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| CAN'T MISS EVENTS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA WEEK SAN FRANCISCO | Published: 08/02/11 |
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How big is social media these days? Big enough to get its own week. This week is Social Media Week, if you hadn't heard, and its taking place in nine cities across the globe. It's a week-long extravaganza of free (or cheap) talks, roundtables, panels, happy hours and other events and we thought we would take a look and give our top five, must-attend events of the week.
Social Media Week is already in full swing, so if you're just getting started now, you've already missed out on a few must-see events, but there's still several days left, so fret not.
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Some events say they're already sold out, but with events like these, you can't win if you don't try. If someone else doesn't show up, you can always try to grab the newly free spot, so here's our list of can't-miss events, with the caveat that some events are listing as full or sold out.
Ignite San Francisco at Public Works: 6-10 p.m. Tuesday
If you've never been to an Ignite event before, it works something like this: Someone gets on stage and they have five minutes to talk about something interesting with 20 slides that automatically change every 15 seconds.
Social Media Club SF Game Night at 330 Ritch: 7- 10 p.m Tuesday (alternate)
If board games, beer, and real-life social networking is your thing, then nevermind going to a talk, grab yourself a brewsky and get to know some folks over classic board games and NES standards like Contra, Excite Bike and more.
A Discussion on Location-Based Social Apps at Madrone Studios: 5-6 p.m Wednesday
Moderated by TechCrunch's MG Siegler, this event will dive into the idea of location-based social media, one of the hot topics of 2010 and sure to stick around for 2011. Speaking at the event will be Instagram's Kevin Systrom, Foodspotting's Alexa Andrzejewski and PicPlz's Dalton Caldwell.
Why Community Managers Won't Exists in 5 Years (and why that's a good thing) at UserVoice: 5-8 p.m Thursday
If you can get into this one, it's sure to be an interesting conversation. Though the job of the community manager may have been around since the days of BBSes, it's a relatively new job title and already, we're calling for its demise. This one is going to be lead by UserVoice community manager Evan Hamilton, who plans on arguing that his own position will be obsolete in five years. According to the event description, if you plan on hurling any rotten fruit, you'll have to bring your own.
Snackers Lounge Daily Happy Hour at Library Bar: 5-8 p.m. Tuesday thru Thursday
If you've had enough for the day and 5 p.m. is quitting time, head over to Library Bar to meet up with the rest of the social media mavens and grab some discounted drinks before continuing with your evening. Who can complain about discounted drinks, right? We're sure the discussion will revolve around the latest in hashtags, social media analytics and Twitter etiquette, among other topics.
The Future of the Social Web at CBS Interactive: 3:30-4:15 Friday
Moderated by Mashable's Ben Parr, the panel will consist of The Next Web's Hermoine Way, Ning CEO Jason Rosenthal and Edelman Digital VP of Social Media Michael Brito. What better way to end your week of social media filled fun than with predictions for the future?
For the full list of events, you can check out the social media channel on Plancast or look at the official listing on the Social Media Week website. Of course, like any list of events, we've likely either left something out, passed over a gem or missed out on something entirely, so if you know of some must-see events happening this week in San Francisco, let us know in the comments below...and maybe we'll see you there!
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| TOP 5 SPOTIFY APPS FOR MUSIC DISCOVERY | Published: 01/12/12 |
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Spotify wasn't built for discovery. The Swedish music streaming company realizes this and instead of trying to natively bake a zillion features into its service, it launched a platform for third party developers about a year ago.
Spotify's app directory now features almost 60 HTML5-based add-ons for the service's desktop client. These apps perform a lot of different functions - some are social, w...
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| FACEBOOK LOOSENS ZYNGA'S LEASH - CAN CHANGING THE RULES SAVE ZYNGA? | Published: 30/11/12 |
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If this were a certain social network, Zynga and Facebook could probably agree that their relationship status is: It's complicated. Two new SEC filings on Thursday revealed that the social game-maker and the social network are putting a little distance between themselves, amending some rules of their multi-year agreement to give both companies a bit more autonomy.
