Now that all the college kids in my neighborhood are back at school after the year-end holidays and January terms, I’ve been thinking about parent-child connectivity. (My children are still small, but in our always-on world, I know I’ll have to address this sooner than I might think.) I heard a story not too long [...]
Feb 13, 2013 | Categories:Features, Insights, Social Media, Technology, Youth | Tags: cellphone, child, children, college, connection, connectivity, day care, email, Facebook, George Washington University, helicopter parent, involvement, National Survey of Student Engagement, NPR, parent, parenting, phone, preschool, smartphone, student, text, tweet, Twitter | 1 Comment »
With all the noise about mobile ads, it would be hard to blame you for just assuming print ads had died and gone to marketing heaven. But smartphone-interactive codes, specifically QR codes, have taken the traditional ad market by storm; more than 10 percent of ads in the top 100 magazines in the U.S. now [...]
Dec 12, 2012 | Categories:Advertising, Brainsnacks, Marketing, Technology, Trends | Tags: Advertising, codes, Guinness, Jossle, mobile, mobile apps, QR codes, smartphone | Leave A Comment »
I have Sept. 12 circled on my calendar. The day that could change my life. The day I might decide to say “yes” to a certain someone who is going to be there for me, for better or for worse, all the days of … a two-year phone contract. When I heard that Apple might [...]
Sep 05, 2012 | Categories:Features, Marketing, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: Apple, Apple iPhone 5, consumer behavior, emotion, Galaxy, Galaxy S III, Google Chrome, iPhone, iPhone 5, mobile, mobile technology, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy, smartphone, The Hunger Games, Verizon | 3 Comments »
[Originally posted on Stamford magazine's website.] Last Saturday morning, you could say I had a bit of a wake-up call. We sat eating Nova on Fairway bagels with a few weekend guests, our banter made a bit fuzzier by the previous night’s homemade sangria, courtesy of my sister, and icy margaritas from Jim’s son, courtesy [...]
Jul 03, 2012 | Categories:Features, Insights, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: 140 characters, 24/7/365, Advertising, BlackBerry, C-suite, cloud, connection, digital, distractions, intimacy, Jay Chiat, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Mark Wnek, mobility, smartphone, Social Media, solitude, telephobia, telephone, text, virtuality, voice, voice mail | Leave A Comment »
Even though cellphone bills have always been notoriously—many would say infuriatingly—high, we might all want to check that mysterious charges haven’t been tacked on recently. Enter a deceptive practice called “cramming,” whereby a customer is enrolled in a short message service (SMS) that delivers, without consent, texts about, say, celebrities, horoscopes, dating and weather. The [...]
May 18, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Technology, Trends | Tags: cellphone cramming, cellphone trends, cramming, dumbphone, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, financial trends, money trends, short message service, smartphone, smartphone trends, SMS | Leave A Comment »
Forgetting your wallet at home might soon be less incapacitating than it once was, so long as you didn’t forget your smartphone, too. This past fall Google rolled out Google Wallet, which stores your credit card information, then allows you to pay at participating stores with a tap of your fingertip. But not everyone thinks [...]
May 02, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: ambient social networking, European Commission, Google, Google Wallet, mobile wallets, Nokia, proximity-based social networks, smartphone, startup trends, technology trends | Leave A Comment »
Coming down with something and want to find out what’s going around in your city? Or, better yet, receive warning early enough to have a leg up on prevention? That’s the concept behind new smartphone apps like Influ and Sickweather, which map sicknesses in near real time. Until now, this kind of software was used [...]
Apr 04, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: crowdsourcing, Facebook, flu shot, going viral, Google Flu Trends, health trendsGlobal Public Health Intelligence Network, HealthMap, InFlu, influenza trends, physicians, real time, Sickweather, smartphone, Social Media, Twitter, viral | Leave A Comment »
Ever experienced a peculiar surge of elation when you watch the “likes” pile up on one of your Facebook statuses? This particular joy—triggered by, say, a small video-game victory, clever tweet or kind text message—is probably derived from the neurotransmitter dopamine, which sets our brains’ pleasure circuits ablaze. More scientists today are comparing this biological [...]
Jan 24, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM, email, Facebook, Internet, Internet addiction, Internet Compulsion Disorder, pathological Internet misuse, psychology, smartphone, Social Media, social media trends, sociology, Technology, Twitter | Leave A Comment »
These days life’s great balancing act concerns not just the demands of work and personal relationships but of media outlets, as the majority of us are guilty of simultaneously checking email or Facebook while watching the tube. And while advertisers are over the moon about what “multiscreening” could mean for their clients—considering that 38 percent [...]
Nov 29, 2011 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Health and Wellness, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: BlackBerry, computer, cultural trends, iPad, Marketing, mindfulness, multiscreening, multitasking, simplicity, smartphone, Social Media, texting while driving, TV | Leave A Comment »
Originally posted on the Huffington Post. Remember that stress-envy thing we were all feeling in the late ’90s? You know, talking about how much we were working, how tired we were and how there were simply not enough hours in the day? We wore our stress with a badge of honor. And there was a [...]
Aug 30, 2011 | Categories:Features, Politics, Social Media, Trends, Youth | Tags: Barack Obama, British riots, David Cameron, devotion, disconnect, euro rscg, Facebook, Great Depressionr, indulgent, Internet, millennials, Nicolas Sarkozy, recession, smartphone, Social Media, stress, the economy, the Hamptons, vacation, work, work-life balance, workforce | Leave A Comment »
