It's a brave new car, with digital screens on the dashboard and around the speedometer, plus LCD mood lighting and twitter integration. At CES in Las Vegas, Ford introduced its updated SYNC interface, called MyFord Touch.
While there is a lot of fun and games at CES, that is not all that's taking place in our industry today. The next decade offers the promise of touching everyone on the planet in bold and new ways.
Has it occurred to you that social networking is really not very social at all? We Twitter, and cultivate relationships with hundreds of "friends" we have never met on Facebook.
My late mother used shopping as a hobby. If she were still alive, I wonder if she would be looking for something else to occupy her time. It seems many Americans are.
Up in the Air reminds us that we should not merely keep track of our relationships but think about the qualities that define what it is that we are keeping track of.
The first decade of the 21st Century seems to have passed in a nano-second, yet this past year moved at a glacial pace as cracked corporate walls came...
We just left the decade of the "Me-on-Web" generation. We are now beginning the "We-on-Web" generation. And it's not about killing your Web 2.0 self but changing it -- less about "you" and more about "us."
This decade will be remembered and felt for its impact on Nature: the species that were saved and those that were lost; the heating of the planet; the forests cut down and those that continue to provide oxygen to our children's children.
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For most of us in America it's startling not only to see the physical change to manhood in Nicholas Hoult, but to remark how intriguing and comparable his roles are in About A Boy and A Single Man.
We have been on a roller coaster when it comes to how we now sleep and what a ride we have been on.
In 2010 I do NOT resolve to: 1...Stop reading the tabloids at the checkout counter. Forget it. I need to read something besides Huffpost. I've alrea...
As citizens, in case you're the Jasper Schuringa on your next flight, or as politicians, who need to cut the lip service and demand results.
After fishing in a rushing stream of Tweets, I watched YouTube clips showing a police station burning, a group of Basij militia cornered but not hurt, a police van overturned. Chants included, "Khamenei is a murderer. His reign is over."
Like others, I'm sure, my friends are quarreling about Facebook changing its privacy policy. Unlike others, my friends are squabbling in a very public way.
According to interrogators, the Twitter link between the terror suspect and al-Qaeda does not prove that he was working on instructions from bin Laden himself.
Whether or not the green aspirations of regular Iranian citizens will be met, to me they have helped resurrect the identity of a nation, or at the very least, repaint it in a different hue.
Google is now pulling content for real-time search from Twitter, FriendFeed, Jaiku and Identi.ca and will be adding Facebook and MySpace updates in the coming weeks.
I'm making real investment in fast trains that run where people live and want to go my wish for the New Year.
Are you tweeting your good cheer this year? Putting up Facebook photos for those long distance relatives? Are you sending email Christmas cards to save paper, postage, time, the world? Yes, using today's technology to keep in touch is better than when we couldn't but contact doesn't always equal connection.
I realized that we were all descending, en masse, into a vast swamp of self-promotion that is just not becoming of the writerly class. So I have come up with ten-step pathway to grace for writers.
