March 2010
104 posts
The future of communications: IP over Fiber -...
Strings.com - A Tool For Social Tracking (via... →
“Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually...”
– Scott Adams
Foursquare’s Growth Not Slowing Down: 725,000... →
"The demand for stationary computers is going to... →
About how location based marketing is set to explode in the next few years… and why wireless devices will be the way most consumers will use the Internet and communicate, most of the time.
“I’m sentimental this week, and thinking about the past, because I have seen the...”
– Marc Benioff
Check out the evolution of corporate website and... →
Evolution of Social Media Integration and Corporate Websites
1) Do nothing, no social integration Corporate websites that have no integration with social tools at all. Cheap. Ignorance is bliss, at least in the short term Your corporate website is irrelevant.
2) Link directly away without a strategy Corporate homepages that have chickelts that say “Follow us on Twitter/Facebook/YouTube”...
Matrix: Evolution of Social Media Integration and... →
Excellent comparison matrix of benefits and challenges for social media and web site integration. My interpretation… traditional web sites are not long for this world. The content is important, the hosting in a single branded site is not. Seamless integration of content hosted in a variety of ‘social’ ponds will be the future. Instead of ‘luring’ fish into you bay,...
5 Essential Apps for Your Business’ Facebook Fan...
Go to http://bit.ly/afbUQe to download my preso...
Here is the what I want you to take away from it:
History Says Hang On - Shift Happens
The Network is the Human Race
Reputation - Influence - Conversation - Relationships
Direct Influence in Action
Next?
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very...”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very...”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we...”
– Abraham Lincoln
Growing Your Business: 5 Tips from the Co-Founder... →
1. “Twitter is your best friend”
2. “Keep it light”
3. “Guerilla customer service”
4. “Small and scrappy marketing 4eva”
5. “Show off your team”
“Trust, but verify.”
– Ronald Reagan
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
– Carl Sagan
Quantum Dot Camera Phones (via @techreview) →
A layer of light-absorbing particles boosts digital image quality.
Tim Berners-Lee promised £30 million to create an... →
“The web has something like 1011 web pages and there are a similar number of neurons in the brain. The brain is very complicated and we don’t understand it - yet we rely on it. The web is very complicated too and, though we built it, we have no real data about the stability of the emergent systems that have cropped up on it.”
The Future of Location-Based Marketing For... →
“The convergence of fashion and mobile technology was previously limited to fun, co-branded mobile phones (like the Juicy Couture T-Mobile Sidekick),” said Shari Doherty, a consumer-marketing consultant with over 15 years of industry experience in digital entertainment, mobile and location-based services. “But now, with the advent of location-based services, there are even more exciting...
9 Killer Tips for Location-Based Marketing (via... →
“So-called “lo-so” networks like Foursquare, Loopt, andGowalla enable any business with a physical location to not only communicate with customers online, but actually get more of them to walk in the door — and that’s exciting.”
“The question any brick-and-mortar business owner should be asking him or herself is no longer “Should I use lo-so networks?” It’s “How do I do it?” The...
5 Things You Need to Know About Location-Based... →
1. Location Shouldn’t be the Only Goal
2. The “Long Tail” for User Adoption
3. Mobile Battery Life is Key
4. Location Will Be the Battleground of the Mobile OS
5. Location Pays
HTML 5 Aims to Usurp Flash (via @techreview) →
New browser technologies may reduce the need for Adobe’s ubiquitous plug-in.
Since it was introduced in the mid-’90s, Adobe’s Flash has remained one of the most popular ways for developers to create animations, video and complex interactive features for the Web—regardless of what browser or operating system an end user is running. According to Adobe, which makes the Flash...
“Physics isn’t a religion. If it were, we’d have a much easier time...”
– Leon Lederman
Pain: Social Media Teams Are Challenged To Respond... →
(via @jowyang) SMMS But do we really need a new buzz word?
“Solution: As a Result, Social Media Management Systems are Emerging
Like CMS and WMS for centralized website management, Social Media Management Systems (SMMS) empower social media teams to manage multiple distributed social channels from one location –enabling the opportunity to build deeper relationships by being in more places...
An e-model for journalism in Seattle - latimes.com →
“After the 146-year-old Post-Intelligencer folded last year, 20 of 160 employees were retained to produce an online product.”
"Today, one-quarter of Facebook's 400 million... →
"The demand for stationary computers is going to... →
"What used to be called point-of-purchase is now... →
via @AdAge Forget Foursquare: Why Location... →
With a Projected Outlay of $4B by 2015, Mobile Targeting Is Next Big Opportunity
The Wired Tablet App: A Video Demonstration via... →
“The content was created in Adobe InDesign, as is the case for the print magazine, with the same designers adding interactive elements, from photo galleries and video to animations, along with adapting the designs so it looks great in both portrait and landscape orientation. This is a departure from the usual web model, where a different team repurposes magazine content into HTML,...
Dell’s Tablet Aims to Stick It to Apple’s iPad via... →
HP’s Windows 7 Slate Strikes at the iPad Read... →
iPad Could See 50 Tablet Rivals This Year via @... →
The Top 10 Social Media Questions Ad Agency... →
From that study here are the top 10 questions your clients want answered regarding social media marketing:
What are the best tactics to use?
How do I measure the effectiveness of social media?
Where do I start?
How do I manage the social balance?
What are the best sites and tools out there?
How do I make the most of my available time?
How do I find and focus my efforts on my target...
50 ways to read the news without opening a... →
via @michaelgass
I love that title! via InternetEvolution: Need IT Horsepower? There’s a Cloud for That http://bit.ly/agzEwY
Measuring the Information Society 2010 via... →
“Despite the recent economic downturn, the use of
Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
services, such as mobile phones and the Internet,
continues to grow worldwide. By the end of 2009,
there were an estimated 4.6 billion mobile cellular
subscriptions, corresponding to 67 per 100 inhabitants
globally (Chart 1). Last year, mobile cellular penetration
in developing countries...
What Social Media Users Want [STATS] - via... →
Do you want to be informed? Or entertained? Or be social-able? Or all the above, depending on your mood.
“TED started as an experiment in convergence and somehow, miraculously, has...”
– Chris Anderson, TED curator
So do you have questions about what HTML5 will... →
Let’s look at the 3WC draft documents section 1.4 Impact on Web Architecture:
The use of the DOM as a basis for defining the language.
The concept of browsing contexts.
The distinction between user agent requirements and authoring requirements.
The use of imperative definitions rather than abstract definitions with the requirement of black-box equivalence in implementations.
The new...
"mobile apps will eclipse the traditional desktop... →
With the current trends materializing… I have not doubt
Connecting America : The National Broadband Plan →
“Among the long-term goals: affordable 100M bps (bits per second) service to 100 million [m] U.S. homes by 2020, and 1G bps service to anchor institutions such as hospitals and schools in every U.S. community in the same timeframe.”
Laudable - but is it enough to help us be competitive globally?
IE9 proves Microsoft is back in the browser... →
via The Industry Standard
