To dream is as easy as breathing; it is one of the things that make us quintessentially human. But sometimes hopes and dreams get pushed aside due to time pressures and the daily grind. Now there is a social media solution that allows you to keep your dreams alive and in focus.Launched September 9th 2010, the self funded project CREATORmakers.com wants to help people make their dreams come true. It is both a website and an iPhone application that provides ...

Japan's Sony will again delay the global release of the latest version of its popular "Gran Turismo" car-racing game, which was due out early next month, officials said Thursday. Gran Turismo 5 for the PlayStation 3 video-game console was to hit US markets on November 2 and Japan the following day, but the release will now be "this holiday season", Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. said.The delay is due to "production reasons," said Makiko Noda, a spokeswoman for the electronics giant's ...

There is no longer any doubt about the awesome impact that Twitter is having on the media landscape. Every day, the micro-blogging phenomenon cements its place at the center of news gathering, social networking and information dissemination. But while its basic functionality has been widely accepted, the delivery mechanisms employed are being challenged on various fronts, most notably by the Flipboard app on the iPad, and now by paper.li.What paper.li does is organise links shared on Twitter by your ...

The world-wide acclaimed TED talks took to the iPad with the release on Thursday of an application that allows users to watch the famous conference's videos on Apple's tablet computer.TED is a non-profit devoted to "Ideas Worth Spreading", bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.An iPad app available free at Apple's online iTunes shop lets people access videos of presentations made at TED gatherings renowned for seeking ways to inspire fresh ideas and fight the world's ills."The iPad ...

Skype and Facebook joined forces on Thursday to let users of the popular Internet messenging and voice-over-IP service chat with their friends on the booming social network.The new Skype version 5.0 for Windows includes a Facebook tab and integrates Facebook's news feed and phonebook into Skype, the Luxembourg-based Skype said in a statement.Skype users can call Facebook friends directly on mobile or landline phones, send SMS messages or make free Skype-to-Skype calls to Facebook friends who are also Skype users, ...

Mobile phones are changing the face of communication and marketing in emerging markets around the world, and the implications are profound. The environment is changing at a rapid pace, but I've identified seven major trends that are defining the mobi space right now, and suggested ways that businesses can adapting to them.Here are a few basic points:1. Mobile usage has become pervasive In 1999, 11% of South African adults had access to a phone. In 2009, this number had reached 70%. ...

Microsoft's search engine, Bing, has received a massive endorsement from Facebook, which could potentially see Bing becoming a credible rival to Google, the company that has dominated the search category for so long.Early on Wednesday at Microsoft's Silicon Valley HQ, management teams from Facebook and Microsoft gathered to address the media on new developments and partnerships between them.In a nutshell, it was announced that the social context of Facebook's information database will be brought into a Bing search. ...

Mediaite.com is an online and print analysis site which is exhaustively documenting the relative influence and power of the top-ranking editors in the world. The ranks are calculated based on the print circulation of their associated publications, unique online visitors to the site of their associated publication, online buzz, blogs buzz, and Twitter followers (if applicable -- not all editors have a twitter account).An individual might be collectively ranked higher than any of their individual metric rankings, due to Mediaite's algorithm ...

There is a mind-boggling array of different online platforms for getting your marketing message across: From classic display banners through to text-based advertorials, tweets, Facebook status updates and emails, the list goes on and on.It is very easy to get carried away with the excitement of using new technology and lose sight of basic advertising copy principles.People are often quick to blame technology for the failure of their campaigns, using it as an excuse for sloppy, boring, poorly thought out ...

Journalists may not use information from the Facebook accounts of their "friends," a Danish media tribunal ruled Wednesday in a case pitting the prime minister's brother against a tabloid. "Information on closed profiles are reserved to people -- the Facebook 'friends' -- who have been authorised to access the profile," the Danish Press Council said."That is why media do not in principal have access to use information posted in closed profiles," the media ethics court said, setting a legal precedent on ...