New apps revealed at SXSW (South By Southwest) are foreshadowed by Gary Shteyngart’s novel Super Sad True Love Story, putting technology and information at the forefront in a not-too-distant-future version of New York City.
TriplePoint’s Rich Jones examines the advertising and marketing potential for gesture recognition systems like Microsoft Kinect.
I think it’s a bit harsh to say that social gamers are “weird”, as Newsweek recently put it… But you have to dig a little deeper than face(book) value to understand the attraction of playing casual games with actual friends on the (social) web. In the end, it all boils down to the fact that …
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of presenting at the monthly Social Media Expedition Memphis breakfast meetup. It was a great chance to take a look at “social gaming” from a different perspective, as many attendees knew little about the video games industry, but they were all social media enthusiasts. The result? An exploration of the …
More and more parts of our lives are becoming tangled in the Social Web – Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and Digg are buzzwords everywhere you turn, and everyone *could be* paying attention to your social doings these days… But are they? In any case the fact is, social media is creating a new organizational framework …
What would any good definition be without a dictionary? Here are the “real” definitions of our social media landscape, archaic or fleeting though they may be… Social- adj. “relating to society; organization of the way people live and work together in groups; seeking or enjoying the companionship of others; pertaining to the life, welfare, and …
Vivity Scenes allows users to create a 3-D virtual scene “experience” to embed on any blog, brand or site. Vivaty created services for Facebook and AIM in May 2008. To sum up in response to my original question – are social networks (SNs) and virtual worlds (VWs) merging into one medium? In my opinion, not …