iPad Ushers In Post-PC, Post-Magazine Era
On March 2, Apple announced that it had sold 15 million units in the iPad’s first nine months on the market. That is a considerable achievement for any new product, particularly one in a category that...
View ArticleSynchronicity Technology
When Carl Jung arrived at his synchronicity concept in 1920, it concerned causally unrelated events. Today, one might argue, synchronicity has taken on a gestalt of its own. In fact, keeping one’s data...
View ArticleUbertrend: Generation X-tasy
They stand in long lines eager to gain entry into one of the city’s celebrated nightclubs. Once they slip by those over-sized 350-pound doormen, they line up again at the bar, where they wait usually...
View ArticleUbertrend: Voyeurgasm
Rodney King’s 1991 beating was a watershed moment in modern history. Not only was it groundbreaking because police violence was captured on video, but it also helped propel a new Ubertrend, Voyeurgasm,...
View ArticleDid Google Kill MySpace?
Google may have well ended up killing Myspace by forcing too many ads and pageviews. Around this time, the Google agreement, which had been hailed as a major coup by Chernin and Levinsohn as well as...
View ArticleTweets Have Tripled. Tune-out Rate Keeps Pace.
So 155 million tweets are now posted each day. But I see more and more reports about Twitter’s inactive accounts and the high rate of inattention tweets now receive. If a Twitter account is limited to...
View ArticleFan Gate: Do Forced “Likes” Depress Response?
The current social media fad is put up a so-called “fan Gate” to force visitors to “Like” a brand before being able to access their Facebook page. Companies like North Social and Wildfire provide easy...
View ArticleInfluencer Metrics
When the founder of Sidney Frank Importing Co. hired 20 young women called “Jagerettes” in the early 90s to visit bars and shoot Jagermeister down drinking patrons’ gullets with a spray gun, he...
View ArticleSocial Freemium
With the acquisition of social medium Skype today for $8.5 billion, more attention than ever has been drawn to one of the most classic Internet revenue models: “freemium.” But how does one price a free...
View ArticleTaiwan’s U.S. Security Specialists
The Pentagon will soon announce a formal strategy to deter cyberattacks by declaring a foreign computer hacks an act of war. Meanwhile, media sites, like PBS, are being routinely hacked by detractors....
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