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WEForum 2010 – Technology for Society

The World Economics Forum 2010 has just wrapped up in Davos, Switzerland.  I was watching the session on Technology for Society, a panel discussion with some notable participants from the public and private sectors, including Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google.
They spoke of advances, directions, barriers and issues.  Interesting perspectives which occasionally outlined a future with [...]

Web 3.0 - The Internet Gets Personal

No, not in *that* way.
The term “Web 3.0″ was coined by the inventor the of the web, Tim Berners Lee.  It is ubiquitously referred to as the ’semantic’ web.  I prefer to think of it, as the Personal Web.

Logic+Emotion: How To Spot Social Media Snake Oil

Ohh my goodness this is funny.  We have been saying the same thing for a bit, but never with such a great picture!

Full article here.   Logic+Emotion: How To Spot Social Media Snake Oil.
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Social Media and Politics

Image by Ehsan Khakbaz via Flickr

Disclaimer: Social Media404 is not a political organization. We are focused on social media, not the events in Iran or its politics, or those of any other country.
I am blown away at the role social media is playing in Iran right now.  I am not talking about the photos and [...]

The Future of Twitter

Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams remains tight-lipped in this CNET interview about their future. Righty so. If you were to guess his plans, they may sound crazy.
But I don’t think he’s crazy, I think he’s likely right on the money.

What is social media and why should I care?

This is the first post in a series about social media. We are calling it the social media “On Ramp” series. We are calling it that because we write what we know, and what we know right now is that a lot of our customers, and maybe you too are looking for an on-ramp to [...]

Video games

 
I have not played a video game since the early days of Doom, last night I was at a friends place and we played Call of Duty. Even after I played Doom, I never understood why video games were so popular, bigger than Hollywood and climbing. Now I do.
Mike (my buddy) and I sat on [...]