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To date, most of the conversation around social commerce has revolved around social shopping. We’re focused on a different area of social commerce — the social marketplace — where who you’re buying from (or selling to) matters as much as what is being bought (or sold). Anonymous online transactions in traditional classifieds marketplaces lend themselves to bad behavior — from serious fraud and safety issues to flakey actions such as no-show meetings. Marketplace now does a better job using Facebook to establish a user’s real identity so users can see who is on the other end of the conversation: Users see how they are connected to each other: through friends, mutual friends or a shared network (e.g., went to the same school, work in the same company). We’re also now more clearly delineating between postings posted directly on Marketplace (which have a Facebook identity associated) and aggregated classifieds listings found elsewhere on the Internet.
Technology allowed Karen Riley-Grant, a manager at Levi Strauss in San Francisco, to take care of some business with her New York publicist while she was in labor in the hospital last November. “I had time on my hands,” she says, and “full strength on my phone — five bars.” It once enabled Craig Wilson, an executive at Avaya in Toronto, to take his children to a Linkin Park concert and be able to duck out to finish a task for a client in Australia, he says, “without disruption to my family commitment or my work commitment.” And it recently gave Perry Blacher, chief executive of the social investing firm Covestor, a way to participate in a board teleconference while attending a christening celebration at a pub in England.
Work-Life Balance? Smartphones and Laptops Tip the Scale - NYTimes.com
Interruption-free space is sacred. Yet, in the digital era we live in, we are losing hold of the few sacred spaces that remain untouched by email, the internet, people, and other forms of distraction. Our cars now have mobile phone integration and a thousand satellite radio stations. When walking from one place to another, we have our devices streaming data from dozens of sources. Even at our bedside, we now have our iPads with heaps of digital apps and the world's information at our fingertips. There has been much discussion about the value of the “ creative pause ” – a state described as “the shift from being fully engaged in a creative activity to being passively engaged, or the shift to being disengaged altogether.”
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Three Technologies That Changed Our Brains | Nicholas Carr | Big Think
Nicholas Carr: I think that if you look across the entire world of tools and technologies, what you see is that there are different categories. One category is what I call intellectual technologies. And these are the tools we use to think with, to find information, gather information, exchange information and so forth.
The key difference for us is that in the new culture of learning mentors are very likely to be peers who may have picked up something a little ahead of the curve or who may have more experience in something than their peers. Mentorship is a much more flexible concept and one which is tied less tightly to authority. Since so much of what we see as the key to future learning is passion-based, we think it makes more sense to understand the process of learning as something that can be guided by a mentor, as opposed to being taught by a teacher.
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How Internet Junkies Will Save Television Slideshow - Harvard Business Review - Harvard Business Review
The proliferation of screens in our lives – from televisions to laptops to smart phones to tablets – means that consumers now typically cram as much as 12 hours of media exposure into nine hours of media consumption.
Every Wednesday, Michio Kaku will be answering reader questions about physics and futuristic science. If you have a question for Dr. Kaku, just post it in the comments section below and check back on Wednesdays to see if he answers it. Today, Dr.
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Six Pixels of Separation - Marketing and Communications Blog - By Mitch Joel at Twist Image
Welcome to Generation Flux. The January 2012 cover story of Fast Company magazine was all about Generation Flux . You've head of Gen X , Gen Y and more, but what is Generation Flux? Our business world has been through some tumultuous times: Recessions, financial meltdowns, the massive disruption of technology, natural disasters, nations defaulting on their debt, the Arab Spring , the Occupy Movement and much more. For every catastrophe and massive shift emerge new breakthroughs and advancements. During these past few years, we've also seen some of the most interesting companies flourish and grow ( Apple , Facebook , Lululemon , Amazon , Twitter and more), we've seen medical advancements at an unprecedented pace and the introduction of new technologies that will forever change our future.