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Twitter Clocks 50 Million Tweets Per Day
The newest data from Twitter, says that minus the spam, Twitter is seeing fifty million tweets per day, compared to 2.5 million in 2009 and 300,000 in 2008. That’s about 600 tweets per second being shared on the service. The microblogging service says there are now 25,000 tweets referring to brands every five minutes. Twenty [...]
Millenials Rely On Technology To Stay Productive
Two new reports from Accenture Consulting shed some light on the growing influence of “Millennials” aged 18-27 in the workplace who already account for one third the working population. This generation is having a profound impact on the work culture by quickly adopting new technologies, regardless of corporate policy, and reshaping the expectations of work/life [...]
SayNow Makes Voicemail Social
Social-media savvy entertainers are bypassing traditional media channels and reaching fans through an innovative Web-based voice messaging system called SayNow.com. The service lets them speak directly to fans through the socially-connected system, while inviting followers to leave messages for them. So far over 172 million calls, voice mails and live sessions have been made. Singer [...]
LinkedIn Preps Online “Rolodex” Features
LinkedIn’s mantra is “Relationships Matter” and now the company is making it even easier for users to find, organize and stay in touch with the relationships that matter most to them. Over the next few weeks, LinkedIn will enhance their address book feature in a bid to improve personal productivity and make the site more [...]
Ocean Princess project
I’m proud to announce that a project I’ve been working on for awhile, the Ocean Princess Virtual Christening , is now open! From today, December 2nd, until December 18th, the Ocean Princess will be celebrating her maiden voyage from her dock in Singapore. Internet cruise enthusiasts can virtually “christen” the ship and become an honorary [...]
Social Search
Big changes are coming to search, and partnerships between social networks and search engines are at the forefront. At the recent Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Google and Microsoft each announced partnerships and forthcoming changes to search that will enable each to tap into the ‘real-time’ and social web, or specifically, Twitter messages and [...]
StumbleUpon redefines social sharing
STUMBLEUPON REDEFINES SOCIAL SHARING While Twitter and Facebook continue to wield the most influence in the social media ecosystem, StumbleUpon is undergoing a major redesign to challenge their hegemony, positioning itself as an alternative social search and discovery engine. With 8 million users per month, StumbleUpon is used to bookmark Web sites and share them [...]
Healthcare & Social Technologies
REINVENTING HEALTHCARE THROUGH SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES Instant messaging with doctors, webcam visits, digitized healthcare records, online appointments, and electronic prescriptions are just some of the ways high-tech startups hope to change doctor-patient relationships for the better. At the recent Health 2.0 convention in San Francisco, new companies demonstrated how they plan to reinvent the way doctor-patient [...]
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Things are going very well. I’m graduating from USC with a BA in Public Relations at the end of the week, this Friday, May 15. I’m really looking forward to my family coming to celebrate. It’s been a long time coming, and there’s so little to say now. Only that I worked hard to achieve [...]
