Facebook Needs To Lead
Fri, May 21, 2010 Filed in: SocialMedia | Business
In today’s Wall Street Journal Online, more bad press over privacy issues at Facebook. Is Facebook social media’s "Patient Zero"? Is it single handedly destroying a medium just as it's getting going? Whether the privacy issues with Facebook are any worse then MySpace, Digg or others, Facebook is the gorilla. As such, it needs to set a high standard for the sake of this new industry. Read More...
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School's out
Thu, May 20, 2010 Filed in: Social Media
Teaching social media as a professional tool to grad students has been an interesting learning experience. Having a background in television production, web production and living in social media, I was considered a “rare hybrid” in a “unique position to teach.” Ok, well, lets see about that. Going in, my assumption was I wouldn’t be teaching too much. Don’t 20 year olds know all about this stuff? I fully expected to learn more then teach. All the “press” going in was “the kids know all this stuff.” All the jokes about how parents have their 12 year old fix the printer. The 10 year old is “helpdesk.” So, the first day, the first question I ask was “how many people have a Facebook account. A few hands go up. Yikes. “How many have a Twitter account?” Fewer hands. Well, it seems I will be teaching after all. Read More...
Facebook knows where you are
Check-in and Badges are just the beginning. Shortly, Facebook goes geo-aware and everything is going to get bigger. Read More...