2009 has been quite the eventful year: There were plane crashes in Holland and on the Hudson River, Michal Jackson died, everybody was freaked out by Swine Flu, Lance Armstrong returned to the Tour de France, there was a climate summit in Copenhagen, America got its first Black President that gave new meaning to the sentence “YES we can!”, there were the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there were elections in Iran, there were tensions between the West and euhm.. well.. everyone else. AND of course the mother of all newsitems in 2009 there was the big CC, the Credit Crunch…. oooooh the Credit Crunch

If you are an average news-follower you will for sure recognize all these events, because they have been in the news at the time and in pretty much every news-year-review program towards the end of the year. But the careful observer will notice that all of these events have something in common……. see it yet??….. yeaaaah there you go…. all these events have had something to do with Social Media. (more…)

Remember when mobile phones were introduced?? This goes as far back as 1973 (yes really! that long ago!). Remember people saying: “That’s not for me” and “That will never catch on”??

Remember when the fist PC was introduced? This was back in 1981. Remember people saying: ”That’s not for me” and “That will never catch on”??

Remember when the internet first came around? Actually already invented in the 1960′s, but introduced to the general public in 1991 when the World Wide Web became available. Remember people saying: “That’s not for me” and “That will never catch on”?? Including big corporate giant Microsoft, who only at the very last minute took the decision to adopt the Web and the Internet into their strategy.

Remember, walkmans, Google, laptops, Tetris, mp3 players, Windows, Scientology, Atkinson diet, lava lamps and smartphones?? “Wasn’t for people and it would never catch on”

The fact of the matter is: all these things have entered our lives and somehow managed to cling on. And as a result, we can’t live without them anymore. Well… apart from the Scientology maybe

Recently “people” have been talking about Social Media, and guess what they have been saying……. And guess what is happening….. (more…)