Smartphones Are the "Connecting Piece" for Social Media Trends

In our final Media Beat installment with Toby Daniels, executive director of Social Media Week, we talk about social media trends in the U.S. and around the world.

Daniels pinpoints three big trends. The first two are social commerce and location-based apps and networks.

“I think smartphones are the connecting piece to all of this,” Daniels says, adding that our mobile phones have become “an extension of us.”

The final trend is activism, such as the protests in Egypt.

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