Recorded Future: Google Meets Nostradamus
If you love data Recorded Future is for you. This new start up crawls the web for statements that are associated with some kind of time expressions. Furthermore, it has a feature that uses the data to describe the future in various geographies on various topics. The best part you... Read More
Revisit: Interactive Visualization For What People are Stumbling Through Twitter
revisit is a great project that visualizes twitter messages in real-time for a specific topic. The picture below is all of the people in the twitter-sphere talking about or linking to Stumbleupon. The twitter stream tools, provides a sense of the temporal dynamics in the twitter stream emphasizing the conversational... Read More
Nike+ Iphone App Just Released
Nike+ launched about two years ago leading the way for corporate social networks. They built a platform that gave connectivity and interactivity. Obviously this platform had a great appeal for serious runners however, Nike took it to the next level allowing users to communicate with other runner around the globe.... Read More
Scribd: Making Books Viral on the Web
When I was at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco a couple months ago the debate between HTML5 and Java was a bid debate. In non geek people were debating what kind of code should be used for the web in the future. These two codes allow text and... Read More
Interactive YouTube Video Clips The Next Trend For Viral Videos?
We’ve all seen funny videos that have taken off on the web and gone viral. However, Tipp-Ex® is taking YouTube Videos to the Next Level by allowing users to choose what ending they want to see by changing the title of the video directly on YouTube thanks to the Tipp-ex... Read More
What Happens To Your Facebook Profile When You Die
More than likely many people don’t think about what happens to their Facebook account when they die. The first thing that I think about is what will happen to my house, car and physical assets. However, it might be time to start thinking what happens to your digital assets when... Read More
How To Use Google Adwords to Define Keywords For Targeting Your Audience
Engagement is the cornerstone of social media. Brian Solis even wrote a book on engagement, which I do recommend reading if you’ haven’t already. Having engagement being one of the most important parts of social media it’s perfect for outreach marketing efforts. Outreach marketing is the action of seeking out... Read More
How To Create an Info-graphic (prt.2)
After showing the power of info-graphics in a previous post, I thought it would be best to go over some tips for gathering data and tools to help you create your own info-graphic. Where can you gather the data? Before you can start an info-graphic you need to collect a good amount... Read More
Vocus: A New Social Monitoring and Engagement Tool
If you can’t measure it you can’t improve it, but what tools and metrics do you rely on to measure your success or failures in social media. Vocus just recently release their social monitoring tool allowing people to monitor and engage blogs, Facebook groups, forums and much more. Here’s a... Read More
Pick up the damn phone!
Social marketing is truly social and it’s not something where you can stand idly and pretend that your fingers typing on the computer will make truly valuable relationships. So many “social gurus” become too concerned about how many followers or friends they have rather than concerning themselves who’s in their... Read More
