Socially Aware

May 12, 2017 - Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, Live streaming, Marketing, Copyright, Litigation, Wearable Computers
Social Links: Rules for researching jurors via social media; law enforcement and new technologies; Facebook tool allows copyright owners to claim ad earnings from unauthorized video uploads
By: Aaron P. Rubin
A nice overview of the rules on researching jurors’ social media accounts in various jurisdictions from Law.com. The importance of appearing at the top of Google search results, especially on mobile devices, is driving retailers to spend more and more on the search engine’s
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February 24, 2017 - Cyberbullying, Ethics, Wearable Computers
Social Links: Google Maps gets social; Twitter puts trolls in time out; today’s teens take to chat rooms
By: Aaron P. Rubin
New York City’s Conflicts of Interest Board has issued guidelines prohibiting elected officials from using official social media accounts for political purposes or having their staff draft content for their personal social media accounts. Congress has begun paving the way for the deployment of
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November 22, 2016 - First Amendment, E-Commerce, Cyberbullying, UK, Free Speech, Litigation, Wearable Computers
Social Links: IMDb sues over right to post actors’ ages; Facebook tests jobs feature; Pinterest adopts “tried it” button
By: Aaron P. Rubin
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has filed suit to overturn a law that requires the popular entertainment website to remove the ages or birth dates of people in the entertainment industry upon request. Vine might not be history after all. Twitter users posted more than
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October 05, 2016 - Cyberbullying, Privacy, Free Speech, Wearable Computers
Social Links: Facebook at Work; Google’s Allo messaging app; Snapchat’s Spectacles
By: Aaron P. Rubin
Facebook at Work , the on-the-job version of the web’s most popular social media platform, will launch in London on October 10th. Add iHeartRadio to the list of Internet radio platforms that will be offering an on demand music streaming service. California law will
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May 06, 2016 - Digital Content, Privacy, Wearable Computers
Social Links—The most disliked movie trailer ever; using social media to plan trips and land job interviews; and more.
By: Aaron P. Rubin
Facebook users spend more time on the platform than they spend pursuing any other leisure activity, except TV. Indeed, 1/16th of the average user’s waking time is spent on the platform. The most disliked movie trailer in history, according to YouTube. New California law
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January 07, 2016 - E-Commerce, Live streaming, Disappearing Content, Marketing, Privacy, Compliance, Wearable Computers
Our List of Lists
By: Aaron P. Rubin
January is the month when lists—lists of predictions, lists of trends, lists of feats and lists of failures—pervade social media newsfeeds and publications’ headlines. Here at Socially Aware we’re making an annual tradition of curating a “List of Lists”—an inventory of the roundups that
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July 07, 2015 - Internet of Things, Marketing, Privacy, Cloud Computing, Wearable Computers
Toward a Grand Unifying Theory of Today’s Tech Trends
As a technology law blogger and co-editor of Socially Aware , I monitor emerging developments in information technology. What’s hot in IT today? Any shortlist would have to include social media, mobile, wearable technology, the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing and big data.
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January 16, 2015 - Wearable Computers
Narrow Vision: Did Anti-Glass Hysteria Contribute to the Demise of Google Glass?
Once the hottest new technology innovation around, Google Glass was put out to pasture yesterday , at least for the near future. In the tech industry, we generally assume that a game-changing product like Glass will somehow find a way to thrive, especially with
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June 27, 2014 - Privacy, Wearable Computers
Google Glass Into Europe – A Small Step or a Giant Leap?
Google Glass (“Glass”) is the most high profile of the new wearable technologies that commentators predict will transform how we live and work. Until now, the Android-powered glasses were only available in the U.S. However, as of this week, Glass has been launched in
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February 19, 2014 - Wearable Computers
Driving Under the Influence (of Google Glass)
In September 2013, Socially Aware took a close look at the potential legal issues confronting users of Google Glass, the now instantly recognizable, compact head-mounted display mounted on a pair of specially designed eyeglass frames, which lets wearers access a variety of customized smartphone
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Topic Archives: Wearable Computers

Social Links: Rules for researching jurors via social media; law enforcement and new technologies; Facebook tool allows copyright owners to claim ad earnings from unauthorized video uploads

By: Aaron P. Rubin

Social Links: Google Maps gets social; Twitter puts trolls in time out; today’s teens take to chat rooms

By: Aaron P. Rubin

Social Links: IMDb sues over right to post actors’ ages; Facebook tests jobs feature; Pinterest adopts “tried it” button

By: Aaron P. Rubin

Social Links: Facebook at Work; Google’s Allo messaging app; Snapchat’s Spectacles

By: Aaron P. Rubin

Social Links—The most disliked movie trailer ever; using social media to plan trips and land job interviews; and more.

By: Aaron P. Rubin

Our List of Lists

By: Aaron P. Rubin

Toward a Grand Unifying Theory of Today’s Tech Trends

Narrow Vision: Did Anti-Glass Hysteria Contribute to the Demise of Google Glass?

Google Glass Into Europe – A Small Step or a Giant Leap?

Driving Under the Influence (of Google Glass)