As a resident living in Toronto (Ford Nation) these talks are all very relevant and important. Hope our civic leaders, including the Mayor, watch these.
Little Boy To Kenya Gunman: ‘You’re A Bad Man’
A four-year-old British boy survived the bloody Kenyan shopping mall attack after standing up to a terrorist gunman and telling him: “You’re a very bad man.”
Twitter Unveils ‘Comprehensive’ Partnership With CBS For Its In-Stream Video Program Amplify
Twitter and CBS just announced what Glenn Brown, who leads Twitter’s Amplify program, called “probably one of the most comprehensive partnerships that you will see coming out of Amplify.”
LinkedIn is “breaking into” user emails, spamming contacts – lawsuit
Are you finding your in-box flooded with LinkedIn requests? That may be because some people are sending out the invitations against their will, according to a lawsuit that accuses the site of hacking users’ email programs.
Google: Livestreaming of record-breaking skydive used a quarter of the world’s bandwidth
Felix Baumgartner’s jump was record-breaking in many ways, and — as Google’s Barak Regev said on Wednesday at GigaOM’s Structure:Europe conference in London — surprisingly greedy on the bandwidth front.
Arcade Fire keep pushing boundaries of digital content with Reflektor
Holy shit. Arcade Fire has done it again. And I’m not referring to their new single, Reflektor. I’m talking about their new video (I call it their new digital experience because that’s what it is).
I have previously spoken about Arcade Fire and their innovations in digital both here and here.
Today their new single and video(s) were released at 9pm local time. The traditional video is dark and gets some getting used to. However, when I found out that Arcade Fire also released an interactive experience I was hooked.
Another Chrome experiment, the experience is actually called Just A Reflektor and is a short film that follows the world of a woman in Haiti as she experiences both her world and ours.
Here are a couple of screen shots:
This one is of me within the video.
The one above is of the heroine.
Vincent Morisset is again the genius behind this production as he was with sprawl2. If you haven’t experienced the video make sure to watch experience it and read about the technology here.
Make sure to use the Chrome browser via desktop/laptop or an iOS/Android device. Enjoy!
Livefyre acquires Storify to expand its social-media curation platform
Storify, the social-media curation company started by former journalist Burt Herman, is being acquired by Livefyre, a comment-hosting service that has been expanding rapidly into other aspects of social content for businesses.
#FollowFriday: Ryan Dodge – Social Media Coordinator for the Royal Ontario Museum
This week’s #FollowFriday profile is of Ryan Dodge. Ryan is the Royal Ontario Museum’s (ROM) Social Media Coordinator (https://www.rom.on.ca/en/visit-us/con…).
Between 2006 and 2009 Ryan was part of and supervised a large and diverse Visitor Services team at the ROM while welcoming over one million visitors annually. He has an advanced BA in History from Dalhousie University and an MA in Museum Studies from Johns Hopkins University. Ryan is Interested in all things social, mobile, information accessibility, and interactive technology use in exhibits. He regularly presents on museum mobile/social media strategies and lead/collaborate on various social media projects throughout the institution.
Here is a conversation we had about social media, technology, community and, of course, the ROM.
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Measuring non-profit contribution: @JaimeStein ‘s impact on #Climb4Cord
Update from Bogota, Colombia
Yes. I’m in coffee country. I’m here as a guest of ProExport which is the Colombian government agency in charge of promoting the country to attract foreign investment. I will also be attending Colombia 3.0.
While in Bogota (which is a beautiful, clean, cosmopolitan city that is quickly becoming very modern and high tech) I will be writing articles, capturing videos and posting photos.
You can check my Bogota photo album on Facebook here. And I just had my first article from this trip published today on itbusiness.ca about why Canadian companies ought to look to Bogota as a city to invest in. Check it out here. And stay tuned on Twitter and my blog for more updates.
Cheers!