Oculus Rift Archives - Beyond Social Media

Chewbacca Mom & Google Home

By David Erickson | May 22, 2016 |

Beyond Social Media - Chewbacca Mom and Google Home - Episode 144

Co-hosts B.L. Ochman & David Erickson discussed the Chewbacca Mom viral video; the competitor to Amazon Echo, Google Home; Sky TV’s #CommandTheUnsullied Twitter spam; Google Instant Apps; the pros and cons of LinkedIn ProFinder; Twitter’s kinda-expanding character count; Blab’s strange pivot to Tinder-live video conferencing; the Google-N fail; VR for Good; 360 music videos; Google’s Parsey McParseface tool; plus great new apps and important stats and a lot of stuff in between.

Long-Form Twitter & FTC Guidelines For Native Ads

By David Erickson | January 10, 2016 |

Beyond Social Media - Long-Form Twitter - Episode 125

On Episode 125, co-hosts B.L. Ochman & David Erickson discussed Sean Penn’s Rolling Stones interview with El Chapo; Hasbrow’s Star Wars Monopoly mess up; long-form Twitter; MSNBC’s Trump TV; Donald Trump’s golfing amnesia; under-powered virtual reality; whites dating whites; online harassment; Twitter’s abuse rules; Rhett & Link; FTC’s native advertising guidelines; Thomson Reuters error page; plus great new apps and important stats and a lot of stuff in between.

Google Plus Redesign & Infinity's Virtual Reality App

By David Erickson | November 22, 2015 |

Co-hosts B.L. Ochman & David Erickson discussed the Google+ redesign; disappearance of tweet counts; businesses exploiting Paris attacks; an innocent man framed for Paris attacks by online trolls; crap detection resources; immersive storytelling; a tribute to a wife killed in Paris attacks; Infinity Driver’s Seat virtual reality app; BLAB show cards; Minecraft helping teach programming to kids; Kind Bars; marriage proposal do-overs; plus great new apps and important stats and a lot of stuff in between.

12 Taylor Swift Gifs & Obama's State Of The Union Videos

By David Erickson | January 17, 2015 |

Co-hosts B.L. Ochman & David Erickson discussed the 12 Taylor Swift Gifs House Speaker John Boehner recently shared; President Obama’s State of the Union trailer videos; the apparent demise of Google Glass; Coldplay’s interactive animated music video; Consumer Electronics Show gadgets, the 12 Monkeys “lighting track”; plus great new apps and important stats and a lot of stuff in between.

Facebook Ends Like Gating & Kevin Richardson Plays Football With Lions

By David Erickson | October 5, 2014 |

Episode 66: BL and David discuss Facebook Like Gating & anonymity, the Hong Kong protesters, Lion football, #FeelingNuts, GoPro goes pro and much, much more.