The future is amazing

Amazing video from Microsoft on how the future is amazing, and how technology can make it absolutely awesome. Really worth your time. Funny enough, if I had to think to a company that can make it happen, it’s probably more Apple than Microsoft. We shall see.

Twitter: filtering out noise through social collaboration

I was thinking about twitter a few days ago and how it changed (or is changing) the communication landscape, and what it has to do with collaborative filtering. Whereas you had a few broadcasting to the many, now you have many potentially broadcasting to few. An, in some cases, to many. The way I use twitter is as a social filter to what’s happening. Here is the collaborative filtering bit. I select the...

SocialMedia: NPR Survey on Twitter and Facebook users

Socialmedia: NPR run an interesting survey on the different ways Twitter and Facebook users engage with them through the two distinct channels. A few key takeaways -not really surprising, but nice confirmations on the power of social media: 1- twitter users more interested in breaking news (ah-ah!) 2- twitter users more cross-platforms (8% of facebook users use twitter too for NPR, 28% of twitter use facebook too...

Paper.li a great product we probably don’t need

Paper.li has been picking up quite dramatically recently. You notice that when 5%+ of your twitter followings are publishing daily zines stuffed with all sort of tweet snippets. And you can understand why also: all of a sudden, with no effort and no editorial skills, anybody can publish a newspaper stuffed with interesting and cool stuff – sort of. So you understand the viral aspect: you get excited about the...

Bing growing search market share, Google falling

Bing has been growing search market share over Google, according to hitwise recently published numbers -in US at least. Bing.com now stands at 12,81% search share, vs 10,60% in December 2010. Google moved from a search share of 69,67% to 67,95%, while Yahoo! went from 15,17% to 14,62%. Bing powered search is now at 27,44% vs 25,77% in December 2010. It seems that all that buzz about Google decreasing quality of...