White House Unveils Flickr Photostream

The White House has set up shop on Flickr and is now uploading photos for public consumption. My Tunheim Partners buddy Pat Lilja tipped me off to Flickr account. The White House is using the creative commons copyright license that allows for redistribution and remixing as long as the photo is accompanied by attribution. Smart move. [...]

Real-Life Twitter

Google Optimizes Google Profiles

April 27, 2009 · Categories: Reputation Management, Search Engine Marketing · View Comments 
Google recently optimized their own account profile pages by offering users the ability to change their profile URL from the default series of numbers to the account-holder’s username: Google has also begun indexing these profiles: The change is significant as it is yet another step by Google into the social Web. It is also another useful tool [...]

Price Comparison On The Store Floor

Mobile applications like ShopSavvy pointed to the future with their bar code scanning/price comparison technology. Though not quite ready for prime time, you could see how these apps would fundamentally change the retail experience by putting the power of information in the customer’s hands at the point of purchase. See it in action: Google has brought [...]

Camera & Photography Marketing Through Social Networking – Interview Notes

I answered the following query from a reporter in November of last year: “I am seeking an expert on how businesses (mostly retail) can market to consumers through social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and others. I am most interested in interviewing someone who can speak about how retail camera shops, retail photo labs, [...]

Joseph Jaffe’s New Video Podcast

I’ve followed Joseph Jaffe’s Across The Sound podcast for a while now (he even interviewed me about citizen journalism coverage of the 35W Minneapolis bridge collapse) but his podcasts have been sporadic of late. Now he’s taken his podcasting to a new level with a video version, JaffeJuice.tv. Episode three demonstrates a pretty cool application of [...]

Save The Strib!

As Ellen Mrja of The Same Rowdy Crowd pointed out last week, the launch of SaveTheStrib.com arrives with a heavy dose of irony. The employees of the Star Tribune have turned to the very medium that helped render obsolete the very economic model that has sustained newspapers in an effort to save theirs. I grew up [...]

World Wide Web In Plain English

April 13, 2009 · Categories: Miscellaneous, Technology, Video · View Comments 
Another wonderful CommonCraft explanation:

Tim O’Reilly: Twitter Is Revolutionizing The Web

April 12, 2009 · Categories: Interviews, Marketing Trends, Technology, Trends, Video · View Comments 

BakerTweet – Using Twitter As A Development Platform

Here’s an interesting example of how Twitter is being used as a platform upon which to build unique and custom applications and products. Springwise reports about BakerTweet (tip o’ the hat to: @themarketingguy), a box being sold to bakers that allows them to alert customers to fresh products through Twitter without the mess of the [...]

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