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The New Apple TV for $99–First Look
Sep 1st
Apple today revealed it’s new 75% smaller Apple TV
It fits in the hand and includes HDMI, 802.11n wireless, ethernet and built-in power supply, with the price slashed to only $99.00. The new Apple TV is much smaller than the previous generation because it no longer uses a hard disk for local storage. Flash memory has replaced the hard drive.
It streams movies from iTunes, YouTube AND Netflix as well as from your own computer. If you’re a Netflix subscriber, you have a large collection of movies you can stream for free! Steam photos from Flickr and video and photos from mobile More >
Steal Eloqua’s Social Media Playbook
Aug 31st
Joe Chernov (Director of Content for Eloqua), blogged recently about giving away the “Eloqua Social Media Playbook”, a 42 page guide to conducting business (and yourself) on the Social Web.
There is something both thrilling and humbling about taking your best work, undressing it of all commercial value, and giving it away for free. But I am beginning to think the thrill outweighs the humility, because for the second time this week, I am giving away a major resource to anyone who wants to repurpose it for his own gain.
Here’s a one page sample:
Get your copy of Eloqua’s Social Media Playbook here.
Joe More >
Global Social Media Check-up – 2010
Aug 30th
Surprise! Only 20% of the Fortune Global 100 Companies are using all four platforms: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Blogs
Burson-Marsteller released the results of a global survey of social media use by a sample of the Fortune Global 100 list (29 U.S. companies, 48 European, 20 Asia-Pacific, 3 Latin America) – between Nov 2009 and Jan 2010.
The results are very interesting
Although most of these companies are using at least one of the social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Blogs), and 70% are using Twitter, almost half do not have a Facebook Fan Page. Only 50% have a YouTube Channel. Only 30% have corporate More >
Stress on Relationships–Working From Home
Aug 25th
The grass is always greener, right? After you start working from home you may sleep a little later (after all the commute time is saved), you can wear whatever you want and there’s no office politics. But there may be unforeseen repercussions or unintended consequences. The Oatmeal.com humorously illustrates both the awesome and horrible aspects of working at home. Catch the full comic at The Oatmeal.
How to Use Social Networking Sites to Drive Business
Aug 25th
Advice for small businesses on using social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn, and how to integrate these tools into the marketing and recruiting efforts of your company.
Consider this: It wasn’t until 1997 that the Internet reached 50 million users in the United States. Facebook gained over 100 million users in the U.S. from January 2009 to January 2010, marking a 145 percent growth rate within one year, according to research by digital marketing agency iStrategy Labs. If you’re a business owner that hasn’t embraced social media networking as a major component of your success strategy, it’s due time to hop More >
Weekly Roundup
Aug 24th
Here’s a handy list of blog posts from the last week or so (in case ya missed one).
Blogging Cars FaceBookTop 10 Social-Networking Sites – July 2010
Future12 Videos That Will Help You Love the Future
InfographicsOur Geosocial Universe [Infographic]
InternetThe Internet of Things – Earth’s Central Nervous System
Movies ScienceBermuda Triangle Mystery Solved
SearchGoogle’s Internal 49 Page SEO Report
Google Chief Economist Explains Google Ad Auction Process
Social NetworkingThe Three Natural Laws of Social Media
Social Networks Will Be Like Air
More >
35 Movies in Two Minutes
Aug 24th
A short film about cinema.
35 movies simplified.
A 2 minute journey through the history of film.
Concept / Layout: Sarah Biermann, Torsten Strer, Felix Meyer, Pascal Monaco Animation: Felix Meyer, Pascal Monaco Sound: Torsten Strer
link to original : http://vimeo.com/13340102
Our Geosocial Universe [Infographic]
Aug 23rd
Jesse Thomas of award-winning creative agency Jess3 has been working through an infographic challenge: trying to accurately depict the size of the key players in the geo / social space and has created a handy visual of the size of the internet’s behemoths—including Skype, Facebook, Yahoo Mail—and new tech companies on the scene like Foursquare and BrightKite. The infographic also includes a visualization of each company’s proportion of users who access the service through a mobile gadget.
