The five most endangered words of the realtime internet era are: Let me think about that.
I was eleven and sitting in my child psychiatrist's waiting room. The door opened. And there was my worst nightmare -- a kid from my school walking out of the same office where I was about to walk in.
This era of Web 2.0, which in turn created consumer and shopping 2.0, has put more focus on what the consumer wants, not what businesses want consumers to want.
To be honest, I don't see much differentiation between group buying businesses. In fact, I'll make the bold claim to say that these businesses are exact clones of each other.
Traditional retail is becoming outdated. Online sales are soaring. When will we reach the tipping point when e-commerce generates more sales than brick-and-mortar retail?
If Facebook and Twitter are the recreational party drugs of this era, then realtime website analytics programs are like Oxycontin, crack, PCP, meth and uncut Red Bull all blended into a combustible concoction.
The annual Web 2.0 Expo has kicked off in San Francisco. The three-day event will feature a host of speakers, including individuals from both startup...
One of America's most cherished rights is citizens' right to privacy. Yet these days, a growing swath of America, mostly the young and tech savvy, are not only unconcerned about their privacy, but actively eschew that right.
As of a few weeks ago, there were more than 21 billion pages on the Web.
Watching the news, it's easy to conclude that "Yes We Can" has been replaced with, "Actually, On Second Thought... We Probably Can't." Nevertheless, there are reasons for optimism. One of these reasons is tech guru Tim O'Reilly.
Louie Baur contends that to be a social media samurai-beheading ninja, you are required to "blog, tweet and do everything else that has to do with it for at least 12 hours per day."
The Net Gen Education Challenge is a call for ideas to shape the future of education, and this year we're also looking for ideas on how to fix the world's institutions, such as business and government.
The University of California is putting $5 to $6 million into a pilot project to create online versions of courses with an eye toward eventually creating completely online degree programs.
YouTube is applying their ban on sexual content inconsistently, and that inconsistency sends the message that YouTube believes that transsexual men aren't real men.
This post provides some context to understand the thinking behind and learning from my 2007 Media Studies course, Learning from YouTube, recently feat...
This post provides some context to understand the thinking behind and learning from my 2007 Media Studies course, Learning from YouTube, recently feat...
Some of the lessons my students and I learned during our grueling education (it wasn't easy, even it it was funny) on and about YouTube concisely define the education one might get here.
It's patronizing to tell people that they don't have to understand the technologies and regulations that are going to shape their lives, just because mass adoption of those technologies is some time in the future.
Thanks to an infinite number of blogs and the evolving cycle of 24-hour news, we are no longer restricted to news from just a few networks. Sites like Facebook are empowering people to cut through the clutter and discover the content most relevant to them.
To most American Veterans, the Department of Veterans' Affairs is a mythical beast living somewhere in the the annals of Government, untouchable and unknowable to the common former servicemember. Still others see VA in an even more adversarial light, envisioning an entity that connives to withhold well earned benefits and care through any means possible.
While some of the best documentaries draw our attention to little-known corners of the world, producer Rachel Dretzin has been blowing up our preconceptions by training her lenses on the what's around us right now.
There have always been shifts in the means of communication: the telephone created one-to-one communication possible, across the world. TV allowed for...
Just as the digital explosion in music demanded a thorough address of music licensing, protection, and compensation, the same holds true for images now, after the iPad's release.
We're on the verge of a massive shift where user experience will become the determining factor for technology adoption at work. Let the workplace rebellion begin.
If news media outlets want to thrive in this new environment, they need to start thinking of themselves as apps.
