It’s No Longer Social Media
…it’s not even digital. It’s tech, and how it impacts our lives. Digital will serve as the playing field and social media will be how it will be broadcasted, but tech is the game that will be played. The future is in the applications – both mobile and internet – as well as devices, and what they can do for us. It does not have to be something cute like instagr.am, but more like location-based services, virtual wallets... Read More
Write Up: How is Social Media Changing Technology?
Last week, I shared a slide show presentation (copied below) that I gave at the Verizon offices for the HITEC seminar called “How is Social Media Changing Technology?” Below are my thoughts behind the slides. Read More AKPC_IDS += "4297,";Popularity: 4% [?] Read More
How is Social Media Changing Technology?
Here’s the slideshow from the presentation I used for a talk at HITEC (Hispanics in Information Technology). The write up of what I said will come sometime next week. Read More AKPC_IDS += "4259,";Popularity: 3% [?] Read More
Tech Review: Motorola Xoom
Recently, the folks at Verizon sent over a Motorola Xoom to review for 3 weeks. I got charged up! My excitement peeked because this is the first worthy rival – IMO – to Apple’s iPad. The Motorola Xoom is the latest advanced tablets to hit the market and the first to sport the new Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS. The Motorola Xoom arrives in an unassuming cardboard box. In its powered-down state, the blackened screen intrigues you as you peer into it... Read More
A few takeaways from my Social Media sessions
The Few But Not Forgotten: Discovering the Nation’s Most Influential Latino Men Bloggers One of the highlights of this session was acknowledging the influence of women bloggers over Laitno male bloggers. Without minimalizing the effort of women I have two thoughts on this: 1) Latino men don’t see blogging as ‘manly’ when I started to blog back in 2003 men ruled the blogosphere, but as more women started to blog maybe the view... Read More
How Techonology has changed my Thinking
People often get defensive when asked if technology is changing them – “Technology is not changing us, we are the creators of technology,” is usually snap replied. I think the case of technology influencing us is more prevalent than we realize. After all, only a few programmers created Twitter and Facebook yet the masses consume it. It’s true that our collaborative behavior can influence some modifications and feature additions,... Read More
Program or be Programmed
Subtitle: Facebook’s Days Are Numbered: How social media resists all efforts to make it otherwise Yesterday, I had the pleasure of going down to Google offices in NYC, to hear a very lively and sometimes funny discussion with Josh Harris, Douglas Rushkoff with Erick Schonfeld on some disturbing (or not) trends in our use of social media. The take away: Are we being programmed by social media, or being its creator are we programming... Read More
What are Latinos really doing Online?
Subtitle: A second pass on Latinos online We’ve all heard the statements: There are more Latinos in social media than non-Hispanic Whites Mobile internet access is highest among Latinos Hispanics purchase more electronic devices than anyone else: * Digital cameras: 21% vs. 18 % * Video gaming system: 21% vs. 12% * MP3 player: 19% vs. 12% * Advanced cell phone: 19% vs. 13% * Digital cameras: 21% vs. 18 % * Video gaming system: 21%... Read More
Social Media Literacy
Subtitle: WYB – Watch Your Back in social media!!! As netizens connect and grow, so do more unsavory individuals look to take advantage of those communications. Having a background in technology, I’ve seen many cases of users unknowingly causing computer problems which easily could of been prevented if they new more about the computer environment. With this in mind, imagine what can happen to an individual who unknowing falls prey to... Read More
How Do You Backup Social Media Work?
Backup I’ve worked in technology for 10 years, and have witnessed the pain of data loss many times over. Most common is by mistakenly deleting a file/folder. Next less often, is a hard drive crash – oh, the horror! Then we have the holy grail of data loss, via some local trauma that wipes out your whole system (in this case your backup is no longer called backup, but a ‘disaster recovery plan’). The modern credo for... Read More
