Negative Nancy? That’s kind of a panzy term isn’t it? Well I guess, but I’m not really that upset with Apple, at least not as much as others out there – namely Adobe, Lala fans, those still waiting for iPads, those still boycotting AT&T to get an iPhone and the entire music industry who was forced to liveby the iTunes standard of $.99 music.
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As Foursquare continues to gain popularity, the capabilities are expanding and businesses are learning how to leverage the mobile program and encourage in-store traffic through incentives. (more…)
So if you aren’t familiar, a “relatively new” network, Foursquare is getting a lot of attention.
If the blitzkrieg-esque popularity of Zynga gaming titles like Farmville and Mafia Wars are any indication, gaming on a social networking platform seems like a win-win formula for users, developers and the platform itself. Joining the scene this week is long-time social networking site MySpace as they introduce a revitalized MySpace Games in the midst of the festivities surrounding this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC 2010) in San Francisco, Ca.
MySpace was once the dominant social networking site, easily beating out competition Friendster when it was launched in 2003. Since then, MySpace has catered to a barrage of younger users ranging from the common social-seeker and consumer in search of entertaining contents online, to content creators like musicians and stand up comics looking for a venue to showcase their wares. Currently, it has been designated as a second stringer to the likes of Facebook though still heavily credited as a music discovery platform.
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The advertising and marketing industries run at a very fast pace, but even they can have a hard time keeping up technology. It’s rare that an ad agency gets the chance to present a tech-based idea to a client when it’s still in it’s early adoption phase and has a chance to blow up with the platform, and it’s even rarer that they are able to sell the idea. The truth is, simplicity is a rare commodity in the technological age, but it is crucial to save your idea from being killed in the boardroom.
As technology evolves and the opportunities grow, the job of selling your tech-based ideas will grow even more difficult; if something sounds complicated, it doesn’t sound good. Even if the idea is great, it is hard to sell the idea when you also have to sell the technology or the medium, so take a look at a few tips to help you bring your social media and technology-based ideas to life:
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What we all love about social media is that it is social. We can share things, from links to videos to messages with our friends, colleagues and online stalkers with the click of a button. We can then talk back, comment or pass that message on as well and do so instantaneously.
Part of social media is sharing your experiences. This is typically done through pictures and recently video as well as mobile Tweets. As we start to integrate our online and offline lives at a feverish pace, I wanted to share some ways that you can start to connect what you are doing with your networks without missing a beat.
Could iPhone’s Fly Chat application be the latest and greatest in social networking? Flychat is a social application for the iPhone and has a pretty cool concept. You can send messages and friend invites via a yellow fly (the app literally has flies buzzing around your screen), to people in your city, country or even the world. Green flies on your screen are incoming messages and can be from anyone anywhere, red flies are messages from your friends. Receiving messages is as easy as clicking on the flies or you can open your inbox to view them all. (more…)
