, your profile and page may show a “gaping hole” after that date and until you do. Even if you have made the switch here’s a handy guide from the folks at iframe apps with some great tips.
For those living under a online rock, with the “Timeline” is the new Facebook profile with which Facebook wants you to “Tell your life story” (…) “through photos, friendships and personal milestones like graduating or traveling to new places“.
Let’s what happens…
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Thanks to a tweet by Jeremiah Owyang (aka @JowYang) I found out about this new “network” that may be pointing out to a new kind of “social”.
The kind that’s closed and limited to the one person of your choice. In this case only two. The name is simply “Pair“, self-described as: “An interactive way for you and your partner to share everything“. With concepts such as “thumbkissing” and “sketch together”, the iPhone app has some interesting features.
SloMo is not to be confused with the currently very hot SoLoMo acronym.
So this past week during a social event in Marrakech, I met the charming @Michelle_Adams_ and a — by his own account — photographer, British, living in New York, that drinks tea fellow by the name of Patrick Cline, aka @PatrickCline_.
Within the time constraints of the event – a photo shoot at @PeacockPavilion for @LonnyMag – and during the rare breaks, we exchanged business cards and the traditional social platitudes.
Although it is still some people’s reality today — and this post is really for them,
A few highlights on this infographic illustrating one of the most fundamental shifts happening in education today. Just as remote commuting is exploding, the wave has moved upstream into the younger strata of society with e-learning.
On that latter point, one might wonder about the headache recruiters are bound to have. Going from a model where: Continue Reading…
Mercedes-Benz magisterially took on Twitter to promote the launch of a new great feature for us all urban dwellers. The Park-Assist feature can actually alert you to empty parking spots as you cruise around in your new Mercedes.
To promote the feature — and the new cars — Mercedes-Benz chose a parking frustration high season: Christmas, in a heavily urbanized environment: Stuttgart, Germany. The company then sent cars driving around town, automatically sending geo-tagged tweets about every empty parking spot they found for anyone using on Twitter to use.
The new feature is actually pretty nifty, once it finds a suitable parking spot, another feature takes over and virtually parallel parks the car for you…. But hey! Look at me here, playing up Mercedes-Benz features as if I owned their stock! It’s not even a favorite car brand of mine! — I lean more to BMW in this category. I’m falling right into the trap I’m describing below. Continue Reading…
This presentation was an introduction to social media for the UPM students.
Feel free to reuse and share as you see fit. Continue Reading…
First question is it really? Answer yes and twitter provides that unequivocal answer via 5+ million tweets across 46 countries in 23 languages.
Why? Simply because it’s an event that moves billions of dollars in advertising and most brands are today operating on a global basis.
Not convinced?
Check the infographic below for the heavy hitters who rode this year’s football super-bonanza: Continue Reading…
Jim Kohlenberger recently released a paper outlining what the Internet’s third act might look like. He is a former White House policy advisor to two U.S. Presidents and is President of JK Strategies – a public policy consulting practice.
The report points out a now well understood concept by the geekiest amongst us, the “Internet of Things”. Marissa Mayer, Google’s Vice President of Location and Local Services, back in May 2010 started explaining in her presentation entitled: “The Physics of Data”, what the impact of the average person uploading 15 times moredata in 2009 than they did just three years ago, might do to the web as we know today.In his report, Jim Kohlenberger outlines that the internet has undergone three major revolutions in connecting: places then people and now on its way to connect things. In it Jim Kohlenberger outlines a series societal benefits but also the risks that may stifle this coming revolution. Continue Reading…
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