You’re probably smart enough to know that your recent invites on LinkedIn and Facebook, from beautiful women (or men- where applicable), have little to do with your witty online persona or newly honed chick/hunk-magnet super powers. […]
Sergey Brin recently listed Apple and Facebook among threats to the open web. While Birn’s comments could be a case of sour grapes, there is not much of an argument that both Apple and Facebook do operate behind walled gardens. Brin noted that Google would never have come into existence if Facebook were dominant. […]
Any relatively smaller brand seeking brand recognition, in one of the largest emerging economies, can learn from Finnair. At the time of writing this post, the video of a Bollywood dance performance from the Finnair cabin crew is at more than 4 million hits. […]
With technology a pervasive and often intrusive part of our lives, many of us struggle for balance. Sometimes responding to a notification or online conversation seems more tempting than attending to my son’s request, to find time to go cycling together. […]
There are bigger things to worry about but this came together rather effortlessly. I also found an FB Page dedicated to the cause…maybe the issue is not as inconsequential as I think :). I’m going to make time for a Halloween and Hollywood themed parody series of similar work until the end of this month. Read more about Are you really going to ‘like’ your own post?[…]
If any of you feel like the little guy, here are a couple of places to turn for help. http://www.allfacebook.com/remove-facebook-ticker-2011-09 http://lifehacker.com/5842578/how-to-kill-the-facebook-news-ticker Please add your own prescriptions in the comments section.
Let’s face it, with the healthy lead of 750 million+ users, established by Facebook, Google Plus will take a good while to catch up. Even if the mainstream are to ‘overcome social media fatigue’, that is.
So we plod along on G+, in wonderment of the growing ‘circularity’ of the early adoptscoble, et al. […]
So Google Plus is here and there’s a lot of features that seem attractive and set it apart (as of now). Hangouts or group video chats. An easy way to organize your contacts based on ‘circles’ of interest . You can do this in Facebook with ‘lists’ but Google’s implementation is more intuitive. etc. Read more about Will YOU Ditch Facebook for Google Plus?[…]
My Mom would probably never use Twitter. Come to think of it, neither would my ‘Facebook’ savvy brothers, one of whom probably has more tech skills than the average bloke (bet he still remembers at least 5 DOS commands) If only they read the ‘How to‘ books about Twitter, which outnumber by 1:100, similar books Read more about Stuff Missing in Twitter ‘How To’ Books[…]
Over all, the online marketing community over-emphasizes on blogs as being the HUB of customer engagement…though, I admit – with good reason (as of now). Hubs of the future, may not be centralized and could be a collection of third party sites (which will wax and wane in popularity). We are probably seeing the Read more about Evolution: Blog to ‘Aggro-Hub’?[…]