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Karen North special to CNN on Steve Jobs and the Rise of Social Media.


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October 11, 2011

Would Facebook be the mobile phenomenon that it has become without the iPhone making it possible to for us to view content, upload photos and interact from any location at any time? Without the iPhone, would Twitter have become so dominant a communications tool? Lady Gaga tweets messages and pictures to her 14 million Twitter fans, CNN tweets breaking stories to 5.2 million followers, and the Dalai Lama tweets to his 2.5 million supporters.

Karen North special to CNN on Steve Jobs and the Rise of Social Media.


By:
October 11, 2011

Would Facebook be the mobile phenomenon that it has become without the iPhone making it possible to for us to view content, upload photos and interact from any location at any time? Without the iPhone, would Twitter have become so dominant a communications tool? Lady Gaga tweets messages and pictures to her 14 million Twitter fans, CNN tweets breaking stories to 5.2 million followers, and the Dalai Lama tweets to his 2.5 million supporters.

Social Media Week hits LA Sept. 19-23


By: Karen North, Ph.D.
September 16, 2011

Social Media Week starts on Monday.Key cities around the globe are hosting a week full of discussions about the key issues and challenges facing social media, as well as the influence that social media is having on society. APOC is proud to be a participant and advisor to this outstanding event.

Come join us at venues across Los Angeles as we celebrate Social Media Week.

Check it out: http://socialmediaweek.org/schedule/

RewardTag is featured deal on Jasmere.com


By: Karen North, Ph.D.
April 11, 2011

Congrats to Brian Nichols (APOC 2010) for launching RewardTag.com and for being March 29th's deal on Jasmere.com (a daily deal coupon site).   RewardTag is a brilliantly simple business that provides stickers to put on electronic devices.  If a device (phone, laptop, camera, etc) is found, the finder logs into the site, types in the unique ID number printed on the RewardTag, and receives a reward for returning the item.  Finally, we have a way to get back our data, pictures, and other personal info rather than just replacing our lost devices!! 

Speaker Introduction: Greg Liberman of Spark Networks


By: APOC 2011
April 10, 2011

Greg Liberman is not a person; Greg Liberman is a machine. Anybody suspecting otherwise has been ill-informed and is probably susceptible to influence from the darker regions of the Sprawl and Wintermute. If this is the case you should consider jacking out now to avoid Tessier Ashpool’s black ICE.

If They’re Getting Paid to Write, Why Can’t You?


By: APOC 2011
April 6, 2011

My thoughts exactly.  We find so many blogs where it’s just people writing down stupid celebrity gossip (Perez Hilton, WWTDD), stupid things they see at Walmart, or stupid drunk texts they send out, and make money from it.  Have we sunk to the lowest common denominator that this is what the Internet is now being used for?  Yes.  And god bless it, because writing

A Rant About Television's Difficulty in Representing Committed Relationships


By: Henry Jenkins
April 6, 2011

Two things collided over the past week for me as a loyal television viewer and I want to get them off my chest. I give fair warning that this is going to be a bit of a rant. There's almost no aca here and a hell of a lot of fan.

The first is that after watching House M.D. with some great pleasure for seven seasons, I am more and more facing the grim reality that it has more or less jumped the shark this season thanks to its frustrating and ill-conceived representation of the on-again, off-again love affair between House and Cuddy.

Check Out Student Work from Annenberg Innovation Lab Conference


By: Henry Jenkins
April 5, 2011

Last Friday, I had the pride and joy of participating in the first conference organized by the Annenberg Innovation Lab. The Lab is a new research initiative launched over the past year, with the goal of becoming an incubator for new media practices and platforms, a space where important conversations can occur between academics and industry leaders which may help shape the future of communications.

Industry Round-up: 4.4.2011


By: APOC 2011
April 4, 2011

GOOGLE

No stranger to the public eye, Google has been keeping busy this week with several announcements about feature upgrades, patents and leadership changes, just to name a few:

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