Your Phone is Your Wallet
“Pay by phone” has a new meaning this week as Starbucks announced that it is rolling out a way for customers to pay for their coffee with their smart phones. Leave your money at home, your phone is...
View ArticleYou Like It – And You Become a Spokesperson
AdAge reported that your “liking” a product on Facebook could trigger what is being called a “sponsored story.” This is where your smiling (or grimacing) face and positive comments appear twice: once...
View ArticleGoogle Blends Social Results To Search Results
Google has taken another giant step to social search by adding results from people you know when you do a search. In the Google Blog today they announced that they have done “a little bit more to bring...
View ArticleSxSW 2011: On The Nerdbird
I started the day at Boston’s Logan International Airport’s Terminal C discussing the upcoming SxSW (pronounced South-by-southwest) conference with a group of people that made our @JetBlue flight...
View ArticlePeriodic Table of Search: The Elements of SEO and SMO [Infographic]
I’ll still parsing its accuracy, but it seems like SearhEngineLand, a long-time credible source for SEO (search engine optimization) information, has produced a great visual explanation of the elements...
View ArticleDeath, Taxes and NFC
Over 400 people gathered in Boston to hear about the future of NFC, or Near Field Communications from panelists from PayPal, Verizon, semiconductor company NXP and payment solutions provider Ingenico....
View ArticleGamification is Productivity, NOT (Just) Fun and Games
As mobile phones and social media make this the era of SoMoLo (Social/Mobile/Local) technology, gamification, the use of game dynamics, is quietly becoming a bigger force for many businesses. By 2015,...
View ArticlePost Voteum: Social Analytics, the NH Primary, Google & Facebook
So Google trends can’t predict the outcome of the NH Primary with the same accuracy as it can American Idol or Dancing With The Stars, and for this I am glad. Facebook cannot predict the outcome of...
View ArticleCoca-Cola Pops Content Vision
I’ve been preaching shared and earned content for a long time, but Coca-Cola has shared it’s Content 2020 strategy in a very public way: On YouTube. It’s even more than that: It’s how the Coca-Cola...
View ArticleSxSW 2012 Recap: Social Local Mobile (SoLoMo) Content, ROI, Data and More
Roald Dahl would have loved the South by Southwest conference and festival, or simply SxSW. Borrowing from poet Arthur O’Shaughnessy, Dahl wrote that “We are the music makes, and we are the...
View Article4 Emerging Technologies with Huge Implications
Two months after SXSW, there are several technologies that I am excited about – and interested to see how behaviors will change to adopt them (or not). Of real interest is how the world will deal with...
View Article3 Business Benefits of Facebook’s Shared Photo Albums
AllFacebook reported (via Mashable) that Facebook will launch shared photo albums within the next few days. You and your friends can share your favorite event photos to the same album, which will...
View ArticleRemember Pac-Man? Growing Mobile Data Consumption is Like That
Pac-Man munched power pellets in the same way Americans now munch mobile data bandwidth. A new study from Frost & Sullivan says the average mobile user is now up to 2GB data usage a month. That’s...
View ArticleWhy Google+ Will Rise (When Nobody Expects It)
There has been a lot of speculation of the future of Google+ as Vic Gundotra, the head of the social network leaves Big G. Even before Google Wave,I believed Google+ was on a seven-year adoption plan....
View ArticleSXSW 2015 Recap; And a Meerkat
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