Archive

Year: 2011

Marketing

NBC Sports Scores A Touchdown With The Rights To Livestream The Super Bowl

In what may mark a significant breakthrough and “validation” of the Internet television age, NBC announced today that the National Football League (NFL), has granted them rights to broadcast the post-season games, all leading up to the granddaddy of them all, Super Bowl XLVI. Surely lots of football games are being streamed online on the […]

Marketing

LiquidSpace Sheds Some Light On Coworking Spaces To Help Your Productivity

Last week was the first annual Mobile Work Week in San Francisco and it was organized by the co-working space finder, Liquidspace. During this week-long event, participants had the opportunity to learn more about the co-working phenomenon and just how beneficial it is to not only the entrepreneur, but also other businesses and even local […]

Marketing

Demanding Positive Feedback From Your Customers Earns You Zero Respect

Today, when I read the news on CNN.com, one of the stories I came across drew my attention and got me thinking about how customer service has gone horribly awry. The story was entitled “Kansas teen won’t apologize to governor’s office for Twitter post“. The premise behind this story was an eighteen-year old girl named […]

Trends & Analysis

OPINION: Congress Passing SOPA Leads To Nothing But The End of Innovation

Over the past few days, there’s been a quiet rumbling taking place in the halls of the United States Congress and it’s getting louder. Our elected leaders have felt that it was their responsibility to do something that most of the real experts would have thought unreasonable: they wanted to censor the Internet. No, they […]

Apps

1000memories Puts Your Family Tree In The Cloud & Lets You Cultivate It

As we move forward with our lives and grow our families, how often are we keeping track of the past? Are we keeping track of who our grandparents were and what their lives are like? Family history is probably one of the most important things in our lives since it’s a powerful force in defining […]

Apps

Urbandig Gets You Lost So You Can Explore Hidden Locales

Nearly four years ago, I moved to San Francisco to find a job. During the first two years, it was then that I decided to get out and explore the new city that I now lived in. For me, and perhaps lots of people who visit new places, looking for things that are off the […]

Social Media

In Era of War, The Internet Gives Us Opportunity To Pay Homage To Our Veterans

Yesterday was Veterans Day here in the United States and in the past decade, the country has known nothing but war. As we start winding down the war in Iraq and slowly in Afghanistan, there are thousands of veterans from those wars that will be returning home. Many of whom will have various needs both […]

Marketing

Google+ Rolls Out Brand Pages, But While It Has Potential, It Lacks Interest

We kind of knew it was coming. It was only a mater of time. Earlier this week, Google announced that it was allowing companies and brands, perhaps giving brands their desired place of residence on the fastest growing social network on the Internet today. So as soon as the opportunity arose, the race to secure […]

Apps

Cake Health Aims To Prove Healthcare Costs Can Be Managed & Simplified

Perhaps one of the most financially troubling and stressful things that people have to deal with is managing their health insurance. Often, we get our insurance from our employers or through our loved one’s workplace and then get taken care of. But then again, there are those people who get insurance through other means who […]

Marketing

Virgin America Takes A PR Tumble, But Its Customer Service History Will Pick It Back Up

Every company has its bad days. We all know it and there’s no way to appease everyone, but you try your darnedest to make it happen. Sure, some of the “bad days” that companies have had to endure are more nightmare’ish rather than just a single individual filing a complaint, but even the ones that earn all […]