Category Archives: Technology
Straddling the Digital Divide
Repost from Pepperdigital Blog – May 2010 Why the shiny new Plasma at the coffee shop means more than just ads I stopped by Tully’s coffee this morning to grab my morning “cup of Joe” when the 32” LCD display … Continue reading
Facebook, Not to be Taken for Face Value
Repost from Pepperdigital Blog – April 30, 2010 Being on the inside of the PR industry you hear a lot of buzz about new marketing initiatives – in the press and among brand managers. Last year, it was all about Twitter and … Continue reading
The Politics of Tea in a Digital Age
By Sahana Jayaraman for Pepperdigital, Peppercom’s digital blog Over the centuries, tea trade has shaped culture and significantly influenced power and politics in both the East and the West. Therefore, it should be no surprise that, in today’s digital world, … Continue reading
Silicon Valley Tech Gurus Claim Whats Hot When Its Not So Hot
PepperDigital Guest Post Last week, we represented PepperDigital at Silicon Valley’s PRSA 2009 Media Predicts event held at the Computer History Museum. The annual dinner event hosts a panel of Valley tech media insiders who highlight the tech happenings of … Continue reading
“Digged” Up By Surprise on Google
It has been awhile since i’ve blogged, but I was compelled to today as I was surprised by Google’s new SearchWiki tools [I say "new" lightly - it launched in Nov.] At any rate, you might have noticed that if … Continue reading
What’s your Dunbar number?
In 1998, the anthropologist Robin Dunbar argued that each human has a hard-wired upper limit on the number of people he or she can personally know at one time…. Sure enough, psychological studies have confirmed that human groupings naturally tail … Continue reading
Facebook: Another Inconvenient Truth
Facebook may be a good company for now, but if you ask Jim Collins, author of Good to Great, he’d likely say it will never be a great company. Many companies are good and able to sustain themselves through hard times, … Continue reading
Facebook: Movement or business?
Why not both!? Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, delivers a keynote address at the company’s annual conference in San Francisco on July 23. TIME magazine says, “It’s been a heck of a year for Facebook, everyone’s favorite social … Continue reading
Class of 2012 is all digital
If you live anywhere near a college campus you’ll notice the sudden change of environment. I live near ASU and let me tell you the freshman have landed! In my local Target I saw kids loading their carts with computers, … Continue reading
A salute to social media
As I commence my journey from Platform No. 26, I felt it only appropriate to salute social media. I first took notice three years ago by the works of Robert Scoble and Shel Israel who wrote Naked Conversations. Today we have other … Continue reading