Via Gigaom.
The Three Natural Laws of Social Media
Aug 21st
The Three Natural Laws of Social Media
- You Can’t Fake Having A Personality. Be Yourself, be open, be authentic.
- You Can’t Automate Trust. Do what you say you will. Don’t worry about making mistakes, real people aren’t perfect. “We trust people whose inside values are visible on the outside.” – Liz Strauss
- Help others to help yourself. Think of others first, then they will think of you. Would you rather have one person thinking or you or lots?
Remember: When users are in contact with each other, there will be an exchange of information. Each user’s connections are then open to more information, creating the More >
Top 10 Social-Networking Sites – July 2010
Aug 21st
It’s Becoming a Facebook World!
About the author: Marketing Charts
MarketingCharts (http://www.MarketingCharts.com) compiles a daily collection of the most interesting media and market research updates. It is written by the staff of Watershed Publishing, which includes the editors of MarketingVOX (http://www.marketingvox.com), Media Buyer Planner (http://www.mediabuyerplanner.com/) and Retailer Daily (http://www.RetailerDaily.com). While these editors receive regular access to proprietary research data from most of the key media-related research firms, no editorial restrictions have been placed on their usage.
Google’s Internal 49 Page SEO Report
Aug 20th
Now you can learn SEO tips and optimization from Google which has made available for download a 49 page PDF entitled:
Google’s SEO Report Card (released Mar 1, 2010).
This report was actually prepared for in-house use at Google after doing a review to identify potential areas for improvement in Google’s product pages.
These improvements could:
- help users find your pages more easily in search engines
- fix bugs that annoy visitiors and hurt your page’s performance in search engines
- serve a a model to demonstrate to SEO to others
The report is in three sections:
- Search Result Presentation
- URLs and Redirects
- On-page Optimizations
It’s a PDF doc; about 49 pages worth of interesting More >
The Internet of Things – Earth’s Central Nervous System
Aug 20th
Ah – hem, in the near future, there will be more “things” on the internet (especially sensors) than humans. This will become a global “data field”.
The upside as described in the video is BIG:
“When we talk about a smarter planet, you can say that it has two dimensions. One is to be more efficient, be less destructive, to connect different aspects of life which do affect each other in more conscience and deliberate and intelligent ways. But the other is also to generate fundamentally new insights, new activity, new forms of social relations. So you could look at the planet as More >
Social Networks Will Be Like Air
Aug 20th
Charlene Li, social media analyst and co-author of “groundswell – winning in a world transformed by social technologies”, spoke on the future of Social Networks (slides are available on SlideShare, summary available at allfacebook) on March 6, 2008. She stated:
I believe that in the future, social networks will be like air. They will be anywhere and everywhere we need and want them to be. And also, without that social context in our connected lives, we won’t really feel like we are truly living and alive, just as without sufficient air, we won’t really be able to breathe deeply.
Charlene continued:
There are More >
Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved
Aug 19th
A large number of aircraft and watercraft have disappeared over the years without a trace in the area of the western Atlantic Ocean (east of Florida and north of Cuba and Puerto Rico) known as the Bermuda Triangle or the Devil’s Triangle. Many have attributed these disappearances to aliens, paranormal activity and other strange theories.
Now scientists have discovered a more plausible cause for the disappearances:
Enormous Eruptions of Methane Gas (AKA “Natural Gas”)
- Surface: Any ships caught within the methane mega-bubble immediately lose all buoyancy and sink to the bottom of the ocean.
- Air: If the bubbles are big enough and possess a More >
12 Videos That Will Help You Love the Future
Aug 18th
One of my favorite blogs is: Singularity Hub
Keith Kleiner, AKA “Keith Singularity”, has a great post at Singularity Hub about 12 videos that give us reasons to love the future. “Most simply look neat, some are pretty freakin’ weird, a few are sublime. Enjoy.” Click the photo below to see the 12 videos:
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