Facebook’s new Groups at [university] feature, which allows users to create groups that are only visible to those with the relevant and authenticated .edu address, is probably the social network’s hat tip to its roots and a way to show that it can still play at targeted sharing too. However, what it reminded me of […]
Consumption and curation. At some point I can still remember, I consumed newspapers, magazines and all other mass publishers (across platforms) and expected them to curate for me. Curation for a large mass, when linked to their kind of production process and business model, got tits first whiff of trouble when the internet only models […]
The perfect life, that’s what I called it – the phenomenon that has spread across the two social networks I frequent. Facebook Photos is nothing new and has come up here as a subject for discussion earlier. But its rise has been meteoric, just like the social network. The best vacations, the coolest friends, the […]
This week’s updates include the completion of Microsoft’s Skype acquisition, Dell and Windows 8 devices, Bing branded deals; Zynga’s IPO, new games, Zynga Direct, Angry Birds and IPO plans; Facebook’s acquisition of friend.ly, association with Walmart; Apple’s pre-orders for 4S, launch of iOS5, Foursquare’s launch of Radar; Google+ userbase, closure of Buzz, and the launch […]
This week’s updates include Twitter advertising, Sean Parker joining Twitter; iPhone 4S, Siri, iOS stats; demise of Zune, Windows Phone, Hotmail updates; Facebook and Websense, new Insights tools, Timeline; YouTube programming, Google+ and Shah Rukh Khan and the Nexus Prime launch delay. [scribd id=68288347 key=key-12lwx4awsxkum08xk1c4 mode=list]