I don’t mind ads on social sites, as long as they’re not spammy in nature. I think the less obtrusive the better. Many would rather have none at all, but this is the real world we live in. I am conflicted as a social media participant and business owner.(I don’t advertise on social sites.) I try to empathize with consumers and treat them the way I’d like to be treated. I can understand how a person can get pissed off at the prospect of a company trying to sell them something when they’re on a social site. I’ve come to find two…
On Tuesday, National Geographic announced that it will be expanding its business into video games in an effort to reach its younger audience. The magazine hopes to have at four games released by next year.
This news comes at such a morbid time in the world of print media. National Geographic seems to be making moves to reach out to its younger readers. Instead of just watching things deteriorate, the picturesque magazine is putting forth some innovative effort. Who knows what the developers have in store, but I can imagine game plots ranging in anything from escaping the Amazon to leading a…
Twilio recently rick-rolled TechCrunch.
To learn how to rick-roll someone in your life, check out what Twilio has to offer.
Twilio’s information says that it allows Web Apps to make and receive phone calls. This has the potential to be awesome, and I think the idea of rick-rolling someone on their cell phone is hilarious, as long as it’s done to a person with the right sense of humor.
This shows that sometimes having a sense of humor and a willingness to annoy someone can often work in getting the word out about your idea or service. Don’t be afraid to take a chance.
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As do many other professions and specialties, stockbrokers have a place to connect with other stock brokers and commiserate about how crappy the market is right now.
Traderplanet.com is an online resource, like MySpace, but with tutorials and experts involved.
They want to teach people how to trade the markets and how to be successful.
Understanding stock trading is an intense and lifelong process - Experienced and successful traders often spend their entire careers learning about the market. No matter how successful those traders may become, there is always more to learn and new opportunities to take advantage of. The information available to you, as…
Yet another relationship is ruined, due to Second Life. This time, the couple, Amy Taylor, 28, and David Pollard, 40, had gotten married in a lavish online ceremony, while also being married in real life. The couple met in an online chat room in 2003. It started out as an online relationship, but soon existed as well in the real world.
The wife began to suspect he was being unfaithful, catching his avatar having sex, online, with a cyber prostitute, and decided to hire an online private investigator to track her husband’s virtual activities.
Pollard admitted having an online relationship with a…
For those of you looking to pitch social media to the powers that be, here’s an interesting report from Burson-Marstellar that queries CEO’s and social media usage. According to the report:,
“29 percent of CEOs believe that social media tools can be an effective way to communicate with stakeholders while an equal proportion (29 percent) believes social media outreach is ineffective. The survey also found that CEOs believe social media could be much more useful for building corporate reputation than for driving sales. The survey was conducted jointly by leading PR publication, PRWeek, and Burson-Marsteller, a leading global public relations firm.”
It makes for…
MySpace is sweetening the deal, yet again.
They are adding a Primetime Application, and with it comes every video currently on Hulu.
Once the app is added to and embedded in a profile, then the app can show all the videos on Hulu, MySpace originals, and videos from more than 150 licensed content partners.
The videos can be nicely expanded to full-screen and shared with friends. There’s an improved microsearch for all the videos on MySpace that can filter by category (film, TV, original, partner, etc) and an A-Z directory for the indecisive viewer who wants to casually browse (that would be me). Here’s…
Gerd Leonhard, media and technology futurist, posted to his blog a very interesting article on what he thinks are the developing trends in business communications. He goes over a brief history of communications spanning from the phone to social media, and then shares a very intriguing graph of where he believes communications are headed.
As you can see, phone and email use are way down, while social networks and media are the main tools of communicating.
Mr. Leonhard says that already the #1 way that people reach him is through his various social networks. He says a great advantage of this is the…
With a Pew Research survey just days before Barack Obama’s election finding the Internet is now second only to television as a primary campaign news source for Americans, election night seemed the perfect time for a coverage comparison. For the new media side, I chose my personal favorites, Markos Moulitsas’ Daily Kos and Arianna Huffington’s Huffington Post online journal. For TV, I took my personal favorites NBC/MSNBC and perennial standby CNN.
Somewhat surprisingly – at least for me – TV largely annihilated the Internet and digital new media players. It was a reversal of the 2006 congressional election coverage, when the politically savvy Moulitsas and company ran…
This is pure folly for a Friday. I love my iPhone and the access to tools and information. The interactions with the device such as the touch screen, shake and accelerometer usage make it an intuitive device. The apps make it a spectacular device that has many uses in my everyday life. Truly a smart phone.
Now, Smule, has taken the iPhone to yet another level. For the musically gifted iPhone users, blow on the mic and you can become an musical phenom by using Smule’s Iphone Ocarina App.
Stairway to Heaven…here we come. Compliments of Gizmodo.
