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Top Twitter Trends Of 2014; The Next Big Thing in Technology; Previewing Awards Season; Who's In and Who's Out

Aired January 01, 2015 - 07:30   ET

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ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: This is an incredible picture. OK, next picture. This one speaks for itself, this is #bringbackourgirls. This is about the Boko Haram case, and this hashtag took off around the globe.

RACHEL MILLNER, PRODUCT COMMUNICATIONS, TWITTER: Yes, again, this is a perfect example of how global Twitter is, something that started off in Nigeria and then of course you know we sort of tracked this conversation as it spread from this relatively small community to around the world.

And of course, the First Lady got involved, Amy Poehler, Hillary Clinton and of course, you know average citizens sort of demanding the return of these young women to their families and it was a really powerful thing to witness of course.

CAMEROTA: It was. OK, here is, here's another one that, here we go. They didn't want to show this one. This one is mildly amusing. This was, the #sochi problems about the Olympic Games. And you see the message is who needs walls?

MILLNER: Yes. I mean this is one of the humorous examples of things that happen. Of course, the Olympics are always huge on Twitter. Global games, there is nothing more real-time than sports. But this one of those serendipitous, really delightful things that came out about everyone experiencing hotel snafus and water and lack of walls and electricity.

And of course, there is the new unofficial event, the Sochi selfies where all the athletes from around the world were sharing their victories and triumphs and their sort of day in the life of an Olympic athlete.

CAMEROTA: OK, I want to show two more fun ones. This next one is a #thingstimhowardcouldsave. Tell about this one.

MILLNER: Well, of course like I said, you know, nothing is more real- time than sports. The World Cup happened in 2014. We saw a huge, huge many hundreds of millions of tweets sent about the games. But you know, who can forget our own Tim Howard and his sort of amazing save.

And of course inspired this maim that really took off of you know, being able to save Ned Stark among many other things that we might have liked to see saved. And that was one of the ones that just super delightful and fun to watch unfold.

CAMEROTA: It really is. OK, this next one is the selfie seen round the world, it's Ellen's selfie from the Oscars.

MILLNER: Yes, so we've crowned Ellen's tweet, the golden tweet. The tweet that we recognize every year on Twitter that has the most retweets. Ellen's was re-tweeted many millions of times over three million and of course, seen by billions of people around the world. It helps of course having some of the world's biggest stars in your selfie.

CAMEROTA: And most beautiful indeed. Can you tell us, this is about the power of the hashtag. Can you tell bus this graphic that's lighting up around the world? What is this?

MILLNER: So I think what we're see something is sort of how something that starts very local can end up being super global and just takes off and sparks because Twitter is public, because it's real-time.

Because it's conversational, there's no borders between what you're tweeting, what I'm tweeting and then of course, once people start retweeting, you're getting in a matter of seconds really, tweets from all corners of the world from people you don't know. But have this connection with.

CAMEROTA: Incredible. OK, so now you're going to tell us who you think we should follow. The must-follows in 2015. First you say, Katy Perry. Isn't that so 2014?

MILLNER: I don't know. I mean, she's doing this Super Bowl halftime show. So I feel like 2015 is going to be another year for Katy Perry. She's great on Twitter. She's super reaches out to her fans, responds to her fans, shares a lot about her life and on the road, and that makes her really entertaining tweets and content.

CAMEROTA: OK, next two celebrities, Anna Kendrick, Neil Patrick Harris, why do you want us to follow them?

MILLNER: Well, Anna Kendrick is a personal favorite of mine. I'm a huge fan of (inaudible) and I'm looking forward to the next one of course. But she's also again someone who is very candid on Twitter, and live tweets shows and you really feel like you get a sense of who she is, which is really fun.

And Neil Patrick Harris, again, you know, Twitter is an awesome complement to live TV. The Ellen selfie was last year's Oscars, Neil Patrick Harris is going to be the host of this year's Oscars. So you know, who knows what's going to happen there.

CAMEROTA: OK, Samantha Cristoforetti. Who is she and why should we follow her?

