Yoyo. Google 2015: what will it look like? I worked at post-DOJ-spanked Microsoft.
I saw firsthand how wimpy Bill Gates got (I had a lunch with him and Mike Arrington where we talked about whether Microsoft would let us acquire interesting new companies. “No way” was the basic answer. Funny that back then they could have purchased Skype for $2 billion, not listening cost them $6.5 billion). Today Jason Calacanis is taking Google to task for being naughty. It’s worse than that Jason.
So, what could Google in 2015 look like? Jason lays out one vision of what Google could look like in four years: a nice company that helps the entire industry grow together. Let’s be honest. Go into the heads of a big-company employee. Even worse, will the average employee at a big company tell the lawyers to sit down and shut up? What’s small today? Anyway, what will Google look like in 2015? First, what will the trends be for the next four years? 1. How to be reconized as SM Influencer.
Internet users per time zone (chart) Posted in Tech blog on May 19th, 2011 by Pingdom We know that there are approximately two billion Internet users in the world, but how are they distributed?
More specifically, how are they spread over the world’s time zones? The world population isn’t spread evenly, and neither is the Internet population. We couldn’t find this information anywhere, so we collected the data ourselves and did the necessary calculations to be able to put together this chart. We hope you will find it useful. To learn more in detail what we did (methodology, etc.), check out the “How we did it” section below. Notes about the infographic: The time zones shown also include any “uneven” time zones, e.g. Some things we learned from this survey Two time zones stand head and shoulders above the others in terms of the amount of Internet users they contain: UTC+8, which passes through eastern Asia, and UTC+1, which passes through Europe and Africa.The largest time zone bracket is UTC+8 (503 million Internet users).
Hiring a Social Media Agency? Read this First! News Flash: Not everyone who says they understand or have used social media actually knows what they are talking about.
I know, that’s not much of a news flash for many of us. We’ve been watching as this tremendous growth of social media has created a mass-market of companies selling huge lines of BS to brands who honestly don’t know the right questions to ask. Social Media Articles. 7 Levels of SM Engagement. There are seven stages to social media engagement from shallow monitoring to deep peer to peer economies.
How deep is the rabbit hole of social media? Is your organisation doing the minimum they can do, or are they quite advanced? I put together this diagram to show the steps from shallow engagement such as just monitoring to full engagement including co-creating products and services. It’s probably worth noting that every baby steps stage in social media engagement is valid – from little acorns big ol’ oak trees grow. 7 Levels of SM Engagement. 5 Tools to Schedule Your Tweets. With Hootsuite being down I saw myself and lots of other people in dire need to continue scheduling tweets.
So here is a list of 5 other services, which will allow you to schedule your tweets. They are all up and running. 1.) Twuffer Twuffer lets you schedule tweets on a clean interface and is completely free for you to use. 2.) FutureTweets is very similar to Twuffer and a service that is dedicated to allowing you to schedule tweets. 3.) In case you were looking for a slightly easier method, Buffer might be interesting to you. Badgeville.com. Game over!?
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'Your own personal helicopter': New version of Maps will let you dive round exact 3D replicas of citiesHi-tech 'Google Planes' amass enough data to recreate buildings, bridges... even treesRe-vamp comes just as Apple 'plans to ditch Google Maps on the iPhone and iPad' By Eddie Wrenn Published: 20:07 GMT, 6 June 2012 | Updated: 16:18 GMT, 7 June 2012 Google has announced a complete overhaul to the imagery on Google Maps.
The search giant has sent a convoy of planes over major cities in the world, each plane capturing advanced 3D information and detailed photographs. The result will be a complete 3D experience of major cities across the world, allowing users to swoop and fly through replicas which are exact - with even trees getting the 3D treatment. It is the next step of Google's controversial plan to create a photo-based map of the world - and it will begin rolling out before the end of the year.