At URTech.ca we are pretty serious about tech and tech these days includes “the cloud”. The problem is that most people really don’t understand what “the cloud” is and so this video will quickly clear up any questions you have: Ok… that was pretty damn funny and is most places Read more…
Below are the two key facts in the Facebook – Cambridge Analytica Scandal involving the misuse of about 50 Million Facebook subscribers data. The original app data was volunteered, legally collected and did even breach Facebooks terms of use The data was used to figure out HOW to target people, Read more…
In 1602 the Dutch East India Company made history as the first entity to trade stock. While they did not appreciate it at the time, this bringing together of wealthy people in a single financial interest also brought power: financial power, political power and social power. In the past there have Read more…
Personal data security has never been so important, yet many people grant websites and apps access to their Facebook account as if it is worthless data. If you have not reviewed the apps that have access to your Facebook profile in a while, you really should do it right now. Read more…
I have argued for many years that Social Media is an important communication channel that businesses and politicians should NOT get too excited about. Facebook, Twitter, Pintrest… authors are nearly always connected to others on these sites in one of two ways: Most often, people are connected to those they know and Read more…
If you want to create buttons in your email or on your website that link to a particular web page, what you need to do is copy the complete address you want to reference and append it to the links below. http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u= http://twitter.com/home?status= https://plus.google.com/share?url= http://www.reddit.com/submit?url= http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url= http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url= For example, if Read more…
These videos, in reverse order, are my favourites at explaining why Social Media is killing us. Two of them have one notable awards. “We are sacrificing CONVERSATION for CONNECTION…” to people we don’t really know or care about. Watch these and the get up and GO DO SOMETHING INTERESTING BUT DON’T POST IT ON Read more…
Four out of five Facebook users have never bought a product or service as a result of ads or comments on the social networking site, according to an online survey of 1,032 Americans by Reuters and Ipsos Reid… …And a February study by eMarketer also found Facebook less effective than Read more…
This chart from www.businessinsider.com shows some of the larger IPO’s and how they have performed over their first 5 days. Pavel Durov, founder of the hugely popular Russian social network VKontakte said the Facebook IPO caused such a chill with investors that they have indefinitely postponed ther IPO. Keep in mind that Read more…
On Friday Facebook began trading a $38 a share, went up a few dollars momentarily and now has dropped to an emberassing $31.00 in just two days. Often people see a declining share price as a great time to buy, but consider this, I had read that about 10 days before Read more…
Hewlett Packard (HP) lost over $3 BILLION (yes, with a B) largely as a result of the writing down Palm and WebOS. The video also discusses Facebooks Initial Public Offering (IPO), Apple without Steve Jobs, and other tech stock issues. They also discuss how unreasonable ink prices are for ink jet printers and Read more…