Unlocking location-based deals on everything from coffee to running shoes has been part of the social media vernacular for a number of years. After all, offering up your location data to retailers and allow companies to pitch you discounts and specials was how many companies aimed to become profitable. Yet only 4% of Americans used any sort of check-in service in 2010. ...
Continue ReadingCongrats! The Internet has made you an honorary librarian. Since writing that post, I’ve been thinking about what’s the purpose of credentialed librarians when social media enables many of us to fill some of their roles.
Steph, a librarian in Melbourne, Australia, feels that the Internet has made her a better librarian. ...
Continue ReadingEarlier this week the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers or (ICANN) made a significant announcement that starting in January 2012 they will begin accepting applications for new “generic top-level domains.” As David Sarno wrote in the LA Times “ICANN approves open Web domain name rules: .anything is possible" ...
Continue ReadingWe’ve all seen the stats about the explosion of the mobile web.
There are four billion mobile phones in use globally. One billion of these are smart phones. By 2014, more people globally will access the Internet from a mobile device than a desktop computer.
Depending on who you talk to,...
Continue ReadingIt’s a safe bet that by now you are completely burned out on Weinergate. And I know why. News coverage of NY Representative Anthony Weiner’s bizarre sex scandal has been wall-to-wall since the story broke; it’s on the news, on the web, and in your Twitter feed. Pew Research Center found that the story accounted for up to 17% of total news coverage at one point –...
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