What do the forty most share articles on Facebook for 2011 tell us? Well, for starters, we can see why they call it the mainstream media with the leader board dominated by just a handful of the major news sources. The same usual suspects such as The New York Times, CNN, Yahoo appear over and [...]
Today’s the day – Small Business Saturday – to give a boost to your favorite local shops and stores, so make the pledge to “Shop Small” in big way today.
Just how easy can sharing info be? According to David Lieb, the CEO of bump technologies, it can be as easy as tapping two smartphones together. How does it work? “There are two parts to Bump: the app running on your device and a smart matching algorithm running on our servers in the cloud. The [...]
Putting a human face on the power of tweeting, Twitter Stories presents the tale of Aaron Durand, just an everyday dude, who saved his mother’s store (Broadway Books) from closure with a creative and effective use of 140 characters. Aaron Durand tweets under the name @everydaydude and the Twitter handle for his mom, Roberta Dyer, [...]
Ford has a job to do – introduce their brand new 2013 Ford Escape – but they would rather play games… and they’re hoping the rest of you do too. In order to introduce their new vehicle to the world, Ford is teaming up with Zynga in a unique promotion that they hope will produce [...]
The Charlie Rose interview with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg:
“I have Twitter so that I can just tell people what I want them to buy and give me money.”
Robert Levine, author of Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back, makes an interesting argument that the internet is killing our culture by diminishing, if not destroying, the financial value of the intellectual property that defines it through not only increasingly easy methods of [...]
A little bored with your Gmail? If you spend a lot of time using it, you’ve noticed that the look is more than just a little long in the tooth at this point. Well, starting yesterday, Google began rolling out a new look for Gmail along with a well thought-out set of feature and option [...]
Microsoft shares a look at what’s in store for us in the near future.
