3 Social Media Trends: Segmentation, Specialization & Socialization

You don’t need need to be an expert to conclude that social media are evolving at a rapid clip. Unfortunately, a lot of coverage seems more akin to conversations about another person’s favorite show (i.e., deta...CLICK TO READ MORE

The Unification of Experience

People today are faced with the cumbersome task of dealing with disparate content on multiple screens, via multiple platforms, and through multiple profiles. The unification of experience is the great frontier for innovati...CLICK TO READ MORE

The Loneliness of Social Media

Are we becoming more ‘social’ as our lives are progressively saturated by social media? If so, why has the number of lonely people nearly tripled in the United States over the last 20 years, according to recent res...CLICK TO READ MORE

Facebook Privacy: the Tell-All Generation Learning Discretion?

Privacy isn’t to be taken for granted in an increasingly ‘jacked in’ world, and many are taking cue. Last week’s security lapse that exposed personal Facebook chats was embarrassing for both the social ...CLICK TO READ MORE

YouTube Turns Five: Changing TV & Creating Celebrities

May 19th, 2010 Culture, Life, Media, Technology 4 Comments

TV networks hate it, audience-seeking creatives love it, and we all watch it: YouTube. Five years ago this past Monday, three former employees of early PayPal — Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jaw.

The Mobile Internet Era Is Upon Us

May 2nd, 2010 Life, Media, Stuff, Technology 18 Comments

Mobile internet is here to stay, and our social lives — that is, how we interact with others, the content we consume, and the things we buy — will be indelibly shaped by its imminent ub.

The Buzz Around Google Buzz

February 9th, 2010 Life, Media, Technology 5 Comments

Beyond Status Messages: Google's push into social sharing of updates, photos, videos & more. Leaked yesterday in The Wall Street Journal, Google announced the deployment of Google Buzz, its e.

Wiki-counter-terrorism & Social Surveillance

January 25th, 2010 Culture, Media, Technology 10 Comments

An MQ-1 Predator drone returned from a mission to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan with a new paintjob, courtesy of StevenDuque.com. In his book Wikinomics, business strategist Don Tapscott writes: .