Category: Social Media

Can viral marketing result in us being accomplices to violence?

I was watching Cold Case on TNT and the trailer for the upcoming Diane Lane flick “Untraceable” came on. The premise of this movie is that Diane Lane’s character is in charge of the FBI’s cyber-crime task force and she comes across this website that shows a live stream (a la Ustream.tv) of someone being […]

Offering my two-cents on the Twitter-Seesmic war

Okay, so there’s not a war between Twitter and Seesmic. In fact, everything is quite cordial…no problems whatsoever. So why did I call it a war? Well I thought it would spark some interest in this posting. Richard Scoble recently posted a Seesmic video in which he explains why he finds Seesmic better than Twitter. […]

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:  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 […]

Exploiting Web 2.0 To Promote ‘National Treasure’

My workplace is allowing us an advance screening of Walt Disney Pictures’ “National Treasure: Book of Secrets” and seeing that I’m in the interactive industry, I wanted to see what other people thought I should do to exploit the web 2.0 phenomena for this special event.

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 […]

Social Times launch party recap

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 […]

Are you caring about your social life?

I just read The Key to Creating a Social Strategy written by Josh Bernoff with Charlene Li, Cynthia Pflaum, and Scott Wright and published through Forrester Research and I highly recommend it for at least some light reading. It delves into the whole concept of a “systematic approach to social strategy” and something that many […]