Eleven key consumer trends to watch in 2011 include acts of kindness from brands, the developed world launching products for emerging economies, and online status symbols, according to consumer insights firm trendwatching.com. Following is a brief overview of each of the 11 consumer trends which trendwatching.com predicts will have a global impact on marketers in [...]
Forget Icelandic volcanoes, the newest sensation to hit the digital nation is BOOBQUAKE!! Born from the breast of sardonic Jen McCreight, a 20-something liberal college student blogger of sorts, her quip on blog Blag Hag has been making its rounds ‘round the blogosphere as well as the mainstream media. And what is boobquake you ask? [...]
In the perfect world, a client needs someone who knows the Social Media scene & not only gets it but can set the tone for a brand. Oh yeah, and someone who knows that control is futile.
Mind-melding in action by…gah! Marketers!
The New York Times released a fascinating article on what the Chinese are calling “human-flesh searching”. It seems that social media has spurred an underground group of moral heroes in China. A collection of people banding together from the Internet to cast out perpetrators of heinous and immoral actions, unifying together to ban the accused parties from certain jobs, lifestyles, or even to force them to move away from their home city. Excerpts and a link to the full article after the jump.
So being the semi-avid academic that I am, I don’t b.s. about bookmarking websites that provide a generous wealth of pop culture pulp for my pontificating pleasure. That being said, I can’t quite convey how much Pew Research Center tickles my pickle. It’s a site where the statistics are relevant and the digest is edible. [...]
I used Foursquare less than 20 times before the kind folks at forthehack who created Please Rob Me helped me see the potential danger of not only stalkers (you know who you are) but the new breed of tech savvy burglar who are using Location-based social networking. Social sites like Localtweeps make it easy for [...]
Last week, Compete.com announced that their data showed Facebook had beaten Yahoo! in number of unique visitors in January 2010. Why is this such a big deal? What I want to know is: Why hasn’t Facebook had more visitors than Yahoo! already? And the numbers are really close too! This is Compete’s graph: Now how [...]
Facebook users reached a new low today, sympathizing and glorifying the actions of a disturbed man. If you are a fan of Joe Stack or what he did, you are a fan of terrorism. There is no way around it.
Take your lingo and shove it.
Google is scrambling to repair the security exploit (see lack of follower message view control) they overlooked by stating that the option to block public views of contacts was always there. LifeHacker has a decent walk-through and Google has now posted a “we listened to your feedback” post on the official Google blog page. This fix is not a [...]
Thank you for the warning Harriet. ( The BBC NEWS seemed to agree back in 2007) I use my private Gmail account to email my boyfriend and my mother. There’s a BIG drop-off between them and my other “most frequent” contacts. You know who my third most frequent contact is? My abusive ex-husband. Which is [...]
Om Malik, writing at Gigaom, has declared MySpace to be dead. E’s kicked the bucket, ‘e’s shuffled off ‘is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE!!”
In today’s mobile web, you need to be nimble and keep innovation a top priority. Rupert Murdoch just doesn’t get it.
In a recent article titled Stop the World Posted by George Packer of The New Yoker the author goes on a rather long winded rant about his fear of Twitter, going as far as comparing it to crack and stating that he won’t even considering using the service for fear that he’ll let his child [...]
Don’t shoot the messenger. Please…..
What then is the implication of these findings?
“We still don’t think we understand this fully,” said Mr. Lund. But one possibility is that while cellphones are a distraction, maybe they are not “all that much worse a distraction than many of the other things that we do.”
Here is the something we do that causes wrecks…..
JD Salinger, the legendary novelist, reluctant voice of a generation, and notorious recluse, died yesterday. As is the norm nowadays, Salinger became a Trending Topic on Twitter. There are currently 243 Facebook groups and 25 pages devoted to him. The NYTimes comment section connected to the article on his death has over 200 comments. Personally, [...]
Teh Intrawebz are offensive, by nature.
Every once in awhile, you look down at the trending topics on twitter and wonder why in the hell this is trending. Sometimes, it’s a European thing. Sometimes, it’s a completely random WTF type thing. So, in case you would like to know WHY this particular meme is trending on twitter at any given time, [...]
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