Dell, eBay, and Sephora Launch Black Friday Virtual Gift Campaigns on Facebook (1)
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With the holiday shopping season gearing up, Dell, eBay, and Sephora are kicking off virtual gift campaigns on Facebook throughout the Thanksgiving weekend. 250,000 of each of the sponsored holiday shopping-themed virtual gifts will be available. Dell’s virtual gift is a red laptop with a ribbon, and is part of a broader social media campaign on Facebook driving traffic to Dell’s Facebook Page. Dell’s Facebook Page also promotes a Dell application called Share (RED) by ...
NoLimit Apps Show Gifting Can Still Go Viral (3)
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Basic applications based on “gifting” or “tossing” virtual items, such as food or pillows, were once a staple of the Facebook platform. As Facebook tightened their platform policies, however, a number of once hyper-viral gift apps quickly faded into obscurity. Nevertheless, NoLimit Solutions‘ recent toss-app successes show that this approach can still be effective. In NoLimit’s Pass a Drink, users can send and receive a variety of virtual drinks, and the app follows the basic ...
16 Examples of Turkey Fryer-Fueled Mayhem [Deep Fried Fun] (11)
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Frying up a turkey poses two health hazards—one from clogged arteries and another from the fryer itself. The folks at OObject have put together a list of 16 videos involving everything from proper use of a turkey fryer, to elaborate turkey fryer contraptions to deep fryin' hillbillies holdin' guns. And oh yes, there are several examples of things going very...very wrong. A turkey cooked with thermite? You had better believe that's an explosion. [OObject]
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Chris I said:
Our turkey fry is on December 12th. I hope the 3rd fry is the charm!
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Aaron H. said:
Gotta watch these before you try it at the office, Em.
PC Virtual World Habbo Hotel Has Nearly 1 Million Mobile Users (1)
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The mobile version of Habbo Hotel, the virtual game aimed at teenagers, has registered almost a million users with almost no marketing, VentureBeat reports. Mini Friday, which is the mobile counterpart to Habbo Hotel, is an example of a site that's been able to crossover to mobile, without being held back by all of the hoops typically associated with re-purposing online content for mobile phones. What's particularly fascinating about Mini Friday's growth rate is the ...
MySpace Begins Giving Developers Access to the News Feed (4)
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If MySpace could help developers promote their applications to get more distribution, activity notifications in friends’ news feeds would be a great way to do it. Last night the company announced that they are rolling out the beta version of “application activities”. Currently these application activities will only be viewable to developers until at least “after the holidays”. Once fully rolled out this will give developers on the MySpace platform, much greater promotional visibility. This ...
Viral Channels: Facebook Connect & Iframe Apps Can Now Post to Friends’ Feeds (5)
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While users of Facebook apps built in FBML have been able to post content to friends’ feeds for quite a while, Facebook hasn’t supported the same functionality for iframe apps or Facebook Connect-enabled websites. However, that’s changing today. Now, iframe apps and Connect websites will be able to use showFeedDialog to publish content to one friend’s wall. However, to publish content to multiple friends’ walls, developers will still need to use the FBML multiFeedForm. Allowing ...
Trimming Facebook for Long Term Value (16)
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I think I’m pretty “friendly” on Facebook. I currently have over 400 Facebook “friends,” and some are actually people who I actually would consider my friend in real life while others are just people I know but don’t know well. I have thought about unfriending those whose profiles I look at and wonder “Who the heck is this person?” but have figured there might still be value in “friends,” no matter how tenuous the connection. ...
Celsius at Bryant Park (2)
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It a big week for New York's newly open-for-the-season ice skating rinks. Bryant Park's rink, which is seasonally surrounded by holiday shops, now has a giant glass restaurant sitting by its side as well. Celsius (housed in a tent previous years) is having a grand opening this weekend in their 7,000 square foot, all glass, two-story building. The balcony overlooking the park and rink is even complete with outdoor heat lamps for staying toasty. They ...
Modern Networking Tools: Swapping Bits, Not Biz Cards (4)
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With the recession in full swing, industries across the charts have been laying off hundreds of employees — making the job market increasingly competitive. So what’s a freshly unemployed tech professional to do? Hit the streets and start networking. As the hordes of job-seekers descend upon trade shows, conferences and meetups around the country, a few mobile startups could be poised to profit from their misery: digital business card services. The last few months have ...
