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Technology and Spacetime: Then & There is Here & Now

January 21, 2012
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A while back, I wrote a post in response to re-reading an interview with Marshall McLuhan. It described the way that the printed word created a portability of culture beyond the immediacy of face-to-face communication. However, print also introduced a coolness to the cultural exchange by removing many of the subtleties, like intonation and gestures, [...]

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Facebook Adds New Status Privacy Features

August 25, 2011

Facebook released some new status privacy features. It allows you to tag other users in your status, add location (I think this is what happened to Places), and determine who gets to see each status message. This is all handled in a series of controls at the bottom of the status pane:

It allows you to [...]

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Web 3.0 Density with Clima.me

June 21, 2011
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Over at Total Social Media, and as part of their Web 3.0 Lab, they’ve developed a pretty cool mashup of location and social/semantic data called Clima.me. Clima.me is a tool that measures the density of location-tagged data from a number of web apps (Twitter, Wikipedia, Flickr, Yelp, and Foursquare) and kicks back a Web 3.0 [...]

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What Chefs Can Teach Us About Social Media

January 21, 2011
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It’s easy to begin using Social Media and the cost of entry is very, very low.  As a result, many organizations feel compelled to begin using social channels without thinking through exactly how they will use them.  Even though it’s easy to begin using social media, using it effectively can be difficult at best.
At the [...]

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Melting Rock with RockMelt

December 3, 2010
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I’ve been using RockMelt for a week or so now.  For those of you unfamiliar with RockMelt, it is a new browser that functions as a social desktop.  If you’re wondering what that looks like, consider a browser with social functions built right into the chrome of the application.  The far left border displays the [...]

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The Age of the Nano-Demographic: P2P Marketing

October 7, 2010
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In college, I learned about new music from my friends.  Like it or not, I picked up tips about personal style from them, too.  You can blame them for some of the looks I’ve sported through time.  The important point here is that my market-facing tendencies are not defined by my age, race, or socio-economic [...]

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What’s your social footprint?

June 9, 2010
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At my day job, we’ve been looking at mobilizing our people to get the most benefit from our social channels.  We’ve encouraged people to begin blogging internally and we promote particularly salient posts to the outside world.  Blogging started slowly, but it’s picking up speed now as people begin to see the value in it [...]

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Prediction: Facebook will sell you back your privacy

May 26, 2010
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Facebook today altered their privacy settings to tame what they called “something of a Frankenstein monster” of a privacy control panel. Facebook’s claim is that the way new features had been added caused the number of privacy setting checkboxes to grow like weeds. That may be true.
However, Facebook also leaned on a phenomenon [...]

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