Twit Or Fit launches today - effectively an idea borne of combining Twitter with a site like Hot Or Not, where you rate the appearance of people displayed. The project is a collaboration between UK RSS aggregator fav.or.it and collaboration startup huddle.net. It came about produced after Huddle marketing manager Zuzanna Pasierbinska-Wilson was looking for entrants to a tongue in cheek beauty pageant for UK startups and fav.or.it founder Nic Halstead suggested a hot or not for Twitter. Here’s the idea: 1. you can only vote if you sign up yourself - and therefore put yourself forward to be...
You know that skeptical marketing manager, brand manager or even CEO you’re kind of intimidated by? The one who rolls his or her eyes when the word, “blog,” is used in a sentence. The one that is constantly asking for the ROI of his or her social media spend in a tone that makes you certain you won’t be included in next year’s budget? I think I’ve figured out how to win him or her over. Last week I had a meeting scheduled with that guy. It was supposed to last an hour. Two hours into it, he had to...
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One of the opportunities from speaking at the Pubcon conference in Las Vegas recently was meeting many client side social media marketing practitioners. Jessica Berlin, one of my co-panelists and social media manager from Cirque du Soleil, offered excellent insights into online reputation management and social media. I’ve invited her to take part in our “Social Media Smarts‘ series of interviews with social media marketing practitioners. Jess has worked with Cirque du Soleil as a publicist and now as a social media marketing manager. She’s active on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn and has received kudos from social media kingmakers like...
The SSD market was moving at a peaceful albeit underwhelming pace until Intel joined the party, promptly putting the smackdown on the competition. Intel's X-25M SSD proved to be twice as fast as other drives to have gone through Maximum PC's lab, helping it to earn a Kickass! award.Now Samsung looks to follow suit, which comes as somewhat of a surprise given that the company hasn't been at that forefront of performance with SSDs topping out at less than 100MB/s. But that was before, and Samsung's new 256GB SSD not only offers up to twice as much storage space as...
In the first of what we hope to be a series of retailer interviews, I caught up with Zachary Applegate of PlumberSurplus and OutdoorPros: Tell us a little about yourself and your company: My name is Zachary Applegate, I am the Search and Marketing Manager for the Gordian Project which is currently the parent company for two ecommerce websites PlumberSurplus.com and OutdoorPros.com. PlumberSurplus.com has been live since August 2004 and offers tens of thousands of plumbing, home improvement, and building products in a range of categories including Kitchen and Bathroom, Water Heaters, Lighting, Pumps, Tools, Access Doors, Valves, Commercial and...
Getting a bit technical for a moment, I got a bit of news through from Sagem Orga, the chaps who make a lot of sim card and sim card related systems. They’ve partnered with BlueSky Positioning to bring the world’s first Assisted-GPS Sim card to market. Interesting. Enter Francois Blanchard, Global Account Marketing Manager at Sagem Orga: “The SIM is entering a new era where it can now be considered as a real service platform and a valuable device; the A-GPS enabled SIM card will reshape the way SIM cards are perceived by MNOs and end-users.” I picked up...
Mozilla’s Firefox has made strides in recent years as consumers have drifted away from Internet Explorer to the open-source Web browser. The latest Nielsen Online survey showed Firefox with 15% of U.S. online adults, and the company set a Guinness World Record for downloads in 24 hours when it released Firefox 3 in July. Now, faced with competition from Google’s Chrome browser, Firefox is cajoling regular-Joe users to use add-ons, a feature at the heart of Firefox. The Mountain View, Calif. company’s 5,000+ add-ons range from search toolbars to a Calvin-and-Hobbes popup generator. But as many as 70% to 80%...
China was the leading source of Internet attack traffic in the three-month period ending September 30, according to Akamai's quarterly "State of the Internet" report, which the company published today. The United States has maintained its number two spot since Q1, and Japan, which topped the list in Q2, moved down to fifth place. Last week McColo Corp, a major hosting service for spamming organizations, was taken offline, The Washington Post reported. Botnets using McColo's many Internet addresses were responsible for as much as 75 percent of spam a day, and it will be interesting to see if the shutdown...
MySpace has an embarrassing situation today involving their new MyAds self service advertising product - they’ve repeatedly rejected ads from a startup called HubPages as competitive to MySpace, despite the fact that the site isn’t a social network. Ryan Hupfer from HubPages (who coincidentally is the author of MySpace For Dummies) writes: This is a follow-up for these 2 posts (here and here) that you guys have written on the new MySpace MyAds advertising platform, which I was initially excited for and now wish that I’d never seen due to it being a complete waste of my time. I...
Sprint’s recent commercials have been minimalist — CEO Dan Hesse, a black-and-white palette, earnest cellphone marketing — but online, the carrier has quietly launched a campaign for its mobile broadband cards that is all about information overload. The “Plug into Now” page is a crazy quilt of feeds, some tapping live data and some based on graphical representations, including the world population, number of emails being sent, current national debt (alternating with your share of it), a countdown to Doughnut Day and Google’s top searches. The widget below will give you an idea: It’s getting discussed all over the Web,...
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