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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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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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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With over 940 million social media users globally there is a ton of content being created every day. With this social revolution taking place, products like Klout, PeerIndex and, more recently, PeopleBrowsr KRED look to help people and companies understand who is having the most impact on others. Minneapolis agency Echidna has recently joined the…
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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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If you are not outside enjoying the beautiful summer weather and heat today, and instead stayed inside and connected to Twitter you may have noticed a very long and disturbing trending topic in the hashtag #reasonstobeatyourgirlfriend. We generally do not cover hashtags or Twitter trends, but in this particular case there has been a bit…
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This guest post was written by Brian Moon. It all started using a simple concept in education – in order to know where to begin teaching any given subject, you first have to know what your students know. Concept maps, which are graphical tools for organizing and representing knowledge in propositional form, have proven useful…
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Earlier this week, Amazon announced they will be launching a Kindle Library Lending feature that will allow users to “check-out” an e-book from a local library. At initial glance, one could question if this could actually hinder Amazon’s e-book sales going forward. However, this is just another case of Amazon being a consumer driven company,…
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In typical flash sale fashion, the 2011 Daily Deal Summit was here for 24 hours and then it was gone. The sold out event took place in New York City on Wednesday, April 6th and was attended by a standing room-only crowd of deal and service providers, as well as students and professionals looking to…
Read MoreIn the past, South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) has been a place where startups launch and make a big splash. In 2007 and 2008, Twitter was the buzz. The last two years, both Gowalla and Foursquare grabbed people’s real-time check-in attention. This year at SXSW, the hottest trend was group texting and chat. Throw in…
Read MoreThis past month at the Consumer Electronic Show the future of TV was a main focus as I walked around the hundreds of flashing monitors. The buzzword was “SmartTV” as many televisions where connected to the Internet. TV’s seemed to not only be smarter but also more portable by leveraging a number of different screens…
Read MoreIt’s time for the annual sharing trends report for 2010 by AddThis. AddThis, by DC-area based startup ClearSpring, is one of the largest sharing offerings on the web. We reported earlier this year on how they go about designing for 1 billion users and last year we reported on the top 15 shared pages on the…
Read MoreThis year was a big one for the payments industry. Startups offered innovative solutions for business owners and consumers to handle ongoing payments woes. Here’s what will come in 2011: Mobile Payments Extravaganza- With new smartphones and the debut of the iPad this year, payments startups are jumping on the mobile bandwagon and will continue…
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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