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Building A Better Chat Room

If the new startup Tokkster is right, being able to chat with other customers on company home pages will be the next big thing.READ»

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How To Read The Link-Crazy Web Without Going Insane

Feel like your attention span operates at an inverse rate to your broadband speed? Here's how you can give the good stuff on the web the attention it deserves.READ»

Is That A Nielsen Box In Your Pocket?

A new mobile analytics software installed on Americans' mobile devices is giving Nielsen a better way to gather metered data on how people use their smartphones.READ»

This Is The Time To Go Your Own Way

Social Media represent change. Change evokes fear and sometimes that fear can paralyze us. Yet, all we need is a better understanding of how we got here in order to plan for where we need to go.READ»

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7 Sites That Make Searching For A New Home Less Painful

At a time when people are likely to accept that job, wherever in the country that may be, we're fortunate to have a plethora of web tools to make the home-finding process just a little bit easier.READ»

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As We All Embrace "Going Green," Have We All Become Hippies?

Once upon a time, anyone who professed a desire to save energy or help the environment was assumed to be some tree-hugging hippie. Have we all become a hippie of some sort now?READ»

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iFive: Amazon Cloud Woes, Samsung Sues Apple, Facebook's "Like" Birthday, Apple Cloud Music Ready, Microsoft Patents Buying Apps

It's Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday (sorry). And, better yet, get up to speed with the morning's news.READ»

Malcolm Gladwell, Your Slip Is Showing

In these historic times, I wished to add perspective in the hopes of moving this important conversation in a productive direction. Malcolm Gladwell continues his march toward ignorance with his latest installment in the New Yorker about social media vs. social activism.READ»

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Zoopy Ditches User-Generated Content, Powers Up Mobile Video Platform

The South African multimedia sharing service just made significant changes. Will the market respond?READ»

The Social Compass Is the GPS for the Adaptive Business

Impact lies beyond the socialization of business; it introduces us to a genre of an adaptive business, an entity that can earn relevance now and over time by listening, engaging, and learning.READ»

New Media and the Future of Business

I was recently interviewed by Israel's BuzzInNews about new media and business. The discussion explores the evolution of social media in business from attention economics to B2B to ROI and concluding with a discussion of the brewing cold war between Google and Facebook.READ»

Baidu's English-Language Blog Illuminates Chinese Web Activity

China's equivalent of Google offers a window into the world of the country's netizens--but how transparent will the leading Chinese search engine be?READ»

From Community Management to Command Centers

Over the years, the role of the community manager has evolved. What started as a gateway to surfacing the conversations related to brands in the emerging conversational landscape, evolved into something far more sophisticated. And, we're just getting started.READ»

Exploring the Twitterverse

Twitter officially launched to the public in July 2006. Now 2001, the universe of applications developed to enhance the Twitter experience is boundless. The ability to track and manage the apps designed for specific purposes has been elusive. A transmedia infographic of the Twitterverse is finally here.READ»

The Best of 2010: Hybrid Theory and the Future of Marketing

Jeremiah Owyang, industry analyst at Altimeter Group, published a report that sent shock waves throughout the global creative industry, "How Social Media Boutiques are Winning Deals Over Traditional Digital Agencies." For large agencies, it represented a harbinger of change. For specialized groups, the report was a declaration of validation.READ»

A Conversation About You, Social Currency, and Social Capital

Our stature in the social web is based on our actions and words. Essentially, your "balance sheet" is available for anyone with a web browser to review, assess, and analyze. While this may seem trivial, progressive businesses are already factoring your stature into their customer index.READ»

How Twitter Is Changing: A New Study Reveals Twitter's New Direction

2010 will be forever commemorated as the year Twitter matured from a cool but undecided teenager into a more confident and assertive young adult. While there's still much room to mature and develop, Twitter's new direction is crystallizing.READ»

The Difference Between Friends, Fans, and Followers

There is no one audience. It's an audience of audiences with audiences and within each are varying roles of the social consumer.READ»

Katie Couric on Privacy and Personal Branding

From privacy to cyber-bullying to shaping online impressions, Katie and I bring to light the issues and opportunities facing parents, educators, children, peers, and who we are professionally.READ»

The State of the Blogosphere 2010

The question when examining the state of the blogosphere is whether or not the cup is half full or half empty? The answer lies in the nature of circumstances: If drinking from the glass, it is then half empty. If pouring, it is half full.READ»