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Mickey Mouse Robot Scares Adults
TMC's Juliana Kenny has an interesting look at a robotic Mickey Mouse, Facebook streaming movies, celebrity chef app news and more in her celebrity tech video segment which of course discusses Charlie Sheen - and the new Sheen blocker for...
How YouTube Takes Consumer Time from TV
In the past I have discussed how TV disruption may happen more slowly than you think because of the tens of billions of dollars in affiliate fees changing hands. But this doesn't mean there aren't brilliant innovators out there using...
Competing Effectively in a Facebook and Google World
With a sky-high valuation over $70B Facebook has to be super-aggressive to ensure they can support a valuation which seems to grow by the tens of billions every few months. And with the ability to hire some of the best...
Salesforce.com Cloudforce 2011 Live Blog
I am in New York today at the Salesforce.com Cloudforce 2011 event and it kicked off with a conversation with a user from SunTrust Financial and Forrester Research - so far the event is heavily Twitter, social and smart device...
Is Facebook Becoming the Internet?
In the past, I have discussed the concept of splinternet (a term Forrester researchers say I may have invented) - where the Internet splinters into app stores and websites such as Facebook - a world where developers have to constantly...
Socializing Search
In the last few weeks there have been a higher than usual amount of articles on search quality where mainstream media sources have shined a bright light on companies who are achieving high levels of search rank using methods which...
Meetings, Earnings Calls and E-Mail
Its been perhaps one of my most productive days - I eliminated 1,500 emails - about 800 of which were in the "important - save for later" bucket meaning they either got zapped or required some action. Generally the latter....
Should Social Media Get Credit For These Demonstrations?
Demonstrations are breaking out all over the world and are being aided by Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. Many are saying Silicon Valley deserves little to no credit but this is lost on Egyptians who think enough of social...
TMCnet Featured Briefly on CNBC
I recently came across a tweet from TMC team member Stefanie Mosca about how TMCnet was featured on a CNBC special focusing on Facebook. Kind of cool. The citing takes place at 42:15 in the following video: ...
Verizon Drives Stake Through Heart of Net Neutrality
Updated with modified quote from Hunter Newby January 28, 2011, 8:15 AM EST Updated again January 28, 2011, 4:37 PM EST for grammatical reasons -- My views have shifted on net neutrality over the years - to the point where...
Google and SayNow, What it Means To Telecom
The search leader made the acquisition in part to gain social network traction as well as to become entrenched as a communications API and service provider Many surmise that part of the reason Larry Page is taking over the CEO...
Facebook Ad Connect Coming Soon?
Last week I detailed 11 things Facebook needs to do with their $1.5B but in terms of rapid revenue production the #1 item on the list should have been developing a Google Adsense competitor. In the last year or so...
More Crimes Perpetrated Using Facebook
TMC's Juliana Kenny discusses the new Blackboard Mobile Central Campus service as well as Facebook security including hacks which involve breaking into accounts in order to send nude photos of the victims to their contacts. Moreover, she discusses Facebook related...
11 Things Facebook Should Do With Their New $1.5B
Facebook has just received yet another billion dollars in investment and this on top of the $500M from Goldman Sachs and Digital Sky technologies according the company. This is what Facebook should do with the money. 1) Start an app...
gHome Improves Google Voice
Last week, TMCnet’s Charles West broke the news regarding TELTUB introducing gHome which links up with your Google Voice account as well as Facebook to allow $5/month calling after a free trial. Yesterday, TMCnet’s Tom Keating reviewed the gHome service...
Steve Jobs, Apple IPad, Facebook and Goldman Sachs News
Steve Jobs Unveils Leave 2.0 Steve Jobs is taking his second medical leave from Apple and we should all be concerned as this tech icon is the closest thing we have to an irreplaceable entrepreneur. Many companies the size of...
Twitter is Best Home for MySpace
Sure Myspace is troubled, just let go of about half their staff and will likely be sold off. Obviously Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL come to mind as acquirers. Google could potentially avoid antitrust concerns because Facebook is such a...
The Ultimate Social CRM Prank
While typical negative social CRM experiences are sent via Twitter and Facebook, occasionally companies get their reputation tarnished via Youtube. This is the case in one of the most elaborate pranks ever where a container was dropped in front of...
Is Apple the Biggest Facebook Threat?
Now I am not saying Apple is today ready to take on Facebook but boy are getting to a point where the pieces are lining up nicely for the maker of super-cool gadgets to combine the best of its offerings...
Cablevision Merges Facebook Photos with TV
Pay-TV companies have a tough road ahead of them as content providers are pressing for more compensation and advertising is under pressure in-part because of the economy and the use of DVRs. So raising prices is one of the...
Facebook Worth $50B, Where is your Social CRM Strategy?
Look, I don’t know if Facebook is worth $50 billion but I can tell you with its massive momentum acceleration in users and page views, advertising revenue will continue to grow at a geometric rate. The company has about two...
Facebook Now Worth $50 Billion, Does Deal with Goldman Sachs
Facebook has done a deal with Goldman Sachs to set up a special purpose vehicle or SPV which will allow the company to get around the limitation on the number of investors it can have. Currently limited to 499, Goldman...
MySpace May Layoff 550, Relies on Facebook for Traffic
Obviously most every site relies on Facebook for traffic but in the case of MySpace a whopping 18% of the traffic comes from Facebook – the top upstream site in-fact according to Alexa. The next highest referral sites are...
9 Social CRM Tips For 2011
Facebook Just Overtook Yahoo in unique visitors and you Still Have no Social CRM Strategy? Facebook just overtook Yahoo by a comfortable amount to become the third largest website in the world according to comScore. The world’s leading social networking...
Appliances Should Become Easy to Use Before Smart
Devices are getting smarter - the smart home of the future will consist of gadgets which speak with one another, the electric company, the cloud and all your computers - from desktops to the ones you keep in your pocket....
