[EDIT Oct. 3, 2011] – Thanks to @FakhriZina and @OperationLeakS for sharing this humdinger of a video :: Day Trader tells truth live on UK BBCNews 9/26/11 This morning I began my day reading over the messages from those who are showing their support for the #OccupyWallStreet movement by posting pictures of notes that tell [...]
How do you manage your online experience? Are you more concerned with getting the highest scores you can on the social influence sites… or are you in social media to connect with people? Do you can check in on Foursquare, check TwitterGrader, buy Groupons, try to raise your Klout score or sell your “social stock” on [...]
UPDATE :: FCC Looks into BART Mobile Phone Shutdown — San Francisco’s BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) cut cell phone service due to Protestors planning a rally on August 11, 2011 to bring attention to a number of recent BART transit police officer shootings. In the wake of the havoc in London, where Prime Minister [...]
Early this morning I was poking around Facebook like many millions of people do each day, when I saw a post by my friend Deirdre Reid aka @deirdrereid. She commented on how @MrMichael_Smith of @ESPN had posted tweets on how funny he thought the accident of Dutch cyclist Johnny Hoogerland was on twitter. Yep you [...]
January is quickly approaching. What does this mean for early adopters and lovers of cool tech gadgetry? Only one thing, CES is nigh. This will be a fun time to go to CES, as many companies are preparing to take on Apple iPad with tablets of their own. I expect internet TV to get some [...]
Internet bargaineer Woot.com has sent out emails for $5 purchases using the coupon code CHANGEYOURPASSWORD. The email, pictured above, also refers the reader to a snarky NYTimes article about the fiasco which asks, at one point, “Why would people have a Gawker account?” Live by the snark, die by the snark.
LG Electronics (LG) today unveiled the LG Optimus 2X, that they plan to launch at International CES in Las Vegas in January. The fine folks at LG connected with Mobile Local Social and offered to fly me to Vegas to be one of their featured blogger/twitter users, and help them get publicity for their new [...]
Before you tear me apart for a sensationalist title, let me explain. I do not think that Gawker Media, the multimillion dollar blogging corporation, will fall. As a general rule, I do not second-guess the business strategies of multi-million dollar companies. However, the bloom is definitely off the rose as far as Gawker’s standing in [...]
With the goal of bringing you the content you need to know, we are gonna start recapping some of the top news that makes us think. How to Survive the Social Buying Bubble Have your heard of the new bubble in the connected marketing world? Depending on who you ask, social buying is worth nothing, [...]
Earlier today, while monitoring some feeds on Tweetdeck, I was thinking about how handy it would be to check on all of my facebook pages, my twitter feeds, my Rss feeds, my favorite forum threads, etc… and boom Seesmic releases their new Desktop 2. It doesn’t add forum threads, that was my idea… but the [...]
There has been a lot of talk and maybe a little drama surrounding the Fast Company Influence Project and I wanted to write a little something about why I wanted to be a part of the project and why I continue to ask for the support of my friends and colleagues by the way of [...]
When my business partner Jeanette and I were asked to attend a Harley Davidson luncheon to kick off the Women Riders weekend we said yes faster than you can say Women Riders! Having never been on a Harley, I was more the excited to go check it all out and learn about the culture. Harley [...]
Greetings Earthlings. The team at Mobile Local Social, has connected with some amazingly bright minds here in our hometown of Kansas City, and are forming a Mobile Media Club to connect with businesses and show them the error of their technological ways. What we have here is the very first podcast / experiment of this [...]
This is one of the most disturbing FAILS I have ever heard of. “(CBS) At a warehouse in New Jersey, 6,000 used copy machines sit ready to be sold. CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports almost every one of them holds a secret. Nearly every digital copier built since 2002 contains a hard [...]
I freakin’ LOVE this. Unfortunately, this isn’t an app, but some code created to play this song with Processing.org. So, you can’t download a player that does this… but WOW, someone talk to Pandora. I’d LOVE to sit with this rocking on my iPad, reading the words to the song as it bumps to the [...]
Steve stands by his capatalism. And rightfully so. Over at Valleywag Ryan Tate and Steve Jobs have a conversation about freedom of expression vs. invention.
Ok, we all know this is a very shitty crisis going on down in the Gulf of Mexico. I have to say that it seemed like only a matter of time for one of these offshore oil wells did something crazy like explode and completely pollute the surrounding waters. It had to go wrong sometime… [...]
Who needs a shield law when other journalists will be more than happy to out your sources and then try to interview them for their own stories?
Okay – looks like I’m the last kid on the block to get the news. I read today at The Hollywood Reporter that Syfy is stepping into the ring of prime time wrastlin’. You heard right. The brand once known as the Sci Fi Channel that built a following by airing cult classics like Rod [...]
With the new (unconstitutional) anti-Mexican law having been enacted in Arizona, professional sports should give back and take the lead in the 21st Century’s civil rights movement. In doing so, they might even win a new audience.
While catching up on some reading on one of my favorite eco friendly blogs, I came across this post by Lloyd Alter as well as this one by Stuart Elliot of the New York Times and could not believe that a company would actually claim to own the daisy. You heard me. the daisy. My [...]
The Jason Chen saga as told by Bob Dylan
In a nutshell: Apple engineer has birthday (27), get’s tipsy, and leaves prototype iPhone at a German bar in the San Francisco Bay area. Finder attempts to give phone back to Apple. Apple doesn’t believe them. Finder contacts Gizmodo. Gizmodo pays 5K for phone. Reviews and dissects iPhone 4G. Apple asks for phone back. [...]
Yesterday, Gizmodo posted a teardown of the potential iPhone 4G, revealing an updated exterior and a plethora of new features, such as a front-facing camera and a better still camera with a flash. It also has a larger battery and possibly a higher resolution display. The announcement is expected in late June with a release [...]
Microsoft has just pulled a “controversial” ad for the new Kin phones, citing complaints that the ad encouraged sexting. There were also furries in it so that could also be the reason.
New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino landed in hot water this week when it was discovered through a leak that he had been forwarding emails that contained racist remarks and rants, extensive pornographic content, and, in at least one, an image of an woman performing fellatio on a horse.
I am the Lorax and I speak for the trees. AT&T earthy-crunchiness doesn’t justify fees.
The Pink Phone is now the Kin. Let the name hate begin.
Marty Markowitz, the Brooklyn Borough President, has his priorities way out of whack and clearly does not know what Brooklyn, home to more blogs per capita than any other place in America, really needs. (Warning: Contains my angry salty language)
Cory Doctorow, Joel Johnson, you’re both wrong when it comes to the iPad. I’m probably wrong, too. But that’s never stopped me from pointing out errors when I sees ‘em. First up: C-Doc, I love you and your can-do spirit, but Joel is right. A lot of people want something that just works. The trick [...]
Mobile Local Social is proud to announce the creation of the Mobile Media Club. Mobile Media Club is a community of mobile enthusiasts, designers, developers, user experience professionals, marketers and business people cooperating, educating and learning through virtual and live networking events to share knowledge about the global marketplace. We are starting our first local Mobile Media Club in Kansas City, and mobile enthusiasts from all over the world are encouraged to join.
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.
A fire at a Seattle data center, nicknamed “The Googtopia” has affected over 42,000 servers, bringing down search engine results pages across the globe.
While it may not be neccesary to have this type of living content within every article, it definintely makes me think about how many stupid ads I would end up reading just for the visual/audio effects.
If the consortium of “Hulu for magazines” sign-ups join this artistic take, well then consider me a subscriber.
