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September 7, 2012 7:52 AM
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One of the hottest concepts in mobile right now is the idea of “context.” The thought process goes something like this: because the modern smartphone comes equipped with all ...
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August 24, 2012 4:47 AM
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A new system for crowdsourcing database operations spares the user from worrying about the computational details but improves cost effectiveness.
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August 20, 2012 9:53 AM
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Content is king, but in the mobile era, it will only remain king if it is optimized for mobile devices. Bill Gates was the first to coin the phrase “content is king,” and ever since he coined it in 1996, content creators, website owners, journalists and pundits of the digital era have recited it, dissected it, argued about it or agreed on it.
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August 8, 2012 12:51 PM
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We're in San Francisco at Google's office to discuss the future of search. The question everyone asks Google is: "What's the future of search?" Their answer: Everyone ...
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July 26, 2012 12:44 PM
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If you’re exhibiting at or running a trade show – or thinking of starting one – the correct use of social media can be the single difference between standing out and driving a boatload of footfall to your stand or event… or disappearing without a trace.
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Alex Butler
July 21, 2012 5:38 AM
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There is internal and external SEO. Internal makes up about 15% of the process and it means to design your site so it follows the best practices proven to rank high on Google. External SEO used to mean to write articles, press releases, blogs, comments, and content with embedded keyword “backlinks” to your site. Now it is changing fast to include social media strategies.
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Alex Butler
July 17, 2012 6:19 PM
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When the first version of HTML5 published in 2008, it raised more questions than it answered. Would it be a force of unification or division? Would content producers, browser programmers and device manufacturers agree to new standards? And would it finally solve issues related to multi-platform development?
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July 11, 2012 1:37 PM
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Anticipating an explosion in mobile gaming in the next five years, investors say they are placing bets on what they see as the underserved market for iPad and tablet games. “People say tablets have been overhyped…but I say they haven’t been hyped enough,” said Spark Capital venture partner Nabeel Hyatt (pictured far left). He joined analysts and other VCs from the gaming industry to discuss the future of mobile and social gaming at VentureBeat’s MobileBeat and GamesBeat conferences today.
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Alex Butler
July 10, 2012 5:20 AM
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Phase #1: LaunchThe launch phase of social media is focused on setting up the major social network accounts with brand assets. This launch phase should see very little actual results in terms of traffic or income spike as it is focused on preparation...
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July 7, 2012 3:13 PM
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In the beginning everybody fought to be the mayor of their favorite Foursquare hangout but over time the buzz surrounding the social media app seemed to have waned as many users simply stopped caring about the game’s badges and check-ins.
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July 7, 2012 3:03 PM
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When a new medium emerges, eventually services change. TV initially aped radio before it found its own format and distinctive voice. The effect of the tablet on service delivery is only now becoming clearer.
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June 29, 2012 4:49 AM
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This presentation is a 2012 mid-year update and complement to the original "State of Social" presentation by Esteban Contreras
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June 19, 2012 6:43 AM
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How the soft-drink giant is adapting to a networked planet run by consumers.
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September 4, 2012 11:51 AM
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Cast your minds back - if you can - to the days when the web was a jumble of random pages. 'Web surfing' consisted, quite literally, of somehow finding a website and then clicking through links to other sites as the mood took you.
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August 22, 2012 12:02 PM
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Steve Jobs needed Steve Wozniak - a balanced, creative leadership team. Image via CrunchBase. Mike Maddock has seen the enemy – and, sometimes at least, it is him.
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August 17, 2012 7:28 AM
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Attracting a potential customer is hard enough. Grabbing their interest and retaining them is even more difficult. Its important to design your website so frustration is kept to a minimun, thereby maximising customer retention.
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August 3, 2012 9:11 AM
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Roja Bandari, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering at UCLA, developed an algorithm that predicts with 84 percent accuracy whether a news article will be popular on Twitter or bomb on the social media site. Bandari came up with the algorithm with two Hewlett Packard Lab researchers while she was working at HP as an intern. She shared the paper in June at the 2012 International Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Weblogs and Social Media.
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July 26, 2012 10:21 AM
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CRM's evolution into Social CRM
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July 17, 2012 6:48 PM
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Ashish Thusoo knows a lot about Big Data. Thusoo joined Facebook in 2007 when the company had 50 million users. He left when it had some 800 million. During that time he managed Facebook's internal data analytics team.
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July 15, 2012 12:13 PM
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Communication plays a role in all information exchanged between living species. Technically speaking, even plants and fungi communicate with each other. We asked 6 experts from different fields to share their view on the future of communication.
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July 11, 2012 11:57 AM
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Dave Morin, the chief executive of the private mobile social network app Path, was onstage at MobileBeat 2012 this morning with Michael Copeland, the senior editor of Wired. And Morin, true to form, was full of great one-liners.
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July 8, 2012 3:58 PM
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Big Data is a hot topic of discussion these days and is on top of “To Do” list of senior executives of large and medium sized companies, many of whom have started investing in required infrastructure for leveraging Big Data.
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Alex Butler
July 7, 2012 3:09 PM
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There’s a good chance that big data will change the face of digital agencies in as little as five years. Here’s why.
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Alex Butler
July 7, 2012 2:53 PM
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We've answered all of the basic questions in mobile such as: Will we have 4G networks and when? Will consumers adopt devices and what kinds? Will the app store be successful? Will BYOD happen? Thus, I’m currently researching the future of mobile which I believe is about transforming how business is done. I believe the future is in combining mobile, big data and analytics (with help from the cloud) to deliver Right Time Experiences.
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June 22, 2012 4:06 AM
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In 2012 we've seen amazing growth in the Consumer Cloud, meaning cloud computing for everyday users. There are three main categories in the Consumer Cloud: storage, sync, and notes.
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