November 2009
40 posts
Ikea Marketing Strategy: Mobile, Social,... →
You might not love Ikea’s furniture, but you can’t deny that Ikea’s marketing strategy is nothing but brilliant: a cutting-edge blend of mobile, emerging technologies and social media.
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11 Ways Geeks Measure the World | GeekDad |... →
Thirty Women Entrepreneurs To Follow On Twitter -... →
About Twitter In-stream Advertising →
A NYT article, published over the week-end, sparked a heated debate over the legitimacy and value of an in-stream advertising model on Twitter.
-This idea has no official blessing…
How to Write With Style by Kurt Vonnegut →
(via socialhallucinations)
The New Retweets: From The EgoSystem To The... →
Twitter did not invent retweets. Its users did: they created a mechanism to allow word-of-mouth within the 140 chars world. Retweets are the vehicle for virality: you like an article, you…
Google Health
bijan:
I just set up my profile on Google Health.
I added my basic vitals (birthdate, weight, height) plus the date of my recent flu shot, my allergies as well as past surgeries.
I shared my profile with my wife so she now has full access.
A few weeks ago I had a routine physical including blood tests to check on my cholesterol. I still don’t have the results. It’s on my todo list to call my...
The Promise Of Mobile BarCodes Apps. →
Traditional advertising is becoming increasingly ineffective. And so much we all know. But there is a new wave of mobile apps, which has the potential to accelerate its demise: Mobile…
The Power Of Mobile CrowdSourcing. Waze and... →
According to the Wikipedia definition, in a crowd-sourced model, problems are broadcast to an unknown group of solvers in the form of an open call for solutions. Users—i.e. the…
listening to "Passion Pit - Sleepyhead" →
Favorite workout song
listening to "Moby - Mistake (Music Video)" →
Just feels right in this Sunday New England afternoon
“By the time there is a case study in your specific industry, it’s going to be...”
– Seth’s Blog: Learning by analogy (via hiten)
“RT @pgillin Twitter Times assembles *custom* newspaper from topics tweeted by...”
– mitchbetts (via emergentfutures)
The Future Of Payments: Who Will Be The Winner? →
In our connected ubiquitous future, what role will cash have? Are we moving towards a cash-less society, where payment will happen through your mobile device? PayPal, Amazon and Google seem…
How Many FourSquares Do We Need? →
It’s the promised Mecca of Mobile: Local Advertising. Companies of various sizes are all scrambling to create the Killer App, that will allow users to search for surrounding businesses and…
Droid, AdMob and Android →
Is the Droid the Iphone killer? Is it not? How do 100,000 Droids sold in one weekend compare versus the 1 million Iphones? Frankly, it is not relevant.
Iphone and…
Electronic Arts buys Playfish for as much as $400... →
dbreunig:
Expect social gaming to heat up even more, especially with regards to PR and major title advertising. I’m betting this merger will go well, as Playfish is lead by former EA COO John Pleasants. Expect him to return to his old post. (Via Venture Beat)
Kevin Kelly On The Next 5,000 Days Of The Web:... →
It’s that time of the year again, when we’re about to get bombarded by predictions for the next 12 months, 99% of which, let’s say it, are going to be wrong.
In this TED video, recorded at…
Mobile: The Inbound Marketing Missing Chapter →
HubSpot, a Boston based start-up, is on a roll to conquest the Long Tail of small and medium–size businesses to digital marketing, and help them convert visitors into leads and sales.
Google And Facebook War To Win The Long-Tail And... →
Social networks are quickly morphing from destination to distributed networks around data, aka sites (the “shared” interests) and like-minded people. It’s not a user-driven innovation. The…
The FastFood Nation Goes Mobile →
Fast-food, eating out, are in the DNA of this country. Food is everywhere, 24/7, accessible, inexpensive. And now also at your fingertips.
Not a day passes without a new “food” app making…
6 Ways To Look At Twitter Lists →
This week, Twitter made its new Lists feature broadly available. Lists allow you to enumerate a collection of Twitter accounts, and then easily read updates from just those accounts….