Trends Why Parents Care About Teenagers Texting The mainstream media always seems to suggest that teens texting is not only annoying, but it's also a bad thing. Is this fact or media myth? A new study out yesterday from Pew shows that texting is yet again on the rise, from 50 texts per day in 2009 to 60 texts per day in 2011. According to the survey, girls are not texting. It's all about… Alicia Eler View comments
Social Networks Are We On The Brink Of The Great Social Media Bubble? On his Brand Builder blog, Olivier Blanchard is using an essay of complex formulas to ask how to calculate the value of an individual Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest follower. Branding expert Rob Frankel has a succinct and simple - albeit unpopular - answer: not much. Social Dave Copeland View comments
Trends Cost of a Data Breach Declines For First Time, According to Ponemon For the first time in seven years, both the organizational cost of data breach and the cost per lost or stolen record have declined. The organizational cost has declined from $7.2 million to $5.5 million and the cost per record has declined from $214 to $194. These according to the latest Ponemon study for Symantec that was released today. The… Enterprise David Strom View comments
APIs AP Creates New Big Data Approach to its Article Archive If you are looking for large content repositories, you probably can't get much larger than the article archive of the Associated Press. Today they announced they have launched a content analysis tool that is used to search the millions of articles in their archives to create custom archive products for their customers. Users can query for… Hack David Strom View comments
Android Appcelerator: Mobile Trends for 2012 Google and Facebook are in a war for user attention on the Web. This is not just about how many eyeballs are on Google+ versus Facebook but also from an end-to-end platform perspective. That includes messaging, application deployment, social graph implementations and content discovery. Like everything else in the world of technology, this… Mobile Dan Rowinski View comments