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It’s no longer a question of “if”? The new question is “when will the growth of smartphone and tablet adoption reach the majority of the world population?” Already the world is buying more smartphones than computers; in some countries, the smartphone is the computer for many who cannot afford both.

This graphic tells the tale of previous disruptions around society that have been fueled by technological innovations and points to mobile personal technology as the next big disruption. “Next” may not be accurate. It appears we’re already there.

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All three are so amazingly hipster that putting them in the same post might actually stop time altogether. We’re willing to take the risk for the sake of science. Which one is more hipster?

In Case of Hipsters in the Area…

Don’t panic. Don’t pack up and leave. Don’t stay cooped up in your home, emerging only when you think it’s safe. If hipsters are in the area, it will never be safe. 24 hours a day, they roam the streets as if with a hive mind that puts them into unconscious shifts. There’s only one thing to do. You must trap them. Here’s how.

***Important Note: Cigarettes must be American Spirit brand, the yellow pack. No other cigarette will work.

How to Survive NYC as a Hipster

There are a few places that are considered “hipster friendly” but the Big Apple is not one of them. Still, hipsters are able to survive and even flourish there every day by following a certain set of rules that were specifically made for the city that never sleeps.

Have you ever wondered why dogs love to stick their head out the window in a car (or out the sunroof, as with our happy hound above)? The reason has less to do with the noticeable (and comical) effects it has on their mouth as much as their nose.

“They’re pretty much in ecstasy when they’re riding in the car and the wind is pushing all these odors in their nose,” said Dave Burke, a veterinarian at Grand Traverse Veterinary Hospital. “They can discern things we’re totally unaware of.”

With noses 1000-2000 more powerful and accurate than human noses, it’s the most important sense to them. Like the visuals humans get from acid or the tactile sensitivity they get from ecstasy, wind infusing odors into a dog can be a trip.

It makes sense. Technology has always been adopted first by the young, then gradually working up the scale until today even our grandmothers have iPads to check their Facebook friends. Autonomous cars – that’s taking it a little to far for gramps.

In a recent study by J.D. Powers, 37% of people between 18-25 would definitely or probably purchase a fully-autonomous car while only 9% of those 57-65 would. It also showed that men were more likely than women to adopt a Johnny Cab appreciation.

Here is the graphic courtesy of Shreveport Chevrolet. Click to enlarge.

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• Google is hunting for helpers in the autonomous car future (slashgear.com)
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Writing a blog post is easy. Writing one that can be applied to a complete social media brand messaging campaign requires a little more effort.

Actually, it’s a lot more effort, but it’s worth it.

Multi-posting is not what it sounds like. It’s not taking a piece of content and getting it duplicated on other sites. This type of syndication marketing or content scraping is on its way out as both Google and Bing frown on duplicate content with a passion.

For brand messaging, the goal is to take a longer “hub” story and break it down into slices on other websites to support the original and to draw in visitors to read the content as a whole. Tell the whole story in one post, then go into detail about each important individual component on different blogs and sites just as this post is doing.

People today have a shorter attention span than ever before when it comes to consuming media. It’s why social networks are often filled with quick-hitting content such as images or quotes rather than long-form posts. It’s also the reason why the blog should be the hub of the overall social media strategy.

In this case, we’re taking the multi-posting component of the entire strategy and expanding on it. While it may only be one of the six keys to success, we can go into much more detail on this blog post rather than trying to go in-depth in a single post. By doing it like this, there’s a chance that readers from this site will see the link above and click to find out what this is all about.

The most important thing to remember is to be creative with the individual components. The initial hub story may need to be more structured and journalistic than the spoke stories; it’s here that you can be much more “risky” with what you post. There’s very little chance of losing someone if they land on this page either from the source or as a reader of this blog itself. There is, however, a great chance that cross-pollination can occur, bringing in regulars from one site onto another and potentially getting their attention for future stories from either venue.

Multi-posting is only a small component, but it’s arguably the most effective when trying to get a message out to as wide of an audience as possible.

+JD Rucker is Founder of Hasai, Inc, a Social Media Firm, Director of New Media for KPA, an Automotive SEO firm that purchased Hasai, and Editor at Soshable, a Social Media Marketing Blog. Find him on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.

It gets 34 MPG and has a peppy 1.4l turbo engine that makes it formidable on the road. It’s a tuner and can be made to compete with the Civic SI and similar vehicles. Will it take off in America?

That’s the question that CT Fiat wants answered. Looking at the images and seeing some of what they say about the Fiat 500 Abarth, can we expect Americans to fall for the Italian design?