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What could you do if you had access to all of twitter all at once? What if you combined that with 75 million other data feeds? And combined it with an easy-to-use-tool and impressive visuals? What if it were a service software? That’s exactly what the Social Media Command Center from InTTENSITY is. It’s your social media and Internet war room -- replete with maps, calenders, lists of events and people. Its primary purpose: to allow users to … [Read more...]
Wayin has been moving forward in the last couple of months. We did an initial announcement of their offerings on CTOVision over the summer, but they have evolved quite a bit since then. Since we like to keep you updated on what is going on in the social media world, I figured now would be a good time to check back in with Wayin. I recently talked with someone from business development at Wayin, and she is excited about how far the social media site has … [Read more...]
Just because social media such as Facebook and Twitter are known to sap productivity at the workplace doesn't mean that they aren't efficient. Quite the contrary- social media's allure comes from its amazing effectiveness for connecting people, forming virtual communities, compiling, developing, and delivering relevant information and, most recently, perfecting and distributing apps. Realizing that the power of social media could be used to save rather … [Read more...]
Let's face it: the social media that many enterprises hail also pose big problems. Employee use of the Internet--particularly social networks--is a big timewaster. A new Nielsen study found that Americans spend 23% of their online time on social networks, with an increasing amount of that browsing time spend spent on mobile apps. Like the sarcastic Captain Renault in Casablanca, we're shocked, shocked that a good deal of this browsing time is likely … [Read more...]
Say you're a Crip gangbanger and want to declare a "Crip Holiday" for you and your homies. You put it out on Twitter, bring a 9mm pistol along with you, and congregate at a local park at 7:30. You get there only to find out that the police are waiting for you. Sounds stupid? Well, it actually happened. Quoth Mashable's Radhika Marya: The New York Daily News reports that police learned the alleged Crips members were using Twitter to call for a … [Read more...]
Like others here at CTOvision.com, I've also begun playing around with Scott McNealy's new venture WayIn and already see some interesting potential. WayIn allows users to ask questions about pictures they post to make visual polls for other users. You can share your questions through Facebook and Twitter, follow others, and interact with the app online or on a smartphone, though the mobile version has a better interface and is more handy. In these … [Read more...]
Over a third of American adults, 35 percent, currently own smartphones, with that number expected to keep growing. That means that over one third of Americans keep a user-friendly networked computing device with them at all times. The unprecedented access to computing created by smartphones is good for more than just Angry Birds, with companies like Pollbob using smartphone apps to poll users on any subject then share questions and results via social … [Read more...]
It’s late Monday morning when your computer security department notices that a suspicious message has been emailed to most of the email addresses at your company. It contains a malicious PDF that exploits a new vulnerability that came out over the weekend. The patch hasn’t been applied to the company workstations yet, and it’s too little, too late by the time the email goes out telling everyone not to click on the links. By the time inboxes are … [Read more...]
Researchers at MIT's Media Lab have been developing a suite of technologies to analyze social interactions that are now hitting the market. In one project, actors mimed emotions and volunteers interpreted their expressions. The majority answers were added to a database that serves as a visual library of expressions which is compared to realtime footage using 24 feature points on the face. Researchers incorporated this technology to glasses with … [Read more...]