Archive for the ‘Mobile’ Category

Foursquare, and Fan It, and Betty White! Oh, NBC!

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I wrote a post recently about another meaningless achievement game called Miso – best described as the love child of Foursquare and Hulu. Well it looks like NBC is taking the concept a bit further with their new points-based network loyalty program Fan It.
According to Mashable:
Fan It is a social media platform with myNBC (NBC’s online community for fans), Facebook, Twitter, MySpace [...]

Posted on May 17, 2010 at 6:28 pm by Kathlene · Permalink · View Comments
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Four Big Hootsuite Updates You Should Know About

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Hootsuite has been on a roll in the past few weeks making their site more friendly to marketers and heavy tweeters with tons of new features like: team collaboration tools, Hootsuite University, an additional URL shortener and a bunch of updates to their iPhone app like: translation, Facebook integration and geo-location data.
1. iPhone Updates (Version 1.1.1, $2.99):

Translation: Now [...]

Posted on May 3, 2010 at 2:43 pm by Kathlene · Permalink · View Comments
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Foursquare + Hulu = Miso

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The world of meaningless achievement badge games just got bigger with the addition of Miso by Bizarre Labs. As my coworker very accurately pointed out it is best described as the lovechild of Hulu and Foursquare.
Content-wise Miso resembles it’s father Hulu… looks-wise it’s mother, Foursquare.
Miso is very simple, you search for the TV show/Internet program/movie you are watching, then “check-in” [...]

Posted on April 28, 2010 at 6:40 pm by Kathlene · Permalink · View Comments
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Apple’s Revolution Continues with iPhone 4.0 OS

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Last week brought a long awaited announcement for Apple fans around the world, as Steve Jobs introduced the newest iPhone 4.0 OS at the Apple Conference at their headquarters in Silicon Valley. As the owner of an antique 2G iPhone – I am more than ready to upgrade – especially after hearing that Apple is dropping support [...]

Posted on April 12, 2010 at 8:40 pm by Kathlene · Permalink · View Comments
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7 Trends That Moved Mobile Mainstream in 2010

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Yesterday I attended an eMarketer conference in Atlanta called 2010: The Year Mobile Marketing Goes Mainstream. The presentation was given by Noah Elkin, senior anaylst at eMarketer, and discussed the seven major mobile trends that have launched mobile into the mainstream in 2010.
1. Dramatic Evolution of Mobile Devices: Cell phones have come a long way [...]

Posted on March 4, 2010 at 3:56 pm by Kathlene · Permalink · View Comments
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MyTown Setting Records for iPhone App Retention

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I’ll admit, I didn’t think I would get into playing MyTown as much as I have. At first I thought it would be another one of those time-suck iPhone games – which it is, really – but once I figured out how to play it and started competing with people at work I soon found [...]

Posted on March 1, 2010 at 7:36 pm by Kathlene · Permalink · View Comments
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2009 Social Networking Trends You Should Know

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This month comScore, Inc. released their 2009 U.S. Digital Year in Review report “examining trends in U.S. Internet usage, search activity, e-commerce, online video consumption, online advertising and mobile.”
This 16-page report dives into all areas of digital marketing, but I pulled out some of the more prevailing social networking stats and trends to keep in mind [...]

Posted on February 24, 2010 at 8:37 pm by Kathlene · Permalink · View Comments
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Will Facebook Become a Mobile Juggernaut?

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There’s no question mobile is moving toward becoming the Mecca of the Internet. And as smartphone technology and data plans get better, cheaper, faster, cooler and more necessary – people will continue to switch from their old school call/text-only devices to phones that allow them to do much more.
According to MSNBC, “One report by comScore [...]

Posted on February 19, 2010 at 3:47 pm by Kathlene · Permalink · View Comments
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Jersey Shore iPhone App – Part 2

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Since we had such a great time making the first video, when we heard Tingalin was updating their Jersey Shore iPhone App with a “Catch a Fake Tan” feature we just had to make a second video. Featuring @JessCarruth and @JulianaDearing check out our latest demo of the  Jersey Shore iPhone App.

Posted on January 21, 2010 at 9:23 pm by Kathlene · Permalink · View Comments
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Update: Jersey Shore iPhone App from Tingalin

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Some of you may have seen the video demo my co-worker, Jessica Carruth, and I did on the Jersey Shore iPhone App from Tingalin last week. Over the weekend  the developer of the app, Afrim Kacaj, tweeted me and said that he had featured our video inside the app – and that after he and [...]

Posted on January 18, 2010 at 3:38 pm by Kathlene · Permalink · View Comments
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