I just wanted to take the time to get a better idea of who is actually reading the blog and some things I can do to improve it. If you all would be so kind as to take this quick survey in the link below, it would be an immense help.
February 19, 2009 • 5:22 pm 0
Links de Mañana
Techcrunch starts off this beautiful Thursday morning with a rather dismal recap of the 2008 year in technology. Indeed, things looked bright at the beginning but all numbers fell dramatically as the year went on, reaching lows in the month of December.
Mobile advertising finally nearing breakthrough.
The economic recession is creating opportunities for highly personal mobile advertising to take off.
Facebook is now testing its own advertising network for application developers.
Twitter to add search update for users.
Filed under: Links, advertising, Facebook, mobile advertising, search advertising, Twitter
February 18, 2009 • 1:10 am 1
Potpourri Links
In the wake of Facebook’s Terms of Service change yesterday, this link explains how Facebook is taking over our lives. I also found a really usefu site called insidefacebook.com that is dedicated to keeping marketers and developers updated on Facebook. This post from earlier today goes pretty in-depth into branding on social networks. It’s definitely worth a read.
Panasonic has repurposed their 103-inch plasma into a multitouch air hockey table, which turns out to be amazingly cool.
Projection advertising increasing in popularity in many major markets.
Chris Crum of webpronews.com talks a little about what areas companies believe social media can be most effective and offers a great chart by Marketingsherpa to illustrate.
Finally, a couple of links to tips from Twitter pros on how to get your tweet retweeted. Dan Zarrella goes in-depth with a fairly elaborate retweet keyword survey and Twitip gives you the formula for retweets. All interesting stuff if you’re into that sort of thing.
Filed under: Links, advertising, Facebook, social media, Twitter
February 16, 2009 • 3:24 am 0
Sunday Night Ad Links
Sorry I haven’t posted in a while, it’s been a long weekend for me. Here are some nightly links to quench you thirst (if you even have one for this kind of thing) and I’ll be back tomorrow morning to start the week off right.
Eric Brown is definitely not down with traditional advertising
Has the mobile application market already surpassed online advertising?
Is ad placement in video games becoming too obnoxious?
Six leading advertising chiefs leave big agencies to start their own
Five ways to make and empty ad spot on your blog work for you
And finally, I leave you with a couple of links to posts from Engadget and Mashable about Microsoft’s new voice notetaking and search service called Recite.
Filed under: Links, advertising, blog, mobile
February 13, 2009 • 8:34 pm 0
Afternoon Links
This Mashable article is really one of the most useful and information-packed posts I’ve read in a while giving you 100 ways to enhance your Youtube experience (my favorite is the section on Firefox extensions).
Social networking becomes even more integrated into the fabric of our lives as Xoopit allows you to seamlessly combine Facebook with Gmail.
A Social Computing Magazine article on 25 tips for utilizing Twitter in your business.
Another Twitter article, this one focusing on Twitter’s rise and its effect on the microblogging world.
Finally, I leave you with a couple of articles about Facebook’s ongoing plans to integrate its social networking platform into a variety of mobile phones. The first is a Wall Street Journal article on Facebook’s talks with Nokia (a subscription is required to read the entire thing, but there’s enough to get the gist) and the sceond talks about how that relationship has become “complicated”.
Filed under: Links, Facebook, microblogging, social networking, Twitter, Youtube
February 11, 2009 • 8:15 pm 0
Going Mobile: Afternoon Links
A few mobile technology links:
Why Facebook’s Future is Mobile
New Mobile Mozilla Browser Fennec
MyScreen Mobile to Exhibit Innovative Marketing and Advertising Solutions at GSMA
Google’s Approach to Mobile Seems A Lot Like the PC
Media Two Gives New Look To MMA
And finally, just an interesting blog post by Noah Brier on how people, in general, are getting better at search.
February 10, 2009 • 4:28 pm 0
(Late) Morning Links
Sorry I didn’t get to post yesterday. It was a long day made even longer by reoccuring car trouble. But now that that’s over, lets move on to the links.
Google PowerMeters: Helping you monitor your electricty usage right from your homepage
Another article on Google’s PowerMeter
Twitter may start charging companies for services
Tvinci is a online platform for professional quality video. They have recently raised $1.6 billion from investors for the project
Pharmaceutical companies coming on to social media marketing at summit held by Lotame
I’ll be back later with a company that’s changing the way we use RSS.
Filed under: Links, Google, social media, Tvinci, Twitter
February 6, 2009 • 3:07 am 0
Quick Links
I just wanted to share a couple of quick links I thought were interesting. The first one talks about how Google’s new latitude service can pinpoint your location anywhere on the globe. This would allow advertisers to basically reach their target consumers at the ideal moment.
Another article on how Google Latitude will benefit advertisers
Mobile applications company GetJar adds advertising program
Noah Brier on online advertising
Filed under: Links, Google latitude, mobile applications, online advertising
