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Moped 2.0 Blends Social, Messaging and Cloud Storage
There are a plethora of apps to communicate but precious few bubble up to the top. Quite often a company comes up with an idea for a service which improves on another form of communications. Tweetdeck and Hootsuite come to...
Is The Media Tweeting Away its Profits?
I’d like to start by saying my heart goes out to the victims of the horrific Boston Marathon and their families. Having said that I read with interest that The New York Times, Boston Globe and Wall Street Journal took...
Has the SEC killed the Press Release?
Has the SEC just signed the death warrant for the press release market? Possibly. Standard operating procedure today is to distribute press releases through established services like Business Wire and PR Newswire but thanks to the SEC, you can...
FakeFollowers: What is your Net Twitter Following?
A new service called Fakefollowers allows Twitter users to see how many of their followers are of high quality or “real.” Consider this service to be lumped in with other social tools like Klout which is used to measure social...
News from TeliaSonera, Stage2 Networks, Sidera Networks and More
There's been lots of activity in the TMC newsroom with many new guests coming to our Norwalk, CT studio to tell us what is new and exciting at their companies.At around 170 million mobile subscribers, TeliaSonera is a major mobile...
A Social Aggregation Site No One Wants to be Part of
It’s interesting that many on the internet think the future of media has to have a curation component – some even suggest aggregation as an important area of focus. I couldn’t help but think about these suggestions when I happened...
Finally: Reporting on What The Average Person Thinks about Social
Jamie Epstein has an awesome TMC video segment called the Social Scene which gets feedback from typical white collar workers regarding everything from Facebook ad targeting to password cracks at LinkedIn. What you’ll notice is the production is like any...
Seven Online Community Best Practices
There are so many different types of online communities and ways of building them. There are social sharing sites such as Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter. There are standalone sites and even hosted third party portals which you can build in...
Why Facebook Needs a Phone
Facebook as the dominant social network is becoming the replacement for the phone. Nowadays in fact it is fairly common to use Facebook as the primary way to stay in touch with others – especially among those under 30. The...
More Advice on Buying Apple, Shorting Amazon
Yes Virginia, P/E ratios still matter Two days ago I wrote a piece trying to justify how Amazon could have a P/E ratio 16x higher than Apple. In short, I couldn’t. Recently Rocco Pendola wrote a piece which says P/E...
Twitter Buys Posterous: Point, Counterpoint with Peter Radizeski
Twitter just announced it has picked up blogging service Posterous and as a past user of the service I must say, did find it useful at the time I used it. Before I continue however I'd like to set up...
The 7 Wireless Data Cap Losers
We are in uncharted territory when it comes to mobility as this year we will see a slew of productivity-boosting 4G, quad-core smartphones like the Ascend 4D Quad from Huawei which I saw at Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona,...
Blackberry PlayBook OS 2.0 is Good But Late
It is clear that the Blackberry Playbook OS 2.0 upgrade which includes a first-ever email client needed to be perfect. After all, we have been waiting for this major release since May of last year. Sadly, it isn’t all it...
Rewards Network, the Social Restaurant Hub
In the last few decades it has become apparent that all companies are for the most part limited by their imaginations. Apple was thought to be a computer company but is now a leader in music, movies and phones. Amazon...
Google: Can it be Everything to Everyone?
Google is the new Microsoft but boy are they faster than Redmond ever was. Part of the reason has to do with the search engine leader’s access to the eyeballs of almost every human on earth via its home page...
Alternion: Manage 220+ Social Connections From one Dashboard
Let’s face it – social networking is time consuming. I believe part of the reason for the meteoric rise in social networking these past few years has to do with a miserable job market coupled with the fact that...
11 Things Yahoo Must Do Now That Yang Has Stepped Down
As reported on TMCnet yesterday, Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo has stepped down from the board to pursue other interests. We have a great deal to thank Yang for – as the first company to categorize the web and build...
Does PhoneDog Lawsuit Mean a New Twitter Revenue Opportunity?
Gadget review and news site PhoneDog is suing a former worker Noah Kravitz over a Twitter account even though when he left the company he changed his Twitter handle from one which implied company sponsorship (@PhoneDog_Noah) to one which didn’t...
Will Companies Be Forced into Google+?
A month or so ago, Google started to integrate corporate Google+ results into its SERPs or search engine results pages. On the one hand this isn’t such a surprising move as a few days after my Google+ personal page went...
Will AT&T Divest in 2012?
TMC Senior Editor Peter Bernstein thinks AT&T may explore divestiture options next year and it is a conceivable thought. Moreover, what is worth thinking about is what will the Department of Justice do with other high-profile acquisition attempts next year....
Avaya's Top Communication Trends in 2012
Recently I had a chance to have an in-depth conversation with Avaya about the trends they see for 2012 in the communications space. In particular I spoke with George Humphrey a Director and Line of Business Owner at Avaya and...
Gaga Makes Twitter Sitelink on Google
Google in its effort to help users more easily find what they are looking for added sitelinks this year. Basically when searching for a site you get it as well as many of its popular sublinks. TMC's Juliana Kenny explores...
Google Currents Crashes Newsreader Party
Flipboard calls itself the pocket-sized social magazine and this is an apt description for a social newsreader so popular that this week when it launched an iPhone edition, it was overwhelmed with traffic and crashed. Obviously there is tremendous interest...
C Inventor Dies & Google+ Pros and Cons
I'm back in the office after my trip to SatCon and Content and Communications World in New York. Some of the stories catching my eye today are the continued Blackberry outage which RIM does not need, AOL shopping the company...
Can we Stop Twitter Fail Whale?
I must admit I rarely use the Twitter web interface - I am a fan of HootSuite and TweetDeck and use them both depending on various factors. So I don't see the fail whale that often. But today I decided...
