Social media trends in 2012

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What will be the major social media trends in 2012? According to this article, smartphones and tablets will play a significant role in the development of new services on the Social Web. We’ll also see the following trends:

  • More social media into corporate websites
  • An increase in social media usage on mobile devices
  • An increase in personal support
  • An increase in social media budgets
  • More social media advertising
  • More social gaming
  • News will be increasingly social
  • More websites will be compatible with mobile devices
  • More election campaigns will be run in social media
  • Your social media footprint will grow
  • Facebook users will surpass 1 billion

Santa’s new helper

Christmas eve is coming soon, the busiest day of the year for Santa Claus :)
But this year, Santa has got some extra help!

Merry Christmas! ;)

Free online course about Responsive Open Learning Environments

What is a widget? What is a Personal Learning Environment? How can I start building my own Personal Learning Environment? If you’d like to learn the answers to these questions, then visit our new course about Responsive Open Learning Environments. The course is free and also available for download, reuse and republishing.

Steve Jobs

An amazing person. A beautiful mind. He’ll certainly be missed.

 

I am not a robot. I am a unicorn.

Conversations with chat bots can be quite amusing. Their intelligence hasn’t yet evolved to a point where they would fool us to believe we’re talking to a human being. What would happen though if a bot had a conversation with another bot Cornell’s Creative Machines Lab tried just that. The result is at least surreal: