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Key trends for 2012: Digital Disruption gets Physical

The Way of the Web

Korea is trialling robot prison guards , Toyota has unveiled 4 robot health assistants due on the market around 2013, and they’ve already got competition from the Riba healthcare robot due to 2015 , amongst others. And the other is the increased sophistication of their role in the workplace. President Obama has already announced the U.S

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Best Social Media and Digital Marketing Research and Statistics of 2011, Part 2

Webbiquity SMM

The Growth of Social Media: An Infographic by Search Engine Journal. How B2B Search Engine Marketers Can Better Impact the B2B Buying Process by Search Engine Watch. ** 5 STARS. 13% who are on Twitter), 92% use email and search engines, and 81% go online to check the weather. General Social Media Statistics.

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‘Fourth Transformation’ book: Brace for impact

Socialmedia.biz

I reviewed their last book , “The Age of Context,” here in 2013.) Back in 2013 I did try out Google Glass and came away greatly underwhelmed. I wrote in late 2013 that it just wouldn’t happen, and Google decided to shelve Glass in January 2015. Mixed reality’: Merging the real & virtual worlds.

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