Unless you’ve been living under a very, very secluded rock for about the past 18 months, you have probably heard the word “Twilight”. The Twilight series, originally written by Stephanie Meyer and adapted into films by Summit Entertainment is the constant topic of conversation for millions of loyal fans. This possibly unprecedented pop-culture phenomenon has [...] Read full story...
Archive for June, 2010
Celebrating the World Cup on social networks around the world
With a large diversity in social networking sites, we are beginning to see the change from high noise and low signal, to low noise and high signal. Increasingly, specialized networks such as Sprouter for entrepreneurs or the aforementioned ResearchGATE are used to share with a specific and focused audience. Read full story...
Happy Birthday 9 Clouds!
Tomorrow marks a big day in the life of 9 Clouds: our first "official" birthday! We kept busy in our first year and we'll also continue to speak, educate and assist businesses in using, monitoring and optimizing social media and online tools. If you or someone you know could benefit from these services, please let [...] Read full story...
Seeing Eye to Eye with Microsoft Kinect.
Microsoft announces a way to use Kinect to chat and watch movies face to face. Read full story...
Social Media Armageddon?
Last week, some unlucky Twitter users found their tweets missing. On June 11, an old SDSU classmate and fellow tweeter Ben Lippert was routinely checking his twitter account, only to discover that well over 1,000 of his tweets have disappeared. This was a problem many twitter users discovered last week. The mystery of missing tweets [...] Read full story...
Social Media in the Wild
John catches an example of social media in the wild this past weekend at Grand Old Day in St. Paul Read full story...
Quit Facebook Day Is a Bust
Yesterday, May 31, was the first ever organized effort for the masses to delete their Facebook account as a protest to the ever-changing privacy settings and overall domination of online social interaction. These “Quitters” wanted to make a statement that our lives can exist without the world of Facebook. For as much buzz as this [...] Read full story...