June 15, 2009
Look at this picture. It’s a wall of coffee cards at a cafe around the corner from us.
I was staring at it today and realised ‘this is social media’. It may look like a plain old loyalty program (buy 6 get one free) but what distinguishes this in my mind is a couple of things;
- [...]
June 9, 2009
I’ve recently completed my minimum skills training with the CFA, and whilst my firefighting contributions so far have consisted of getting to the station first for a call and forgetting the entry code, I’ve also discovered that the CFA has a terrific social media presence. It’s called CFA Connect.
The CFA is one of the [...]
March 23, 2009
Last week Apple announced the impending update of the iPhone operating system. Watching the Apple video outlining the changes I found myself picking my jaw up a few times. The iPhone may be the thing that makes Social Media a mainstream phenomenon.
13.7 million phones sold last year. 800 million downloads from the App Store in [...]
March 9, 2009
Yesterday Torrent Freak reported on Norwegian State TV embracing BitTorrent to distribute their own TV shows.
There are a number of interesting things to note:
NRK’s Erik Solheim is reported as saying,“With our own tracker we will get better statistics and gather important data about how this technology works.”
Measurement
“This type of distribution is reliable, cheap and popular [...]
March 6, 2009
I’m finding myself saying this a bit lately. Not out of any need to be overtly critical but in answering a fundamental question – why does your business have a website? I see a lot of sites that are built purely with the objective of having a net presence instead of really thinking it through [...]
