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Understanding the Digital Natives

By Frederic Filloux for MondayNote.com

They see life as a game. They enjoy nothing more than outsmarting the system. They don’t trust politicians, medias, nor brands. They see corporations as inefficient and plagued by an outmoded hierarchy. Even if they harbor little hope of doing better than their parents, they don’t see themselves as unhappy. They belong to a group — several, actually — they trust and rely upon.

“They”, are the Digital Natives.

The French polling institute BVA published an enlightening survey of this generation: between 18-24 years of age, born with a mouse and a keyboard, and now permanently tied to their smartphone. All of it shaping their vision of an unstable world. The study is Read More

Google Offers More Tools For Local Businesses

By Jay Yarrow for BusinessInsider.com

Google couldn’t buy Yelp. So it’s going to kill it by making its local business pages amazing.

The company announced more tools today for local businesses to have a stronger presence on Google and Google Maps.

Google is changing the name of its “Local business center” to the less wordy, but equally uninspired, “Google Places.”

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How print publishers can win with iPad

By Alan Mutter for Reflections of a Newsosaur

Magazine and newspaper publishers can win with the iPad, because it is the first digital platform that turns print-style substance into a strength, instead of the weakness that it has been since the inception of the web.  As everyone knows excruciatingly well, print publishers blew Digital 1.0, because they thought they could get away with simply shoveling the usual words, pictures and ads onto the web or, later, scrunching them read more



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