Martin Ott: disruptive messages and lightweight relationships
By Adam Tinworth
Facebook is turning your friends into content matchmakers, but brands who see Facebook Pages as destinations are rather missing the point, says Martin Ott
Facebook: making itself at Home on mobile
By Adam Tinworth
Facebook’s new Home apps for Android could make it the default interface on mobile for the world outside the tech bubble…
When is a hack not a hack? Jeff Jarvis and the BBC's technopanic
By Adam Tinworth
Jeff Jarvis had a run-in with the BBC over the recent Facebook hacking – is it an issue worthy of discussion?
Is tech forcing us to abandon the idea of multiple identities?
By Adam Tinworth
As Google integrates identity more deeply with its search engine, is our space to have multiple versions of our own identity being eroded by technology?
Here be dragons: the corporate community trap
By Adam Tinworth
As the big social networks start tussling for turf – are they starting to behave like the corporate titans of old?
Here be dragons: The Platform Paradox
By Adam Tinworth
The scuffle between Twitter and its customer PeopleBrowsr in the courts is a stark reminder that the “platforms” of today’s social networking are only platforms for as long as it suits them.
Facebook: Facing the Future or Failing?
By Adam Tinworth
Since Facebook’s rocky IPO, it’s been all doom and gloom in the social media sector – but is that really the story?
What Instagram got right – and Facebook can learn
By Adam Tinworth
People fear what Facebook could do to Instagram – but what could Instagram do to Facebook?
BeeFM
Daniel Fogel, CEO
BeeFM has an innovative solution that integrates music service into social networks. Simple and efficient use makes BeeFM into a mandatory service for active Facebookers. BeeFM generates personal playlists based on the social network environment and the users’ social interaction, and thus offers an efficient extension of social platforms. Since Facebook already contains a large [...]
nextsocial GmbH
Benjamin Brandt, CEO and co-founder
nextsocial is the next generation of e-commerce and brings a new revolutionary shopping experience to social networks. It provides an easy to use DIY tool for social commerce apps as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), including integrated billing and complete order processing enabling companies to generate additional sales directly within social networks. With our shopping solution companies can [...]
PHONEDECK
Frank Fitzek, CEO
Phonedeck provides a web dashboard that enables the user to manage his mobile phone communication from his laptop or tablet via the browser. Phonedeck helps the user to better structure & organize his calls, text messages and contacts. Addtionally, Phonedeck adds context to the communication and makes its more interesting by showing data from FB, [...]
Benjamin Schroeter
Co-Founder and CEO, FACELIFT brand building technologies GmbH
Benjamin Schroeter (*1975) co-founded FACELIFT brand building technologies GmbH, whose platform solution FanActivator™ enables leading brands across multiple industries to be more successful on facebook. Providing the world's largest selection of ready-to-launch facebook-apps, the FanActivator™ […]
Klaus Hommels
Investor, Hommels Holding
Klaus is one of the leading European business angels and is or has been involved in numerous successful internet investments including QXL/Tradus, Skype, Facebook, king.com, StarDoll, Xing and spotify. He invests in promising start-ups that have the potential to become major players in the internet […]
F. Scott Woods
Commercial Director DACH , Facebook
F. Scott Woods has been Commercial Director DACH Facebook since mid 2009 and is Head of the German Facebook office in Hamburg. In this position he is responsible for the development of the local marketing team and advises German speaking brands, agencies and companies. Before he joined Facebook, he […]
FireBell – The Social Crisis Simulator
Jan Dirk Kemming, Weber Shandwick
In an age of real-time information, brands and companies are more at risk than ever to viral attacks from unexpected sources that demand ever-faster responses. It is absolutely critical to understand how these situations are best managed through online channels to mitigate any reputational damage. This session shows how to prepare for these kinds of [...]
Disruption and Engagement
Roger McNamee, Elevation Partners
Roger McNamee is talking about the next big shift and presents 6 bold ways to prepare for the next internet.
Google is the Cool Kid Again, and Facebook Starts to Look Like MySpace
By Martin Recke
It’s amazing how fast perceptions can change. Just a few weeks ago, Google was the search giant that would never get social. And Facebook, despite its now 750 million active users, was still deemed the cool kid on the block. Enter Google+. Now it’s quite the opposite. Google has at least won back the love [...]
Data Love and Data Hatred
By Andrew Keen
We live in the age of data. Everything – from our biological code to our economic identity to the technology of our social relations – has been reduced to data. We have become transformed into data in the way it was once thought that we were playthings of the gods, possessed immortal souls or were [...]
Social Data: What it Communicates, Who Owns it, and Why You Should Care
Cornelius Puschmann, University of Düsseldorf
Facebook’s Statistics looking good
By Anja Waltemate
It ain’t no breaking news. Lots of people use Facebook. What’s new is that Facebook statistics can be fun. To be honest: They look like “Data Love”. Alex Trimpe was inspired. He created a short and crisp video on these statistics based on information provided by onlineschools.org. Numbers and facts from all over the world [...]
What Data Love really means: KLM Surprise
By Martin Recke
Late last year, the Royal Dutch Airline surprised their internet-savvy customers with a small, nice social media campaign. They used a simple mechanism relying on Foursquare: The basic assumption was that passengers who check in with Foursquare will also have profiles at Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. From these, it would be possible to gather public [...]
