The Future is Here and Now!

March 14 2011, 10:19 Posted in Home | 0 comments , 260 views
Categories: Google Buzz, Ning, Posterous, Delicious, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook
Tags: google maps social_media advertising

This is a good insight into what Google is up to these days. By integrating many of its key players like Maps, Goggles and Hotpot an entirely new dimension is being added to our experience. And that experience is both expanding and limiting at the same time, according to the author.

http://techland.time.com/2011/03/13/sxsw-interactive-googles-mobile-future-and-the-elusive-power-of-here/

Digital Christmas

December 28 2010, 13:23 Posted in Instructors | 0 comments , 51 views
Categories: Posterous, LinkedIn, Facebook
Tags: web 2.0

Everything seems to be digital these days. Here is a very good Web 2.0 of Christmas 2.0 to enjoy!

Christmas 2.0

Google Wins = 10, Losses =4

December 19 2010, 20:39 Posted in Home | 0 comments , 323 views
Categories: Ning, Posterous, LinkedIn, Facebook

Or something like that depending upon your feelings about the giant company. I found this review to be interesting as I am a Googler. Not every one was a hit. ...

Discover Poll Says Number of Small Business Owners on Social Networking Websites Nearly Triples in Past 3 Years

December 16 2010, 22:24 Posted in Home | 0 comments , 315 views
Categories: Google Buzz, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Twitter

Social networking by small business owners has nearly tripled in the past three years, jumping 23 percent in the past six months alone, according to a new survey from Discover, but less than a third of owners are using it to promote their businesses.

Read the entire article.

Discover

There is a season...turn, turn, turn!

December 16 2010, 18:15 Posted in Home | 0 comments , 322 views
Categories: Google Buzz, Delicious, Twitter

The Byrds had it right. Things and people come and go. Today it appears one of my favorite Web 2.0 sites may be headed for the trashcan of good ideas. Read this about delicious from TechCrunch: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/5lIXCCEBlL8/

Twitter Stalls...

December 14 2010, 21:15 Posted in Home | 0 comments , 329 views
Categories: Google Buzz, Posterous, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Twitter
Tags: twitter drop.io

Much like the housing market of earlier in the decade, it appears that social media sites may have an upward limit or simply lose momentum. I also got a note today at drop.io was no more. It happens.

Twitter

The New Facebook Profile

December 05 2010, 22:00 Posted in Home | 0 comments , 380 views
Categories: Ning, Google Wave, Posterous, FriendFeed, LinkedIn

Be the first on your block to learn about the new Facebook Profile. After the Zuckerberg interview tonight on '60 Minutes', this is the next 'new thing' in social networking. View the interview.

A cleaver vision of the future

October 15 2010, 19:08 Posted in Instructors | 0 comments , 60 views
Categories: YouTube, Posterous, Delicious, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook
Tags: print_media newspaper news future

I was discussing the future of print media with someone the other day who recommended watching this prediction done years before Facebook came online. Watch it, tell me what you think.

Epic 2014

For a bit of recent history: Author Explores The Evolution Of Facebook

June 09 2010, 23:51 Posted in Home | 1 comment , 217 views
Categories: Google Buzz, Google Wave, Posterous, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook
Tags: facebook, privacy, security, online, zuckerberg

Most people know the story by now of how 19-year-old Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook in his college dorm room.

Read or Listen to the Story from NPR

Google to let you customize search home page

June 03 2010, 05:03 Posted in Home | 0 comments , 187 views
Categories: Google Buzz, Posterous, Facebook

Google is ready to start letting users customize its famously spartan home page with photos of their own. http://bit.ly/9hkXzt

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