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Jeremy Daniel

Jeremy Daniel was the editor of www.memeburn.com, and a firm believer in the transformative power of mobile technology for emerging markets. Jeremy has written across various media platforms for the last 10 years, from television to advertising to print before making the permanent cultural leap into online journalism.

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• 2012: The year of the everyman tablet

  While tablets have dominated tech news ever since the launch of the first iPad, it seems likely that the frenzy will begin to die down in 2012. Crucial questions such as “What is it for?”, “Will they find a market?” and “Do I need one?” have slowly faded away. Now, you either want one or you don’t.Apart from the media firestorm which will greet the release of the next generation iPad sometime in 2012, most tablets will simply arrive on ...

• It’s the end of the world as we know it: 7 sites to prepare you for the apocalyspe

  Mark this day down in your calendar. We have crossed the threshold -- less than one year to go until it all goes up in smoke. The Mayan Calendar predicts the end of days on 21 Dec 2012. For obvious reasons, this is quite a big deal to many people, and will affect your decisions on whether to upgrade your phone now or later, pay off your debts, ask that girl out etc…etc…What do you do when you need ...

• Q&A: Jon Gosier on crowdsourcing and the ‘Silicon Valley of Africa’

  Jon Gosier is one of the most impressive figures from the African technology scene to make it internationally. He is a TedX senior fellow, and works as the Director of Product for SwiftRiver at Ushahidi, which is a "platform for making sense of streams of realtime data." Gosier is also the founder of Appfrica, a business incubator for East African technologists. Gosier spoke to Memeburn about the future of crowdsourcing and why East Africa is such a thriving technology hub. ...

• The Stream: Al-Jazeera’s brave new multi-media experiment

  On the 2nd of May, television broadcaster Al-Jazeera will make history with the broadcast of "The Stream", a 30-minute talk show like no other. With "no script, no tape and no satellite hookups", the Doha-based news broadcaster is "bringing the social media experience inside your TV".Most television shows follow the same model: They create their broadcast product and then build a website to complement the show as a secondary resource. But as the number of cord-cutters begins to reach a ...

• Why do some celebrities avoid social media?

  While it may seem that its a pre-requisite for every celebrity to be on Twitter in order to further their career, there are actually a surprising number of celebrities who value their privacy and who have no interest in sharing every detail of their lives with their hordes of fans around the world.We looked around for a list of celebs who don't use Facebook or Twitter and tried to find out some of the reasons why they're not networking. ...

• ‘The more you disclose, the more you are rewarded,’ says Boing Boing co-editor

  Privacy and social media are two of the central concerns for Cory Doctorow, the 40-year old Canadian blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing and is incredibly concerned about the forces that are lining up against privacy.He calls himself a "cyber-optimist" and spoke to Britain's The Guardian newspaper following his TedX talk, where he served up some timely and thought-provoking ideas.Future generationsDoctorow wants parents to acknowledge that "your kids will ...

• Kickstart your startup with Google and Silicon Cape

  How often have you had a great idea that you were convinced could become a major hit, if only you had a team to help you realise it? Or perhaps you're a great developer waiting for just the right project to work on that will maximise your talents?If either of these scenarios sound familiar to you, then you need to make sure you're at the Ideas & Builders event, hosted by Silicon Cape and the Google Umbono team.The ...

• Magnum’s compelling new Flash advertising campaign

  An astonishing new advertising campaign for Magnum Ice Cream's has just been launched, which exploits all the best aspects of the social web to create a fun, engaging and original campaign with a heavy dose of the Wow! factor thrown in. What's more, it's all been created using the much-maligned Flash.The campaign is called Pleasure Hunt and it was created by Swedish agency Lowe Brindfors, based in Stockholm.The story revolves around a beautiful young woman who undertakes ...

• The ‘hyper-fragmented’ state of the music industry: Where to from here?

  The digital, online revolution has had a profound effect on almost every industry you can think of. But perhaps the hardest hit of all has been the music industry, where the model that worked for generations has collapsed and new ways of making people pay for music are being tried and tested every month.A comprehensive report into the "Hyper-Fragmented World of Music" by research company Nielsen reveals a complex picture of the massive music industry that could provide a ...

• Dutch airline’s social media experiment: Success or stalking?

  As more and more companies struggle to leverage the power of social media in new and interesting ways, one airline recently took an old school approach to rewarding its customers for mentioning them via social media. Dutch airline KLM used the power of social media for a campaign dubbed "KLM Surprise" to pinpoint certain customers and buy them gifts depending on who they were and where they were going .The campaign, involved a close monitoring of social media channels by ...

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