May 18, 2012
Disruption. If one word exemplifies what’s happening to the world of business today, that’s it. The high-speed pace of technological change, with its ability to disrupt business models and pricing has made disruption an everyday reality. This point came home to me when I heard Ray Kurzweil speak at a Shop.org conference on how the rate of change is doubling every year and what that means for the future. When you see the trajectory of change, and what it means to the not-too-distant...

I don’t understand Klout. I’ve convinced myself that it’s best that way. I just avoid it, really. Grading a person’s social media influence on a scale of 100 seems like something popular girls would do in high school...

Yeah, it’s not $99 and it’s refurbished but it’s still a TouchPad. The tablet was once heralded as an iPad killer. Now, I’m not sure if it could even kill a Notion Ink Adam in a head-to-head...
Are we or aren’t we? When it comes to social media bubbles and whether or not we’re in one, there is no shortage of people willing to argue on each side of the debate.
It doesn’t matter if Facebook finishes Friday, its first day as a publicly-traded...

Am Montag der vergangenen Woche startete das wohl größte Fernsehexperiment dieses Jahres. BR-Moderator Richard Gutjahr hat die Größen der deutschen Frequenzbestrahler um sich versammelt...

Top 250 Internet Retailers
Social networking for retailers makes sense right? Make your brand visible where your consumers are spending the most time. This infographic from...
This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, freelancing, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+, retweeted on @kikolani, and read in...

What is marketing?
Is it a process of gathering as much money as you can,...

Facebook ist inzwischen für seine vielen Änderungen und Tests bekannt. Nachdem erst im April die Profilbildgröße von Facebook Pages verändert wurde, testet Facebook nun ein komplett neues Design des...
Editor's note: In the Summer 2012 issue of SAY Magazine, Dan Frommer chronicles the history of tech blogging. For the rest of this week, Richard MacManus, who founded ReadWriteWeb in 2003, will be looking back on the early days.
When Sarah Lacy launched the oddly named PandoDaily earlier this...
This is Episode 16 of the Social Pros Podcast : Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media. This episode features special insights from hosts...
The European activists “europe-v-facebook.org”, led by a group of Austrian students, say that they have reached the 7,000-comment threshold on a Facebook privacy proposal,...

Facebook knows what’s best for you, sometimes before you do. That’s the meaning of a new “Likers Gonna Like”...

Der Börsengang von Facebook hat in den letzten Wochen für viele Berichte gesorgt und auch wir hatten diese Woche für euch schon alle wichtigen Artikel zum Facebook Börsengang zusammengefasst. Auch...
Did you know that 37 percent of employers currently use social media to research job candidates, and a further 11 percent plan to start doing this soon?So, here’s the big question: what exactly are they looking for?
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Two years ago, WhiteyBoard founders Saachi Cywinski, Sherwin Kim and Jason Wilk set out to re-think those clunky, inflexible whiteboards found...
Measuring the return on investment (ROI) of your social media strategy is something that still frustrates a lot of brands and marketers – studies have shown that just 10 percent of...
Hundreds of Facebook employees congregated at ‘Hacker Square’ at the company’s Menlo Park headquarters this evening ahead of the company’s insanely-hyped initial public offering. Now, some of the first photos are starting to...

Editor’s Note: Nir Eyal is the founder of two acquired startups and an advisor to several Bay Area companies and incubators. Nir blogs about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business at...



