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James HicksJames is the Founder and Chief Technologist of HicksNewMedia, a technology consulting and digital publishing firm providing effective and relevant solutions to individuals and businesses looking to utilize all things on the interweb. Follow him on Twitter | about.me | Facebook | Google+Website – Twitter – Facebook – More Posts
That’s what Facebook is calling their new data center build program. Background Facebook has been leasing its data centers for the last 7 years, giving it no flexibility — Facebook technical VP Jon Heiliger likened it to living in his first apartment, where the landlord said that he could paint the walls any color as [...]
Check out this very intelligently put together infographic video (I may coin that phrase…) – created by Alex Trimpe. Alex is a student at The Columbus College of Art & Design. In this piece he takes us, visually, through a just how many people look at, interact with and rely on Facebook on a daily [...]
In case you haven’t noticed – Facebook has made a change to your News Feed. By default, you will only see messages and updates from “Friends and pages you interact with most” Now, that could be beneficial and useful, but I don’t recall being given the option to make this choice OR even being notified [...]
Starz Digital Media recently announced the upcoming launches of their first social media game, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena. The Spartacus: Gods of the Arena social media game is free to play and brings players into a world of fame, fortune, glory and (of course) blood, all via a Facebook social gaming experience. The Beta [...]
If you’re on the social interweb, you’re using both tools. In fact, many businesses launched within the past 1-2 years are literally built around and fully dependent on Twitter and Facebook. So the value and worth is unquestionably there. But step back and look at their impact on the overall web experience. How do Twitter [...]
TripAdvisor is trying to make travel planning more social. They recently launched an integration with Facebook that instantly personalizes the site for each person who visits. “Earlier this year, we thought, how cool would it be if travelers could automatically see travel reviews written by their friends while researching their vacations on TripAdvisor? Fast forward [...]
Looks like Loopt has beat the others to the punch and figured out how to get Facebook Places properly integrated into their geo-location offering. True, Loopt has had this functionality for about a month now, we wrote about it here, but the user experience wasn’t quite there – now, after a few tweaks and code [...]
You may have heard – Zuckerberg is looking to take over the messaging world now. Today, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook Messages, according to Zuckerberg, it’s not email, in fact his words are “it will handle email, but it is not email.” Instead, Facebook is looking to provide a single unified place to handle [...]
First of all Loren Feldman is a freaking genius – I love the dude. He’s got just enough crazy in his personality to keep people wondering when is he being serious or completely sarcastic. As far as RockMelt goes, I’ve been using it since Day 1 – which isn’t that long ago since it is [...]
James Hicks on , January 16, 2012, 10:02 pm
