In a post on his blog, Dave Winer has written a nicely put together piece about why the web isn't dead and why apps are not the future. Winer has...

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Sean Parker's appearance on stage at LeWeb in Paris today attracted one of the biggest crowds of any of the sessions at the conference. When the floor was opened up...

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This philosophy is what food delivery services and Netflix thrive on. Consumers are more interested in commerce coming to them than actually getting in the car and going to commerce. This is what has paved the way for the e-commerce boom. It should come as no surprise that e-commerce is growing rapidly and changing the [...]

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During a lunch break at this week's emTech conference, Director of MIT's Media Lab Joi Ito was kind enough to give me a tour of the famed facilities. Explained Ito,...

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Last night, I attended a gathering of some of the smartest technology minds focusing on Education for grades K-12. I didn't know what to expect, other than Newark Mayor Cory...

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Talking about the future is nonsense because it is, even at it’s best, informed guesswork. We can talk about now, interesting, unusual things, happening now, but that rarely seems to...

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Facebook has just filed for a trademark on the usage of the word "Facebook" on business cards and, more curiously, "non-magnetically encoded" ID cards among other things. If granted the trademark would protect the usage of the word Facebook in the specified formats, not any actual invention.

So what if Facebook just wants to protect use the word Facebook on business cards? Well, it seems like this patent would cover that and a whole lot more including "business card and identity card design ser [...]

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"If the current trend continues, over 70% of Fortune 1000 companies will turnover from 2003 to 2013." – FORBES Today's biggest trends—the mobile web, social media, real-time—have produced a new consumer landscape. The End of Business As Usual explores this complex digital revolution and its impact on the future of business, media, and culture. More [...]

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This week, Future US is hiring a community and social manager, while the World Bank is in need of a social media and emerging technologies strategist. CollegeDegrees.com is hiring a social media associate, and Ethan Allen Global is searching for a social media coordinator. Get the details on these jobs and more below, and find additional just-posted gigs on mediabistro.com.

Community and Social Manager Future US (San Francisco, CA)Social Media Associate CollegeDegrees.com (Houston, TX)Socia [...]

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The experimental work of companies like B-Reel turns up all sort of interesting projects. This one particularly caught our eye – Scalextric slot car racing powered by your mind. Using...

Read More: Now THIS is the future: Mind-powered Scalextric slot car racing

The experimental work of companies like B-Reel turns up all sort of interesting projects. This one particularly caught our eye – Scalextric slot car racing powered by your mind. Using a Mindwave headset for measuring brain activity, an Arduino unit and a Processing script, a team of developers managed to hack together what you see [...]

Read More: Now THIS is the future: Mind-powered Scalextric slot car racing

Join us for GigaOM RoadMap 2011 - our newest event that explores how connectedness will influence the way we live, create, consume and earn over the next 12 to 18 months. Register now and save $100.

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Have you built your career working in digital, PR, or marketing agencies? Are you passionate about the commercial potential of social media? Have you been able to demonstrate that passion on projects for your clients? Then read on… So yesterday we got the news that we were one of the winners in the Future 50: [...]

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Radian6 is one of the industry's leading social media management platforms and was recently acquired by Salesforce.  I was invited to join Salesforce at its recent Social Advisory Board meeting during its annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco where I had an opportunity to sit down with Marcel LeBrun, SVP and GM of Salesforce Radian6. [...]

Read More: Marcel LeBrun of Salesforce Radian6 on the Future of Social Media Monitoring

Tweet If you have a teen at home, I'm sure you have noticed the usage of email accounts is completely different than previous generations. My daughter the other day had to check her email address because she didn't remember it. I'll tell you more, when she's done watching Netflix movies she puts them back in [...]

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So you want a job do you? Sorry. Oh? You have a CV? You have amazing experience? Sorry. Really? You've turned it into an incoherent swirling infographic? An interactive HTML5 website portfolio with witty viral video? Really very rather sorry. That's right. If the traditional methods definitely no longer work then the cheap tricks are [...]

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Game developers, please take this very short survey on the future of Google+ games, which we'll be using for Social Times' next report on the subject. How important an opportunity is Google+ games for you? Will it become a competitor against Facebook and Apple's iOS? Has Google's 5% commission promotional offer caused you to seriously investigate Google+ as a platform? Click here to answer those questions and more. Early next month, we'll be sharing the results here, and on SocialTimes Pro. Tha [...]

Read More: Vote: Game Developers, What’s the Future of Google+ Games?

It was only five days ago that Google+ launched the first part of its application programming interface. The available API was launched just before Google+ finally opened itself to the public following its 90 day beta testing period, no doubt to get developers started in the right direction and prepped for the more robust API in Google+'s future.In the five days after Google+'s API launch, Klout actively worked on using the available data to integrate G+'s service onto its own platform. Now, les [...]

Read More: Klout CEO Joe Fernandez talks with us about the future of social influence scoring

Tweet If you have a teen at home, I'm sure you have noticed the usage of email accounts is completely different than previous generations. My daughter the other day had to check her email address because she didn't remember it. I'll tell you more, when she's done watching Netflix movies she puts them back in [...]

Read More: The Future Of Email According To Teens [Infographic]

The ins and outs of the advertising business aren't usually that fascinating, unless of course they involve a company that is attempting, out of necessity, to revamp the entire model.

When you think about how far advertising has come since its Mad Men days, it's a little shocking that Facebook ads will be responsible for a majority of the company's estimated $4 billion in revenue this year, being predicated on the notion that a user is more likely to spend money on something that a friend has r [...]

Read More: Facebook’s Ad Czar Envisions A Future Where Nearly All Facebook Ads Are Social