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Place-Based Networks are mobile social networks that help you connect with other people based on your shared interest in a place.
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February 22, 2012
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February 22, 2012
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Category Archive: Connection Technologies
Google Tiers Search into the Global, Social and Personal
By connecting Google+ to search, Google is tiering web search into three, very useful, layers: global search, social search and personal search.
Place is a Tag: How Our Phones Should Work
Get ready for the geo-tag – and a revolution in the way you use your phone to search the places around you!
Google+ Hints at a Social Media Marketing Revolution
Google+ is pushing organizations to adopt “permission marketing” principles that are better for customers. Here’s how it can go even further.
Why Our Software Needs Social Context
There will soon be a day when the majority of our online social interactions will occur through mobile devices, and we will face a much more intensely social world than we can even imagine today. When that day comes, our software will need to be much smarter at recognizing people’s social context.
Four Ways to Improve Our Online Emotional Intelligence
It’s one of the great tragedies of modern life that our amazing capacity for emotional intelligence gets short-circuited online. We need software that helps us not only retain, but augment our online emotional intelligence. Here are four areas to focus on and a plea for injecting anthropology into our software development process.
TicketMaster “Friend Discovery” Helps You Find Facebook Friends at Concerts
TicketMaster just announced a new interactive seat map feature that allows you to more easily book seats next to your friends at concerts. This new “social seat map” feature is a prime example of “Friend Discovery” – connecting an organization’s CRM database with the social networks of its customers.
Who to Focus On
Being effective is part what we focus on and part who we focus on – because so much of what we do in life, we do with other people. To know who to focus on, you need to look at “who matters” and “who you can influence” – and that influence comes through engagement.
What If You Could Customize Klout to Match Your Definition of “Influence”?
How come I can’t decide for myself what influence on the web means to me? Who died and left Klout king? How about an influence tuner to let me decide what kind of influence matters most?
Will Mobile Devices Usher in a Renaissance in Local News?
Mobile devices will usher in a renaissance in local news. With Google, Facebook, Yelp and others building services to help us buy more local goods and services, there will be natural pressure for other kinds of location-based information and news as we layer millions of small posts, tags and comments onto our physical surroundings.
