Neil Vidyarthi

I remember when I first visited Japan in 1997.  Our group of North Americans were shocked at how even teenage girls had their own cell phones, complete with dangling bells and ornaments.  What surprised us more was their use of “SMS” messaging to send chat messages to one another.  After I’d returned from the trip, [...]

LinkedIn is full of good news these days.  Their stock is up nearly 200% over its IPO price, their CEO is impressing the street with a smart evaluation of the future of social and their growth has been incredible, at around 150 million users.  To add to this, they are doing well internationally as evidenced [...]

Kickstarter is the place for independent filmmakers/comic book writers/sculptors/etc to raise money for their ventures.  The site lets anybody log on, find a project they like, and donate any given amount.  If the donor give certain amounts, the content creators reward that person with a special item; a limited edition version of the film or a [...]

A few days ago, mobile/social gaming crew Digital Chocolate (headed by the original founder of EA Trip Hawkins) released Gangs of Boomtown exclusively to Google+.  According to our sister sites Inside Social Games, the game is “a blend of quests, multiplayer quickdraw contests and citybuilding mechanics” and seems to follow the same visual style as other [...]

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a social media manager?  That involves taking care of tweets, hitting up Skype, managing Facebook pages and being connected at all times.  The folks over at Socialcast have done some pretty good research for an infographic called “A Day in the Life of a Social Media [...]

It’s official: sports fans – and sports teams, organisations and athletes - love social media. Platforms such as Twitter and Facebook have given fans the opportunity to stay connected  with organizations, teams, sporting personalities, news outlets – and each other – which has been hugely successful for everyone involved. Read more at AllTwitter  

A good leader keeps tabs on the competition, which was likely the goal of Facebook Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg when he established a profile on surging social network Pinterest. To date, there has not been much activity on Zuckerberg’s Pinterest profile: three pins, one like, 1,176 followers, and he is following 125 Pinterest users. [...]

In a fascinating discussion with CBS This Morning, LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman discussed his vision of the social web and its future.  Specifically, he visualizes social networks as human ecosystems, and he discusses how the future hasn’t even been written for how these human ecosystems will interact with one another.

There’s no big surprise to social media fans that Pinterest is blowing up.  It’s recently become a site that has traffic in the top 100 sites on the web, and rumors have it valued around $200m.  That’s a lot for a company that doesn’t have much revenue.  But just how engaged are the users that [...]

Zynga’s stock is down over 10% today on yesterday’s earnings which revealed that Zynga had booked $306.5 million for their fourth quarter.  That’s only a few million above estimates of $302.4 million, and apparently that crawling growth wasn’t enough for investors to stick around — Zynga is having a major sell off today and the [...]