SUITCASE STICKERS « The Cheeky. Write.fm Makes Sharing Text and Files Amazingly Simple. I love simple solutions to common problems. Write.fm is one of those services that manages to reduce the number of steps to do a task — in this case, sharing simple text messages and files of any kind — to the absolute minimum.
Hailing from Anthony Feint, the same developer who brought us the simple, intuitive web-based task manager Task.fm, Write.fm is perhaps best described as a cross between a URL shortener, cloud-based notepad and a simple file sharing service. Originally, the service was just for sharing text; file sharing was added recently. Open it, and you're greeted with a text input field and an "add file" icon that lets you choose and upload any file from your disk drive. Once you're done writing the text and adding files, rename your project in the upper left corner of the screen.
That name, preceded by "write.fm/" is now the web address of the file. Image courtesy of iStockphoto, DNY59. The Myth Of Location. Why hasn't Foursquare and other location-aware platforms taken off? Let's not dismiss the amazing growth that online platforms like Foursquare have had, but they certainly do not have the mass adoption trajectory or passionate users like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. So, what gives? Didn't us Marketers (and yes, I am lumping myself into this group) all think that location-aware goodness (and the ability to send a targeted message to someone who is physically close to whatever it is that you're selling) was the last mile of Marketing?
Location may be the last mile that consumers are afraid of. Foursquare doesn't work for a lot of people because allowing anybody to know where you are at any given time still seems creepy to most. Are we going to open up a lot more in the coming years or become more reclusive? We're watching you. Just because they can, it doesn't mean that they will. By Mitch Joel. Www.ramseymohsen.com – Ramsey Mohsen; web consultant, DJ, video blogger, lifecaster, Kansas City blogger & internet addict. » No one reads all your Tweets. Get over yourself.
A client recently told me they were concerned they didn’t want to “clutter” their Tweet stream. They were concerned they didn’t want to Tweet too much. My thoughts? No one reads all your Tweets. Twitter is a communication tool. …not a publishing platform. Twitter is for holding conversations. In the early years of Twitter (2006-’08), people actually read ALL the Tweets from the people they followed.
Twitter is like gigantic gushing stream or river of many things…It’s filled with link referrals, pictures, thoughts, opinions, and conversations (look at this- click this- read this- watch this video-). If no one reads all your Tweets, what should you do? My point is, Twitter is flooded with content, what people see come through on their stream is dependent upon the time of day. @replies are the “email” of Twitter Recently, I blogged about a study that found the first thing people do when they sit down at a computer is check their email.
Time of day DOES matter. Social-media-consultant-65-tips-differentiate-good-bad from socialmediatoday.com. Social Media Consultant… what is a social media consultant really? I am starting to think many people think it means “I have a Twitter account and you can pay me lots of money to be your social media consultant”. I haven’t been out of the virtual office much lately as I am busy working on client projects. Yet, the 1-2 times a week I actually get out to a biz networking event or meeting of some sort I am amazed at the social media fud. Is it me or is there starting to be more and more? I am seeing more and more businesses hire so called “social media gurus” who are doing more harm for their company than good. Hint: LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook & Foursquare would be excellent platforms for them to monetize.
Please tell me how anyone can be hired as a social media anything and not look past their own skills and comfort zone to determine what social platform is right for the business paying their mortgage? My advice to hiring companies is to do your research! 1. So what do you think? Connect: How to Create a Social Media Strategy for Your Business. According to the 2010 Social Media Marketing Report , 67% of marketers plan to increase their use of social media channels including blogs, Twitter, and Facebook.
As more companies integrate social media into their marketing and communications plans, emphasis needs to be on creating a social media strategy. Without a strategy, you’ll undoubtedly be sucked into a social media time sink. So how exactly do you develop this strategy? It’s easy. Here’s a practical approach to developing a social media strategy for your business. The Prerequisite Do you work for a large company? If you’re having a tough time convincing your team that social media needs to be integrated into your marketing plan, then counter any concerns with these responses to common social media objections.
It’s important for the organization to understand that testing and experimentation are keys to success. Now let's develop your social media business strategy, shall we? Here are seven key points to consider… #6: Measure Results. The Most Common Facebook Static FBML Problems and How to Solve them for your Fan Page. PLEASE NOTE: Having answered many questions users have with their Static FBML tabs and using FBML, I’m closing comments here and creating a troubleshooting post which will address all the issues that cause users problems when implementing their tabs. Please refer to this document for help, as I’ve closed comments on this post. The troubleshooting article will be posted on October 28, 2010.
