Posts Tagged ‘Mash Up’
Alienate Your Female Customers? Pepsi Has An App For That
Update: See our follow-up post with response from AMP and PepsiCo.
Pepsi’s latest foray into social media is certainly bold and controversial, but does it go too far?
The company recently launched an iPhone application [iTunes link] for its AMP energy drink called “before you score,” with “score” meaning (to put it in the most subtle of terms) having a successful night...
5 Ways Banks Are Using Social Media
Lon S. Cohen is a writer and Director of Communications at @ALSofGNY. He is @obilon on Twitter. Many banks have started using social websites to help them with everything from healing the financial industry to promoting their latest credit cards. By embracing the most popular tools available, the industry has also been embracing the best of what social media culture has to offer, and...
IE6 OFFENDERS: Report Companies Still Using Internet Explorer 6
IE 6 must die! Loads of other sites happen to agree with us, and now those of you who must reluctantly toil under an Internet Explorer 6 regime at work have a recourse: IE6 Offenders, a site lets you blow the whistle on corporate IT policies that require you to keep beating the dead IE6 horse.
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Twitter Apps Still Recovering From DDoS Attacks
It was the big social media story of the week; on Thursday, Twitter went down due to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. And while Twitter was the most visible target, Facebook, Google, and others were also under fire due to a geopolitical attack against one man. It’s been three days since the attacks. Everything’s back to normal, right? No, not exactly. While Twitter, YouTube, Livejournal,...
Study: Facebook Increases Jealousy in Relationships
We already know that Facebook can be an incredible tool for building and strengthening friendships and relationships. We also know that it can be a relationship buster. And now, a recent study makes the claim that “increased Facebook use significantly predicts Facebook-related jealousy” in romantic relationships. The study, published in the CyberPsychology & Behavior Journal, analyzed the effect of Facebook use on the romantic relationships of college students. The...
Twitter’s Tough Week: The Social Media Recap
It’s been an unusual week in social media, most notable because many of us had to learn to live without it. A DDoS attack targeting Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and many other sites knocked the leading micro-messaging service offline and caused numerous problems with the leading social network, too. In other news, we looked into the age demographics of Twitter users, a mindblowing combination of Twitter and...
REPORT: iTunes 9 to Support Twitter, Facebook, and Last.fm
Rumors are flying around this weekend about three potential features of iTunes 9, the next major iteration of Apple’s popular music software. While iTunes 8 introduced features such as the Genius sidebar, the buzz is that iTunes 9 will introduce the ability to organize your iPhone apps (right now, it’s a mess) and support for Blu-ray discs. Oh, and here’s the kicker: there will supposedly be some form of social...
iPhone TV: Top iPhone Apps for Live Streaming Television
Earlier this year, Apple submitted a spec to the IETF for live streaming multimedia content over HTTP, leading some to suspect that a live video protocol would soon be making its way to iPhone and iPod devices. With the new 3.0 version of the iPhone OS, that HTTP live streaming protocol became a reality, and while there were already a handful of live video apps on...
HOW TO: Submit Your Rental Listing to 60+ Sites at Once
Name: RentShout Quick Pitch: RentShout advertises rental listings on directories and sites around the web, delivering widespread online visibility right where renters are searching. Genius Idea: If you need to sublet, rent, or sell a home, apartment, or office, you want to do it fast. Every day that place isn’t filled, the more potential income you lose. Just ten years ago, you’d post a listing to your newspaper...
FastPencil: Speedy Self-Publishing for Authors
Name: FastPencil
Quick Pitch: FastPencil makes the book-writing process painless – from concept to printed book or e-book.
Genius Idea: On top of writing and editing stories for Mashable, I’m also an author – specifically, I finished my first novel, a 130,000 word sci-fi novel, several months ago and am in editing. But I’ve quickly learned that writing is often not the tough part of getting a book...