Daily Music
Rough Exchanges by Resident Peasant
ShareResident Peasant, I’m digging you! Soft melodies intertwined with experimental indie folk I don’t think I could even come up with a better Monday work mix. If you haven’t taken the time to listen to this folk based band make sure you do and let them know what you think. Their full album is available [...]
Welcome Home, Radical Face
ShareWelcome Home by Radical Face probably isn’t anything new for many of you but I had to post it anyway. The actual music video is pretty darn cool however that isn’t when the song really moved up my list. Used in the Video Framed by Andi Wittmann Welcome Home took on a whole new meaning [...]
Bizness, Tune-Yards
Share Bizness is from Tune-Yards second alubm whokill released on April 18th 2011. There style is different, instrumentals completely solid, and a singer that gives you jam that you want to sing when you’re sitting during a meeting at work.
How Universities are leveraging NFC tech on campus http://t.co/zbsKofPq - What other opps do you see for NFC in a school setting? #education
Mobile Commerce Revolution
Posted by Elliott on June 2, 2011 · View Comments
ShareThe use of mobile devices is changing user behavior on how people search, interact and purchase consequently creating a mobile commerce revolution. From mobile devices consumers can compare, search reviews, talk to their friends, receive coupons, purchase in-store or online. With this new powerful tools traditional as well as online companies are going to have [...]
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Power of Geolocation, If I Die Facebook App
Posted by Elliott on May 19, 2011 · View Comments
ShareIf I Die Facebook Application allows people to leave video messages to only be distributed on your social channels after you die. They had one problem though people were not signing up becuase naturally the general public doesn’t think they’re going to die any time soon. Using the power of geolocation and social checkin api’s [...]
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Where is Groupon Going to be in Two Years? 50% Mobile Sales!
Posted by Elliott on May 17, 2011 · View Comments
ShareBenjamin Gauthey posted an interesting article from eMoney today stating the Groupon sees half of all sales coming from mobile. Groupon VP Mobile Partnerships Michael Shim said: “Mobile is huge for Groupon…I believe we could see us doing 50 percent of deals sold/purchased in the next couple of years.” This statement is indefinitely coming from [...]
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Social Commerce ROI
Posted by Elliott on May 16, 2011 · View Comments
ShareHow to show ROI for social media efforts is in debate as it has been for a long time. This infographic was created by Spinback (e-commerce sharing plugins), which is now part of Facebook marketing company Buddy Media. Personally I think the first half of the infographic is a little weak however, shares drives sales [...]
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Cats and Tanks
Posted by Elliott on May 14, 2011 · View Comments
ShareWell here’s to you 4chan for inspiring another internet trend. The new video cats and tanks by Whitehouse Post will be required reading for all social media students and viral wannabes in the next couple of days. Watch what happens when you put a cat in charge of a tank, humans beware. Cats in Tanks [...]
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Russian Roulette, Put Your Digital Life on the Line
Posted by Elliott on May 14, 2011 · View Comments
ShareMaybe inspired by the russian roulette scene in the movie Deer Hunter Miami Ad School in Europe cam up with a concept for Russian Standard Vodka where users put their digital life on the line. If you loose the digital russian roulette game your Facebook profile will be shutdown and messages will go out to [...]
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Stephen Fry on Social Media
Posted by Elliott on May 13, 2011 · View Comments
ShareStephen Fry has a unique way with words and his talk on social media inspires some great insight even thought the video is a little old.
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How do You show ROI for social media marketing in terms of time and resources spent?
Posted by Elliott on April 28, 2011 · View Comments
Share There are 5 main metrics that you want to measure when you’re showing the ROI for social media marketing in terms of time and resources. These metrics are not a silver bullet but are surefire ways to show that you’re driving value for your business. This is the first installment for Social Media ROI [...]
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Facebook Real Life Like Button
Posted by Elliott on April 28, 2011 · View Comments
ShareConnecting the digital and the real-world is becoming more and more prominent. With advancing technologies such as RFID, Mobile Tagging, augmented reality and image recognition people are becoming more connected every day. The video blow shows a new implementation of RFID chips that allows visitors at the AutoRAI 2011 Motor show to physically like cars [...]
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Facebook Augmented Realty Application
Posted by Elliott on April 28, 2011 · View Comments
Share Built by Famous Interactive this augmented reality Facebook application is one of the best I’ve seen that adds value to consumers. When a user opens up the augmented reality application they not only see the new WP7 but semmlessly layers a variety of social content as well. Have you seen a better Facebook augmented [...]
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