Make Your Page Interactive with Non-Marketing Apps Posting articles about business, marketing and other serious topics all the time can actually pose harm for your page. Many social media users have a low boredom threshold, which can be triggered by continuous updates of your favorite topics. A page that engages other users’ interests attracts more…
How users must be critical of what they read before they believe it. With social media, there’s a 50/50 percent chance of false news appearing on your feed. Well-known people sometimes turn up dead on the web when they’re alive and well in reality. Due to the shock factor this type of news generates, users…
Advantages and Disadvantages of Social Media as a News Channel Social media is a vessel of information for everybody. It is updated everyday with new data from regular users who drop in to share news they’ve heard, events they’ve experienced and, most especially, scoops on the latest hot topics. Users passionate about social media strive…
Why Twitter Dominates in Breaking the News January 12, 2010 – A massive, strong earthquake devastates Haiti. The rest of the world moved on, busy with their own lives. Seven minutes after the quake, Frederic Dupoux (@FredoDupoux) tweets, “Oh shiet [sic] heavy earthquake right now! In Haiti!” The world suffered a quaking realization due to…
How Social Media Became Popular in News Dissemination If we examine the picture above, we can see how social media is surpassing other traditional news mediums like radios and magazines. Although TV news is still the strongest contender, social media is now waiting to overthrow newspapers from its current second-place position. And almost everyone, especially…
Traditional news is almost exactly like wildfire. It spreads from one part of the community to another with quick speed. We read the latest tidbits from the front page of the morning paper, chew over the information on breakfast and talk about it over lunch break in the office. Later at home, we turn on…
In general, when people hear about 2012, they talk about doomsday and the end of the world. For technology and Internet, it’s a time of continuous reinvention. Old things are being developed to gain new appearances or functions. Mary Meeker, well-known Internet analyst, discusses how technology is being revolutionized, which in turn, changes our way…
How Mobile Phones are Changing the Internet Once there were big computers that take forever to start up and load a single program. Then came smaller computers and faster loading times. Mobile phones became available for public use in 1983, with bulky handheld models from Motorola like the DynaTAC 800X. Nokia came and gave some…
From Online Ads to Mobile Campaigns Once, computers were used only for encoding documents and computing columns and columns of numbers. Computers are utilitarian job machines that need no frills. Designs should be simple so as not to distract the users from their work. That was before Steve Jobs, according to Mary Meeker, hardware and…
Commerce and the Internet — Two Spaces Slowly Becoming an Equal Ground for Everyone The international market is catching up to local U.S. companies. Although Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook still have the largest market values and annual revenues respectively, Chinese businesses like Baidu, Tencent, Netease and Alibaba.com are soon catching up. Baidu is at number…