Science & Technology
Guest Author: Jack Mason is a team member of IBM Strategic Programs Team. You can follow him on Twitter at @IBMSocBiz and @JackMason. Testing a new approach for collaborative intelligence gathering This experiment in realtime research is a collaboration between Social Media Week and the Strategic Programs team in IBM Global Business Services, and a…
Up until last week, I wasn’t overly excited about Google+. I wasn’t UNexcited, but I seemed to be engaging on it with almost the same group of people as on Twitter. Yes, there are aspects of the functionality I prefer to Twitter or Facebook, and the user experience feels nicer; but in reality, I was…
Social TV is an ongoing series by Elspeth “Ellie” Rountree that will focus on trends and topics within the industry. Listed by MIT’s Technology Review as one of the top ten emerging technologies, Social TV has proven it’s relevance as one of the most talked about, and perhaps most promising, topics in the not only…
If Your Life Were a Social Network Hosted by SapientNitro Social Media Week NY (February 7, 2011) What if people spoke in Twitter updates? What if we reprinted embarrassing pictures of each other and handed them out to thousands of strangers? Or to co-workers? Social networks have fundamentally changed the way we socialize, so connected…
Integrating Text Messages in Websites, Apps and Other Software Hosted at the Science and Technology Hub at Google Social Media Week NY (February 7, 2011) Text messaging is the most universal and direct mobile medium. Despite its growing popularity, taking advantage of text messaging as a mobile channel has thus far been difficult due to…
Keynote Interview with Author of ‘Program or be Programmed’ Douglas Rushkoff Social Media Week (March 21,2011) Will social networking finally accomplish the Internet’s real goal? We have yet to see. But in the meantime, how we use it — and what we think it to be — will go a long way toward determining its…
Research Gone Social: Leveraging the Web to Advance Scientific Discovery Social Media Week NY ( June 1, 2011 ) Think of all of the ways you connect with others and discover new information online. How many of those platforms do you use for research? How do you keep up with the speed and amount of…
by, Francesca Tarissi It is the first question that came to mind of many of us – at least those who are interested in robotics – looking at the images of the smoking reactor in Fukushima . The article “Can Japan Send In Robots To Fix Troubled Nuclear Reactors?” does an excellent job of investigating the…
Coverage of the green movement has more than fallen to the wayside in most media but, rest assured, it still exists. International supporters, as we learned in 2009, can only do so much to keep a movement going and help it to be successful, but what global civil society can do is important and worth highlighting and building on. Here are some ventures I’ve come across recently that seem to be doing cool/important work in this arena.
How Do You Define The Status Quo?
by Perri O. Blumberg “Guys go for looks, girls go for status!” For me, that lyric by The Hold Steady was the first thing I blurted out when my friend inquired yesterday, “What’s the first thing that pops into your mind when I say the word ‘status?’” After further contemplation however, I started thinking about…