If you follow the tech conference circuit as closely as we do, you’ll notice that seemingly every year the likes of South by South West (SXSW) and the Mobile World Congress (MWC) bring us a host of new social media startups. From Twitter to FourSquare to Gowalla to Highlight, new ways to connect with each other are flooding the market like a Yankee Candle Store on Mothers Day. With so many new social media outlets popping up all over the web each year it would seem that getting your social media presence to soar would be simple. Yet as many …

“There’s an app for that” We all remember the slogan well, having had it tossed at us from every media outlet over the past few years.  Yes, “There’s an app for that” might be the web equivalent of “Can you hear me now,” but more and more we’re beginning to realize that yes, there is an app for that, but no, people don’t really care. A recent study published by Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, found that 68 percent of smartphone users report using five or fewer apps at least once a week. While roughly 82 percent …

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Broadband Genie. All opinions are 100% mine. As the cost of smartphone handsets and mobile broadband drops across the globe, the popularity of social media, particularly Twitter and Facebook, shoots up dramatically. The convergence of these two trends is influencing and vastly changing the way we live, how we work and how we communicate with each other. The folks over at Culture Label share with us some relevant statistics that back up this development – and I have included their excellent infographic at the bottom of this blog post. …