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“Tell the whole story of your life in a single page” – Mark Zuckerberg describing Facebook Timeline at the 2011 F8 Developers Conference 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 Facebook F8 Developer Conference isn’t until tomorrow, but ahead of the taglined “Read, Watch, Listen” conference Facebook is rolling out a slew of new features and functions for it’s users. Instead of me writing alot of text – how about a video? Check out the video below and learn what you’ll start seeing in [...]

Foursquare has reached 1 billion check-ins !! Not bad for a ’2 year-young’ company that has some significant competition in the geo-location space. To mark the milestone, the team at Foursquare has put together an animated data visualization plotting a week’s worth of check-ins across a map of the world. Across the top of the [...]

Grab yourself a cup of coffee, it’s going to take a bit of time to go through this infographic because there is a ton of interesting information. Not only are we in the western hemisphere consuming and utilizing all that the social interweb can deliver, but folks all across Asia and the Pacific Rim are HUGE contributors, [...]

I’ve been using Tout for a number of months now, on the recommendation of Ms. Digital Royalty herself – Amy Jo Martin. What is Tout? Tout is a social media technology company whose iOS applications and Webcam feature enables real-time video status updates that can be shared instantly and automatically with friends, family or the [...]

This cartoon, from Hubspot, light-heartedly speaks volumes how the big boys in the tech reporting world react to every bit of “news” Too good not to share. [HT Tonya Hall] 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 [...]

You social influence profile, according to Klout, is pretty much complete now. They’ve added YouTube into the Klout score algorithm It was mentioned during this afternoon’s extremely informative #KloutChat where the topic was, coincidentally, “New Networks” If you’re on Klout – log in to the site and add grant access to get a much more accurate [...]

Hopefully everyone has migrated from the Old to the New Twitter interface at twitter.com. Twitter sent out a tweet today stating that the Old Twitter UI will be retired officially at the end of this week. CrunchBase Information Twitter Information provided by CrunchBase James HicksJames is the Founder and Chief Technologist of HicksNewMedia, a technology [...]

What makes up your overall social media footprint? Obviously Twitter and Facebook, but there’s more that we socially connected beings do than just 140 word updates and share family photos. LinkedIN, geo-location services (such as Foursquare) are also now a part of the overall Klout score algorithm, but check out what I noticed today on [...]

Hallelujah – a social gamification, and interaction organization has finally recognized the importance of acknowledging when people actually need to be away from social media. The folks at Empire Avenue have just announced the availability of Vacation Mode. Allowing you the ability to prevent your Empire Avenue share price to plummet, just because you’re relaxing [...]