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Sentiment Analysis and Social Media

Mar 14, 2016

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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

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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

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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…

Social Media and the Lizard brain

Feb 7, 2016

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in social media, Social Media Deontology, social networking

Reading Time: 3 minutesI wanted to write about Social Media and the Lizard brain. My experience of information technology and Social Media is that it is a great tool for people from different backgrounds to come together and have a calm and logical conversation. Some people believe that “we need a social media with heart…

Reactions – What if Twitter died

Feb 6, 2016

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in social media, twitter

Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou can tell when someone joins a social network by what they think the network is for. I joined twitter in 2006. No one knew what the network was best at, eventually everyone decided to use it as a conversation tool. When people understood how dynamic conversations could be the network…

Conversational Social Networks

Jan 28, 2016

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

Reading Time: 2 minutesBen Thomspon wrote, “How Facebook Squashed Twitter“. Â The article looks at social networks from a marketing point of view. I like conversational social networks. Social networks by their very name are for conversations. They are about connections and they are about friendship, collaboration and more.Â In its Golden age twitter was a…

Suunto and Sports tracker collaborate.

Jan 22, 2016

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in N95, social media, social networking, Swiss walks, tech related

Reading Time: 2 minutesI have been using sports tracker for years. I first used it on the Nokia N95 8GB several years ago. This was an excellent app that allowed you to track your moves using the mobile phone as a GPS. The limitation of such an app was battery life on mobile phones. The…

The idiocy of the Hashtag

Nov 4, 2015

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

Reading Time: 7 minutesEvery day I am reminded of the Idiocy of the Hashtag. Twitter is a conversational medium where the more we converse the more addictive the social network becomes. Every single @ reply was a reaction to what we said or shared. Connections between users were strong and so the network effect took…

Vanity fair is wrong to label Zuck as the top disruptor

Sep 9, 2015

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in facebook, social media, Social Media Deontology, social media living room, twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutesZuckerberg Tops Vanity Fair’s 2015 List of Disruptors Every successful social network first establishes a friendship network where a tight knit group of people interact with each other on a very frequent basis. In the case of facebook it was uni friends interacting with uni friends from the same campus. On twitter…

Social Media and Via Ferrata

Aug 27, 2015

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in social media, social media living room, social networking, Switzerland, travel, Via Ferrata

Reading Time: 3 minutesPeople on linkedin were discussing whether social media campaigns are worth organising and keeping. When it comes to extreme sports such as Via Ferrata, rock climbing and other extreme sports then I believe that the audience is ready and enthusiastic enough for a social media presence to be desirable. Via Ferrata is…

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