Archive for 'Social Media'

The Trickle-Down Effect of Augmented Reality

As the lines between online and offline continue to blur, thanks to augmented reality, the question remains: will consumers use it? Like any other niche media, social network or tech tool, it is all about mainstream adoption. There has been a lot of movement in this space by various companies but the recent announcement that [...]

Are you Ready for the Cloud? Well, You Made It.

This week Google unveiled glimpses of its upcoming Chrome OS, the first web-based operating system. Unlike traditional systems, the Chrome OS doesn’t operate within your computer. Every function your computer performs will live in the web. Eventually, computers running on the Chrome OS won’t need desktop software, and will run entirely in the cloud style. [...]

Can Social Media Bring Social Reform?

The Obama administration certainly hopes so, and has taken its message to the Twitterverse. Today, President Obama’s 2.5 million Twitter followers were pointed to a website that offers users the ability to tweet at their representatives. Users enter their zip code to have their representative included in a tweet supporting the insurance reform bill, being [...]

Social Media Users are Talking About Your Brand

The results of a new study were revealed today and they overwhelmingly show what marketers had hoped for: users are actively talking about brands on social media sites. Of the 3,000 study participants, 46% have talked about a product/brand on Facebook and 44%have done so on Twitter. What is more astounding are the actions then [...]

Shopping is an (Online) Social Activity

Shopping has always been a great social activity. What’s better than meeting up with a couple of friends and hitting the stores to drop a few bucks? However, now that people are spending more and more of their time online in social networks, retailers are trying to stay ahead of the social media curve. 75% of [...]

Taking a Bite Out of Spam

Sanford Wallace, notorious spammer of both emails and social media, has been ordered by a California court to pay Facebook $711 million in damages. Wallace even faces jail time, as he has been referred to the U.S. Attorney’s office for prosecution for criminal contempt of court.
With the 2008 ruling against him in a similar MySpace [...]

Bloggers to hit the stalls

Today’s marketers know the importance of bloggers. With a single post, positive or negative information about a product/service can be spread throughout the ever growing blogosphere. P&G’s Charmin hopes that bloggers will help it create excitement around its “Enjoy the Go” campaign.
For five weeks, five bloggers will operate as bathroom attendants at its pop-up bathroom [...]

Luxe Brands Go Social

Luxury fashion brands, which have been slow to adopt any sort of online activity, are now making their own social communities and apps. This week, to promote its new line of sunglasses aimed at 18-25 year olds, Gucci launched its own social network. At Gucci Eye Web, fans of the brand can submit their photos [...]

Dugg Analyzer

Web analytics is of immeasurable importance to anyone who works in any Internet based profession, but it could also be something fun for any Internet user to play with and understand.
So whenever I find a new web analytics tool, I am all over it…
And recently I just came across a website that analyzes data from [...]

Social Networking Growth

I just recently came across some interesting information that I thought I’d share with everyone.
According to the Internet research and trend analysis website, eMarketer.com, ad spending on social networking sites is anticipated to grow 75% next year and ad revenue for niche communities is expected to grow to 10% from 8.2% in 2007.
This is [...]