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Iconic Images: What’s the most epic photo ever taken?

Posted in Pop Culture, Social Media, tagged , , on June 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Iconic Images: What’s the most epic photo ever taken? 75 answers on Quora What’s the most epic photo ever taken?

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Finally A Reason to Watch the Local News

Posted in Silicon Valley, Social Media, tagged , , , on April 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

On March 11 2:46 PM local Japan time, the tragic and devastating earthquake hit Japan followed by the even more damaging tsunami about an hour later.   Eight hours later, the fast moving tsunami (Tsunamis travel about 500 miles per hour under water) led to warnings up and down the Northern California coast, including the Bay [...]

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My LinkedIn InMap- a visual depiction of my network

Posted in Internet, Silicon Valley, Social Media, tagged , , , , , , on January 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

This week, LinkedIn rolled out a new feature called InMaps.   It’s a visual way to show your full Linkedin network and highlight key source concentrations of your network, trace connectors who are bridges to two or more network sources, and see which sources of your Linkedin network may need to be built up. Below is [...]

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Revenue potential per Internet and Mobile platforms

Posted in Internet, Social Media, tagged , , , on October 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Last week, I attended the Virtual Goods Summit 2010 in San Francisco.   One of the presentations I listened to from Flurry Analytics presented estimates of revenue per visitor (or user) for different sites or platforms.   See below.

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How Foursquare and Vuvuzelas explain online vs offline personas

Posted in Internet, Social Media, Sports, tagged , , , on August 8, 2010 | 8 Comments »

Two recent and unrelated phenomenon are Foursquare and Vuvuzelas.  Foursquare is the preeminent geo-location service, (competing sites include Gowalla, Loopt, and Yelp) where users check in to locations such as restaurants, bars, parks or almost any type of establishment, in essence announcing to their friends on social network and media sites like Facebook and Twitter [...]

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Yahoo!, Twitter, and the World Cup

Posted in Internet, Silicon Valley, Social Media, Sports, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Yesterday, the 2010 World Cup in South Africa began. As I write this, I’m eagerly awaiting the US-England match later this morning.  Some are calling the match the most eagerly awaited match in the history of US soccer.     For me, the World Cup spectacle held every 4 years is one of the best of all [...]

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Twitter and its implications to Competitive Intelligence and Investor Relations practices

Posted in Internet, Social Media, Technology, tagged , , , , , on March 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »

On Friday March 5, the 10 billionth tweet was made by a Twitter user.  An astronomical figure, a sure sign of how Twitter has become a formidable media network.  While there has been lots written about Twitter’s business model and its ability to generate real revenues, the usage model has created interesting implications in many [...]

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Stefana Broadbent- How the Internet enables intimacy- a TED lecture

Posted in Internet, Pop Culture, Social Media, tagged , , on December 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Recently, I’ve been spending time listening to interesting TEDtalks.  If you aren’t familiar with TED, here’s a description from their own website: “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become [...]

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