Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock the past few weeks, you’ll be familiar with the viral “What I really do” meme – a sequence of five or six photos highlighting people’s skewed notions about your profession, nationality, or other social group. According to Know Your Meme, the first example of the meme was posted…
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With the cost of a Super Bowl XLVI being about $3.5M, advertisers pulled out all the stops this year with a combination of ads that not only entertained viewers, but also made use of mobility and social media to influence preference for the brand, just as we suggested prior to the big game. So what…
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On the eve of Super Bowl Sunday, even if you don’t like the teams playing this year (Go Bears!), you can still plan on enjoying the Super Bowl commercials and the variety of interactivity and entertainment that will fill tomorrow night, especially the spots that involve technology companies and entrepreneurs. Now at an all time…
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Editor’s Note: This is article is a revised version of an article written by Jen Consalvo and Frank Gruber that appears in the January 2012 issue of The Social Media Monthly. If you like this article you might want to download the The Social Media Monthly iPad app or iPhone app and subscribe to get the scoop in 2012….
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What does mobility mean to you and how does it affect your life? Genevieve Bell an Intel fellow, social scientist and anthropologist by trade has some interesting ideas as she has been researching this question for Intel with various projects for quite sometime. We caught up with Genevieve previously at SXSW where she shared some of…
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Last Wednesday night at the DCWEEK Opening Keynotes, an interesting mix of technologists and social anthropologists took the stage at Warner Theater in Washington, D.C. and talked to over a thousand tech enthusiasts about mobility, innovation and the future. One of Tech Cocktail’s good friends Brian Solis had many fans in the crowd and shared…
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My colleagues and I hosted a DCWEEK event focused on the controversial topic of patent and copyright trolls. Read my earlier TechCocktail post if you need an introduction to the topic. (And if you missed our event, check out our patent and copyright troll presentations). We had the opportunity to engage in a lively discussion…
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It’s unbelievably hard to find your rung on the career ladder now. At least 9.1% of us can’t even grab a hold, and vastly more of us, maybe even 71%, are not where we want to be with our work. The recession is one major contributor to job woes— 45% of employees in professional and…
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In China, LinkedIn trails far behind professional social network Tianji and its 8 million members. Meanwhile, Tianji is growing at 380,000 users per month and plans to expand from 80 to 200 employees next year. Its success traces back to cultural differences between Western and Chinese networking, detailed in Tianji’s recent infographic. While Americans are content to trade…
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Intellectual Property (IP) lawsuits are big business these days. In fact, some companies and enterprising individuals use these lawsuits to make money—that is, filing lawsuits in order to get a monetary settlement is the business model. The phrase “patent trolls” was coined to describe companies that routinely pursue licenses and lawsuits in order to monetize…
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“We have passed the quarter of a billion sales mark” for iOS devices. That’s 250 million iPhones, iPods, iPads, etc.” – Tim Cook Impressive. But lest you think today’s event on Apple’s Cupertino campus was completely focused on the iPhone 4S, there were some other updates covered in the session during which Tim and his…
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This year, a study by the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that oversees and runs Wikipedia, found that fewer than 1 in 10 editors of the world’s biggest, most popular open knowledge resource are female. This may not seem so alarming to some, but it has others very concerned about how it affects the content of…
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CityPockets culled through the data from the ~200,000 deals stored in their daily deal wallet product to create this infographic illustrating some fun and interesting stats around the Daily Deal space. A few of the more interesting tidbits you’ll see in this infographic include: Within the top 10 daily deal providers, Groupon has over 85% user share….
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Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal launched a standalone news product built entirely on Facebook. The new product, called WSJ Social, leverages the Facebook sharing to compile the most popular and relevant WSJ news based for you based on your social network. WSJ has decided to “fish where the fish are,” and leverage the popular social…
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This post originally appeared on facc-chicago by Ken Hafft. For anyone who doesn’t already know, the world of cloud computing is upon us. Cloud computing saves time and lots of money and creates efficiencies the likes of which have not been seen before. It is a form of file sharing with the conveniences of automatic…
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Ten years ago, it was not uncommon for small businesses to run their company on spreadsheets and post-it notes. Customer relationship management (CRM) software was available, but the cost, maintenance and risk associated with implementing a large, on-premise system made most solutions out of reach for the small business (SMB) space. However, times have changed….
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There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with... Read More
Two months after the iPad 2 debuted in March, around 40% of users surveyed said their iPad was their primary computer, up from around 30%... Read More
With our Startup Mixology Conference coming up next week followed by our classic Tech Cocktail DC Summer mixer which will showcase a handful of early-stage... Read More
Coming off of one of our biggest Tech Cocktail mixer events in Chicago this past week, which showcased 14 early-stage start-ups, we thought it would... Read More