Stay tuned! Until it’s posted please refer to my Static FBML Troubleshooting FAQ for guidance. In the course of posting so many Static FBML tutorials on our blog, and then responding to visitors’ questions in the comments, I now have a good idea of what are the most common problems people encounter when either adding Static FBML to their Fan Page or trying to get the tab to look and function as they wish. NOTE: When I refer to “FBML box” I mean the box/field where you put your CSS/HTML/FBML content: Brass Eye. Brass Eye is a UK television series of satirical news magazines. A series of six episodes aired on Channel 4 in 1997, and a further episode in 2001. Original series (1997)[edit] Brass Eye aroused controversy because public figures were fooled into supporting charities and causes that were fictitious and often absurd. The second episode was called "Drugs" and is one of the most successful.
A voice tells viewers there are so many drugs on the streets that "not even the dealers know them all". Sir Bernard Ingham, Noel Edmonds, and Rolf Harris held the yellow cake-sized pill as they talked, with Bernard Manning telling viewers that "One young kiddie on Cake cried all the water out of his body. Other episodes dealt with science, animals, and sex.
The 1997 series was postponed by nearly six months because it made reference to murderer Myra Hindley, who was in the news after her portrait was vandalised in the Royal Academy exhibition Sensation. Repeats and DVD release[edit] Response[edit] I-dosing: How teenagers are getting 'digitally high' from music they download from internet. By Daniel Bates Updated: 10:39 GMT, 21 July 2010 They put on their headphones, drape a hood over their head and drift off into the world of ‘digital highs’. Videos posted on YouTube show a young girl freaking out and leaping up in fear, a teenager shaking violently and a young boy in extreme distress. This is the world of ‘i-Dosing’, the new craze sweeping the internet in which teenagers used so-called ‘digital drugs’ to change their brains in the same way as real-life narcotics. Reaction: A teenage boy looks in a state of distress as he listens to an 'I-Dose' They believe the repetitive drone-like music will give them a ‘high’ that takes them out of reality, only legally available and downloadable on the Internet.
The craze has so far been popular among teenagers in the U.S. but given how easily available the videos are, it is just a matter of time before it catches on in Britain. Pain: The I-Dose sensation does not look pleasant as a girl videos herself writhing. SwiftRiver | Verifying and Filtering News (FOSS) Fired Over Twitter: 13 Tweets That Got People CANNED. Bellowing on Twitter? Should LinkedIn Be Afraid of BranchOut and Facebook? BranchOut, a new startup that wants to bring LinkedIn-style business networking to Facebook, launched today with a Facebook application that pulls together information from your friends’ profiles about what companies they work for, have worked for in the past, as well as any other business-related details the app can find. It also includes a job board feature, which makes it easy to see whether there are openings at any of the companies friends in your network are associated with (the company plans to charge for this feature).
Should LinkedIn be afraid of this new competitor? Yes and no. BranchOut was founded by Rick Marini, former co-founder of Tickle.com, an early social-gaming site that got more than 200 million users before it was bought by Monster.com in 2004 for about $100 million. It was later shut down. Marini also founded and was the CEO of a social entertainment site called SuperFan.com. Bellowing on Twitter? Times loses almost 90% of online readership | Media. The registration page for thetimes.co.uk - 25.6% of users sign up and proceed to the Times site The Times has lost almost 90% of its online readership compared to February since making registration mandatory in June, calculations by the Guardian show. Unregistered users of thetimes.co.uk are now "bounced" to a Times+ membership page where they have to register if they want to view Times content.
Data from the web metrics company Experian Hitwise shows that only 25.6% of such users sign up and proceed to a Times web page; based on custom categories (created at the Guardian) that have been used to track the performance of major UK press titles online, visits to the Times site have fallen to 4.16% of UK quality press online traffic, compared with 15% before it made registration compulsory on 15 June. These figures can then be used to model how this may impact on the number of users hitting the new Times site.
Digital revenue should not be seen in isolation to print revenue, however. Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 - Teaser. Exclusive first look at “revolutionary” social news iPad app: Flipboard. You’ve seen Twitter clients like TweetDeck or Seesmic, but you’ve never seen one like this. You’ve seen news readers like NewsGator, Google Reader, or, even, newer ones for iPad like Pulse, but you’ve never seen one like this. You’ve seen news aggregators like Techmeme, Google News, Skygrid, Yahoo News, Hacker News, or Huffington Post, but you’ve never seen one like this. What is “this?” It’s Flipboard. It’s from a new company you’ve never heard from before. Embedded here is an exclusive interview with CEO Mike McCue. You might have heard of Mike before.
