Browsing articles from "August, 2011"
Aug
31
2011

Facebook Allows You to Hide The Picture But The Story Lives On

Post written by Kevin Swaine Last week Facebook announced another set of changes to the popular social network. In a surprise move, one of those changes gave the power back to the Facebook user to monitor what photos are tagged of him or her. As most people are trying to ensure that their parents don’t see pictures of them lying on the ground outside a club, passed out due to the drinking of their own [...]

Aug
23
2011

10 Things I Love Most About Evernote

Post written by Joanna Ezekiel I’m a pretty organized person. I love lists. I love them even more when they’re color coordinated. I used to have a little book that I carried around with me with notes from different phone calls I had with various bureaucratic offices, shopping lists, opening times of places I needed to go, and other vaguely useful pieces of information. I don’t have that little book anymore. Instead, I have Evernote. [...]

Aug
17
2011

Human Society Is Not Different, It’s Just More Efficient

Post written by Shahar Goldfinger Yesterday a friend took a picture of me and two other friends sitting together at a coffee shop with all our heads buried in our smartphones. When he was asked why he did this he yelled “This is what these <expletive deleted> phones are making us! We don’t communicate anymore! Every morning before I wash my face I check my phone! It’s not normal!” That got me thinking, is technology [...]

Aug
9
2011

When Screwing Up Leads to a Public Statement and When a Public Statement Leads to Screwing Up

Post written by Jonah Balfour Not too long I opened Twitter, well Hootsuite to be precise, to find the following sponsored tweet at the top of my feed. “We screwed up and we’re sorry.” It’s not every day you see a tweet like that, let alone one that a company paid for. Yet, this tweet is perhaps one of the best investments Airbnb could have made. It serves to me as proof that when you [...]

Aug
2
2011

Connecting with the Modern Soccer Player – One Tweet at a Time

Post written by Kevin Swaine It is commonly accepted that football or soccer (depending on where you are from) is the most watched and followed sport in the world. Soccer posters are plastered to every young (and not so young) soccer fan’s bedroom wall and in days gone by, fans actually mingled with their favorite players on a regular basis.  Back in the late 70’s Sir Alex Ferguson famously owned a pub in Glasgow, aptly [...]

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