MILLNER: Well, space had a big moment on Twitter. I think 2015 will be another super celestial year. Samantha is the first female Italian astronaut. She is currently at the International Space Station and she is tweeting out beautiful really breathtaking photos of space. And so yes, you should get on board.

CAMEROTA: Like all good Italians, sometimes she tweets her food. Even though she's in space, she can't help herself, but tweeting what she's eating on the International Space Station. Meanwhile, speaking of food, Maureen Evans, tell us why this is a must-follow?

MILLNER: Yes, this is more something that you might not expect from Twitter. But Maureen Evans has a handle, @cookbook. She tweets out 140-character recipes. It's really delightful. Anyone who likes to cook or be impressed by the fact that she can condense a recipe to 140 characters should give that one a try.

CAMEROTA: She really can. It's impressive. Rachel Millner, thanks so much for assembling all these for us. It will be fun to follow.

MILLNER: Of course, thanks so much.

CAMEROTA: Happy New Year.

MILLNER: You too.

CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: How about a little NEW DAY love there in the "who to follow" on Twitter is Alisyn Camerota. She is fun. She's fun in 2015. That would have been my choice.

When it comes to tweeting and everything else, we do it on these, your cell phone controlling your life. Did you know it could save your life? That's part of the next big thing in technology. We're going to be talking about that and how 2015 could bring the real and the virtual worlds closer together than ever. How? We'll tell you.

Plus surprises at the Golden Globe nominations in December, what it could mean at the awards ceremony and of course, then at the Oscars. That's later on our special New Year's edition of NEW DAY.

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MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: All right. Welcome back to our special edition of New Year's Day. Here on NEW DAY. Today is all about out with the old, in with the new. Never more true than with technology. So what exciting tech trends can we expect in 2015?

CNN money tech correspondent is Laurie Segall. Of course, she is here looking forward for us. Happy New Year. Apparently, the cheer got me a little bit this year so lots of big things in store. Obviously mobile, right is just sort of the way everything has been going. We're going to see it amp up a little bit in 2015?

LAURIE SEGALL, CNN MONEY TECH CORRESPONDENT: Mobile has been huge. I think you'll see your smart phone is going to get smarter. It is possible and it's really interesting. Because think about you always have these wearables and your phone has been tracking your data, how many steps you take.

Whether or not you're putting in there, what you're eating. In 2015, we're going to see entrepreneurs do something powerful with that what can we do with this data? One company is called "Alive Core." They actually built in a piece of hardware that people can put their fingerprints on there.

It will tell you if you have an irregular heartbeat and also if you're at risk for a stroke. This is FDA approved. This isn't just some entrepreneur trying this out. I think what we're going it see is this idea that we have all of this data, how do we make our lives actually better.

PEREIRA: And put it in the palm of our hands.

SEGALL: And potentially prevent something horrific happening with health.

PEREIRA: OK, so obviously we've heard of some of the dating apps, none of us I think have used them here. I won't talk about that now. But we know that dating has changed since the last while since any of us were dating, it is going to kind of be changed yet again because of technology. We've seen what's Tinder and all of these other dating websites.

SEGALL: So I would like to say 2015, mark my words, is the year that love is going to be disrupted by technology.

PEREIRA: Not for the better.

SEGALL: Maybe for good and maybe some for bad.

CUOMO: What's the bad?

SEGALL: Let me start with the good and I'll get into the bad.

PEREIRA: You lead with the negative, ironic.

SEGALL: It used to be you had match.com, e-harmony online, and now there's offline. Now your mobile device has changed everything. What entrepreneurs are doing is trying to mimic what you're doing in real life. Let's say I want to be introduced to one of your friends to go on a date with.

Now there's a an app called "Hinge," it takes your Facebook friends, creates an algorithm, and automatically via smartphones, social networks, geolocation, delivers me a match of friends --

CAMEROTA: Cutting out the middleman.

SEGALL: Then we look at something like Tinder, right. You might back in the old days, might go into a bar, look to your left, think someone's cute, decide you like them or look the other way.

Now there's an app for that, it uses geolocation, so you can actually swipe through profiles of people you like somebody, you swipe one way, you don't, you swipe the other way.

