Posts Tagged ‘techcrunch’

Social Networks Around the World – Trends in Social Media

This map published on TechCrunch recently just makes me wonder if we are doing the right thing when using social networking to reach our customers, learners, partners. It seems to me most of our “campaigns” in social media tend to focus on Twitter, Facebook and social networks that are popular here in the U.S. With [...]

Facebook is the Fastest-Growing Social Network

Very interesting post on TechCrunch based on Comscore data that show the growth rate of Facebook and other social networks. Facebook being the winner in this race. What about Learning? If we want to reach learners where they are we need to, of course, know where they are and also start developing to these platforms.  Real [...]

Sell Your Old iPhone and Get Paid Enough to Buy the iPhone 2.0

As highlighted on TechCrunch and other technology blogs, some companies are buying or helping you sell your old iPhone. Not so surprisingly, you can almost make as much money as necessary to buy the new iPhone model coming out July 11. Why? Well, as TechCrunch explains in this post, the market for the old version [...]

Matt – Building a Web Application in 32 Hours

I have to admit that,typos aside, TechCrunch remains one of my favorite sources of information on technology, especially Web technologies. I suppose that unmerciful deadlines and the increasing speed of publication everyone ends up committing some spelling mistakes (I have noticed this especially in academic press). Well, let’s not get into that. TechCrunch and other [...]

Social Games Even on Consoles – Learning Opportunities?

I’ve realized that I add questions as titles to my posts very often. Maybe because I am not sure exactly what I am saying is like what everyone else is saying, perhaps because I want this blog to be more of a dialog. A social interaction… This is what has occurred to me lately: game [...]