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A few days ago I found this shocking blog claiming “Live Twitter News Billboard Leads to Social Media Fail ”… go ahead, read it and see if you agree.
First, the fact that they pulled off a digital billboard with live tweets is awesome.
So now ask yourself, what was the cause of this event? live tweets? twitter? social media?
read moreI had the pleasure to moderate a panel for Omma mobile in October with a nice talented group of experts:
Panelist | Jeannette Kocsis, SVP Digital Marketing, Harte-Hanks, Inc. Jeannette_Kocsis@harte-hanks.com Panelist | Ujjal Kohli, CEO, Rhythm Media lisa@rhythmnewmedia.com Panelist | Kyle Outlaw, UX lead, Razorfish kyle.outlaw@razorfish.com Panelist | Ken Willner, CEO of Zumobi ken.willner@zumobi.com Panelist | Jamie Wells, Director, Global Trade Marketing, Microsoft Mobile Advertising jawells@microsoft.com Moderator | Rob Gonda, Director of Digital Strategy & Innovation, Sapient rgonda@sapient.
read moreAfter playing with Chrome developer edition for the Mac for a few weeks, Google released today the official Beta . I tried it on a PC a few months ago and quite honestly, was not impressed at all, and haven’t paid much attention since. Today I decided to run a few tests, and it seems to be 1) pretty fast, and 2) extensible?
Open http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/canopy/ and click launch experiment … tried it with Firefox 3.
read moreFinally, AT&T’s long-awaited MMS update for the iPhone is finally ready. Just plug your iPhone into iTunes and hit the “Check for Update” button.
You should get the dialog message above, saying: “An update to your carrier settings for your iPhone is available. Would you like to download it now?”
Hit “Download and Update” and wait a few seconds, then go to your iPhone and launch the Messages app. There should be a little camera icon to the left of the text input box at the bottom.
read moreInfrastructure software giant Autonomy launched a new web content management tool under its Interwoven brand, designed to monitor social media content and allow businesses to act on the insights gleaned.
The Autonomy Interwoven Social Media Analysis solution is a combination of the Autonomy Interwoven web content management system and Autonomy IDOL (Intelligent Data Operating Layer). It is designed to provide organizations with the ability to understand and leverage the conversations happening in social networks to make some money.
read moreTwitter Search is going to get a lot more interesting soon, said Twitter’s new vice president of operations, Santosh Jayaram, who until recently was VP of Search Quality for Google. Jayaram confirmed that Twitter Search, which currently searches only the text of Twitter posts, will soon begin to crawl the links included in tweets and begin to index the content of those pages.
This will make Twitter Search a much more complete index of what’s happening in real time on the Web and make it an even more credible competitor to Google Search for people looking for very timely content.
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