Posts Categorized: social impacts

The Stray Rover on the Far Side of Mars

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Description: As “Opportunity” celebrates 10 years today, we take a look at the original Mars Rover “Spirit” and her exploration journey. Source: Mashable Date: January 24, 2014 Hanging over the stage at Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium was a giant illustration of NASA’s Opportunity rover, its name blasted in big, celebratory block letters. It was supposed to be an event… Read more »

New Social Fundraising Tool Coupons4Giving Launches in Edmonton

Posted by & filed under business models, data analytics, social impacts, Supply Chain Management.

Description: Coupons4Giving is a new fundraising tool coming out of Edmonton, Alberta to help organizations not only manage their campaigns but also to help encourage donations. Source: Techvibes Date: December 12, 2013  GenerUS Marketing Solutions has launched Coupons4Giving, a fundraising tool that allows not-for-profits to create and manage successful fundraising campaigns in order to drive… Read more »

CrunchWeek: Instagram Debuts Messaging, Twitter’s Blocking Debacle, Snapchat Banks $50M

Posted by & filed under app, market intelligence, smartphones, social impacts, Social Media, Twitter, user habits.

Description: Three Tech Crunch Writers get together and discuss the week’s hot tech topics including stories on Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. Source: Tech Crunch Date: December , 2013 The launch of Instagram’s first ever messaging feature called Instagram Direct and the impressive new usage figures announced by Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom, Twitter changing how its… Read more »

Canadian Agency Launches Viral Video for View-Buying Service

Posted by & filed under Advertisement, Business Intelligence, marketing, social impacts, user habits, video.

Description: Canadian company John St. has created a viral video about viral videos. The video outlines their fake company “buyral” which supposedly incorporates a system of employed “clickers” who are hired to simply give your video views, and in turn, make your video go viral. Source: TechVibes  Date: November 6th, 2013 Toronto-based agency John St. is creating buzz… Read more »

NASA Animation Shows What Mars Looked Like Billions of Years Ago

Posted by & filed under social impacts, video, virtualization.

Description: An image lab from NASA created a video of what they believe, based on research, Mars looked like 4 Billion years ago. Could this be the future of Earth? In four billion years, will our planet resemble a cold, red wasteland? Source: Mashable Date: November 15, 2013 A new animation by NASA Goddard’s Conceptual Image Lab shows that… Read more »

Virgin America Made an Airplane Safety Video You’ll Actually Want to Watch

Posted by & filed under branding, Business Intelligence, music, national culture, social impacts, video.

Description: Whenever you take a flight, TSA requirements insist a safety video to be played before every take off. These videos have been notoriously dull and boring. Virgin American has done the impossible – created a video you’ll really want to watch. Source: Fast Company Date: October 30, 2013 Airline safety announcements just got a lot… Read more »

TWTR, Inc. Stock Soars as Investors mistake the company for Twitter

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Description: A misunderstanding has the company TWTR, Inc. confused for Twitter.  Twitter has chosen TWTR as their stock symbol when the company goes public. TWTR, Inc investors see a 2,000 percent rise in stock price because of the confusion. Source: canada.com Date: October 4, 2013 Twitter, we’re sure, took it as a good sign that investor… Read more »

Blogger Makes $333,000 Online in One Day

Posted by & filed under blogging, branding, business models, Entrepreneurship, freemium, newspapers on-line, online advertising, social impacts.

Description: An influential blogger has rallied his loyal fans and made $333,000 from home in about a day. No, you likely can’t replicate this model anytime soon. Source: Mashable Date: January 3rd, 2013 It may sound like the first line of a particularly fiendish piece of spam. But a blogger has now in fact brought in… Read more »

Social Media Etiquette: Do You Kiss and Tell?

Posted by & filed under Analytics, Careers, FaceBook, Human Resources, Privacy, social impacts, Social Media, texting, Twitter.

Description: A recent survey conducted on Zoosk, Facebook’s dating service, has revealed some interesting statistics about romantic technology use. Despite the risk of public romance, many users are still updating their Facebook profiles with romantic posts. Who are these users and why do they do it? Source: Huffingtonpost.com Date: September 18th, 2012   Posting your… Read more »

Social media changes back-to-school experience

Posted by & filed under cyber bullying, education, ethics, FaceBook, free speech, national culture, politics, social impacts, Social Media.

Description: Social media has changed the experience of going back to school for kids. By using social media to stay in-touch throughout the summer, kids are able to draw on each others shared content to start conversations and meet new friends. However, for some this might mean enduring more bullying than before. Source: CBC.ca Date:… Read more »