Reddit is an unusual beast.  With it's sparse interface and esoteric terminology, newcomers typically feel like they walked into the wrong club and quickly head back out the door.    But in my experience, Reddit is just like Facebook — people first question why they would bother with another social network, but once they've been hit with the offer they can't refuse, they sign up.  And the reason Reddit is successful is because it definitely makes those undeniably entertaining offers to use [...]

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As technology companies continue to benefit from the boom in smartphone, social network and computer use, their founders are finding with the billions of dollars their company makes, they begin...

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The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism issued the results of a study on how people use tablets. It focuses on the main activities performed daily on tablets. Some of the findings are slighlty but not entirely surprising. Hint: Social is not number one or two.


Read More: Pew: People Willing & Happy to Read News on a Tablet. Bad News for Print Newspapers

Facebook CTO Bret Taylor responded to the oft repeated maxim ("meme" is what he called it) that Facebook privacy settings are needlessly complex by asserting that "the majority of people on Facebook have modified their privacy settings" in a conversation with John Battelle at Web 2.0 Summit today.

"If you talk to college students they know what their parents can see, they know what their ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend can see." (I heard a "Yeah right" emanate from the audience when he said this) [...]

Read More: Most People Have Changed Their Privacy Settings On Facebook, Says Facebook CTO

An interesting study done by the National Restaurant Association, shows that those who are social media savvy are more likely to eat out, as well as be repeat customers. The study broke the group of adults into two groups – the "connected adults" and the "social media savvy adults". The connected adults were those individuals ...

Read More: Social Savvy People Eat Out More and Likely to Be Repeat Customers

Popular sharing platform AddThis just celebrated their fifth birthday and to mark the occasion they’ve released an infographic that takes a look at social sharing trends based on their five years of experience.


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Do you think of a programmer as a socially awkward loner? If you do, then you haven't met David Weekly. He's been programming since he was five and describes himself...

Read More: Meet David Weekly, the Nerd Who Loves People

Google released their third quarter financials for 2011 yesterday and not only came very close to the $10 billion earning mark for the quarter, but also announced Google+ has reached 40 million users. Google CEO Larry Page said, "We had a great quarter. Revenue was up 33% year on year and our quarterly revenue was ...

Read More: Google CEO Larry Page Says “People are Flocking into Google+”

It's very interesting to see brands that have the strength, passion and appeal to actively involve people in a relationship. They do it through outreach activities and by stimulating people's interest. It's fascinating to follow brands that are able to draw attention and engagement to a level that people are spontaneously willing to be involved. [...]

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Part 4 in a series introducing my new book, The End of Business as Usual… It seems that adding the word "social" to any category escalates its importance. From the Social Customer to Social Commerce and from Social Business to Social CRM, the common thread that weaves everything together is people. It is people after [...]

Read More: We are the 5th P: People

As a kid growing up in California, much of my young life was spent walking and playing on beaches. For almost as long as I can remember, my dad took me beachcombing, which is basically walking along the beach looking for interesting things to collect and take home. For a while it was colored glass [...]

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Facebook, right? It’s always Facebook! And, to a certain extent, this is true. When you look at the war for talent currently being waged in Silicon Valley, Facebook is one of the winners. Google, LinkedIn and Apple, however, are doing pretty well, too. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft and Yahoo! are at the other end of the spectrum.The battles over the best minds in the Valley directly affect the users of the many social media platforms on the market. There are endless races to develop and launch new f [...]

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today announced at its annual F8 conference that in one day last week 500,000,000 people used Facebook . This means that over half of its reported 800 million users...

Read More: Zuckerberg: 500,000,000 people used Facebook in one day last week

At Facebook's F8 conference today, Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the network is passed an important milestone last week—500 million people used Facebook in a given day.

Facebook has publicly said that it has more than 750 million active users. But interestingly, the company has also revealed in the past that 50% of its active users log on to Facebook in any given day. While Facebook probably doesn't have 1 billion active users right now, it's more likely that more of the site's users are loggi [...]

Read More: Zuckerberg: On Peak Days, 500 Million People Are On Facebook

I have to be honest, the headline is a bit hypocritical. I spend most of my time helping businesses embrace the opportunity to understand customer needs and engage with them in ways that they appreciate and value. Contrary to popular belief however, everyday consumers aren’t flocking to social media to build relationships with their favorite [...]

Read More: People use social networks to connect with friends and family, sometimes brands

This week, Netflix announced some pretty big changes in what was a sort-of apology letter. I don't think people reacted the way the company hoped they would react. Of the thousands of comments, tweets, and other mentioned people have been making about the idea of having two movie services, I'd say that a good 90% ...

Read More: Is Social Media Making People Angrier at Netflix?

Pew Internet surveyed 2,277 adults in the U.S. to learn about their text message and voice call behavior. The results are probably not surprising to those who have been following mobile communications trends. But, the findings are still enlightening.


Read More: Pew Internet: People Who Text A Lot Also Make a Lot of Voice Calls

During a visit to Montreal on Thursday, Huffington Post creator Arrianna Huffington spoke at an annual media event hosted by Infopresse.  The publication focuses on advertising and marketing. Huffington covered a number of topics such as print and how she believes it still has a place in this world, but it must evolve in order ...

Read More: Arianna Huffington Says “Nobody Forces People to Blog on the Huffington Post”

It’s been a crazy travel week. Now I’m in Phoenix doing media training with a client. The one really great thing about all this west coast travel is I have a TON of uninterrupted plane time to write. I hope Geoff Livingston can keep up! I probably just jinxed myself and will be way too [...]

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PopCap's Bejeweled may be one of the most addictive games around. It is available for a wide variety of platforms including the iPhone, Facebook and Google+. Now comes word that the game may not only be good to play but good for you as you get older. Note, however, that this study conducted at the University of Massachusetts Amherst was funded by PopCap.


Read More: People 50+ Report Bejeweled Blitz Makes Them Sharper. But, is This Really the Case?