Citing Facebook App Developer Shortage, Webtrends Acquires Transpond – Daily Link

August 10, 2010

Yesterday, Webtrends has acquired Transpond, a facebook Turnkey application development creator. According to ReadWriteWeb.com: Transpond is an application publishing tool for Facebook, iPhone and Android Apps, as well as mobile-friendly web pages. Webtrends will offer the service as a new service called Webtrends Apps. To me this is just part of the trend of the “traditional” [...]

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8 Success Criteria for Facebook – Daily Link

August 9, 2010

Everyone wants to be on Facebook (and I mean brands, because all of us are already on Facebook as individuals). But there are very few organizations that (in my experience) are either viewing their Facebook program as being wildly successful, or truly understand how to engage. Facebook programs are a lot of work, and need [...]

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Quick, Get Me a Doctor! (using ZocDoc) – Daily Link

August 6, 2010

Special thanks to John Fleming of Outcome Labs for sending this one over. ZocDoc automates a task that can be incredibly frustrating and time-consuming for consumers. ZocDoc allows users to book their doctor appointments online, even for same-day appointments (around 40% of ZocDoc users schedule same-day appointments). Patients can see real-time availability of doctors in [...]

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Are Email, Facebook, and Twitter Fans Different? – Daily Link

August 5, 2010

Today’s link is an eMarketer article about an ExactTarget report on the differences between brand engagement on the different major engagement platforms, namely, Email, Facebook and Twitter. They found … there is little cannibalization among the three channels—instead, there is significant overlap and different patterns of engagement. Email appeals to just about everybody. Groups that [...]

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The Mosque in New York Should NOT Be Allowed to be Built that Close To Ground Zero

August 4, 2010

I really try to stay somewhat apolitical on Facebook, and on Twitter, and especially here on my blog. Regardless of my personal beliefs (which are pretty far to the left of center), I usually tend to stay away from deep political comments and discussions, and focus on my business, and the professional side of my [...]

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Social Media Monitoring List – Daily Link

August 4, 2010

Social media is great. Social media is awesome. Social Media is also hard to measure (see my previous Daily Link 100 Ways to Measure Social Media) and track.  As everyone who presents about the Social Media industry says: “The conversation is already going on about you and your company and your brand.” Well, guess what: [...]

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100 Ways to Measure Social Media – Daily Link

August 3, 2010

I recently presented (as part of a panel) on Social Media Measurement. Each panelist chose their favorite metric and presented about it. I chose revenue, because that’s the only one that truly matters. (Check out my presentation). Today’s link is from MediaPost, and lists 100 ways to measure your social media programs (revenue is in [...]

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The State of Mobile Video: Porn, Flash and Stalling – Daily Link

August 2, 2010

Today’s link is a Mashable plug article about Bytemobile’s state of mobile video report.  Couple of interesting points, though: We consume mobile video most at 10 PM, which is exactly the point when there is the lowest available bandwidth, which causes loading delays.  If you want to watch a video when both consumption is the [...]

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How Does Google Work? – Daily Link

July 30, 2010

Matt Cutts of Google explains how Google search works (video below). You can also go to Google’s How Google Works web site, and see the video below and 2 more about how Google’s paid search and apps work. These videos were release during the first quarter of 2010. I’m not sure who the intended audience [...]

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iPhone Mobile Boarding Passes – Daily Link

July 29, 2010

According to AppShopper.com, American Airlines just released a new iPhone app that will let travelers use their phones as a boarding pass. My question is, when you go through the metal detectors, they sometimes ask to see your boarding pass again.  But it will be on your phone going through the xray scanner, along with [...]

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