social media – Page 18 – Richard's blog

Quora and lateral thinking

Jun 14, 2016

—

by

in social media, Social Media Deontology, social media living room, social networking

Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I saw the question “Why can’t I charge my mobile phone while riding my scooter?” on Quora so I decided to provide the answer that you see below.Â In my eyes my answer is legitimate. As an ingress player, as a scooter driver, and as someone who has done what I describe…

Facebook Disengagement

Jun 9, 2016

—

by

richard

in social media, Social Media Deontology, social networking

Reading Time: 2 minutesFacebook disengagement by those I know has become so serious that I have decided to take a break from the social network myself. For many years this was a network of people I knew and spent time with in person. It has school friends, uni friends, activity friends and social media friends.…

Social Media and The Human Return on Investment

Apr 23, 2016

—

by

richard

in advertising, facebook, lifestream, social media, Social Media Deontology, social media living room, social networking

Reading Time: 3 minutesSocial Media and the Human Return on Investment, because contrary to popular belief we use social networks to socialise, not to shop. As we grow older and more mature our close network of friends changes and evolves. We go from school friends to university friends and then to professional friends. In the…

Getting an audience to film screenings

Apr 17, 2016

—

by

richard

in observation, social media, virtual reality

Reading Time: 2 minutesAdam Aron, CEO of AMC recently made a generation of cinema non-goers angry with him when he said that he would allow texting to take place during projects. My generation, previous generations and the generations of the future complained on social media. Getting an audience to film screenings requires an understanding ofÂ what…

My love/hate relationship with twitter turns Ten

Mar 21, 2016

—

by

richard

in social media, social media living room, social networking, twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutesI have been active on the World Wide Web for two decades, two thirds of my life. Half of that time has been spent as a twitter Â user. I was among the first to use the service and I saw it go from being a curiousity to being the most popular conversation…

The Guardian, Google and advertising Revenue

Mar 19, 2016

—

by

richard

in social media, social networking, tech related, twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a reasonable amount of time I would check all of the news websites on a daily basis. These include The Guardian, the Independent, BBC news and french news sources. In so doing I was kept up to date with current affairs. Certain websites, such as the NYtimes and Le Temps were…

Stop wasting time on Instagram with friends – Algorithms and attention

Mar 16, 2016

—

by

richard

in social media, social media living room, social networking

Reading Time: 2 minutesInstagram is a photo basedÂ social network that allows two types of users, ego-maniacs on one side, and explorers on the other, to share images of interesting things they see and do. Some people share beautiful mountain images and others share images of their trips to Paris, Rome and more. I share images…

Sentiment Analysis and Social Media

Mar 14, 2016

—

by

richard

in social media

Reading Time: 2 minutes I have two opinions about sentiment analysis technology. The first one is that social media have already suffered greatly through the actions of social media marketers, PR professionals and “internet famous” individuals. This technology could lead to broadcasting without a human bothering to listen as the human is replaced by algorithms…

Narcissism and the World Wide Web

Feb 14, 2016

—

by

richard

in social media, Social Media Deontology, social media living room, social networking

Reading Time: 2 minutesAccording to a New York Times writer, Narcissism and the World Wide Web are increasing. “Narcissism is increasing…” If our egos are obese with amour-propre, social media can indeed serve up the empty emotional carbs we crave. Instagram and the like doesnâ€™t create a narcissist, but studies suggest it acts as an…

Myshake – Earthquake app for Android

Feb 13, 2016

—

by

richard

in social networking, tech related

Reading Time: < 1 minute Myshake is an android app developed by UC Berkeley to use mobile phone sensors as earthquake detection and measurement devices. When the shaking fits the vibrational profile of an earthquake, the app sends the anonymous information to our central system that confirms the location and magnitude of the quake. There…

Category: social media