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Picture Credit: PARO Happy New Year everyone! As you know, I follow Asia/Japan tech trends. I was watching an NHK World journalistic piece on robotic therapy for Dementia using a baby seal called PARO and wanted to investigate this trend more.  Interestingly, there is a sizable debate amongst medical professionals and sociologists on whether robots like PARO can replace the human element versus aiding health professionals caring for patients. 

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When you work for startups, sometimes the compensation package is just salary and lacks the needed health benefits that is well afforded by larger companies. Enter BayPoint Benefits. We sat down with Brian Hassan who is the co-founder of BayPoint Benefits. BayPoint Benefits helps startups provide health care benefit packages for employees but also the much needed HR support that is often only affordable by companies 50 people and above. We discuss his company's approach towards valuable benefits distribution and Brian's take on how "Obama-care" will not make a difference to startups.

We were honored to interview again,  Mark W Schaefer , author of a great book about Influence - "Return on Influence." This book explains what the seven tenants of influence is in the digital era and how Klout has turned regular people into product influencers. Listen to some great insights and backstories of the book from Mark.

Adolfo and SocialGreg's Picks Google winter cleaning http://is.gd/81P2jS Google: We Don't Plan to Build Apps for WinPho8 bit.ly/12aM0o1 via @Gizmodo Google Maps on ios, MS surface sales, ms surface costs more than ipad to build Employers: More Employees With Personal Mobile Devices Means More Problems In The Workplace bit.ly/Vi0zjk via @NealSchaffer Speed Round: Schmidt defends Google’s tax avoidance strategy, says sheltering profits is perfectly legal and robots taking jobs is okay. THE END OF SMARTPHONES: Here's A Computer Screen On A Contact Lens bit.ly/S6eayT via @SAI Enigma hero Alan Turing should be pardoned, leading scientists claim http://is.gd/rS81j7  Delta App Faces California Suit bit.ly/SDrbgb via @allthingsd Nerd Stalker Tips of the Week: Fantastical http://flexibits.com/ Best Android Apps for your new Android Phone  http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/best-android-apps/ Events: MacWorld http://www.macworldiworld.com/ Jan 31 -

Our social guys Greg Viloria ( @SocialGreg ) and Sean Charles ( @SocialMediaSean ) give the weekly updates from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Pinterest. In this episode, they talk about Twitter's API battle with Kred, FBs lighten's the Zynga Anchor, LinkedIn wants to tell you what skills your need and more.  Links to the Backstories of Social Time Social Speed Round Pinterest to Amazon: no pinning for you on Black Friday Facebook Moving Away From Voting Scheme  / Facebook Is About To Send One Billion Emails Global Pages Launch on Facebook – Should Brands Make the Switch? Twitter Is Giving $100 In Free Advertising To 10,000 Small Businesses Pinterest pins hopes for broader appeal on holiday marketing push - "30 Days of Pinspiration"  Twitter rolled out new image search functionality, competition w/Instagram intensifies The Social Time TV Main Stories Twitter Kred creator PeopleBrowsr fires back at

This week we focus on a popular topic-Job recruitment. We were fortunate to sit down and interview  Joanna Riley Weidenmiller of The One-Page Proposal Company . The One-Page Proposal Company changes the landscape for both job-seekers and job recruiters. Their enterprise tool is based on Patrick G. Riley's popular and best selling book in US, Japan, Korea and China called the " One Page Proposa l." Joanna explains the motivation behind the One-Page Proposal Tool and how they help both companies and job seekers alike.