99 Essential Twitter Tools And Applications - Smashing Magazine 99 Essential Twitter Tools And Applications Advertisement If you haven’t heard of Twitter1 by now, you must be living under a rock! It is everywhere, and everyone is using it. New Media, Marketing, Advertising & Interactive News & Jobs You know you’re working in UX when … I’m sure you’ve heard the expression 'Never work with children or animals' right? Well, after you’ve read this lot, I reckon you’ll want to add participants, facilitators and even clients to this list. The Future of Facebook Project by Venessa Miemis With over 600 million users and a valuation of over $70 billion, Facebook is the world's dominant social networking platform. What are the challenges a social media company of this size will face? What are the strategic moves it should make? How can Facebook users take advantage of the platform and its increasingly rich social graph? These are the questions we are addressing with the Future of Facebook video series. Using the STEEP forecasting methodology, we’ll be viewing the challenges and opportunities for this company through the lenses of Society, Technology, Environment, Economics, and Politics.
Why I'm Not Excited About Mobile Applications - Samir Balwani May 17th, 2011 by Samir Balwani No I don’t think mobile applications are dead, there will be new mobile apps launch today and some of them will probably be extremely successful. Instead, what the title of this article alludes to is the fact that mobile applications are a temporary way for users to access the mobile web. Mobile applications segment data, users, and technology. History has taught us that technology wants to converge and that segments break down over time.