Tag Archives: Social network

In a search for the NEW big idea

By Kfir Pravda | Published: August 9, 2010
Image by John Kannenberg via Flickr In a time and age where I can chose whether to listen to a brand or to read my friend’s status update – how can a brand get my attention? In my opinion it is all about big ideas Isn’t the big idea dead already? Mark Earls believes that [...]
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A year later, Iran Proves that the Gun is Mightier Than the Tweet

By Kfir Pravda | Published: July 12, 2010
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Last year, brave citizens of Iran decided they had enough. After a suspected rigged election, thousands of young Iranians started protesting against the elected government. The movement, called the Green Movement, arranged mass demonstrations, and clashed with security forces. And while the government controlled the media, it couldn’t control [...]
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Guest Post: Creating a Conversation

By Ilil Ben Shalom | Published: March 3, 2010
Imagine a world in which it makes no difference how tall you are; what you look like. Imagine a world that doesn’t judge you according to who your parents are; what your education is; what your achievements have been. Imagine a social universe that rates you purely according to one criterion: do you have anything [...]
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Buzz, Blogsphere and Serial Killers

By Kfir Pravda | Published: February 18, 2010
Image by missresincup via Flickr The blogsphere has more killers than American Maximux Secutiry prison. Twitter would kill Facebook. Facebook would kill Google. Friendfeed would kill Twitter. And now, the latest addition to the new-product-that-only-geeks-use-and-bloggers-shout-that-it-would-kill-the-frigging-internet – Google Buzz. Last week the blogsphere was plastered with those statements, as if Facebook’s millions of users, Twitter’s proven [...]
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Facebook Does It Again

By Kfir Pravda | Published: November 24, 2009
Image by topgold via Flickr Here we go again. Last week the echo chamber was rattled with a story of a woman who lost her insurance due to pictures she shared on Facebook. Apperantly she was supposed to be depressed but had pictures of her and friends in a bar. I personally know some pretty depressing bars, [...]
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