Re: Instagram Web Profile
I agree with Amalia. I logged onto mine as well and realized I could only view my own activity? I feel like this new expansion ruins the intimate aspect of instagram because it has always thrived off...
View ArticleRe: Was Hurricane Sandy Instragrams Key Moment?
800,000 Instagram photos of Hurricane Sandy is quite a resource! Of course, the vast majority likely are poor-quality photos; but there are probably a good number of great shots. The challenge would be...
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Hmmm. I have a very different reaction. I've been into iPhone photography for a while, and attempted twice to do a phone-photo-a-day posted to a Tumblr blog. (Both years, I got burned out after about 3...
View ArticleRe: No More Fail Whale for Twitter: Election Night Records
15,000 tweets per second is remarkable when you consider the overall average number of tweets that flow through Twitter's "firehose." As I've noted in class, the average tweets per second through the...
View ArticleRe: Electronic Paper Newspaper?
Not only would this be useful for tablets, but when the technology advances a bit further, it could be great to replace the LCD screens on cameras. Since many cameras these days only have an LCD to...
View ArticleRe: Was Hurricane Sandy Instragrams Key Moment?
I think that this issue of being inundated with too many photos and not being able to find a quality one is alleviated by the "like" feature that Intragram uses. By filtering out photos with low "like"...
View ArticleRe: Social Media for Business
Social media are absolutely useful for business theoretically and they have been applied to business practices in terms of marketing, branding and promoting. I remember we talked about the newly...
View ArticleRe: Instagram Web Profile
I would say I agree with Steve. I am not an Instagram user, actually I don't have a smartphone(maybe that's the main reason). That's not because I am not a fan of photography, but I am more used to...
View ArticleRe: Encyclopedia the World
That is awesome that all that information is sold on a hard drive now! Here is a clip from the movie Small Soldiers that i found relevant...The toy ends up scanning through Encarta Encyclopedia and...
View ArticleRe: Electronic Paper Newspaper?
Sounds awesome. I'm already blown away by the technology that Kindle uses. This should be a great success!-Danny G
View ArticleRe: Social Media for Business
I only like brands that I enjoy using, so my question is, is this a reflection of their loyal consumer base? or do social media actually improve the loyalty of their consumer base? For me as a consumer...
View ArticleRe: Online And Offline Shopping Merge As Google Street View Moves Into Shops
Interesting addition, I guess that is the logical next step, once they've gotten all the street angles they needed. It'll be interesting to see what the next step is...
View ArticleRe: Encyclopedia the World
This post reminds me of Tagwhat, the start-up I profiled for our 2nd project. I think it's great that people/companies, etc. are starting to digitially archive all of the information out there in ways...
View ArticleRe: Reflections on Hurricane Sandy
You mentioned streaming, which I'm interpreting as live-streaming video, which of course is much easier to do now with low-end equipment (e.g., a smartphone and a streaming app and 4G connection). My...
View ArticleRe: Online And Offline Shopping Merge As Google Street View Moves Into Shops
This is great. You focused on the advertising/marketing angle, where this will be powerful. It also should be useful for journalists. E.g., a restaurant gets robbed or burned down, and a news site can...
View ArticleRe: Social Media and Hurricane Sandy
I completely agree with all of this. It is obvious the importance of social media when emergencies arise such as Hurricane Sandy but I do agree too about the caution someone has to take when regarding...
View ArticleRe: Fashion Meets Twitter
This is actually pretty cool! I know there's been talk about having walking bilboards on shirts and pants, but I had no idea they were already launching such clothes. I am not sure if I personally...
View ArticleRe: Fashion Meets Twitter
Back when futurist Thomas Frey visited our class, he spoke about "digital fashion" as a future trend. My guess is that such fashions will be powered by our "all-powerful" smartphones. After all,...
View ArticleRe: Facebook Privacy Problems…
This is behavior that Facebook has exhibited multiple times in the past: Implementing a feature that goes too far over the privacy line for many people; getting a big public backlash; then later...
View ArticleRe: Social Media Shaming
Wired had an excellent cover story back in March on the infrastructure that the federal government (specifically the NSA) is building to monitor Internet traffic and store huge amounts of data,...
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