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Surprisingly little has been said about Facebook’s foray into social banking. In July this year, Citigroup asked its Facebook fans whether they would ever bank on a social networking site and the question raised more than 300 comments, most of which weren’t positive. Despite the sentiment, Australia’s Commonwealth Bank has already gone ahead and provided its social media savvy users with an app that allows them to view their balances and, critically, make payments.For many (including this writer), the ...
It must be difficult being Joe Fernandez. He is the founder of Klout: the social media analytics startup that measures users' influence across their social networks. Klout scores people based on their influence on networks like Twitter, Facebook and Google+.
The company has come under heavy criticism for its measurement algorithm. The most vocal of these critics is TechCrunch co-Editor, Alexia Tsotsis, who wrote a piece titled: "Nobody Gives A Damn About Your Klout Score", following outcries from users ...
In a recent interview with prominent financial magazine Finweek, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales spoke about how the internet has impacted on the world's protest movements and how governments have sought to quell those movements. He also spoke about the measures some governments are taking to try to curb the free flow of information online, legitimate or illegitimate, is essentially "impotent". With Finweek's permission, Memeburn has selected extracts from the interview, which strike right at the heart of these topics. ...
Mobile is pretty big right now: it's where people are innovating and it's the common denominator device. Gartner predicts that by 2015 there will be more than two-billion smartphones in the world. That's a lot of smartphones. Tech analysis company Juniper Research says that by 2014 240-million people will be watching television on their smart devices. It's a space ripe for innovation and of course the entertainment industry is happy to find ways to meet its audiences on whatever device ...
Gartner is pretty good at predicting the future. In the first part of our interview with the company's head of research, Peter Sondergaard, we tackled a few predictions but mostly we chatted to him about Apple, Facebook and the current state of innovation.
Gartner is a New York Exchange-listed information technology research and advisory firm based in United States. Gartner knows everything. It has predicted the future of pretty much all devices and all web experiences. So we decided it ...
There is a lot of talk around the future of social, what Facebook's plummeting stock means and what Apple's win against Samsung will mean for innovators. A few people have pontificated about these questions and come with phrases such as "post-social" and "social bubble". There's even talk about Apple and Samsung and the death of innovation.
We spoke to Gartner's global head of research, Peter Sondergaard, to get the get the skinny on some of these issues. Gartner is a ...
As a regular feature on the Forbes Midas List of top tech investors, Roelof Botha is a big deal. As a partner at venture capitalist company Sequoia Capital, Botha has helped fund some of the great names in tech today.Sequoia has funded heavy hitting tech players such as Apple, Google, YouTube, PayPal, Cisco Systems, Oracle, Electronic Arts, Yahoo!, Kayak, Meebo, Admob, Zappos, Green Dot and LinkedIn.Before joining Sequoia Capital in 2003, Botha was the Chief Financial Officer of ...
When most people hear the name Robert Scoble, the first thing that comes to mind is "Scobleizer". Scoble was probably the first person to get famous through blogging and also the first person to get an annoyance measurement named after him.In September 2008 Follow Cost, a site that calculates how annoying it will be to follow anyone on Twitter, launched the milliscoble unit of measurement, which is defined as: "1/1000 of the average daily Twitter status updates by Robert ...
Brent Hoberman is remarkably busy. It took three months and a couple of million emails to peg him down for 20 minutes to answer a few questions. Then again, that probably comes with being a pioneer of the dotcom era.
The late 90s were a turbulent time for the web: the burst of the dotcom bubble left many online companies in shambles, but there were survivors. One such survivor was Lastminute.com, the online travel and gift business Hoberman founded ...
For more than 15 years the Webby Awards, known as “the Oscars of the Internet”, have rewarded innovation online. Famous for their five-word acceptance speeches, the awards have honoured innovators like World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners Lee and Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, and top online players such as Facebook, Wikipedia, and Pinterest.
Memeburn caught up with the founder and former creative CEO of the Webbys Tiffany Shlain, who was honoured by Newsweek as one of the ...
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