From CBC: Google Wave’s inbox, as seen on the Official Google Blog. In May, Google announced Wave, the company’s attempt to reinvent internet communication. Brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen, the Australian creators of Google Maps, have been working on the project for the last two years.
On Sept. 30, Google plans …
Often we find ourselves using social media tools the way they were intended to be used. Log in, search, read an update, poke, contact someone…but why do we limit ourselves to be viewed as just another profile? We are real people, behind desks, in cars, on the couch, trying to succeed in whatever our choice endeavors are. Some people wake up to the fact that they can do things a little differently. Often it is in times of economic need that the real innovation comes out. Yesterday I received an email from an old friend who I am connected with on Linkedin.
61% of Baby Boomer internet users in the US have visited sites that offer streaming or downloadable video, while 41% have visited online social networks, according to a report from The NPD Group. Those figures show significant usage of online entertainment media among Boomers and make them a key demographic segment for more digital products and marketing.
Other interesting stats from the report include:
More than half of all web users (57%) visited a social-networking site, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, or MySpace, in past three months.
Although young web users (age 13-34) are significantly more likely to visit social-networking sites – and to visit them more often – more than half of Baby Boomers (age 44-61) visited a social-networking site in the past three months, with users averaging 15 days in one-month period.
How often have you wanted to tell someone that they have, well, poor taste in clothes, bad breath or perhaps even bad table manners. Now thanks to NiceCritic, you can annonymously tell others of your concerns. The site provides anyone with the ability to anonymously criticize anyone else in order to help them to improve. …
According to Steve Rubel in Adage, “recessions often accelerate social shifts that are already percolating under the surface.” One of the key trends he discusses, is the growing number of Digital Nomads. Digital nomads are workers in both corporate and consulting jobs who are on the road constantly, using web-based tools such as Twitter, wikis, Google Docs, social networks and Skype …
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