The perpetually declining cost of data storage has made our lives, especially the online versions of them, more savable and searchable than ever before. Server farms are growing faster than strawberries on FarmVille, with demand for ...READ»
When I joked everything would soon be wired to a social network the other day I didn't realize how close I was to the mark. Because social net giant Facebook is angling to become the vehicle that lets everything on your smartphone get ...READ»
Social networking has completely tangled itself into the fabric of our daily lives, and though Facebook is still de rigueur, people with specific interests and advertisers who want to reach those people are becoming more the norm. For ...READ»
Internet fads have proven to be short-lived, "jumping the shark" and falling from grace as swiftly as they rose. Twitter will prove to be the exception because of its one permanently-redeeming quality: simplicity.READ»
If you think microsharing (Twitter and it's enterprise-strength counterparts) is new, consider that humans have conveyed short messages, rife with meaning, for over thirty thousand years. Smoke signals have traversed the airways. Expressive quips filled Seinfeld’s show. At all stages and ages, we burst forward. So what is new, what makes this a revolution?READ»
Users of Twitter buy more music than people who don't Twitter. This seems to be a classic halo-effect, but is it actually being caused by Twitter?READ»
Speaking in Japan yesterday, a Google spokesman confirmed that the giant search-engine company wants to offer social-networking style search results. It's Google's latest tweak, and it comes as Microsoft launches its rival Bing ...READ»
Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans. It should come as no surprise, then, that social Web technologies have a complex relationship with ...READ»
Tara Hunt, co-founder of Citizen Agency and author of The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business, appears on Fast Company's, "The Most Influential Women in Technology: The Evangelists." Here she ...READ»
There is a revolution taking place in the world right now. People are being empowered via web 2.0 technologie/social media. Its now easier to get your voice or music heard via blogs and social networks. Its not only about the voice, we are all now much more capable people. You can launch you own radio station within minutes!!!!!READ»
Research firm Anderson Analytics has taken advantage of a new policy that permits market researchers to survey LinkedIn users and find out who they are/target them for both research and marketing according to AdAge. This ...READ»
Social networks are all the rage and many of my posts at OnlineMarketerBlog recommend social tools for businesses. However, there are potential pitfalls to consider before you facilitate interaction between customers and your ...READ»
Identity Management has been a pretty hot topic for a while now. As some digital providers getting more traction and recognition from large companies such as Microsoft, Google and Yahoo - I looked at OpenID ( http://openid.net/ ) to ...READ»
Back in the days of Web 1.0, a.k.a. before the great crash of 2000, Scott McNealy, then CEO of SUN Microsystems was fond of saying, “The network IS the computer.” Now that we’re in the world of Web 2.0 where the term ...READ»
How many times we've heard that we live in technology driven and technology oriented societies ? It would be safe to say that everyone in western world knows that, some live by it and some just take advantage by using what's available ...READ»
For Recruiting on the Social Web - add some innovation!
This
post has a twist. It's not so much about advise for recruiters, 'cause
I'm not a recruiter. It's about engaging in relationships with others
and letting our ...READ»
While
the term “broadcasting” means many things most think in terms of blogs,
social networks and YouTube. The next leg of the social web will
progress to enable individuals, groups and entire communities to
establish their ...READ»
We have been in dialog with numerous Fortune 500 corporations relative to the benefits of leveraging social media. Much
of our advice has been centric to ensuring that leadership understands
the dynamics of embarking on any social ...READ»
According to a recent Rapleaf study,
while both sexes still use social networking sites in huge numbers,
women are the ones holding down the fort. I have known that the ladies
"get" the social part of social networking ...READ»
As we watch
developments across the web we try and look ahead as to where and when
the functions and features will converge. Features such as video, micro
blogging, networking, blogging, feeds, search etc. etc. ...READ»
We are, of course, social creatures, and many marketers understand that. Telecom companies have long encouraged us to connect with our friends & family (or Unity), call our network for free, and purchase family plans. ...READ»
It's been my experience that government and quasi-government agencies are always the last ones to figure out the technology that helps them accomplish their mission. For the most part, my impression has not changed, though more and ...READ»
