SXSW 1: The Early Adopters Become the Established
About seven years ago, a little booth in the trade show of the South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference and Festival was manned by people from the startup called Twitter. The disruption that followed helped democratize the web and essentially gave everyone a platform to...
10 Tips to Prepare for SXSW 2014
The South by Southwest Conference and Festivals, or SXSW - or, to the veterans, "South-by" is where the tech-set come to let their "Geek flag fly." It's where early adopters come to stay early adopters and learn what they need to before someone else writes about it....
5 Things About Marketing and Social Media That Are Not Changing in 2014
Each year I write what will be coming for the upcoming year. Everyone does that. So here are the things that aren't changing, and the implications of not changing. The list is based around two ideas: First. to paraphrase David Armano at Edelman Digital, attention is...
Remember Pac-Man? Growing Mobile Data Consumption is Like That
Pac-Man munched power pellets in the same way Americans now munch mobile data bandwidth. A new study from Frost & Sullivan says the average mobile user is now up to 2GB data usage a month. That's roughly 75 mobile web pages per day or roughly 1.5 hours of daily...
The Future of Search Reads Your Mind
The future of search relies on two distinct elements: Explicit and Implicit query - and how users interact with search in general. Implicit query is one of those scary-cool by rapidly emerging technologies. Explicit query is the search you know today - type in the...
3 Business Benefits of Facebook’s Shared Photo Albums
AllFacebook reported (via Mashable) that Facebook will launch shared photo albums within the next few days. You and your friends can share your favorite event photos to the same album, which will increase the number of measured interactions into the Facebook Social...
