Over several days, I visited three incubators in Nairobi devoted to startups in the social space. Given the emphasis in Kenya on mobile – as many as 60% of Kenyans pack mobile phones but as few as 5% have Internet connectivity via laptop or desktop com…
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QR Codes: Useful Tool, Neat Toy or Robot Barf?
27 Oct 2011The QR code is a weird side effect of the mobile Web revolution. The idea is so nice; a link between the Web and the real world through the powerful computers in our hands. But even though they’ve been around for a while, QR codes are still mostly used…
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Facebook has taken its fair share of hits in the press about privacy and security, while managing over 800 million users on its platform. Today, Facebook has announced a series of features focused on strengthening the security for Facebook users, as w…
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We’ve shown you the “Leaf Grip Remote Controller” a few weeks ago, but its maker, Japanese tech company Murata, decided to wait until the CEATEC 2011 exhibition to present it to the public. The device can theoretically be used for a number of app…
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Mashable Editor in Chief Lance Ulanoff recently opined that tech has simply become overly distracting for him — and it isn’t just a personal problem.
The phenomenon even has a name: “Inattention blindness,” coined by a 2009 University of U…
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6 Pro Tips for Marketing to Digital Natives
27 Oct 2011The Behind the Social Media Campaign Series is supported by Oneupweb, a relentless digital marketing agency focused on search, social, and design for mid-to-enterprise level brands. Download our free digital marketing magazine, The Merge, and our b…
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Big Question (Answered): “Will Text-Based Communications Eventually be Upended by Video?”
21 Oct 2011After reading both our recent guest post by Bernard Moon, “The Coming Ubiquity of Video Communications”, and the resulting comments, I saw that many people were divided on this possibility. Despite the writer’s surety of video’s eventual win, many of …
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Iraq Withdrawal: Congress Responds on Twitter
21 Oct 2011President Barack Obama announced on Friday that the United States will withdraw its troops from Iraq by the end of the year. As members of Congress prepared their statements either applauding or condemning the decision, some of them posted their fir…
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If you’ve been active on Twitter lately, it’s highly likely that you’ve run into one or two #Occupy hashtags over the past few weeks. In fact, Twitter has just reported that over 100K different hashtags have been used to discuss the Occupy Wall …
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Murdoch says Myspace was “mismanaged in every possible way”, could have sold for $6 billion
21 Oct 2011To say that News Corp has had some problems over the past few years would be a grievous understatement, but that’s about the best way in which it can be stated. In short, the company has been a carnival of follies with (arguably) foolish investment…
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