October 2009
22 posts
After AdWords and AdSense, Is AdFriends next? →
On October 26th, Google rolled out the first release of its new Social Search, which pulls results from content posted on the Net by your most trusted sources, your friends.
It is…
The March Of The Droids: HTML5 and Android 2.0 →
The end of the Iphone monopoly is not going to happen in one day and with one single device. Don’t expect the masses to suddenly drop their I-cult and let them rant about the misses of the
Google Voice: Building An Open Network World, One... →
Picture an open network world with open devices, where carriers are mere pipes, that only run the network and charge for the bandwidth, and consumers are free to pick their devices,…
Nike Mobile Marketing – Just Right! →
If there’s one company that never fails to wow its audience with its mobile marketing initiatives, that company is Nike.
The Nike Id Iphone App
Take their new IPhone app, Nike Id. It…
Dympol: Paid To Play, Where Music And Brand... →
What can save Recorded Music? Is it the magic of Free? Fans funding their artists? 5-cents downloads? A new slate of start-ups is emerging with radically innovative solutions.
Fan-funding…
ChangeHowWePay: PayPal And The Future Of Payments. →
Payments is an area that has long suffered from a lack of innovation. At the Web 2.0 Summit, today, PayPal announced that it is opening up a platform to developers on November 3. The…
“How is it that everything about Microsoft’s business is backward looking? This...”
– Fake Steve Jobs (via marco)
“If you’re dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If you’re smart, surround...”
– Aaron Sorkin (via tmblg) (via hiten)
Music Videos New Frontier: Augmented Reality →
Music and Innovation hardly get together and, when they do, the War of the Roses is a more likely scenario than Star Trek. Not always though.
Augmented Reality might be a peaceful…
Mobile Game Changers →
It’s been a week dense of potentially game-changing facts for the mobile industry.
MOBILE AUGMENTED REALITY BECOMES MORE REAL
Until now, the development of mobile augmented reality…
In Between Virtual And Real- A Mobile Augmented... →
Augmented Reality technologies spilled sci-fi fantasies into real life. Mobile Augmented Reality is pushing the envelope, by allowing virtual worlds to creep into the physical environment…
Fun And Innovation →
FourSquare
In less than 24 hours, FourSquare hard-core users, the newly elected SuperUsers, have helped dropping the duplicate venues in the company’s database from 2000+ to 400.
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Spotify To Napster, Like Amerigo to Columbus? →
Columbus – which America celebrates today – was a disruptor but he didn’t really know to what extent. He dared challenge the ocean for 36 days, and landed on what he thought was India….
BizDev 2.0 aka Marketing via API →
What do Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce, EBay, Flickr have in common? They all offer APIs that other companies use to build businesses and products on top of them.
Tired Of Spam On Twitter? It Might Soon Get Worse. →
Yesterday news broke that Twitter is in advanced talks with both Google and Microsoft to let them include Tweets in their search. The partnership could be a game-changer. The way search…
Proximity Marketing 101 →
What will users do with their cellphones three years from now? Always more industry insiders are ready to bet that Search will be a killer application.
It’s also true that one could build…
The Day The Iphone Stopped Ruling The World →
About time! Google’s attack to the Iphone brainwashing of the masses has started. This morning, Google and Verizon Wireless announced an agreement to deliver mobile applications and…
The Suggested Users List Ambiguity →
Say you want to learn a foreign language. You could
Learn the rules and words – through an interactive course or a class;
Learn by “association”, finding native speakers or traveling to…
Crowd-Sourcing Translations →
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The monopoly of English in the Internet is long time gone. The Internet penetration in non-English speaking countries is through the roof,…