My son reminded me today that I had just told him a month ago that it was just a matter of time until Facebook bought Foursquare, or just copied their location based model. It was just too obvious. Facebook with their huge volume of users would be too interested in [...]
I am not sure if this is happening to you, but it is to me, and evidently to many others as well. It is the dreaded incidence of having a conversation you are involved with in one group, bleeding over to a different group. Or, the situation where you are [...]
OK, I am only going to write about this one time, and then I am going to let it go. I start every presentation I give on social technologies with the same slide, and each time I review it, the audience nods their heads as if to say, “now I get it…” This slide is a simple vocabulary lesson to try and bring some coherence and sense to the jumble of terms people are now using in the social space. It seems that each new day brings some new variation on an activity with the word social pasted in front of it.
Identity theft and fraud are a growing problem, as we all know. Now the conversation I have with people is not if your credit card number has been stolen, but how many times. I have a friend that works for one of the largest fraud detection companies and he keeps [...]
I get a lot of email everyday. In fact I get enough that I can actually gauge how the American workforce is doing based on the flow and quantity. For example, one Friday afternoons, the velocity of email drops in half. On Sunday nights, my email lights up. I find both of these trends [...]
I feel as if we need to create a new scale for technology years that is akin to dog years. In other words, for every normal human year, there are three technology years – at least it seems that way with all the progress we are making in tech these [...]
If you are a regular Facebook user, you will have noticed that they upgrade the privacy features a couple of weeks ago. We were given a much wider ability to select what we want to expose publicly and to whom. Of course, some people were annoyed because the default setting [...]
One of the cool things about being a speaker is hearing all the interesting stories of how technology is impacting people. Here are a few I have heard in the last couple of weeks… On gentleman in his 60’s came up today and said he really did not know much [...]
With all the buzz about SocMed in the world, I thought I would take a shot at identifying the various players in this exploding drama. It is easier to comprehend a complicated subject like this if we simply look at the participants and what they love, and what they hate [...]
Whenever I speak to a group of larger companies, I always ask the audience how many block common social media sites. On the average, about a third raise their hands. This becomes a common question they then ask me, “how do you feel about blocking common sites Scott?” So here [...]