What’s Changing In The SEC Amen...
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| CHILL DIRECT: A FARM SYSTEM FOR VIDEO DISTRIBUTION | Published: 30/11/12 |
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What's the biggest hurdle to getting people to watch your film or video? Getting it in front of them in the first place. Unfortunately, your options are limited.
Chill Direct, a new service from the social-video site Chill, hopes to expand those options and act as a new farm system to get content to TV, theaters and film festivals.
If you're as well-known as rising comic Louis C.K., who has famous...
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| TIME WARNER CEO THINKS YOUTUBE’S $100 MILLION CONTENT INVESTMENT IS "CUTE" | Published: 30/11/12 |
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Much has been made of Google’s foray into original content with its $100 million investments in its bid to compete with television. But as Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes pointed out at this week’s Business Insider’s IGNITION conference, Google’s content investments are essentially chump change - nowhere near enough to challenge Big Media's established players.
“To put it in perspective, weâ...
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| ANOTHER GLOOMY SALES REPORT ADDS TO WINDOWS 8'S TOUGH WEEK | Published: 30/11/12 |
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Just how well is Windows 8 selling so far?
A month past the launch of Microsoft’s revolutionary operating system, data released this week seems to add credence to the idea that consumers just aren’t adopting Windows 8 as fast as the company may have hoped, with negative implications both for the Holiday shopping season and beyond.
In a report released Friday, StatCounter found that by November...
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| GOOGLE BUYS BUFFERBOX TO MATCH AMAZON'S LOCKER FOR CONVENIENT SHIPPING | Published: 30/11/12 |
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Google has acquired Canadian parcel delivery start-up BufferBox Friday for an undisclosed sum. BufferBox is like a PIN-protected P.O. box for packages that solves the problem of missed deliveries. It's a service that mirrors the Locker service Amazon began offering earlier this month. Google's acquisition of BufferBox signals that it's serious about going head to head with Amazon on retail.
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| IDC: DEVELOPER DISINTEREST COULD KILL RIM & WINDOWS PHONE | Published: 30/11/12 |
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There is no doubt, 2013 is going to be a very interesting year for the mobile industry. Apple and Google will continue to strive for worldwide domination with iOS and Android - making it very difficult for other competitors to squeeze out profits. The day of reckoning may be at hand for old school mobile players like Research In Motion and Microsoft even as manufacturers like Nokia , HTC and even ...
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| IT HAPPENED TO ME: MY SMALL BUSINESS WAS HACKED! | Published: 30/11/12 |
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Last September, shortly after the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, a company tweeted me that they were going to make our site, SmallBizDaily.com, their “small business resource of the day.” My joy was short-lived when the next morning they tweeted that my site had been hacked.
I quickly checked (it was still early morning on the West Coast, where we’re located) and sure e...
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| WHY DO TECH COMPANIES DOMINATE "BEST PLACES TO WORK" LISTS? | Published: 30/11/12 |
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When the Great Place to Work Institute released its 2012 World's Best Multinational Workplaces list this month, ranking the world's 25 best employers - tech companies ruled. High-tech companies grabbed 9 of the 25 slots including 4 of the top 5.
It's a nice feather in the caps of Google, SAS, NetApp, Microsoft and the other winners, but beyond bragging rights, is there a point to this or any simil...
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| ORACLE HAS PROBLEMS TELLING THE TRUTH IN ITS ADVERTISING | Published: 30/11/12 |
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Oracle seems to have a problem with truth in advertising. Since April, the tech giant has had to pull three ads that claimed Oracle computers performed much better than IBM's.
Each time, Oracle offered no proof of its claims and the ads were dropped after IBM complained to the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Better Business Bureau (BBB). This sleazy behavior, called "strategically stupi...
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