Posted in Social Network, Tech Development on Jul 22nd, 2010
On Friday, I am going to visit the SF New Tech – the Big Endless Summer Social event in Los Altos Hills, located in the San Francisco. About SF New Tech SF New Tech is the largest and longest running monthly technology event in San Francisco. Since forming in March 2006 more than 5,000 people [...]
Posted in Social Network, Tech Development on Jul 21st, 2010
Yesterday, the location-based network Foursquare hit the 100 million checkin threshold. The news of the great milestone was tweeted by Foursquare’s head of business development, Tristan Walker. The NYC-based startup is only about 1 1/2 year old and has been experiencing immense growth, especially since it was announced as the new dominating technology earlier this [...]
Posted in Marketing & Communication, Social Media, Tech Development on May 24th, 2010
For many of us studying and working with social media the overall concept makes perfectly sense. How connectivity between vast amounts of people produces content through social interaction. However, it can be very difficult to share this understanding with nonbelievers. Especially in short sentences at social gatherings, in a bar or where you tend to [...]
Posted in Facebook, Tech Development on May 7th, 2010
For some time, the rumour has been that Facebook will soon launch a geolocation to their service. According to Mashable and Advertising Age, the location service can be rolled out any day now. It was expected that Facebook would present it at the F8 Developers Conference, where they against odds only spoke of the social [...]
Posted in Social Network, Tech Development on Apr 27th, 2010
Just a few days after Facebook implemented their new feature of social plugins that will connect Facebook with content all around the web, the first mashup has appeared. LikeButton.me is a website that uses Facebook’s feeds to show what your friends and other people like on different web pages. Like buttons have been incorporated on [...]
Posted in Facebook, Tech Development on Apr 21st, 2010
I just watched a live stream from F8, which is a Facebook developers conference held in San Francisco. Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, and his crew enrolled some of the coming features on the Facebook platform. A lot of it is pretty technical in a nerdy way, but on the other hand it [...]
Posted in Social Network, Tech Development, Tips on Apr 12th, 2010
Here is a follow up on some of my previous writing about geolocation. It seems to be the great talk of the – at least in the social media sphere. During the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference last month, location based services was announced to become the new dominating technology in 2010. SXSW is a [...]
Posted in Marketing & Communication, Social Network, Tech Development on Mar 15th, 2010
More and more online services add the feature of geotagging what you post on the web. Geotagging means that your physical location is registered from your mobile GPS tool or your computer’s IP address. This means that if you upload a photo to Flickr, the location from when the photo was taking is registered and [...]
Posted in Facebook, Social Media, Tech Development on Mar 9th, 2010
I have been looking at a list of the most visited sites on the web on Alexia.com. It makes sense that google features as no 1, as many people use it as their primary search engine and use it as an everyday online tool. Besides search engines, there are several social networking sites placed in [...]
Posted in Facebook, Tech Development on Feb 28th, 2010
When surfing around Slideshare, I found this cool little presentation about development predictions for the Facebook platform. Its made by Iskandar Najmuddin from the UK based Social Media agency Nudge. If you have any predictions about development in 2010 on the Facebook platform please share them with us all. Whats New On The Facebook Platform [...]
