On May 18, the IPO of Facebook came at a valuation of USD108 billion. If you’re a baby boomer like me, you might wonder how this event will impact your future career. Until about six months ago, I was representative of most baby boomers– I was using one social-media tool for friends and family life [...]
At Mobile World Congress 2012, we spoke to Tom Standage, Digital Editor, The Economist, about the social media phenomenon. Standage says that while many people perceive social media as being new and unprecedented, they mark a return to the way media have worked throughout most of history.
Rather than waiting for special events, I prefer taking photos of my everyday life – on my way to daycare, eating breakfast or getting groceries. I take most of the pictures with my phone, and then I e-mail them to my Posterous account. By keeping it simple and uploading everyday moments I get an image [...]
According to a study by Ericsson ConsumerLab, in the last eight years, internet use has quadrupled.
By: Dodi Axelson
11 January, 2012
News , People , Technology , Uncategorized
applications,
digital culture,
Digital Media,
internet,
mobile broadband,
Networked Society,
Social Media,
TV
At this year’s CES it’s proving to be more about the intangible, such as applications and connectivity, than the tangible. In this video I talk about the importance of being able to access content from anywhere at any time and on any gadget.
During the last Volvo Ocean Race, I was lucky enough to travel the world while also leading the delivery of the race’s next generation of multimedia solutions. We made Facebook, Twitter and Google Earth part of the race experience for the first time, and also provided real-time access to video of the race via mobile [...]
By: Mikael Eriksson Björling
5 January, 2012
People , Society , Technology
50 billion connections,
applications,
broadband,
Connectivity,
consumer devices,
ConsumerLab,
Digital Media,
digital natives,
Networked Society,
Smartphones,
Social Media
When I was young, dating – or at least trying to date – consisted of slipping a note into a girl’s locker, or shuffling nervously towards her to ask her out with my friends offering humiliating support in the background.
I’ve been writing a lot lately on Facebook, sharing the results of a recent study conducted by ConsumerLab looking at the behavior of Swedish teenagers. In the next installment of my Facebook posts, I explain how the platform is just as important to social life today as the village square was in the past.
In my last post, I discussed how Facebook has expanded our contact circles and that the ‘new’ communication channels created by the social networking platform are used differently depending on who is being contacted. Today, I will describe what these channels are, and how they are used.
It’s not going to be big – it’s going to be huge. That’s what Ynon Kreiz, CEO of the Endemol Group, thought about Social TV when he told the audience at the Digital Life Design (DLD) conference back in January 2011 to leave the room and to start working on the future of TV right [...]
