Multimedia-Fashion

"Today Facebook begins rolling out file sharing to all Groups, and while it's got many restrictions, it could be good enough to limit the long-term growth potential of cloud storage / file sharing services like Dropbox, iCloud, and Google Drive."

Online shoppers spent more than $44 billion during the first quarter, says comScore, a 16.6% increase over Q1 2011. It was the highest year-over-year growth rate comScore has observed since late 2007.

"While Amazon has had some success in fashion with Zappos.com, Endless.com, MyHabit.com and Shopbop, it has yet to achieve the level of dominance that it has in other product categories it has targeted."

Will we be a country of high-volume and low quality? Or can we become an economy of quality and price premium? Whether it's drinking, buying computers or choosing what industrial policy to support, we are in the process of answering those questions.

Our students want to be creative, collaborate, utilize technology for learning, connect with their peers in other countries, understand the messages that media convey, and solve real-world problems.  Schools and systems of education that do not embrace digital learning and place a high emphasis on standardization will always fail to resonate with our students

Value of blogging for academics.

Social media has surpassed search, and is poised to overtake online display advertising as the No. 1 source of digital media planning and buying, according to the latest edition of a quarterly survey of U.S. advertising agencies. The survey, conducted by Strata, the agency media software and processing firm owned by Comcast, found that 69% of agency executives now consider social the "focus" of their digital ad spending -- up 32% over the past year, and now a close second behind display (71%) as the dominant digital media-buying platform in the minds of agency executives.

We learned today that Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's resume boasts a computer science degree he never got. This news is likely to have a ripple effect as we learn who else in the Valley has tried to pull a stunt like this. Here's what happened to 10 other executives who fibbed on their resumes.

It's hard to use the Internet anymore without being watched. Tracking cookies follow your every move, so advertisers can figure out what to sell you. Social networks keep you constantly signed in, in part so they can see what other websites you visit. Phone and tablet apps may be gathering information about you, including your contacts list or your camera roll.

Facebook = People. Facebook is the way to learn what's going on in the lives of people you already know. Google+ = Passions. Google+ enables you to pursue your passions with people you don't know.

""During one of the keynotes," he explained, "I found myself really wanting to hear what others at the conference thought about the speaker's ideas, so I visited Twitter on my loaner device to do just that. I found that there was a rich back-channel conversation going on there, so I created a Twitter account for myself and jumped in." "It wasn't until that moment," he says, "that I realized that Twitter could be a medium for smart, engaging conversations, too. I've been an active user ever since.""

"In a world where content wants to be free, the publishing industry is searching for a saviour. Could it be social commerce? ELLE Magazine has launched two parallel social commerce experiments on Pinterest and on Facebook - based on the concept of editorially curated and shoppable trend catalogues. In a nutshell, ELLE is using Facebook and Pinterest to create trend catalogues that could be monetized through affiliate payments. Speaking about the Facebook Trend Reports, as they've been branded, chief revenue officer Kevin O'Malley for ELLE, says the first step of the experiment is to see whether it works without affiliate monetization;"

Pepsi and Coke are among a multitude of companies buying into social media's ability to strengthen their brands. Consumers are 55% more likely to recall ads that include social-media components than non-social ads, according to a 2011 Nielsen survey.

The website I bookmarked (weavespace) that came to me via e-mail was a phishing scam. I will blog about my learning experience on our wordpress blog.

There are several keyboard combinations that can be used to take screenshots in Mac OS X. The SystemUIServer process handles these commands.

Screenshot and screencast software from TechSmith.

I just received this e-mail regarding this social media network.

"There is something revolutionary going on, but not in the way people often think. This is about a lot more than generating Likes on Facebook and followers on Twitter. We are in the midst of a fundamental shift from mass communication to mass collaboration. This is the first time in our history that we can work together on a global scale. "