Disruptive technology is the bearer of tremendous opportunity and equally a harbinger of obsolescence. Technology’s impact on society and business is substantial, if not underestimated. As technology continues to become part of everyday life, it becomes disruptive in how people communicate, work, and connect. The evolution of society and technology happens with or without adaptation or understanding. And, it’s contributing to a very real phenomenon of Digital Darwinism, a situation where organi...  show all text

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Guest post written by John Hagel, Suketu Gandhi and Giovanni Rodriguez John Hagel is co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge. Suketu Gandhi is a principal with Deloitte Consulting. Giovanni Rodriguez is a senior member of the Deloitte social-technology team, and a blogger for Forbes. John Hagel In November 1993 – as the [...]

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Fans of The Bachelor are all too familiar with this season’s over-the-top contestant Courtney, who makes snide comments at the camera and likes to take off her bikini top. Now, a video has popped up on YouTube that has turned some of her signature phrases — from “Winning!” to “I do modeling” — into a catchy Auto-Tune clip. The contestants are vying for a rose from winemaker Ben, and Courtney has rubbed many of them the wrong way, and this video shows why. This is not the first time YouTube users  show all text

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Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers 8 Feb 2012 – Singapore It all started innocently enough. I was thinking of implementing a Path Mac OS X app as part of our regularly scheduled hackathon. Using the awesome mitmproxy tool which was featured on the front page of the Hacker News yesterday, I started to observe the various API calls made to Path’s servers from the iPhone app. It all seemed harmless enough until I observed a POST request to https://api.path.com/3/contacts/a...  show all text

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Reporters banned from reposting non-company tweets and told to check with the news desk before breaking news stories Sky News has told its journalists not to repost information from any Twitter users who are not an employee of the broadcaster. An email to staff on Tuesday laid out new social media guidelines for Sky News employees, including a contentious ban on retweeting rival "journalists or people on Twitter". The new guidelines also warn Sky News journalists to "stick to your own beat" and...  show all text

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Keynote Session: Understanding The Social Business Excellence – Rawn Shah (IBM), Y’ves Caseau (Bouygues Telecom) What is behind Social Business? What are the challenges companies are facing? Business at the Speed of Experitise – Rawn Shah Business value creation through 4 archetypes: customer value, operating efficiency, quality in operations, organization culture 65% of line business [...]

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I'll be live blogging the Enterprise 2.0 Summit. So my posts will contain typo's etc. Hope you don't mind! First keynote of the Enterprise 2.0 Summit is about 'Understanding the Social Business Excellence' by Rawn Shah, Social Business Tranformation Expert at IBM. We all know the core elements of Business Value Creation like Customer Value, Operating Efficiency, Quality in Operations, and Organization Culture. What is happening to this, is it changing? Is it still necessary? Rawn starts out ...  show all text

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1. Castle in the Sky on TV Anime movie Laputa: Castle in the Sky was televised in Japan on Dec. 9, 2011. The movie was made in 1989 by famed director Hayou Miyazaki, who also directed Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke. During one point in televised broadcast in 2011, viewers joined forces, sending tweets at the same time to symbolically help the movie's characters cast a spell. Data compiled by Brian Anthony Hernandez; gallery created by Chelsea Stark. Image courtesy of che_fox, Flickr. C...  show all text

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I started sketching this cartoon weeks ago after hearing that Carnival offered a voucher for 30% off future cruises to passengers of the Costa Condordia. Coincidentally this was before last week’s dramatic blunders of Susan G Komen for the Cure. PR crises are nothing new. The field of crisis management originated with the environmental and industrial disasters of the 1980′s (Exxon Valdez, Tylenol). But they are more acute than ever thanks to social media. How a brand handles itself in a crisis ...  show all text

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Business bloggers at Harvard Business Review discuss a variety of business topics including managing people, innovation, leadership, and more.

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Ask ten people what Social Business means to them, and you will come back with ten different answers. But if you look closer, you will soon find the common denominator: it’s about putting people back in business. Read full story... Follow us on Twitter Join free newsletter View upcoming events Find a new job

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Phone Innovators: Official 2012 Best Buy Game Day Commercial Watch as phone innovation meets phone-buying innovation, at Best Buy. Choose Phone Freedom and get any phone, any carrier, and all of their plans, with lots of unbiased advice. Reserve a $50 gift card at http://www.bestbuy.com/phonefreedom now for your next upgrade. Click here to view this gallery. There are two kinds of Super Bowl fans: those who watch for the football and those who watch for the advertisements. For those who prefer...  show all text

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Use Cars.com to search 2.6 million new & used car listings or get a dealer quote. Our easy-to-use online tools put you a step ahead in your next vehicle purchase.

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Whether you can obtain a job, credit or insurance can be based on your digital doppelgänger — and you may never know why you’ve been turned down.

