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Is the New Google Maps App a Wooden Stick in Apple’s Heart?

Featured Image Google Maps. A Wooden Stick in Apple's Heart?

If you are still doubting the mobile take over, Google becoming THE king of mobile development should give you a hint. If Google is, to you, any yardstick in the technology world. But take a look at the app rather and let me in the comments what you think. The irony is that some are seriously wondering whether the app’s iOS version turned out better than it’s Android counterpart. Will this app be the wooden stick in Apple’s heart?

Why Major News Outlets Must Cohabit With Citizen Journalism #Interview

Apple Patents New iPhone Features for Today's Citizen Journalists

It was at that same event I was told I was personally destroying journalism and someone called me a malevolent capitalist. I kinda liked the malevolent thing, though it’s the opposite of what I think. Demotix began precisely because I was interested in actively benevolent business. We come at the world with a very deliberate free speech agenda. And business is helping us spread that agenda globally.

How The News Reporting Business Is Being Put On Its Head By An Indomitable Gaul

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The advent of the contextual web or internet 3.0 is likely to have profoundly reaching repercussions on our ways of life, our world and the way we get our news about it. To talk about the subject, I caught up with a participating disrupter, Turi Munthe. He is the founder and CEO of Demotix; a multiple-awardwinning open newswire. Demotix connects freelance reporters, photo journalists and video makers, as well as amateurs and activists, with the global media. Demotix was reportedly established to do two things: 1/ Promote freedom of speech, political participation and civil society 2/ Change the way news is sourced and reported.

“Social Media Marketing”: Technique or Philosophy? #Interview

So what is ‘social media marketing’? The term itself is still in the works in my opinion. But the necessity for businesses to adapt their approach and positioning to the marketing demands of this brave new world is here for certain. This was the subject I recently chatted about with Pelin Thorogood aka @PelinT, newly appointed CMO at Anametrix a digital analytics company in San Diego, CA.

Entering the Mile High Club with Foursquare

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One highlight of my recent trip across the pond, was a foursquare badge offer to check-in at 30,000 feet. Many might say… what’s the big deal about checking in at 30,000 feet or getting a virtual badge, the only purpose of which is to say you did so. What’s more? Neither inflight wifi nor the… [Continue Reading]

Social Networks And The American Automobile Industry [INFOGRAPHIC]

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As many social networks as there are, there is still heaps of room for innovation. With technology evolving in allowing users to develop new habits in using social networks, dreams can run wild about we’ll see in the future. But what will happen of the dozens networks that exist today? Will their number keep growing indefinitely?

Why #Superbowl 2012 Is A Worldwide Event (Infographic)

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As to the why question, simply because it’s an event that moves billions of dollars in advertising and most brands are today operating on a global basis.

The First Ever Official Twitter-Fight Just Happened

Paul Kagame Rwanda President

“I don’t think anybody out there in the media, UN, human rights organisations, has any moral right whatsoever to level any accusations against me or against Rwanda” Is this an example of rhetoric 2.0 that we’ll be witnessing in the future? Or will this serve as further deterrent to all public figures out there to — despite bowing to social media pressures to “be public” and engaged — should “stay put” and not engage in confrontations Will we — with the U.S. 2012 presidential elections — witness unprecedented volumes of conversations and tweet-fights? I am pretty sure that the future promises to be very fun on socio-planet. What’s the craziest Twitter sparing you can imagine, featuring political figures among themselves, with journalists, supporters or constituents?

New on Twitter: 1,000,000 Words in 140 Characters

New on Twitter: 1,000,000 words in 140 characters

Today, Twitter unveiled its long awaited photo and video sharing, not only leaving the likes of Twitpic, Yfrog and Twitvid in the dust… with a twist: pushing hashtags. In watching the official unveiling video below, Twitter is smartly appealing to users’ love-hate relationship with the ubiquitous 140 characters limit: too limiting to ramble but fantastic to consume and digest.

IPhone 4 & 3GS Unlock: The Cat & Mouse Game Code Named: 02.10.04 – 05.14.02

It is rather insane the way in which twiterers are rehashing over and over the same questions about the availablility of the unlock for the now infamous iPhone basebands 05.14.02 and 02.10.04.