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What’s Next? Changing of the Guard!

Dec 15, ’11 1:25 PM

It was just a short bit ago when the tech world was dominated by Microsoft.  Research In Motion seemed to  have theworld of mobility squarely in its pocket, then suddenly something happened.

Today Apple and Google rule the roost with Twitter and Facebook becoming forces. Who knows who will step forward tommorrow?

CES2012 might go a long way provide some strong clues or indications of who the real players might be in coming times but if history is any indicator whomever it iswill slowly emerge from the clutter and noise with a product or service most of us cannot live without. We will all wonder what the heck we did before it came into our lives. Theimitatorswill scramble to clone, reverse engineer or under price whatever it turns out to be. Companies will rise or fall. Pundits will tear it apart or extol it.

Consultants will try to figure out how to pimp andmonetize it, users will scratch their heads trying to figure out exactly what to do with it, innovators will attempt to figure ways to integrate enhance, extend or mash it with.

I predict that we will all meet back here (Lord willing) at years end and wonder, what’s next?

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1 Billion Users = Undue Influence

Sep 8, ’11 10:07 AM

I am on the verge of a having a major revelation after reading an article about Twitter touting 100 million users. This means influence and If 100 million translates into influence then Facebook’s 750 million “active” users must mean control.

Twitter can leverage that into power to drive innovation along the paths they choose. But if the TV networks are looking to continue their rule, guess what?

No other media or mens of communication has ever commanded these massive numbers. No wonder print and broadcast stalwarts are scrambling to get in on the game.

Rupert Murdock’s NewsCorp thought they could buy their way in and NBC is busy attempting to acquire a place or a piece.

So where is this all going? Exactly what are we heading towards?

If the big networks have their way they will attempt to morph social media into what some are calling “Social TV” they can jump start this by snatching up the big players and integrating it into their networks.

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Social Media War: Facebook vs.Twitter

Jun 18, ’11 8:49 AM

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I know that I am saying nothing new, but I’m sure you know that t here is a serious struggle going on in Social Media that we should at the very least be aware of. The parties in this battle are Facebook on one side and Twitter on the other. Boyh are quite successful but in a rapidly evolving disruptive market that could change at the drop of a hat.

According to Pew, Facebook is in the lead. at the moment, But with all media mentions of Twitter who knows what could happen. What is at stake is billions of dollars that a future IPO could bring and ownership of a market of millions or billions of users to do with what you please or to figure out how to squeeze out every possible penny out of.

At the moment both are putting up dueling Like and 1+ Fan buttons on their sites and encouraging site buiders to embed them into their sites. There are of course other initiatives in the works but I sense that users are beginning to get confused and are starting to object to all the hoops they are being forced to jump through.

Most of this seems like Deja Vu. Remember MySpace??? Well that could happen again.

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San Francisco: Capital of Social Media

Mar 19, ’11 2:19 PM

- TCF Declares San Francisco The Unofficial Capital of New Technology!

It is true that Silicon Valley remains the center of where development of a lot of the hardware devices we use are built. However, over the past couple of decades San Francisco, “The City-by-the-Bay” has emerged as “THE PLACE” where social media en=treprenuers are panning gold. For Instance Twitter was birthed in S.F. Other S.F. players are finding talent and ready markets in the city. Hundreds of S.F. companies have “blown-up” from ink and pencil business plans drawn on napkins and then nurtured into successful businesses and appealing sources of investor investments maturing into wealthy money pots. The steadily growing long list of “web 2.0 goldmines” born in S.F. proves this to be true. In fact it is a sure bet that if you walk into almost any hip or trendy cafe or casual restaurant in S.F. you’ll find busy intense small groups of tech/geek types, mapping out future designs and plans for the next potential Facebook or Google, you’ll also notice too eager fleet fingers flying across the keyboards of heavily-stickered laptops. Strangely enough most of this was unplanned. Even the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce has been slow to realize this. Convinced? if you are, and are considering possibly relocating to S.F. to get in the middle of the action. The city is even considering tech tax breaks in an effort to retain fleeting companies discouraged by the high cost og living in S.F. If you have eyes for moving here consider subscribing to the S.F. Business Times, talk to a city native, and spent a week here to get the real feel of The City, and see if you like it. How could you not!

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