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If you are not familiar with the name WolframAlpha, it is a website with the main goal to make all knowledge computable. A website dedicated in providing you the ability to search and find a definitive answer that has been collected using science and various methodization of knowledge to provide one factual source. Therefore it is not just another search engine but one that will be available to the public to obtain knowledge that spans on professional input, intellectual answers and potentially become known as the “knowledge search”. Recently, WolframAlpha has provided Facebook users…

As Facebook’s stock continues to plummet, more investors are calling for CEO Mark Zuckerberg to step down. They say he is a smart man who built an incredible service and grew it to an unprecedented size for social networks but that he’s not qualified to take the company to the next level (or maintain it at its current level). They say he just isn’t the right person to be running a public company. They say his intentions are not aligned with the needs of the investors the way a CEO should be thinking. Mark Zuckerberg would agree. “There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big…

I have a confession to make; I am guilty of writing too much when trying to explain something via Skype, or through a chat messaging system. It has been often said “What are you writing a book?” and then I switched to making sure I pressed enter after every few sentence to prevent hearing that again. But it got me thinking, since the original caps on characters began with text messaging we have really shorten how much we truly want to read in a messaging format. Twitter mimicked this behavior by completely tapping into our short attention spans. …

As bloggers we want our written articles to be seen, read and commented on. We want to provoke thought, teach something new, share news-worthy content with our readers and discover trends to connect us through the written word. However, I have noticed that many will publish an article and then walk away and it makes me wonder why, why would you take the time to write something and not use the provided share buttons on the website or blog? (I hope we are past the stage of not having social buttons) Discovery is only a part of the process, yes you added it to relevant categories and ensured there were tags/keywords…

From August 16th to 19th, I attended Gen Con, a hobby game convention held in the Indiana Convention Center in downtown Indianapolis. The four-day convention was attended by over 41,000 unique individuals this year, which marked its most successful year to date. Started in 1967, Gen Con is one of the world’s first gaming conventions. Unlike the NY and CA Comic Cons, or E3, Gen Con is mainly focused on tabletop games, like Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, and board games like Settlers of Catan. Attendance numbers for Gen Con peaked in the mid-90s at around 30,000 unique visitors,…

How ’bout them apples. With a market cap of over $632 billion, Apple is huge. That’s common knowledge. What may surprise people is how it compares to other giants in the tech world. While the company often competes with Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, the three giants total combined market cap is still well-below that of Apple. Throw in Facebook for good measure and Apple still comes out triumphant. TheNextWeb gave us the numbers: Value by market cap: Microsoft: $256.78B Google: $221.48B Facebook: $41.43B Amazon:  $111.26B Total: $630.95B Not bad at all, especially when you consider that all…

Since you are now able to see who has seen your chat messages when you send out that chat box to pop up, not everyone wants anyone to contact them all the time. Some days we are more social than others and we don’t want to always chat even when we have our chat messages set to “online”. Whether you don’t want people to think you are always ignoring them or if you just want to chat with certain people on Facebook, now you can. All you have to do is login to your Facebook Profile and open your chat box located on the lower right-hand corner of the window. Click on the settings icon and choose “Advance Settings”…

Social media is fragile right now. The Facebook IPO failure (which followed several less-publicized failures by other social media sites) has investors questioning the validity of pouring money into social startups. The model went from unproven to disproven in many ways over the last couple of years after the disastrous turns that sites like MySpace, Digg, and AOL’s Netscape/Propeller took after promising starts. The news that Diaspora’s founders have “moved on” puts another black eye on the face of social media. At some point, they’re going to run out of eyes to blacken. What makes this less…

Understanding the difference between Facebook profiles and its pages has not been easy for many businesses, prior to pages, brands would create profiles and once the pages rolled out they did not want to lose the number of friends they had or their progress on their page thus far. Therefore, they were willing to go against Facebook’s Terms of Service in order to keep the profile. What many may not know is that a Facebook page is not automatically public and is not meant to promote businesses. Facebook pages however, are designed for your brand to choose its proper category to be able to be found within…

Life can be a hard process, with many roads to ride, crosses to bear and obstacles to test your abilities to cope. Talking about how you feel is not always as easy to some in person; there is an alternative, share your emotions online. We all have issues that arise, circumstances that occur in life that jolt us in ways that are difficult to express, it is easy to be happy and positive, it can be quite difficult to share the true realities of hard times. Even harder when others around you are dealing with the same issues, therefore social media has given us an outlet to express ourselves openly, with the likeliness…