This post was originally posted on socialmedia.biz on December 28th. You and your friends from all over the world walk into a bar on New Year’s Eve. The music is great, the bartender is friendly, and you and all your friends are dressed up in your favorite outfits. Your friend from London decides to pick a different song from the jukebox, your friend from Brazil decides to listen to the band instead, while the buddy [...]

Brian Solis is one of the world’s most renowned social media strategists. Here’s a video I shot of him at LeWeb where he summarizes his conference speech for us. The speech is a philosophical discussion about social sharing and the future of social tools. Solis discusses Loic Le Meur’s concept called “My Body API” which refers to the new devices emerging these days which measure aspects of us (weight, health, etc.) and connects them to other [...]

These days we live in an era of a historian’s wet dream. We are consistently recording history through all our social tools. Our actions, feelings, thoughts, our everything, constantly being recorded. From where we are eating to what we are annoyed about to what it is that makes us tick. Not only are we recording the “big” things but we are recording EVRYTHING. It’s history without hiccups. Ben Parr wrote an excellent post on Mashable [...]