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Category: Marketing
Sending emails with embedded forms – yay or nay?
So as I sit here typing away on my laptop and hoping that our hosting provider will grant me the right permissions to properly read a PHP script on a webpage and process it correctly, I thought I’d leave a quick blog here about some of the latest challenges that I’ve come across with respect […]
Get your apps going at WidgetDevCamp
WidgetDevCamp is a DevCamp-style event in Washington DC for anyone interested in Widget and modular app development.It will be a chance for discussion, learning and some collaborative widget hacking. Come and share information on the latest topics in widget development, and see what kinds of prototypes can be built with a group of smart folks […]
Bad Yaari: Social spam isn’t okay
So I get an e-mail today from one of my contacts in my GMail with the subject line: XXX sent you a friend request on Yaari… and so I decided to check it out. What’s Yaari you ask? Well I honestly don’t know myself. The website says that it’s a social networking sites for Indian […]
The Issue of Social Media Sustainability and Durability
So this past week I’ve been mulling around on Facebook and it got me thinking about the usability of social media. Is this interactive form of marketing applicable in ALL circumstances? I don’t think so. Taking my work in tourism as an example, social media applications like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Dopplr, Seesmic, Qik, […]
ROI of requiring user registration online
I’d like to offer my two-cents on an article featured on Techmeme but displayed on Publishing 2.0 in regards to what’s the point of having user registration on a site? Does it ultimately lead to any real benefit for the users? At one point, when you had password protected sites/user registration, there was an aura […]
Meet the searchable Twit
I came across the Terraminds website through, ironically, a Twitter by Robert Scoble who called it a “very nice Twitter search”. I tested it out and it’s actually quite remarkable. If you have a Twitter account, you’ll notice that the only “search” that you have is to find the people that you are looking for, […]
Mashable announces Open Web Award Winners
In perhaps the first open source web award contest by Mashable, the winners were announced on Friday. Here’s a list of the winners according to their site: Mainstream and Large Social Networks: Netlog Applications and Widgets:Â Widgetbucks Social News and Social Bookmarking: Digg Social Search: Facebook Sports and Fitness: SportMe Photo Sharing: VOIS Video Sharing: […]
How social can you be to influence someone?
So while I was on Twitter early this morning, I came across this post where Shiv Singh had written an article/paper on why people and companies should “Think Social Influence Marketing in 2008” and after reviewing it, it definitely makes a lot of sense…and when you read it yourself, you’ll probably think that it’s common […]
LinkedIn’s Beta Site more Wiki’ish…it seems
So announced today on the LinkedIn blog, there is a new beta site for the social network for busy professionals. LinkedIn is opening it up to feedback but you’ll need to have an account to login and check out the new changes. What’s interesting about these changes is that they’re utilizing more wiki-style design…being able […]
DMNews: The Week in Stats
So jumping back on the bandwagon over my previous entry about the POST method, I happened to read the December 3 edition of DMNews and found some interesting statistics on social media and what people are doing. Here are a few snippets of what it said: 78% of marketers see social media marketing as a […]