And then another one and this one just hit New York city, this is huge in Europe is called "Happen." And you guys remember Craigslist, the missed connections, you saw someone on the subway.

Well now what they are doing is they're constantly using geolocation to say, these are all the people you passed in the day. Do you like any of them? If they like you back --

CUOMO: Dangerous. How do you stay safe with everybody knowing where you are?

SEGALL: It's scary because it's geolocation and we have to take note of that. Another scary thing I think, what you got to in the beginning is there's so many options at your fingertips, you're swiping through people, you don't want them to become pixels, you got to put in the hard work.

CAMEROTA: I want to you talk to us about a little of the tech backlash we're hearing about. What is this?

SEGALL: So I think it's safe to say we're all kind of addicted to our phones and tablets at this point. What a lot of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley are talking about is social responsibility. So think about your kids, always on these tablets.

One really interesting company is trying to bring kids offline, but using technology, it's called Cano. This looks like a bunch of pieces. But this is actually takes about 10 minutes to put together. And once you put it together, this is the brain to a computer.

Plug it into a PC and it works and your kids can learn how to code, and it's this idea of these are the old Legos, but you put them together and something kind of magic happens. So let's not make technology limited to one screen, that's something we're going to be seeing.

PEREIRA: OK, and last but not least, security, clearly we learned at the end of the last year when things can go terribly wrong. Obviously improvements we made.

SEGALL: You know it's been horrific seeing what's happened with Sony. You know this is very violating. But a lot of entrepreneurs and former hackers are coming together and creating encryption devices. Let's say you use a messaging app called what's app?

They teamed up with something called Tech Secure. It encrypts your messaging, so those messages are more protected. During the whole Sony backlash, I got a message from Mark Cuban. Has an app he just invested in called "Cyberdusk."

And he said, one of the reasons you didn't see more information on me from the Sony hack as I sent all my messages through Cyberdust, an encrypted type of app. Selling his product a little bit, let's be honest.

But we're seeing so many of these apps focus on encryption. That's something we're going to see in the next, in 2015. It will be easier to use, too.

PEREIRA: Hang on, old man, you'll be OK. Stick with us.

CUOMO: Somewhere Ned Ludd is rolling over. It's too much, too soon.

PEREIRA: Laurie Segall, thanks so much.

CAMEROTA: All right, so who will be the big break-out stars in 2015? We're taking a look at what could happen in the Hollywood trifecta, the Golden Globes, the SAG Awards and of course, the Oscars, who's star is on the rise? Could there be someone destined for the d-list? None of those people.

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CUOMO: Bunoano as our people would say, happy New Year. It's a special New Year's Day edition of NEW DAY. Even though the New Year's Eve celebrations are still going on in your houses we're looking forward to Hollywood, the biggest parties of their year.

We're talking to the Golden Globes, we know who is nominated there and who wasn't and of course, what it all suggests about the Oscars. So let's discuss what happened and what will happen all the glitz and glam, everything in between with Ms. Nischelle Turner, a CNN contributor, a big shot entertainment anchor joining us here.

NISCHELLE TURNER, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Come on.

CUOMO: Happy New Year to you.

TURNER: Happy New Year my family. How are you guys?

CUOMO: We do miss you. Help us, my friend, tell us, let's deal with what we know already. The Golden Globes, the first shocker is where are all the big money movies at? These are all small films, right?

TURNER: Exactly. That's what I've been asking. It's the year of the independent films and I know studios probably have to be shaking in their boots because they've spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the big budget films and not getting any love come awards season.

But I have to tell you, the films that are nominated, we're talking Globes now, the films that were nominated for the best drama for the Golden Globes, every single one of the films is an absolutely great film.

They all in my opinion could be the winner and I don't think anybody could really make an argument the other way because they're all really good. They're all very different.

And so I'm really excited to see, but I do like the fact that we're seeing these kinds of smaller art house films, films that actors are doing because they love the material be recognized.

CAMEROTA: Are these the same films, Nischelle, are these your predictions for the Oscars?

TURNER: That's a good question. CAMEROTA: Let's talk.

TURNER: Alisyn, I always zig when everybody else zags. Last year everybody thought I was a nut case because "The Wolf of Wall Street" was my favorite film.

