Archive for June, 2010
Answering Anonymous Users: Worth the Risk?
Seven hundred million questions, 12 million accounts, and the 61st most visited site in the US (according to Quantcast), one site that is growing in popularity has provided a new way to communicate directly online. A more stealth trend among younger ‘netizens’ is an anonymous questioning platform provided by a service called Formspring.me. Formspring features [...]
Twitter Celebrity Doesn’t Count
On Twitter, the race for followers is evident from the multitude of spammers advertising “fast free followers,” and a myriad of applications and websites that promise to increase follower counts. Many people equate follower counts to circulation, but it’s a suspect comparison. Just how valuable are followers, anyway? The most followed accounts are generally those [...]
Trojan Fans – the sky is not falling! Here are some reasons to still believe.
Special thanks to Adrian Santos for this guest post A bowl ban of 2 years, and the loss of 20 scholarships. Sounds heavy, but take heart, Trojan fans – all is not lost. Here are a few reasons the Empire will not fall: – Company Culture. People playing for us play so they can get [...]
The Object-Oriented Internet
We’ve covered Stickybits before, a startup launched at SXSW earlier this year with the intent of creating a platform for discussion of physical objects. Today’s announcement of Pepsi as an official partner is a peek into the future of physical objects that mirror the digital world, and vice-versa. A cousin to augmented reality, Stickybits provides [...]
Notes from TEDxUSC – Ideas Worth Sharing from Singapore’s Digital Future
Michael Yap, Deputy CEO at the Media Development Authority of Singapore (a Singapore government agency), spoke at a recent TEDxUSC event. As Executive Director of the Interactive Digital Media Programme Office, he highlighted some of Singapore’s major digital and animation achievements, including a demonstration of a virtual 3-D city. He emphasized the rapid growth of [...]
Notes from TEDxUSC – Ideas Worth Sharing in Copyright Protections
Johanna Blakely, deputy director of the Norman Lear Center, asked us to rethink our concept of copyright protection using the fashion industry as an example. Her proof was that works of fashion are not copyrighted in the U.S., and poorly protected elsewhere, and yet it has not taken away the incentive to innovate in those [...]
Notes from TEDxUSC – Ideas Worth Sharing in Health Robotics
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and the tagline of the annual TED conference is “Ideas Worth Sharing.” The TED event has grown in popularity worldwide thanks to keynote speakers such as Bill Gates. TEDx events are local TED events where the X stands for “independently organized events.” Recently, I attended the second annual TEDxUSC [...]
Location-based Services: Current and Future Trends
The increasing connectivity to the internet via smart phones has given rise to another always-on technology: location-based services. Juniper Research’s newest report on mobile services estimates that mobile location-based services may reach revenues of $12.7 billion by 2014. The most popular location-based services of the future will be timely, rewarding and useful. In a study [...]
