I believe in love at first sight site. That is, if it's possible to fall in love with a website. The first time I visited the TED website, I was in love with the concept: high-quality infotainment featuring world-class speakers—what more could I ask for from media?Since then, my love affair with TED has grown. I’ve watched as TED has developed a variety of ambitious side projects, such as TEDx events and even TEd conferences. So you can only imagine how excited I was when I visi [...]

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It's time for BlackBerry DevCon, the developer conference for RIM's BlackBerry platform. CEO Mike Lazaridis has taken the stage to open the conference and he's talking about some pretty impressive...

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What do you do when you set out to leverage the power of existing facial recognition technology to launch a new business, only to discover that the existing technology isn't...

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Whenever reps from the big digital behemoths take to the stage to discuss their respective companies, people tend to listen. Whether that's Apple, Twitter, Microsoft, or Facebook, folk want to...

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Snoop Dogg is not only one of the world’s most popular rappers, but he’s also a king of social media, with over 4.4 million followers on Twitter and over 12 million fans on Facebook.  Last week he sat down with Shira Lazar on What’s Trending to talk about everything from his own online activities to meeting Mark Zuckerberg at F8 this year, engaging with fans and more.


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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

I had the pleasure of spending time with my dear friend Becky Carroll during the Lithium Likes To Love World Tour #L2LTour last week in Orange County. I asked her to do a quick video about my favorite chapter of her new book, The Hidden Power Of Your Customers. Chapter 9 – Culture of Customer of Service is all about change management, employee engagement and changing the mindset of the entire organization.

Read More: [Video] Becky Carroll talks about her book – The Hidden Power of Your Customers

In Podcast 51, PostSecret.com founder Frank Warren discusses the new $1.99 PostSecret iPhone app. The app does not require a sign-up. It lets you anonymously post secrets as well as read the ones that are selected for publication each week. You can see the general location where secrets are posted from although the identifies of the person posting is anonymous. Crisis hotline information is also available in the app.


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Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook and, more recently, of enterprise collaboration software company Asana, spoke to TechCrunch Editor in Chief Erick Schonfeld at Disrupt this afternoon in a brief interview. The subject of their chat, for the most part, was the early days of Facebook and the changes the Valley has seen in the years since the company's launch.

Erick also asked Moskovitz for his thoughts on Google+. And in case you're wondering, no, he doesn't use it.

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Twitter has confirmed that it will meet with the UK Home Secretary on Thursday, after being called in for discussions over the role it played in the recent riots that blighted many parts of the country.We reported last Friday that the UK government had finally set a date for the meeting with the major social networks, after promising to do so at an emergency meeting earlier this month.With the date set for Thursday, 25th of August, only Facebook had initially confirmed that it was attending. But [...]

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I’m always interested in talking to other labs leaders. It’s a relatively small, but highly-visible community of experts worldwide, and we can learn a tremendous amount from each other about things like innovation strategy, best practices and team management. When I heard that Nicole Yershon, Ogilvy UK’s Director of Innovative Solutions, would be visiting our [...]

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Following the riots that plagued London and other English cities two weeks ago, the UK government announced it would meet with the major social networks to discuss their responsibilities in terms of not fueling the organization of criminal activity. And now they've set a date for this meeting, reports the BBC.On Thursday 25th of August, Facebook, Twitter and Research in Motion (RIM) have been called to a meeting with Home Secretary Theresa May, but only Facebook has thus far confirmed that it wi [...]

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