Thoughts of Nigel (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Well it had to happen. Coca Cola has taken to the social media bandwagon like a duck to water. Mashable reports that they are on a mission to find happiness in the 206 different countries that sell Coca-Cola products across the world. With the Expedition 206 campaign, Coca-Cola is tapping regular people to be their “Happiness Ambassadors” and travel the world for the whole of 2010 and document...
Near Field Communications World (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Twitter chairman and cofounder Jack Dorsey is working on a new start up that is developing an iPhone attachment which will enable iPhones to be used to make payments, according to recent reports. Believed to be called the Square iPhone Payment System, the project was first reported by tech blog Mashable last month along with a [...]
Paul Stallard's Technology PR Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
While catching up on my reading after a month out of the loop playing happy families I came across a link on Brendan Cooper’s blog to a piece on Mashable about ROI with social media. An excellent read and Christina Warren the author has hit the nail on the head in my eyes. As she [...]
Mashable (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here . The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: Kwanzoo Quick Pitch: Create something interesting that will be talked about online – and then shared amongst peers on social networks:...
WebPro News (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
We knew Twitter lists were going to be big for Twitter. We knew they were going to greatly increase the usefulness of the service, and for many, even the enjoyment. What we didn't know, however, was that right out of the box, we would see so many different uses for them, providing a window to the potential that they really do hold not only for Twitter itself, but for any business or individual who...
Mashable (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Dan Schawbel is the bestselling author of Me 2.0 and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog . His latest blog, the Student Branding Blog , provides branding and career advice for high school, college and graduate students. There are thousands of different websites that you can leverage to build your own personal brand, but only a few that will give you both the reach and credibility to...
Moco News (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
» Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) lets slip in an FCC filing that Google Voice has 1.4 million subscribers. [ CommsDay ] » Pizza Hut’s iPhone app has brought in $1 million in sales. [ Mashable ] » Pictures of parts from the next generation of iPhones are starting to leak out of Hong Kong. [ Gizmodo ] » Phone subsidies are hurting companies like Sprint ( NYSE: S ). [ Fierce Wireless...
brandflakesforbreakfast (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
This is a fun scarepost that reports how the internet is about to run out of domain names . It's true - it could happen in 2010, but as the Mashable post explains, as soon as everyone converts to a new internet protocol, everything will be just fine. In the meantime, you could use this information to scare everyone in your firm. Start a series of meetings and committees to tackle the "2010 domain...
Integrated Marcom (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
I recently participated in a discussion about the criteria of a successful B2B blog. Assuming that your blog has good quality content and is genuine ( if not, then what's the purpose? ), it boils down to three things: Recency Frequency Relevancy Recency refers to the last time you posted. If you’re blogging once a month, that may not be recent enough to gain any traction, which leads to frequency....
Mashable (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
As predicted the Twitter Lists API is causing a fast frenzy amongst Twitter developers anxious to be first to support the new Lists feature. Just this morning we saw Seesmic Desktop release a new version of their application to support Lists, and now there’s news of a brand new widget. Twitter Lists Widget is a simple widget built by TweetGrid with a big purpose: letting you create a widget...
WebPro News (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Social media provides a great deal of tools and opportunities for reaching the masses, which makes for some ideal ways of marketing a business. The marketing potential of social media also means great things for charitable causes. The emergence of social media has opened up a lot of doors for getting messages out there and spread wider than was ever possible before. What better way is there to find...
Oklahoma Women's Network Blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Why I love Twitter... A Tweet by Pete Cashmore of Mashable : " The Top Internet Memes of 2009" (which was actually written by Christina Warren of Mashable) . I do love "David After the Dentist" but my favorite is "United Breaks Guitars." Check out the whole list for a good chuckle at http://bit.ly/1Da6Yk ! (You know you are old when you stand in line at airports and say,...
Bloggers Blog: Blogging the Blogsphere (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
There are some blog posts discussing the most listed Twitter accounts here and here that claim Mashable is the second most listed Twitter account. It hasn't been #2 for several days. Here is a more correct ranking of the top most listed accounts. Barack Obama : 11,007 Taylor Swift : 9,507 CNN Breaking : 8,777 The Ellen Show : 8,057 Shit My Dad Says : 7,954 Lady Gage : 7,695 Mashable : 7,665 Demi Lovato...
Tech Startups 3.0 (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
So here is the list, which is not ranked 1-100 but simply listed in alphabetical order. If there are others you think should be added to the list, make a note in the comments. Chris Anderson ( @chr1sa ) Editor in Chief of Wired and author of The Long Tail Michael Arrington ( @techcrunch ) Founder of TechCrunch John Battelle ( @johnbattelle ) Author and pundit on Google and Internet search Veronica...
Switched (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Filed under: Editor's Picks Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... November 9th marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall , and now, after 40 years of division, another barrier is coming down. ICANN, the Web address regulatory organization , is set to finally allow non-Latin alphabet characters in domain names, meaning that addresses can appear in languages like...
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