Social Media
Some Refurbished Xooms Could Put Personal Data In The Wrong Hands
Maybe it was too thick, maybe it was too heavy, maybe you just didn’t like Honeycomb. Regardless of your reasoning, you may want to keep your eyes peeled on your credit score if you bought and returned a Motorola Xoom between March and October 2011, because your personal information may be in someone else’s hands. That’s the story from ...
Some Refurbished Xooms Could Put Personal Data In The Wrong Hands
Maybe it was too thick, maybe it was too heavy, maybe you just didn’t like Honeycomb. Regardless of your reasoning, you may want to keep your eyes peeled on your credit score if you bought and returned a Motorola Xoom between March and October 2011, because your personal information may be in someone else’s hands. That’s the story from ...
Map of 10,000 Tweets Shows New York City at Work
What does where we tweet say about how we live and work? That’s one of the questions Oakland-based programmer Eric Fischer hoped to answer with his latest mapping project. Fischer, a mapping fanatic and artist, is used to displaying vast amounts of information in visually compelling ways. In his latest project, he manages to plot out the motion of ...
Nimble Goes After Salesforce, Wants To Be The “Pandora Of Contacts”
Jon Ferrara thinks Salesforce is doing it wrong when it comes to social. The founder of Goldmine, a CRM company he sold for $100 million nearly a decade ago, is attacking the market a different way with his latest startup, Nimble . “We are effectively Salesforce but social,” he says, taking a jab at what is now the 800-pound gorilla. ...
Bing Brings Postagram To Sundance, Sponsors Postcards For The Movie Stars
Postagram , the mobile app from Sincerely that lets you create and mail real-life postcards from your phone photos, has worked out a clever real-world integration with Bing for the Sundance film festival this weekend. A street team is wandering the snowy roads of Park City, Utah, taking photos of attendees, collecting their addresses, and mailing them Bing-sponsored postcards. ...
Bitly Rolls Out New Enterprise Dashboard, Providing Better Access To The Real-Time Social Web
Popular link-shortening service Bit.ly is today announcing the launch of Bitly Enterprise 2.0 , a new version of its enterprise-friendly dashboard. The Bitly Enterprise platform, which helps businesses with multiple social media accounts monitor the impacts of their content’s distribution, will now include the first production release of the company’s brand-new search technology, allowing customers to track content around ...
10 Creative Ways to Use QR Codes for Marketing
Ekaterina Walter is a social media strategist at Intel. She is a part of Intel’s Social Media Center of Excellence and is responsible for company-wide social media enablement and corporate social networking strategy. She was recently elected to serve on the board of directors of WOMMA. QR codes have been around since the early ’90s, but only with the ...
1 in 10 Americans Make ‘Impulse’ Donations Via Text [STUDY]
“Impulse decision” usually has a negative connotation — except when it comes to making charitable donations via text message. A recent study shows that almost one in 10 Americans has donated via text— and that it was an impulse donation. The Pew Research Center surveyed the response time for donations that came in via text message in the aftermath ...
Smart TVs: How Do They Work?
Smart TVs were everywhere at CES. I must have seen two hundred of them while I was there. I could report on specs, resolution or 3D screens, but really, I am more curious about that word “smart” than I am about the raw specs. Is it merely the sum of new features that defines what a Smart TV is ...
Appifier Launches New Service That Turns WordPress Sites Into Mobile Apps
Appifier is a new service, previously in beta, that turns WordPress sites into mobile apps. That’s not mobile websites , mind you, but actual mobile applications complete with push notifications, offline access, Twitter and Facebook sharing, plus a native look, feel and speed. Unlike many DIY app creators (and there are many), Appifier isn’t doing a freemium offering. You ...