Create Image-less Graphs and Charts (17)
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Adding beautiful charts to your site does not have to require a hefty server-side process or a third party service. With CSS and a little ingenuity, you can have the lightweight, easy to create visualizations of your data. The design mavens over at Six Revisions have put together eight examples of CSS charts and graphs. Each one uses little to no images to create snappy bar and column chart. There’s even a scatter plot example ...
Viral Channels: New Features for Application Emails (9)
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App developers know that Facebook’s restrictions on application emails have made the use of email as an effective communication channel much more challenging. Tonight, there is good news: Facebook is announcing several new features for developers to employ in their application emails. Here’s a quick summary: Many new formatting tags are available for the first time. For a complete list of which HTML tags developers can use in their emails, see the Developer Wiki page. ...
More Creative Banner Ads (5)
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I've been thinking quite a bit lately about advertising on the internet. More specifically about how the economic downturn could signal a breaking point for banner advertising. So we know about banner blindness and dismal clickthrough/interaction rates, yet people keep buying up the stuff. Mainly it's because it's the closest thing the web has to do with scale. There are no other good ways to get your message in front of a lot of people ...
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I've been thinking quite a bit lately about advertising on the internet. More specifically about how the economic downturn could signal a breaking point for banner advertising. So we know about banner blindness and dismal clickthrough/interaction rates, yet people keep buying up the stuff. Mainly it's because it's the closest thing the web has to do with scale. There are no other good ways to get your message in front of a lot of people ...
In a World of 99 Cent Millionaires (3)
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Over the past few years there has been a tremendous shift toward open platforms and now there are limitless tools to connect with your friends, increase your productivity, and waste your time. Facebook was a tremendous catalyst for this but now there are millions of applications on the web, some useful, some not, most of which now provide developer APIs. For those of you not aware of what APIs are, they enable developers to quickly ...
GlamApps Validates BuddyMedia’s Appvertisement Model (1)
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Today, Glam media announced the launch of GlamApps a service for advertisers to generate interactive content that publishers can leverage to generate revenue. The service also leverages OpenSocial, expanding the service to one of the largest blog networks on the web. Rather than have publishers create their own interactive tools, advertisers are encouraged to build their own services which bloggers can embed and then the advertiser can display ads on. Not all applications generate income ...
1 in 10 Brand Searches Led Away from the Brand Website (4)
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This week we are publishing a report on online brand protection. This issue is huge for marketers with our research showing that more than 1 in 10 US Internet searches for leading brands is led away from the brand owner's website. When you search for a brand in the phone book, you don't find that brand's competitors listed. But when you search online, that brand's fiercest competitors often appear in the sponsored listings. Online businesses ...
Everything Is Risky (19)
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Marketing maven Seth Godin once said something along the lines of "safe is risky and risky is safe". While I'm no guru, I'd like to make an addendum to this statement. Everything is risky. But it wasn't always this way. TV once portrayed perfection—fantasy, and radio told us what we thought we wanted to hear. There was no way to provide instant feedback. If you wanted to pick a bone with a TV or radio ...
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Laurent Courtines said:
I need to get my boss to buy into risk a little bit more!
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geoffliving said:
What would make this Armano post better is cross links to relevent voices.
Sniff lets you find your friends in real-time (4)
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Useful Networks, a mobile location firm that has been operating in the U.K. and Scandinavia, announced Monday that it has brought its mobile and Facebook-integrated friend finder, Sniff, to the U.S. through the Sprint Network. Sniff allows users to find friends automatically and in real-time and provides them with exact coordinates to let them know exactly where they are throughout the day. In order to alert its users to their friend's location, Sniff automatically sends ...
TiVo Completes The Evening TV Dinner: Adds Domino's Pizza Ordering [Tivo Pizza] (16)
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Ahh...digitally controllable TV, and the chance of fresh tasty pizza: That's what TiVo and Dominos Pizza are now offering. Broadband-connected TiVo users will be able to order pizza for delivery or pick-up (though that'd involve leaving the comforting hug of your sofa's cushions...crazy!) and then can even track the progress all via the TiVo interface. It starts today, it's free to broadband TiVo subscribers, and the only inconvenience is having to pay in cash when ...
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Seriously, you can see the end of the human race from here, can't you?
Facebook Internally SEO’ing Brand Pages - Wants More Pages Traffic and Google Juice (20)
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In a move that will increase the amount of Page Rank and traffic Google gives to Facebook Pages, Facebook launched a new feature over the weekend that essentially added hundreds of millions of new internal links to Facebook’s brand Pages in users’ public search listings. Public search listings are Facebook’s way of exposing user information to Google. Before today, the default public search listings included users’ name, profile picture, network, and a few friends’ photos. ...
