Google …. Facebook … Twitter … What’s the next great idea?
I just finished watching my Collectors Edition Blu Ray copy of the Social Network for the second time, on top of seeing it in theaters, and I have to say it is one of my favorite movies and I always have this crazy urge to sit down and massively code for hours after I finish watching it. But I always think of two things when the credits start to roll. First, is why couldn’t I have invented Facebook or at least been friends with Mark Zuckerberg before he did. Second thing is, what is going to be the next big...
Read MoreEgypt, Technology, and Wisdom: What can we learn from this?
As the days have progressed, we have seen the situation in Egypt go from bad to worse, to almost hitting rock bottom. It started earlier this week when the Egyptian government “allegedly” banned the Twitter service in their country. Some Egyptian companies stated that this was probably a service failure on the largest ISP in Egypt and had nothing to do with the fact that Egyptian citizens are in the midst of a protest to overthrow their leader. I just think that the all too convenient failure of one...
Read MoreThe Theology of Facebook, an Online Alter
This week I decided to flip it around a little bit. I am doing my Watchful Wednesday post on Tuesday and my Tech Tuesday on Wednesday. The reason why I am doing this is because I saw an article on CNN that I found very interesting and wanted to share and it definitly isn’t a tech story. Now I am not a religious man, but since I do currently work for a religion, I check the media for related stories to see what is out there. I found an article about how Facebook can be similiar to a religious presence in our...
Read MoreKenny Powers … World Class Athlete or World Class Spokesperson
So I signed on to twitter today, and like any other day I looked at the trending topics. I was first off glad to see that Morgan Freeman was no longer trending, because when an older actor trends you automatically think the worst. But today I was noticing that #KSWISSANDKPOWERS was trending. I knew that K Swiss is the shoe company but I had no clue what KPowers was. So I decided to investigate. Turns out that KPOWERS stands for Kenny Powers, Danny McBrides wonderful screw up baseball character from the HBO show...
Read MoreC is for Cookie…
First of all, Happy Thanksgiving. Now onto our Trending Thursday article for this week. So I logged onto twitter this morning and decided to look at what was trending to see how I can relate it to social media and communications. I wasn’t too surprised when #blackfriday or #rememberwhen was right at the top of the list. What shocked me was to see Cookie Monster right at number 3. So I decided to investigate, and to my surprise it seems that cookie monster has launched a viral campaign to become the next...
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