Archive for the ‘Offbeat’ Category

Gmale and Siri fall in love

Apr 15 by Scarlett Madison | add comment

Amongst the “big 4″ tech companies that get most of the attention today, Google and Apple are two of the most bitter rivals. Before dying, Steve Jobs expressed an utter contempt for Google that has pretty much boiled over lately into an all-out war. Just because the companies do not get along more »

Online empires fall. Will Facebook?

Apr 15 by JD Rucker | 2 comments

It’s hard to imagine the world without Facebook right now. Even people who aren’t users are affected by it even if only because they are constantly bombarded with commercials, billboards, and other people telling them to follow this and like more »

Marketing around the collapse of the Daily Deal

Apr 15 by Christopher Wallace | 1 comment

When Groupon rejected a $6 billion buyout from Google in late 2010, the company clearly saw nothing but rosy skies. Generating nearly $2 billion in annual revenue, their prospective earnings at that point showed nothing but an uphill curve. more »

To train internally or outsource: the business social media dilemma

Apr 15 by Rocco Penn | add comment

Most businesses are getting involved in social media in some way. Whether for marketing, customer outreach, collaboration, or any of the many ways that businesses can utilize social media, the need to have a proper strategy and plan is growing. more »

Population poses problems technology can't fix

Apr 14 by JD Rucker | 1 comment

Many of the problems that face the world currently have been solved through technology. Food can be grown, raised, processed, packaged, and shipped in efficient ways. Medicine has extended life and cured most diseases that once killed the more »

Pinterest growth stalled in March. So what?

Apr 14 by Lorie Wimble | 1 comment

After doubling its users in February, growth slowed dramatically in March down to 1 million new users or 5% growth. It supposedly has investors and others worried. They shouldn’t be. We’ve seen this before and we’ll see it again, and Pinterest will hit its next big user bump more »

A tale of the Titanic tape

Apr 13 by JD Rucker | 4 comments

It was one of the most amazing technological feats of the day. A century ago, the most amazing piece of nautical workmanship set sail on a voyage that would be its only one. Today, we look back and think how the ship that couldn’t be sunk fell victim more »

The Listserve: A lottery where one person a day can talk to the world

Apr 11 by Sal McCloskey | add comment

Some ideas were born to work. The Listserve may be one of them What would you say if you were selected to send an email to 10,000 people? 100,000? 1,000,000? What if the audience was a relatively-captive one, an audience that knew they would only be hearing from more »

The amazing manipulating power of the "accidental" leak

Apr 11 by JD Rucker | add comment

Every professional field has a set of hot buttons that allows those in it to be manipulated. For politicians, it’s money, power, and votes. In Hollywood, it’s exposure, inclusion, and awards. Everyone has hot buttons, even the allegedly-unfaltering more »

Angry Birds will suck you in and steal your soul (or at least waste your time)

Apr 11 by Lorie Wimble | 1 comment

It’s hard to walk through an airport or a coffee shop without seeing someone playing Angry Birds. The game is on millions of mobile devices and even desktops as an oddly-addictive distraction from the rest of the world. In it, one is tasked with taking a powerful more »

#signhereplease, a short film shot with a smartphone, reveals much about our over-connected world

Apr 10 by JD Rucker | add comment

The hashtag has become a symbol of sentiment in a society where the people are often so connected virtually to one another that real-world relationships often revolve around our online and mobile personae. With social media acting as a bellwether more »

Instagram's 17 month journey from nil to bill(ion)

Apr 10 by Sal McCloskey | 1 comment

There are already questions surrounding Facebook’s purchase of Instagram for $1 billion yesterday. Was it a talent purchase (of 13 employees)? Is it the peak of social media purchases before the bubble starts bursting? Is Facebook only interested in companies with zero revenue? more »

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