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What if +1 was named +Godzillion…
Published on 2011-06-18 12:40:00
Google’s +1 has not been doing well in getting followers to click on that +1 Button. Just passed its half month mark, +1 is only managing single digits where right next to it, the rival buttons are getting 10s, 100s, 1000s of Likes, Tweets and so f > read more
Happy (belated) Birthday IBM : 100 Years Old
Published on 2011-06-17 06:39:00
IBM, a name we don’t hear much anymore. Not in the feeds, not in the tweets. IBM, the mighty Apple-killer… I have fond memories of how I traded in my Apple II compatible for an IBM PC compatible. I wrote a blog post today about it - which is now > read more
Lovers Spurned #1 : Facebook & Apple
Published on 2011-06-16 15:33:00
Earlier this month, Apple announced and showed off “deep integration” of Twitter in the new iOS 5. Meaning wherever an iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch goes, Twitter is there - the hot new celeb couple in town! News (and gosh leaked photos too) is circul > read more
Xbox Live = Microsoft’s cloud ecosystem?
Published on 2011-06-15 10:03:00
Microsoft recently showed a new Xbox Live dashboard that is very similar to the user interface of Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8. Add that to their confirmation that Windows 8 will feature “deep Xbox Live integration”. The intention is to use Xbox > read more
Dumb and dumber is more numbers
Published on 2011-06-14 10:06:00
Before you jump to conclusion, this post is not about the movie dumb and dumber, although it is in the field of entertainment – games, phone games, social games to be precise. We play games to entertain ourselves and sometimes to socialise – trad > read more
Will you be Facebook-ing on dutch design Sofa?
Published on 2011-06-13 03:35:00
The saying goes “Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime”. Everyone knows this. Apply this to company acquisitions, and this is exactly what Facebook has done in buying Sofa, a desig > read more
What’s social hierarchy gotta do with marketing?
Published on 2011-06-12 06:40:00
So you watched the video and had a laugh? Jokes aside, did you notice the pick order of the pack? The obvious ones, The Leader (Google), The Loser (MySpace), The Challenger (Facebook) and the rest. In every group environment, there is a social hierar > read more
MySpace troubles… It’s in the name, doh.
Published on 2011-06-11 02:33:00
MySpace barely made the news recently and it ain’t good… Newscorp the owner who bought it for $580m is trying to offload it, hoping to get back $100m, but embarrassingly sources say there’s only 1 bidder (in all due respect that’s not bidding > read more
Facebook Real World: wife traps husband with fake profile, or so she thinks…
Published on 2011-06-10 01:14:00
If you see this 17-year old girl Jessica Studebaker hooking up with you on Facebook, be warned, it’s too hot to be true. It’s the fake profile of a n unhappy wife set up on Facebook to lure and trap her husband, as basis for divorce. Much to her > read more
Dutch girl tattooed 152 facebook friends [video]
Published on 2011-06-09 11:33:00
Facebook photowall tatto That Dutch girl with facebook photowall tattoo story that was making the rounds on social medial - it came out today that it was a hoax, but for a couple of days (slightly more than a week actually), it was very believable.&n > read more
Battle of the Clouds Apple, Google & Microsoft
Published on 2011-06-08 12:20:00
It’s raining Clouds. These recent days has seen the 3 major movers and shakers of technosumer world (Apple, Google, Microsoft) each busy stealing the thunder from the others’ clouds. Cloud computing is not new per se, it has been a key technology > read more
Facebook party 1500 guest & 100 police
Published on 2011-06-07 16:57:00
Yet another facebook party invitation gone wild, gone viral, gone out of hand – Thessa, German girl in Hamburg happily throws a Sweet 16 birthday party and puts her party invitation up on Facebook – as would any teen with any social (media) cred > read more
China iPhone iPad iTouch users = 10 million
Published on 2011-06-06 07:35:00
10,000,000 – that’s the number of iOS users according to sampling by a Chinese software company targetting iOS, as at end April 2011. They go on to further breakdown by the various models iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and data on type of apps and the > read more
Bouncing balls and Yes-Set psychology
Published on 2011-06-05 03:18:00
Sony Bravia (Bouncing Balls) – An example of the Yes-Set psychology Remember the bouncing balls commercial from Sony (Bravia LCD TV)? Fun wasn’t it? watching all the balls bounce up and down and up and down. Well subconsciously you would have bee > read more
Lawyer wants to see iPad 3 (o, and the iPhone 5 too)
Published on 2011-06-04 02:43:00
Moral of Story: Lawyers are smart, smarter than 17-year old boys. After reading about the 17-year old boy selling his kidney for iPad 2, I came across this article about Samsung lawyers wanting to see iPad 3. Well the news is actually about a lawsuit > read more
Online TV more and more popular
Published on 2011-06-03 17:04:00
“Watching TV online (Catchup TV) is getting more and more popular, especially among the younger generation. From the age group 13- to 19-year olds, 36% watched a (Catchup) TV program online at least once a month, according to figures from Stichting > read more
Boy sells kidney for iPad 2
Published on 2011-06-03 15:52:00
http://digitallife.today.com/_news/2011/06/02/6772047-boy-sells-kidney-for-ipad-2 A 17 year old boy saw an internet ad to sell kidney, got in contact, negotiated the fee (about US$3500) because he wanted an iPad 2. Travelled alone to the hospital doi > read more