New Media

Calkins suggested that most of the excitement about Facebook is resurfacing of a title, maybe recent or old, when our marketing budget has subsided, but now we can turn it over to consumers and in effect use their marketing budget. “A few weeks into DVD, we really don’t talk about the title anymore. … If you can have fans do that through something like Facebook, it’s incredibly powerful. So, we like the idea. I think it’s just very early days.”

Despite the fact that the internet is the new “global village,” we’re still deeply invested in the idea of tribes, demonstrated in the cultural divisions within social media.

By visiting www.every80seconds.com, users can connect to Facebook and see their own photographs and memories “burn” away. After experiencing the virtual fire, users will have the option to donate to the Red Cross or they can help spread the “burn” by posting the experience on their wall, tweeting and “burning” their profile picture. No photos are actually harmed in the experience.

As a research-based advisory firm that helps companies and industries leverage disruption to their advantage. Solis is honored to be joining the team at Altimeter Group. “Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of calling Charlene Li and Jeremiah Owyang friends, mentors, and also neighbors. I’ve learned so much from them that over time, it was simply a natural progression to move toward an official relationship.”

You want to attend the SXSW interactive parties because they are the perfect place to grab a cold drink, eat some great food, network, see old friends and listen to some great music. Parties are hosted by some of the leading heavyweights in the tech industry, so you’re sure to make new friends and solid connections while enjoying endless free food and drink. Because there are so many parties, I have picked the top five must attend parties.

Years of and millions of dollars in R&D have resulted in digital cameras finally having picture quality truly equal to their high end conventional counterparts. And while the first camera phones were laughable novelties that provided you with ‘images’ not fit to be displayed on a Commodore computer, an iPhone capture would have to be [...]

Do you see music?

It’s a question I’ve always asked my musically inclined friends. Where does their sound come from, and how do they render it? Apparently, I’m not the only person who wondered.

Yes, it’s Valentine’s day, and now you can feel the love with a variety of Aps from none other than Mr. Barry White.

Based on the concept that reporters can’t be everywhere when something of newsworthy is happening, Storify steps up and takes the best of the user-generated or citizen-generated content and combines it with journalistic oversight.

Internet dating sites confuse me. Not logistically, I mean, but conceptually. Do people really think they’re going to find the wo/man of their dreams online? What happened to fate?