CAMEROTA: I loved it, too.

TURNER: While it got nominations it didn't win anything. Once again I'm on that train, the movie that I loved this year "Gone Girl" is kind of overlooked in a lot of categories except for the best actress for Roslind Pike. She was good in this film.

I also love "Selma" and "Birdman." So those are two movies that I think "Birdman" will be one of the surprise hits this award season.

PEREIRA: We'll talk about zigging and zagging, home boy is upset Angelina got snubbed. Lot of people was surprised. Do you think we'll see some nominations for her at other awards shows coming up? That's getting such a lot of buzz.

TURNER: Chris Cuomo, cover your ears for this.

CUOMO: I'll take a nap.

TURNER: I'm with you being shocked that Angelina didn't get a nomination especially for the Golden Globes in directing for this film because the Hollywood foreign press love her, and I have to tell you, I know you've seen the film, Chris, it's a tough film to watch but you know it's also a tough film to direct.

I think she did a masterful job handling all the elements in this film so I am surprised she hasn't gotten more love for this. Now, if she didn't get a nomination for a S.A.G. award and didn't get a nomination for a Golden Globe award, the chances she will be recognized by the academy for an Oscar are pretty slim.

I hate to diminish this down to a woman and woman, if Angelina doesn't get nominated will Ava Dubernet be nominated, the first black woman nominated in the best director category at the Golden Globes for "Selma" and I think the love for her is starting to build and grow so we could see her sneak in there come academy time.

PEREIRA: All right, I want to talk about the digital world because that's where I spend a lot of my time. There really are so many -- Amazon Prime has some great stuff. Netflix is doing some crazy stuff. What more do you think we'll see in terms of nods to that realm?

TURNER: Well, they're already cleaning up at the Golden Globes. "Orange Is The New Black" nominated for several awards, and "House Of Cards" we can't say it's the best show on television because it's not on television but that material is so good.

That is like one of the best shows that's out there now and the new show "Transparent on Amazon, that's interesting issues, the transgender community, Jeffrey Tambourd gets a lot of love and recognition and the streaming services is saying step up your game networks. We're here to play.

CUOMO: The whole binge thing, I have portion control problems wherever they present themselves as an option, so I'm trying to deal with the new normal there.

PEREIRA: Stick with me, kid.

CUOMO: Because I go through a spacy series.

CAMEROTA: How much at a series?

CUOMO: All of them. I don't joke around. That's a blessing and a curse. I forget two months later and get to re-watch it. Nischelle, give us what is good guess. Everybody cares about the Oscars most, let's be honest, actor and actress, throw a couple names people may be surprised by or that you like whatever you want.

TURNER: Well first of all in the actor category I think that this is Michael Keaton's year for "Birdman." He was so good. It touched a nerve in Hollywood because he plays a washed up actor trying to regain the love from Hollywood, a former superhero that doesn't have it anymore. People in Hollywood say that could be me.

He does a great job. This could be his year and on the female side, there's a couple of movies that I really, really iked but I think this could be Julianne Moore's year for "Still Alice."

She plays an early onset Alzheimer's patient and the film is heartbreaking. She gives a master class in acting in this movie and it's brilliant. Alec Baldwin and Christiane Stewart is in the movie and Julianne Moore and Rosalynd Pike, she carried "Gone Girl."

You know other people were in it, but I didn't see anybody else. Look for them and also look for either "birdman" or maybe even "The Theory of Everything" sneak in there for a best picture.

"Selma" is coming on strong because of the relevancy that we see in the country and the film is a really good film so people are starting to take notice so you never know what could be a spoiler this year.

PEREIRA: Folks at home are making lists, got to check out the films. Nischelle, thanks for joining us.

TURNER: You guys got to get to the theater. I know you have to go g to bed early, but work with me.

CAMEROTA: With so many big stories in 2014, stories without closure or resolution, what could be the biggest headlines in 2015? We're putting on our Nostra Damus hat.

CUOMO: What would be the plural of Nostra Damus, Nostra Dami? Experts are looking at the landscape and telling you what 2015 could be about -- or not. But let's see what they say.

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