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The New York Giants official website accidentally announced the winner of Super Bowl XLVI more than 24 hours before Sunday’s big game even started, by the look of images floating around the web. The error was immortalized Saturday in this TwitPic screenshot (above), which Jeff Frias posted to Twitter. No signs of the mistake are left on the team’s site other than a reported link that leads to the image below: The Giants have yet to publicly confirm whether this whammy is real or the handy-work ...  show all text

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Tech writer MG Siegler just noted a remarkable fact: Apple's iPhone business alone is now bigger than Microsoft. Not Windows. Not Office. Microsoft. Think about that. The iPhone did not exist five years ago. And now it's bigger than a company that, 15 years ago, was dragged into court and threatened with forcible break-up because it had amassed an unassailable and unthinkably profitable monopoly. The iPhone also appears to be considerably more profitable than Microsoft. In the December quarter,...  show all text

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The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: BetaBait Quick Pitch: BetaBait connects startups with beta testers. Genius Idea: Access to early adopters that doesn’t require PR skills. Startups that want to reach early adopters often resort to contacting publications. But I have 3,640 unopened emails in my inbox that can attest to...  show all text

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This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Companies that rely on a visual or photographic web presence often find it difficult to convey their media on Twitter. Take, for instance, apparel brands that need to get social media eyes on their merchandise, or a design firm that seeks exposure. How can these types of businesses ensure that Twitter followers see their ...  show all text

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The online storm surrounding Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s decision to pull funding from Planned Parenthood came to a close on Friday when Komen reversed its decision. Score another point for social media. On Tuesday, the Komen Foundation announced new funding criteria that would severely restrict grants set aside for Planned Parenthood to provide mammograms for low-income women. Planned Parenthood’s CEO alleges that the Komen Foundation pulled support because of political pressure from anti-ch...  show all text

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Just in time for the rising backlash to its self-created public relations disaster, the Susan G. Komen Foundation—which announced this week that it would pull its funding from Planned Parenthood—has teamed up with Discount Gun Sales to market pink handguns. More »

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People are more likely to give in to urge to tweet or check email than other cravings, say US researchers Tweeting or checking emails may be harder to resist than cigarettes and alcohol, according to researchers who tried to measure how well people could resist their desires. They even claim that while sleep and sex may be stronger urges, people are more likely to give in to longings or cravings to use social and other media. A team headed by Wilhelm Hofmann of Chicago University's Booth Busine...  show all text

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If you live near a Microsoft retail store, you can now pre-order a Nokia Lumia 900 with a $25 down payment, the Verge reports. Unfortunately, even if you do that, you still won’t know how much the device will cost when it finally arrives, probably in March. The Lumia 900 sports a 4.3″ AMOLED ClearBlack display with a 800×480 pixel resolution, an 8-megapixel camera (as well as a 1-megapixel front-facing one for video chat) and LTE/HSPA+ support. With a 1.4 GHz processor, an Adreno 205 GPU and 512  show all text

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Facebook’s slew of newly wealthy employees could “significantly impact” California’s economy during the next few years, said H.D. Palmer, deputy director of external affairs for the California Department of Finance. “The closest analogue is the 2004 Google IPO,” he said. “Its benefit to the state’s general fund was in the neighborhood hundreds of millions– at least $400 million.” Facebook, based in Menlo Park, Calif., afforded generous pre-IPO stock options to as many as 1,000 of its employees....  show all text

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My friends over at bit.ly published an interesting graph that reveals the devices as well as the days/times that people use different devices and how and when they consume information. As you can imagine, it’s across the board, but as you can see, there are waves that every device follows, except the desktop. Desktops are of course the devices that we can assume people use during work hours. As such, they are most heavily used on weekdays before noon. Interestingly enough, phone traffic peaks at  show all text

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Net Promoter, a mainstay of marketing measurement, is being adapted to the social media age with a Klout-like rating system based on the ratio of pro and con opinions on Twitter and Facebook. Its new product called SparkScore was announced Thursday by Satmetrix, the company that created Net Promoter. Like Net Promoter, SparkScore will rate companies on a -100-to-100 scale and average detractors, promoters and passives. However, the methodology will be different. Net Promoter is based on a simple  show all text

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Warning: self-promotional Blog post to follow... I am very excited to announce that the name of my next book is: CTRL ALT DEL - Reboot  Your Business (and Yourself) in a Connected World. The official press release went out this morning via my publisher, Business Plus (an imprint of Grand Central Publishing - Hachette Book Group USA). This is the same publisher as my first book, Six Pixels of Separation, who had the option to pick-up my sophomore business book effort, and I am really (and sincer...  show all text

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Facebook’s public offering will make a lot of billionaires and millionaires, some of them prominent people and others not.

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