Monthly Archives: October 2009

What’s holding mobile social networks back? – DigitalBeat

there seem to be four factors holding these networks back: Users are hesitant to join unless their friends are already on board, businesses won’t join up without a critical mass of users, many phones still can’t handle the necessary technology, and there are privacy and behavioral concerns. via ...

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Your last ad?…Pepsi To Cease Advertising | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source

"We know it's good, and everyone's pretty happy with the overall taste, so why spend all our time worrying about what other people think?" PepsiCo CEO Indra K. Nooyi told reporters during a press conference at the company's corporate headquarters. "Frankly, it just feels sort of weird and desperate to put all this ...

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ChangeTracker – keeping an eye on US Government websites

via propublica.org This is cool. A service that watches US government websites to see when changes are introduced. It's a great automated communications watchdog really... Via Dan Gilmnor Posted via web from Antony's posterous

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Thought Gadgets: Nielsen confirms advertising impressions are often fiction

We call this the fallacy of impressions. "Impressions," if you don't work in advertising, are the currency used to price advertising. When you're spending ad dollars, you compare cable network A vs. magazine option B based on the cost to make impressions on the target audience. Impression estimates, like prices in a ...

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Volkswagen to Rely Solely on IPhone App for GTI Launch – Advertising Age – News

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Volkswagen of America is launching the newest-generation GTI exclusively on an iPhone app, a cost-efficient approach the automaker said is a first for the industry.

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“Realtime” counting of social media

It's been a crazy week, book-ended by giving presentations about social media from a strategic business and marketing perspective. One of the things I find myself talking about often is reminding ourselves of the enormity of the changes in behaviour that social media represents. This flash app from Gary Hayes of Personalizemedia is another nice way of ...

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iCrossing’s first iPhone app launches

Naturally delighted to see the official?launch of iCrossing's first iPhone application today... It's called "Say What?" and is a nifty iPhone sized piece of social media monitoring / search goodness (but I would say that wouldn't I?). iCrossing's Say What app checks a keyword across blogs, Digg and Twitter search, so it's a nice, quick way ...

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Letter from Michael Snow and Jimmy Wales.

It is hard to believe that less than a decade ago, Wikipedia didn't exist. Now, 330 million people use Wikipedia every month, making it the ...

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On The Web, Social Media is Just Media – One Man and His Blog

via onemanandhisblog.com The time is coming when the "social" will drop off the word "media" when it comes the the web. The web is social, &c.. Already (social) is a given when I'm talking to someone like Adam, but it's ...

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Where’s Wally? Econsultancy edition…

Looking forward to the Econsultancy Peer Summit  in New York tomorrow. I notice the photo they have used on the web page is from the London equivalent event a few of months ago...Can you spot me and Christophe Langlois (@visible_banking) holding forth on our respective tables?  ...

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Monthly Archives: October 2009

What’s holding mobile social networks back? – DigitalBeat

there seem to be four factors holding these networks back: Users are hesitant to join unless their friends are already on board, businesses won’t join up without a critical mass of users, many phones still can’t handle the necessary technology, and there are privacy and behavioral concerns. via ...

Read the full article »

Your last ad?…Pepsi To Cease Advertising | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source

"We know it's good, and everyone's pretty happy with the overall taste, so why spend all our time worrying about what other people think?" PepsiCo CEO Indra K. Nooyi told reporters during a press conference at the company's corporate headquarters. "Frankly, it just feels sort of weird and desperate to put all this ...

Read the full article »

ChangeTracker – keeping an eye on US Government websites

via propublica.org This is cool. A service that watches US government websites to see when changes are introduced. It's a great automated communications watchdog really... Via Dan Gilmnor Posted via web from Antony's posterous

Read the full article »

Thought Gadgets: Nielsen confirms advertising impressions are often fiction

We call this the fallacy of impressions. "Impressions," if you don't work in advertising, are the currency used to price advertising. When you're spending ad dollars, you compare cable network A vs. magazine option B based on the cost to make impressions on the target audience. Impression estimates, like prices in a ...

Read the full article »

Volkswagen to Rely Solely on IPhone App for GTI Launch – Advertising Age – News

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Volkswagen of America is launching the newest-generation GTI exclusively on an iPhone app, a cost-efficient approach the automaker said is a first for the industry.

Read the full article »

“Realtime” counting of social media

It's been a crazy week, book-ended by giving presentations about social media from a strategic business and marketing perspective. One of the things I find myself talking about often is reminding ourselves of the enormity of the changes in behaviour that social media represents. This flash app from Gary Hayes of Personalizemedia is another nice way of ...

Read the full article »

iCrossing’s first iPhone app launches

Naturally delighted to see the official?launch of iCrossing's first iPhone application today... It's called "Say What?" and is a nifty iPhone sized piece of social media monitoring / search goodness (but I would say that wouldn't I?). iCrossing's Say What app checks a keyword across blogs, Digg and Twitter search, so it's a nice, quick way ...

Read the full article »

Letter from Michael Snow and Jimmy Wales.

It is hard to believe that less than a decade ago, Wikipedia didn't exist. Now, 330 million people use Wikipedia every month, making it the ...

Read the full article »

On The Web, Social Media is Just Media – One Man and His Blog

via onemanandhisblog.com The time is coming when the "social" will drop off the word "media" when it comes the the web. The web is social, &c.. Already (social) is a given when I'm talking to someone like Adam, but it's ...

Read the full article »

Where’s Wally? Econsultancy edition…

Looking forward to the Econsultancy Peer Summit  in New York tomorrow. I notice the photo they have used on the web page is from the London equivalent event a few of months ago...Can you spot me and Christophe Langlois (@visible_banking) holding forth on our respective tables?  ...

Read the full article »

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