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Whatever else is going on about the London 2012 Olympics – border control nightmares at Heathrow, cracks in the M4 motorway, cellular network outages, not enough security staff – it looks like mainstream broadcast media have things well under control to offer amazing experiences throughout the games. The BBC already announced details of its blanket [...]
If you organize conferences and similar events, your future in terms of how you organize and price your events just got really interesting. If you’re a conference-goer, events that might be out of reach to you for reasons of distance and/or total cost including travel and accommodation, just got equally interesting. It’s all down to [...]
German news magazine Der Spiegel reports that Germany’s largest credit agency plans to mine Facebook and other social networking sites in search of information that could help the agency determine what effect online relationships may have on people’s abilities to pay their bills. [... The credit agency] SCHUFA also plans to analyze information about people [...]
The Tom Wolfe novel from the 1980s that’s the title of this post – along with the movie of the same name – comes to my mind when reading media reports and online commentary and punditry this morning about the Facebook initial public offering last week and its immediate (current) aftermath. Many if not all [...]
Microsoft launched a “social search network” on Sunday – So.cl. Here’s how Microsoft describes it: So.cl (pronounced “social”) is an experimental research project, developed by Microsoft’s FUSE Labs, focused on exploring the possibilities of social search for the purpose of learning. So.cl combines social networking and search, to help people find and share interesting web [...]
One online property that’s been getting huge attention over the past few weeks is Pinterest, the join-by-invitation content-sharing and social networking service. Not only huge attention but also huge take-up by its users – TechCrunch reported earlier this month with data from comScore showing Pinterest reached 11.7 million unique monthly US visitors, crossing the 10 [...]
There’s a huge gap in expectation as Econsultancy reports on research by Zendesk that says: 62% of customers are looking for more support through social media 23% of companies actually provide it that way on Facebook Simple action: pay attention to what your customers want and deliver on that. Embedded Link The future of customer [...]
I caught a few minutes of President Obama’s Google+ Hangout last night as it was streamed on YouTube. If you’ve done a Google+ Hangout video chat before, you’ll be familiar with the format and this was no different. Except, of course, it was the President of the United States plus five lucky citizens chosen by [...]
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