Entries Tagged as 'sns'

Thursday, September 27th, 2012

The Once And Future Myspace

Have you seen the new Myspace video yet? Oh, no? Here it is. Go ahead, watch it. I’ll wait – For anyone who knew WTF social media was before they got a Facebook account in 2007 when everyone else they knew was doing it — you may understand. Myspace was built on music. When Friendster, [...]

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Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

Google+: Bringing Context Back

When I was producing music festivals and nightlife events, Facebook changed its membership policy, opening up beyond just the collegiate community. Hundreds of people I didn’t know requested to add me as a friend. At first I balked at the idea of letting complete strangers into a space that had previously been the walled-garden escape [...]

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Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

Your Life Is A Transmedia Experience — Now With Pictures!

Last year, I wrote a post called “Your Life Is A Transmedia Experience.” In October, the post became the basis for a panel discussion event at the FutureM conference in Boston with me, Marta Kagan and Jan Libby. I have updated the deck from that panel, and am sharing here for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy! [...]

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Monday, December 20th, 2010

Who The iPad Ads Are For

Ever since Apple started putting a lowercase i in front of its products, their advertisements have been known for basically two things — articulating a visceral, transcendent grace inherent within the Mac product experience: …and making fun of people who don’t already use Macs: Which is why the iPad ads — with their exaggeratedly simplistic gestures, [...]

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Sunday, October 24th, 2010

How The Internet Killed The Rock Star (…Not The Way You Think)

Guns N’ Roses backstage at the Stardust – Los Angeles, 1985 / Image: Reckless Road Some friends came through town on tour, and sitting around in the dressing room backstage at House of Blues during the opening act, we started talking about the most epic-est, rock-’n’-rollingest backstages we wished we could have gotten to been [...]

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