What is Flipboard? The differentiator for Flipboard is the design. 1. To get a sense of how dramatically different Flipboard is from any other Facebook or Twitter client, you should watch the video we filmed with McCue where he demoed the app for our cameras. So, why is this disruptive, or even, revolutionary? But here let’s discuss how it works. You add in your Twitter and Facebook accounts.
How did Flipboard find these things? Goodsie. Steve Jobs's Disastrous iPhone 4 Press Conference - The Conversation. By Nick Morgan | 9:45 PM July 19, 2010 I watched with growing dismay and disbelief as Steve Jobs struggled through his press conference last week about the iPhone 4 dropped calls. Jobs has a rightly earned reputation as a remarkable communicator; indeed there has been at least one book written about his presentation style as something worthy of emulation.
But his usual elegant combination of enthusiasm and sang-froid deserted him at Friday’s press conference. Jobs was defensive, angry, and ultimately ineffective. Jobs usually comes out beaming and full of enthusiasm for a new product or update. Today, he was deep in his own personal maelstrom of defensiveness and hostility. He began by showing a long demo whose sole purpose seemed to be to demonstrate that other smart phones drop calls too. Saying, “We’re not perfect; smart phones aren’t perfect,” repeatedly, Jobs added a kind of surly repetitiveness to his defensiveness. Jobs is Apple’s spokesperson, and he usually does a terrific job. Facebook Ranks Below Airline Industry in Customer Satisfaction. How can a photographer's image-focused site gain PageRank?
Apollo 11. Apollo Lunar Surface Journal. Edited by Eric M. Jones and Ken Glover. Dedication: To Di and HP, the sources of my serenity;and to the memory of my uncle, Leslie M. Jones, who explored the upper atmosphere with rocket-borne instruments and excited my interest in space. The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal was inspired by the work of New Zealand historian J.C. This 13 November 2013 release of the Journal contains all of the text for the six successful landing missions as well as many photos, maps, equipment drawings, background documents, voice tracks, and video clips which, we hope, will help make the lunar experience more accessible and understandable. Resources Please don't hesitate to let us know about errors.
Page design by Gordon Roxburgh and Brian Lawrence. Regretably, the ALSJ DVD-ROM is no longer available. NASA Host: Steve Garber. Tip: Tweetify the Lead of Your Emails - The Steve Rubel Stream. The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports.
These were physical books that contained press clips. It seems downright archaic now but that’s how I learned about the press - by cutting, pasting up and photocopying clippings. My fascination with the media never abated. Today my role is to form insights into how the entire overlapped media landscape - the pros, social channels, and corporate content - is rapidly evolving and to help Edelman clients turn these learnings into actionable strategies. As part of this effort, I spend a lot of time with not only the social platforms but journalists and media execs.
Today I am re-launching my Tumblr site with a new name, a new focus and a new format. It all kicks off today with a 15-page installment of The Clip Report. Entanglement. How to stencil stealthily. An illustrated guide. Landing Page Design for Persuasion. InShare0 Ask any designer what makes a great design for a web page or web site and you’ll almost always here the same common themes; usability, intuitiveness, feel/mood, eye catching, etc.
Yet few will respond with what makes your business revenue – how the page converts visitors to take the action you want them to take! Following are some practical and commonly overlooked elements of landing- and buying-page design to help answer some the above questions and help you think about design elements more objectively. Lots of designers like to focus on color scheme too early in the process. Color isn’t the core of your design. There are six basic, equally important elements that make up effective design: LineShapeValue (lightness, darkness, shading)Blank (white) spaceTexture/patternColor Start with Element Prioritization Determine the relative importance of all elements that will comprise a Web page.
Position Position refers to the relational properties of elements on Web page. Contrast Perception. TweetMeme goes Pro; adds all the features you’ve been waiting for. Design Proposal Software | Web Design Proposal Software | Bidsketch. Website Development Pricing - How Much is a Website. I just found ...I'm not sure if the lack of content is a actually a brave metaphysical gesture... Apollo 11 Anniversary - Joel Hughes - Web, Twitter, Social Networking & Foursquare Thoughts. 50 Useful JavaScript and jQuery Techniques and Plugins - Noupe Design Blog. 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11 - Interactive Timeline - Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Twitter in 1988 - Apollo40. The Thrill of Flying the SR-71 Blackbird. The Guardian. True friendship is a plant of slow growth ... but you could always rent | Media. Does your Project Management Software do CRM? WORKetc CRM + Projects + Billing.
How Social Media Drives New Business: Six Case Studies. Mum sues over ruined nude pics. Man hit by six meteorites is being 'targeted by aliens' Pontypool & New Inn Station :: Pontypool, Torfaen. The Gesture Web (and i don't mean Apple's touchscreen)