Two news items popped up this week that I’m liking and that indicate some interesting crossover not only in platforms but in online and offline audiences thanks to some new tools and some big name companies embracing user generated content. While YouTube is moving away from the user generated content and organic discovery that made [...]
Recently I did a spot for New Hampshire’s WMUR Channel 9 on Savvy Shopping using smart phones. One part of the segments that got edited out were my comments on stores being able to improve retention in the face of ubiquitous pricing info and user ratings by improving their customer experience and customer service. It [...]
The iPhone’s next update, 3.0, was just unveiled yesterday. For all of you that don’t own iPhones (which includes me), you might very well be wondering how I can connect the progress of a single phone to the advancement of mobile social networking as a whole. I’m going to explain, so try to keep up. [...]
I just got my first iPod Touch, and suffice it to say that I’m officially hooked. In fact, I’m more than hooked. In less than 24 hours, I’ve effectively decided that lugging around a Blackberry Curve with the wonderful Touch is too much, and that I need an iPhone. Leslie called the iPod Touch a [...]
2008 was a big year. An economic recession, presidential election and wild weather certainly made the year exciting; for tech and media, we saw the continued adoption of smartphones, the advent of online mobile application stores, the success of Twitter, and an increase in the use of social media tools by both young and old. [...]
Here’s a little secret from me to you regarding mobile social media and networking: if it is too frustrating or time consuming for people to access social content from handheld devices, they will simply stop trying. I’m a Blackberry user. You might even say that I am a Crackberry addict. I won’t say it, because [...]
I have new articles up at Mac.Blorge, Tech.Blorge and Mashable covering DEMO companies, Apple events, Ubiquity for the Mac and a brief commentary on TechCrunch50 vs DEMOFall08. Check them out and let me know what you think. The next piece in the social media for social change series on Mashable should be up shortly as [...]
Though I’ve said almost incessantly that social media will, in the very near future, start migrating as a whole to mobile devices, it is always nice to see a little evidence to back that theory up. iSuppli, an analyst group focused on interpreting trends in electronics, claims that the massive adoption of smartphones and internet-friendly [...]
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