March 21, 2012
Share the ride
I wanted to share with you a website that will help you fill your car and get paid: http://www.zimride.com/
February 10, 2011
Evolution: Blogs to Microblogs to Twitter to Foursquare to Picplz and Instagram
Content is still the king. In the past content was generated by a small elite of journalists, correspondents… big news agencies, or journalist with opinion and good writing. This has been changing. They are struggling to find their place now. Traditional media is married to a physical support (paper) which is expensive to produce and distribute, it is not […]
February 8, 2011
Uh Oh, Instagram: PicPlz Launches API, Creative Commons & Brand Dashboards
The battle of the mobile social photo apps has been taken to the next level today, high-profile but trailing startup PicPlz just made three big announcements that pose a big challenge to crowd-pleaser Instagram and the slew of other startups in this market. Not to mention Flickr. PicPlz, which is lead by former Imeem music community head Dalton […]
January 26, 2011
OpenStudy – Social Study Groups
OpenStudy is a social learning network where students ask questions, give help, and connect with other students studying the same things. Our mission is to make the world one large study group, regardless of school, location, or background. OpenStudy uses AI recommendation engines to match students, and really real-time technologies to facilitate online interaction. It’s […]
December 7, 2010
Social Networking: The Present
Social Networking in Web 2.0: Plaxo & LinkedIn Mark Suster who joined GRP Partners in 2007 after having worked with GRP for nearly 8 years as a two-time entrepreneur. Most recently Mark was Vice President, Product Management at Salesforce.comI wrote in his last post where he discussed the origins of social networking online, beginning with CompuServe, […]
September 23, 2010
The license place could be key in social media
Bump.com allows users to connect online and offline via unique identifiers, including license plates, mobile phones and online profiles. Ever wanted to tell the driver in front of you that their lights are off? Or maybe you’ve wanted to be the good Samaritan and warn someone that his meter has expired. Perhaps you just find […]
September 16, 2010
Leadership in the age of social media
From the Washington Post Charlene Li of Altimeter Group on how technology is revolutionizing corporate leadership–from BP to Apple. (Madeline Marshall, Elizabeth Tenety, Andrea Useem/Washington Post)
April 12, 2010
What Happens When Malcolm Gladwell And Clay Shirk Can't Agree On Social Media?
Two of the smartest thinkers when it comes to media and business are Malcolm Gladwell and Clay Shirky Gladwell is the best-selling business book author of, Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and What The Dog Saw and Shirky penned the “must-own” book, Here Comes Everybody along with being both a world-class media academic, speaker and pundit. […]
April 4, 2010
redux
Are you looking for stories? You normally use your list of blogs, youtube and so, and then you might share it in facebook or twitter, or maybe you are bombarded by funny emails on fridays with jokes and so. If you are the kind of person who likes this friday’s emails, then redux can be […]
February 12, 2010
Google wave the future. Buzz the present. Stupid?
As you saw in a couple of previous posts, google released his social tool called google buzz (not to be confused with yahoo’s one…). I tried though it still does not work in google apps, and it is pretty good. It is sort of twitter with location and photos, in fact if you read me, you […]