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More Control Equals More Sharing
I love SoundHound. So please don’t think I’m picking on them or hating on their app. I’m not. In fact, I think the folks who built it are evil geniuses who probably sold their collective souls to the...
View ArticleReady For More Corporate Friends?
This BBC video above questions the benefits of how Starbucks is engaging with its 14 million Facebook “friends.” My favorite segment: reporter, Rory Cellan-Jones asks, “Aren’t companies which try to...
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Technology Is A Just A Tool
Ira Serkes paid me an amazing compliment this evening. He wrote on my Facebook wall that this New York Times article, Achieving Techno-Literacy, instantly reminded him of me. Of course, that sent me...
View ArticleFacebook Wants To Control The Social Graph
We knew there was a reason the Facebook personal profile API was so limited. A few months ago we were approached to build a Facebook app that would collect data about the conversations taking place in...
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Phoster Creates Emailable Posters
Every once in a while an iPhone app comes along that makes me say, “cool.” Apps like that don’t make it into my “testing” folder. One test is all I need to know it’s an app I’ll enjoy using. Phoster is...
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Stop Pissing In The Social Media Pool
Imagine my surprise this morning when I found this shocking headline in my feed reader, “Traffic Bait Doesn’t Bring Ad Clicks.” Apparently, after extensive study, researchers found that “advertising is...
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Why Should This Headline Be My Status Update?
I want a different way to post updates about my blog to the social web directly from WordPress. The universally accepted “send an update to Twitter using the headline via the one allowed account tied...
View ArticleBlown Away By Grooveshark
We are currently working on the new website for Flashback Heart Attack, a fantastic local 80s cover band. As a part of the site, I wanted to build an 80s music playlist and embed it as a sidebar...
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Getting Creative With Pro HDR On The iPhone
My iPhone has become my main camera. It’s not because the quality of the camera is so amazing, thought it’s certainly not bad. It’s because of the applications available to edit photos and create...
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Twitter Adds SMS Support For Mentions
Today, Twitter made this announcement about Instant Notifications: “We want to make sure you see important Tweets even when you’re not looking at Twitter at the moment. To help with that, today we’re...
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Fourtrace Urges You To Think Before Sharing
Could someone predict where you’ll be tomorrow? According to the Fourtrace website, “Fourtrace is a research project in “Advanced topics in Computer Networking” at University of California, Santa...
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Twextme Will Shut Down For Users With One Twitter Account
When Twitter announced it would be adding sms support for mentions, we noted that this support only allowed for a single Twitter account to send to any given cell phone number. This will not be a...
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What If The Stars “Die” And Nobody Cares?
On December 1, a slew of celebrities “died” online. Their digital identities at Twitter and Facebook were killed off in an attempt to raise $1 Million for Alicia Key’s BuyLife.org, in conjunction with...
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QR Codes: You Don’t Need An Elephant To Tie Your Shoes
I still have kids young enough to enjoy Raffi. It’s the bain of my existence, but they love it. The other night, while listening to the following lyrics, I couldn’t help but think about QR codes. Oh...
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Moving From Manipulation To Truth
I took 15 minutes to listen to a podcast today. I rarely listen to podcasts, but I was drawn to this Social Business Planning Podcast by some followup comments from one of the participants, David...
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What Is More Dangerous Than Texting While Driving?
I answered that pressing question today with the new Skype for iPhone update. Yesterday I updated with great anticipation, hoping that the quality of the new video chat capabilities on the Skype app...
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The Best New Business Is Repeat Business
Our best marketing is the work we do for our customers each day. My close friends and neighbors are moving back to Dallas, Texas. The moving van outside my front door is a sad reminder of that fact....
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The Promise Of WordPress 3.1 – Easy
“Blogs don’t work for most people.” That was one of the reasons Tumblr founder David Karp gave to TechCrunch this week when asked why he created the Tumblr blogging platform. “All blogs took the same...
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Testing SocialEyes With David Geller – We Didn’t Do Very Well
If it has anything to do with video chat, I can usually find David Geller, CEO of Eyejot, one of the first to give it a try. Today was no exception. And since he was one of my first Facebook friends to...
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Zeekchick? We Like The Sound Of It.
We’re good at a lot of things here at Zeek Interactive. Herding cats is not one of them. And make no mistake about it, we’re cats. Self-herding is not in our nature. We need help. Luckily, we’ve found...
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