Author: JD Rucker

JD is President of Hasai, Inc, a Social Media Firm, Director of New Media for TK Carsites, an Automotive SEO firm, and Editor at Soshable, a Social Media Marketing Blog.

Microsoft attempts (and fails) to destroy Google Apps with "Googlighting"

11 hours ago by JD Rucker | add comment

It may not be the first time Microsoft has tried to use humor and aggressive attacks to go after Google, but this time it hits a little closer to home than they’ve done in the past. In attacking Google Apps as a work productivity tool, Microsoft invokes Wave, Gears, and Buzz as examples of how Google has completely more »

Why @NicolasSarkozy should either scold Twitter for their actions or leave the site himself #NS2012

Yesterday by JD Rucker | add comment

Four Twitter accounts critical of French President Nicolas Sarkozy were suspended yesterday, just a week after the many started his own account to help with his re-election efforts. The accounts, satirical in nature based upon their Tweets, were allegedly reported by Sarkozy or someone acting on his authority according more »

Ericsson's vision of a networked society expands with "Thinking Cities"

Feb 21 by JD Rucker | 1 comment

When we first covered Ericsson’s Networked Society Project, we called it beautiful and terrifying. Their latest video shows that beauty can prevail when technology inserts itself into our lives with positive motives in mind. The concept centers around Information and Communication Technology (ICT). As cities continue to grow more »

Why Windows web browsing market share drop means very little to Microsoft

Feb 18 by JD Rucker | 1 comment

If you torture numbers long enough, you can make them say anything. In this case, it’s Chitika, Techcrunch, and others who are raising alarms about something that’s relatively meaningless, particularly to Microsoft. The title of the Chitika post is “Demise of the PC? Windows Web Browsing Market Share Declines by more »

Tim Cook is the Michael Corleone of Apple

Feb 14 by JD Rucker | add comment

It has been just over 4 months since Steve Jobs died. Since then, Apple continues to head in the right direction financially and has seen very little in the way of slowing down its development of products. Tim Cook, the CEO, has not had many public appearances since then and the ones he has had have more »

Pinterest may be changing the social commerce game, but why?

Feb 13 by JD Rucker | 1 comment

Pinterest is starting to enter into the social media in ways that most sites only dream about. Other than Google+, it’s the fastest growing social site in the last year with 329% growth in the last 4 months of 2011 alone. We get more questions on our social media podcast about Pinterest the last month more »

The Harry Potter series in 15 epic minutes

Feb 7 by JD Rucker | add comment

The Potter-era may be over in Hollywood, but those who want to reminisce without sitting through 16 hours of film can get their fix in under 15 minutes with this epic fan-made homage titled, “Harry Potter: A Tribute to the Magic”. There are spoilers, of course, so only watch it if you have either already more »

Corning expands its vision of a glass future

Feb 3 by JD Rucker | 2 comments

Nearly a year ago, Corning put out a video called “A Day Made of Glass.” In it, they showed a future that was enhanced by the use of touchscreens and other variations of glass products that seems less like “Minority Report” and more like a not-so-distant reality. This week, they’ve added to the video by releasing another more »

Making the internet more open... in education

Jan 30 by JD Rucker | 2 comments

Over the past few decades starting with the computer revolution and continuing through the digital age, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been a leader in cutting edge (and often bleeding edge) styles of educating the brightest minds around the world. It’s no wonder that in an atmosphere more »

What Gingrich, Santorum, and Romney should learn from Paul (and Obama) about the internet

Jan 21 by JD Rucker | 4 comments

Today is a different world when it comes to political campaigns. A decade or two ago given the same candidates of today with the same scenarios but a less-prevalent internet, Ron Paul would be in single-digits in the early primaries and Rick Perry (and possibly Herman Cain) would still be alive more »

The SOPA blackout is the most American thing we've done all day

Jan 17 by JD Rucker | 4 comments

The Tea Party movement was intended for Americans to harken to the revolutions of the past when tyranny and taxation reigned over the colonies. The #OccupyWallStreet movement drew awareness to the tremendous gaps between the “haves” and the “have nots” with a call for a more sensible distribution more »

Visualizing the answers to the ultimate showdown: "Geeks vs Nerds"

Jan 13 by JD Rucker | 1 comment

For much of the 70, 80s, and even 90s, “nerds” and “geeks” were synonymous for most who used the terms. The words could be interchanged and nobody would give it a thought. After the turn of the millennium, it became clear that the two groups became distinct (if they weren’t already) and headed in different more »

Internet access IS a human right

Jan 5 by JD Rucker | 19 comments

Technology and philosophy have been at the center of more debates lately than ever before. It’s clear that technology is advancing faster than anyone would have imagined a decade ago, while an argument could be made that the philosophies that brought the world this far are starting to regress more »

Google tosses its hat in the political ring with Google Elections

Jan 2 by JD Rucker | 2 comments

With Iowa deciding on their choice for GOP candidate tomorrow, Google’s timing is much better this election season to roll out their political news and trends trackers at Google Elections. In 2008, they had a similar offering but didn’t release it until just before the conventions. The Dashboard above is, according to Frederic Lardinois of more »