Rick Perry’s National TV Campaign Ending Presidential Debate

(NOTE: Normally I don’t blog about politics, but this was just too big a fail to pass up)

Rick Perry Fails Bigtime In his republican Presidential debate on National Television and essentially removes himself from the race with this answer.

I’m not American, so I can’t vote, but watching this blew me away. Someone please give the details and the proper answers in the comments as to what the hell he is trying to spit out here?

Growing With the Digital Media Age

With technology and digital media and marketing moving at record speeds, think about how your company can stay ahead of competitors.

The number of apps downloaded will leap from 7 billion this year to nearly 50 billion next year.

Let that sink in for a bit – not that that’s all too surprising, the way digital media is moving. Babies born today play with iPads and iPhones, and will probably learn more about digital tools and products before they’re five years old just by playing with them while their parents are busy – ever see the YouTube video of the baby trying to make images bigger on a magazine because she was used to playing with an iPad? It’s already happening.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aXV-yaFmQNk

Therefore, companies need to be ahead of the game. That baby? And hundreds of other babies like that baby? They’re your future consumers. And one other thing – at the rate technology is moving, that generation of babies is going to grow up knowing technology, get used to things moving quickly and all the new apps, and they’ll get impatient when companies don’t have an app out there that makes their lives easier.

Now, back to the earlier stat: The number of apps downloaded will leap from 7 billion this year to nearly 50 billion next year.

That stat was taken from a 2010 study by GetJar, the world’s second largest app store, which also said that the market for mobile device software programs should rocket to 17.5 billion dollars (US) within three years.

Apps are where it’s at. Think about it: How often are you at home, but rather than go to your desktop computer or laptop, you’ll use your phone to look something up or use an app to order food/pay your bills/tweet what you’re doing? It’s probably often enough that really makes this stat resonate. In addition, the tablet’s usage is only increasing, not decreasing, which means laptops may soon become a thing of the past. Know what that means? That’s right – laptops don’t use apps, but tablets do.

Where is Digital Media Going?

Therefore, if you’re thinking of how your company can progress and where it can go from here, the answer is, keep moving. The key with digital media is it’s constantly moving and changing – what apps can your company provide to stay ahead of the curve, and help your customers stay ahead of the curve, too? What apps can you create to help your customers in general? What can make their lives more convenient while using your products? Thinking about how the masses use digital media is key to moving ahead in this market.

Yeah, so I’m sick of using ‘Notes’ to import blog posts from Digital Vegetarian to facebook so I thought I would test this out.

We’ve been in Hawaii (Kauai Island) for a while now and at the Wappow Search and Social Conference. Here’s How they used Google Hangouts to let me watch Dennis Yu’s presentation while getting some work done at the hotel.

So thanks to the kind folks at Kauai.com Dennis and I got to go sailing in an actual race. It was pretty sick.

Videos and photos of Sailing…on the way.

So what does this all mean, and if you were my friend, knew that I work in Social Media and SEO as an ‘expert’ in the field, what would you think if you saw these posts?

Bottom line?

It doesn’t matter as long as it is for real, and perhaps in the moment. I thought at the time that this was funny and wrote it…. its my blurting out of content on facebook and blogs that helps me clear out everything going on in the world today that I hear from many different media sources…mainly online however. Because I work online.

It’s interesting to think how your average Internet user probably doesn’t even know to capitalize it (The word ‘Internet’-do we still? …. nerds? hello.. don’t feel like looking it up…)

Well, what I’m eluding to here is that we may not be able to really think like many of the users due to our own experience. ‘What do you mean what’s a browser?’….. but think back to the very first time you heard some of those things and didn’t understand them at first… then think, now what if we never had computers or cared about them, how would one process that kind of information?

I would say that it’s ‘mumbo jumbo to me’ and pay for it to go away. Like they do.

Okay have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend….

Whatever you do, don’t be spammy !

Hey – any thoughts on the ‘Facebook Questions being Spammy’ issue? please do comment, and share ON facebook…

hehe @KRONiS (follow …)

I don’t really have time to go through my friend requests and weed out fakers all the time, so I generally add anyone I’m not super sure about until they spam me, then I report them.

So, I find the easiest way to continuously tighten your network without drastically affecting your online influence, or possibly your ‘Klout‘ score, is to do the following:

Each time you see someone’s name in your birthday’s list that you don’t recognize,

First, visit their profile

So I determined that Michael IS someone I met in real life, while visiting from england for a search conference. We haven’t interacted much, but maybe he’s on the brink of sharing something groundbreaking from the U.K. and I can verify he’s real and in our industry.

Next, okay, so ..Robbie, hmmmm NO IDEA WHO THIS IS, and we have no activity…if you look at his wall, his last activity was nothing helpful,

so he won’t share my stuff and isn’t a meaningful connection. Looks almost spammy, more likely a beginner computer user, not necessarily, possibly not english speaking.

1. Plus the other spammy posts that are on his wall are indicative of an ‘unfriend worthy account’.
2. Now if this person were to write me back, retweet some posts, show that he’s posting some great content, I would consider re-adding, but it would have to be genuine.

Lots’ of INTERESTING new things coming along…like my newsletter about ‘theKRONiS’ that will be live soon on ‘theKRONiS.com’.

NYC in July

If you are back home, i’ll be around in June.

If you are in denver, I’ll be around end of May.

If you are in LA, hit me up now.

@KRONiS

I know this is very serious and here are some of my feelings which I’ve posted on Facebook, but the reviews on Google Maps are too much to not repost here. comments welcome.

“May 1st 2011 – Aaron Kronis:

Likes how Obama actually mentioned peace and that Pakistan was involved in a joint operation, how we are not at war with Islam and that this man had been responsible for mass murder of Muslims and Americans…I guess he didn’t really explain who he was but, he made it seem like in some way an act of peace not war.

We’re on high alert peoples.

I don’t feel comfortable celebrating someone’s death, but I hope this puts some of the 9/11 stuff to rest. Sucks pretty bad for the family members of over 2000 people in NYC who went through hell that day.”

-Thanks…

Now for some lighter stuff…

See The Map of Bin Laden’s Camp For Yourself

Wow, the first one about Abottabad… Tosh.o style!

Oh, btw:

‘Announced’ & ‘Died’ are two different thnigs:

Osama Bin Laden‘s death announced to the world: May 1 2011. Adolf Hitler‘s death announced: May 1st 1945