Shirley Yang
Photo Credit: www.cmj.com Hugo Leung One big difference between Social Media Week 2012 and 2013 is the amount of Google+ Hangouts hosted this year. Google+ Hangouts has been a hit with brands and publications when it comes to hosting live discussions with viewer participation. Great example leading this format is HuffPost Live. What's also impressive is ...
Alex went from learning how to develop for Android and IOS apps to earning hundreds of reviews of 4.5 to 5 stars in Google Play & iTunes in 4 months. About the author: Alex Genadinik is a software developer with a background in marketing, strategy, and have helped thousands of businesses started across his apps. If you ...
Finally something else became more popular than Beyonce's Inauguration lip-sync story in social media yesterday: Vine is now the official Twitter video app where users can take up to 6 seconds of video and share to Twitter and Facebook. The vine videos in my social stream remind me of making macaroni art when we were ...
The 2013 Inauguration ceremony took place on Martin Luther King Jr. Day Jan 21, 2013. "The timing represented a unique opportunity for Obama, who is still negotiating his role as a "post-racial" black leader, to show African-Americans that he remains focused on issues of inequality." - NBC New York Here are some highlights of the event ...
2013 Red Carpet Season officially kicks-off with the 70th Annual Golden Globes this Sunday, January 13th in Beverly Hills at 8PM ET/5PM PT. What's important to note about this show and other major media events of sorts is that aside from the live TV programming of the show, there is also a live social programming ...
Day 1 at CES 2013 and instead of the usual keynote made by Microsoft, Qualcomm took the stage with a much more eccentric/weird/surreal approach. Coining the phrase "Generation M", 3 actors were on stage representing 3 types of young mobile users: The Gamer, The Entrepreneur, and The Socialite. Their dialog boasted what it means to ...
There has been a few versions of the new Yahoo Homepage designs circulating the net. TechCrunch talked about a version using large tiles similar to those live tiles found on Windows 8 design in early November. More recently, a version that is mobile-minded using responsive design with more pictures and fewer text links have been ...
In light of the curious doomsday spirit, here are some apps for the end of the world or when robots or zombies finally take over. But before we start: iLOCi2 Lite This is an interactive GPS people-finder app that integrates with Google Maps and your social networks of friends who have "opt-in" to the app. It's a ...
NYC Mobile Apps hosted an App Pitch Showdown at Alley NYC where early stage mobile startups pitched to a panel of judges and 100+ attendees. The goal of the showdown is to inform the community of what's happening in the mobile startup scene and to help the mobile developers refine their pitches and business models ...
Pepcom Wine, Dine, and Demo 2012 event took place on 11/15 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC. There were 40+ exhibitors and 500+ attendees at Pepcom’s annual “technology tasting,” combining Argentinean wine tasting with a media event showcasing the latest computers, laptops, tablets, software, smartphones, apps, TVs, video games, toys, gadgets, and other emerging technologies ...
Hi, I'm Shirley. Welcome to my blog! This is where I write thoughts on technology, entrepreneurship, and trends on the internet.