TechCrunch reports on Facebook’s collaboration with General Assembly to create an online training opportunity for the social network’s app developers: The new co-designed curriculum will teach aspiring developers how to develop social applications on the Facebook platform. “Facebook is happy to be working with General Assembly to help developers and would-be developers learn how to […]
That’s the focus of a recent piece in Fast Company. We’ve previously highlighted Cleveland’s surprising entrepreneurial culture. But the folks as Fast Company see the beginning of a seismic shift of tech scenes to what used to be considered the hinterlands of innovation. The reasons for the shift are complex and differ from one city […]
According to Tech investor Peter Fenton, companies will increasing turn to social media and gaming to better understand their business models and bottom lines. Tech Crunch has the story: [The] consumerization of enterprise is about software companies re-focusing on ease of use and a top-down ability to be flexible and to quickly adopt those always-there […]
According to BusinessWeek, in a few short years, the majority of users of the social media/data mining site will be Indian: Prasant Naidu, who blogs about social networking in India at LighthouseInsights, attributes Facebook’s explosive growth in the subcontinent to its huge, mostly untapped market. (India has more than 1.2 billion people, and Facebook users […]
Carpool.com’s Markus Barnikel argues that, in a digital marketplace, social currency (things like trust, integrity and honesty, etc.) will matter more than in the old face-to-face world: Previously intangible aspects such as trustworthiness and reliability can now be measured and tracked. Although this presents disturbing implications for online privacy – as the recent controversial trend […]
This one from yesterday’s New York Times: We don’t really know yet how joining Facebook at a tender age affects kids socially and emotionally. There’s the fun and freedom of Facebook, and then there’s the Consumer Reports finding that the site exposed a million teenagers to bullying and harassment last year. What is clear is […]
