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Bye bye Facebook for Android

Posted by: mariamz on: March 3, 2012

I’m uninstalling my Facebook for Android app today. Three main reasons: It continually tells me I have new messages I already read It is always running however often I use my app killer to shut the damn thing off It can see where I am, who I am calling, and read my text messages if [...]

Last week while I was sunning myself my lovely colleagues at Porter Novelli hosted a Social media week event, presenting research into social media behaviour across Europe – focusing in upon gender differences. The event was run by our UK head of digital, Helen Nowicka, and entitled Men are from Foursquare, Women are from Facebook. [...]

With the ultimate aim of reducing homeless dogs in the United States – this new ‘Best Friends’ mobile app enables users to upload pictures of themselves to be shown a doggy ‘match’ based on facial characteristics. (Similar to this earlier Doggelganger site)  The App also provides:  adoptable dog search by zip code, simple giving to help [...]

Soundbite: SoLoMo curation

Posted by: mariamz on: January 15, 2012

Social Local Mobile curation, where content and places are shared with a simple click, and value perception is added (often condensed in a line that is most probably shorter than 140 characters ), will drive a lot of the social web in 2012 Danny Devriendt Disclosure: Danny is a colleague of mine at Porter Novelli

Adidas, Alzheimers, clever shoes are coming of age

Posted by: mariamz on: November 10, 2011

Mobile is more mainstream than ever – are we even saying smartphone anymore? Some of the more exciting technological innovations – now we have explored every size screen for every type of scenario may not start to come from its blending with the everyday objects around us – like footwear. These new social football boots from [...]

you might want to create a geofence around your “home” or “school” that only allows “Friends and Family” to see the location of photos you geotag in that area. So the next time you upload a photo with a geotag in the radius of a geofence, it will follow the default geo privacy you’ve designated [...]


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