Facebook Facial Recognition – Will I be a German Shepard?

My Doppleganger

Facebook is in the news again because of its widespread release of facial recognition for tagging photos.  The social network announced its plans for facial recognition late last year but it’s been rolled out slowly.  Last week, Facebook reported that the feature, which it calls “tag suggestions”, is now available in most countries.  So far it’s not in Canada but the service has popped [...]

Would you hire your teenager to take care of marketing your company?

Skittles on Facebook

When I started in the web design business in the late 90’s I often came across businesses, especially smaller ones, who believed they either didn’t need a website or didn’t need to hire a design firm because their son, daughter or nephew knew how to do it.  It was understandable. The internet was still new [...]

What I Learned from Mitch Joel at TAOM Conference

On Monday (November 15) I was lucky enough to attend The Art of Management Conference where Mitch Joel spoke about Managing in a Connected World. I’ve been reading Mitch’s blog Six Pixels of Separation for some time and I was worried that his talk to management folks wouldn’t have enough in it for a social [...]

How connected are we and why does it matter?

This is the second post in our series about Connected: The Power of Social Networks and How They Shape our Lives by  Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler. In 1994, three college students created a party game called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon where someone would yell out the name of an actor and they would [...]