All posts in mobile


The rise of the new Social Media Smartphones

September 9, 2010 by Raj Anand
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Social media and networking has become an international obsession, with Facebook accumulating more than half a billion users and microblogging site Twitter growing from humble beginnings into a powerful tool which can be used to build political movements or get its users in trouble with the authorities. Some analysts predict that social... [read more]
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#NowTrending in Mobile: Geo-Location and Q&A

August 23, 2010 by Robert A. Burns, II
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There's a turf war brewing in the social media scene, and the 'mobile throne' is up for grabs.Perhaps you've heard of Foursquare, the explosively popular social gaming platform based on check-ins and badges? But did you know that Twitter, Google, Gowalla, Facebook and countless others are all fighting for the same territory? It's true.... [read more]

5 Things You Need To Know About Facebook Places Right Now

August 19, 2010 by Tracey Udas
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The official luanch of Facebook's new location-based application, Facebook Places, has a few people talking and many of us wondering what this means for business - if anything at all. Here are five things you should know about Facebook Places right now: [read more]

Go mobile: Five signs mobile optimization should be a top priority for your brand

August 3, 2010 by Leigh Householder
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The latest data from Pew (a notoriously conservative research house) finds that over 1/3 of us (38%) use our cell phones to access the internet. That's up 52% from last year. If the trend continues, over half of Americans will be using their cell phones to access the web a year from now. That's a surge of change. The next big move in how... [read more]

Listen Up, Location-based Services... Chicks are Influencers Too!

July 29, 2010 by Elizabeth Lupfer
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Forrester's most recent study on Location-based services indicates that men are the majority users of these apps. However, this demographic will rapidly soon change, so any brand can and should venture into location-based services whether they focus more on male or female consumers. [read more]

Social layering can help bring IT and the business together

July 19, 2010 by Headshift Blog
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If I could wave my magic wand and make one major change to accelerate our work in the social business design field, it would be to Improve the often fraught relationship between 'the business' and IT departments. IT departments have to be one of the least fit-for-purpose areas of many large companies, often acting as unaccountable cost... [read more]

Facebook Pisses Off Users. Again.

July 14, 2010 by Danny Brown
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For all its cool connectivity features and business tools, Facebook can still manage to piss users off even when it’s trying to be helpful. Whether it’s new privacy features gone mad, or redesigns to the site itself, Facebook always seems to divide its userbase between good, non-chalant and hate. Now a new feature for Facebook Page... [read more]

Is Social Media Dangerous for Your Brain?

June 8, 2010 by ariherzog
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<!--break-->   Baroness Greenfield, director of Oxford's Institute for the Future of the Mind, wrote an op-ed earlier this year. She argued the computer screen is disruptive to cognitive development. [S]tudents are losing the ability to study properly. Constant use of the internet has rewired their brains to function differently... [read more]

In Mobile, Women Rule Social Networking

April 30, 2010 by Brian Solis
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<!--break--> Based on data collected and analyzed using Google Ad Planner, I recently discovered that in Social Media, women rule. Across almost every major social network, the balance was revealing and in some cases, profound. Facebook: Male: 43% Female: 57% Delicious Male: 48% Female: 52% Docstoc... [read more]

Who will own the Splinternet? Apple vs Facebook vs Google

April 30, 2010 by Josh Bernoff
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<!--break--> In the last month I have become even more convinced that the Splinternet is real. This is not just one of the most important trends to hit the Web in the last five years, it's a war. Facebook and Apple want to own your as much of your Internet experience as possible. I've used the term "Splinternet" to refer to a Web... [read more]

Consumption vs Creation: The iPad Dilemma

April 3, 2010 by Alan Wolk
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<!--break--> Upon further reflection (and a number of reviews that circle the idea without ever hitting on it directly) it seems that with the introduction of the iPad, Apple is asking consumers to buy into the notion that there are now two types of devices: one for consuming and one for creating. It's at once extremely... [read more]

The Smartphone Web: Welcome to Internet 2.0

April 1, 2010 by MaxGladwell
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<!--break--> The combination of smartphone technology and mobile broadband have lead to a brave new world of opportunity and possibility. It's nothing short of a panacea. This is Internet 2.0. It's been more than a year since we wrote about the New and Improved Matrix, a discussion about the paradigm shift of being... [read more]