Carl's Free Video Course. Video 1 Welcome! Video 2 How To Decide What Strategy To Work On First To Achieve Maximum Results In Minimum Time Video 3 How To Ensure That You Complete The Things That You Start So That You Get More Closings Video 4 How To Make Sure You Are Having Fun While Closing More Deals Than You Ever Have Video 5. Keep Your Computer Bug-Free. The Ultimate News Resource Guide to Social Marketing. As we embark on 2012, the team at Awareness, Inc. consulted with the best and the brightest in marketing, strategy, technology, business and social media to help us identify the top news, analysis and trends resources for social marketing and social technology. Our industry is among the most dynamic, with many voices reporting, analyzing and advising on social technology, social media developments, successes, and best practices.
To help you navigate the active social news space, we compiled this Ultimate Guide to the Top Marketing, Technology and Social Media Resources. Here it is – the 55 Top Marketing, Technology and Social Media News, Analysis and Trends Resources in alphabetical order: 1. AdAge @adage 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. eMarketer @eMarketer 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55.
Mike Lewis@BostonMike Connect: Authored by: Mike Lewis. Top 10 Consumer Cloud Applications of 2011. For the last few years, many everyday folks who've been asked in surveys, "What is a cloud application? " have either guessed wrong or said they don't know. Folks don't know what "the cloud" is, and for the most part, that's not their fault.
Unlike the Internet, which truly is a single network of interconnected resources, "the cloud" is more of a concept, one which can be leveraged by marketing departments to mean just about anything. For this year's ReadWriteWeb list of the most important and influential consumer-grade cloud computing apps of the year 2011, we focused our gaze on services that truly fit the formal definition: specifically, services that 1) utilize a remote resource of 2) variable capacity 3) which the user can provision for herself, 4) which is mostly or totally independent of programs installed on the user's devices or PCs, and 5) which is not just a Web site with a big server. 10. CloudApp. RWW's The Consumer Cloud series by Richard MacManus: 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 1. Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Tips and Tricks [VIDEO] Is Windows Phone the Best Mobile Platform You're Not Using? In the world of smartphones, Windows Phone 7 is barely a blip.
It has, by some estimates less than 6% market share. Android now owns half the market and iOS about 26%. This isn’t right. You see, the Windows Phone 7 is a good — possibly great — mobile platform. It’s better, in my opinion, than Android and nibbling at the heels of my favorite, iOS and the iPhone. To understand why things are so out of whack and why I believe they could change, we need to take a closer look at a Windows Phone—which I did. It's now been a couple of weeks since I started using the HTC Radar 4G from T-Mobile. Microsoft's Windows Phone Metro interface is a malleable tower of hubs that brings more sense to your mobile world than virtually any other platform. Like the best smartphones, Windows Phone can use what you tell it to organize your friends, family, e-mail, appointments and more.
Windows Phone is full of sensible touches and navigation that should make sense to the both smartphone veterans and neophytes. Digital media consulting from the inside out - DIGITAL MEDIA FROM THE INSIDE OUT - • Friday Update: SOPA, Flash, Storify, Bezos, FMFGT, privacy, TV & transmedia. Here's my weekly review of this week's links and tweets about the news, issues & trends I’m tracking.
It's #NGIF (Nick’s Great Information Friday). Future of TV I learned a lot from my participation in Future Media Fest, a conference convened in Atlanta by Georgia Tech, where I spoke on a panel on the future of television with folks from Cisco, Intel and Motorola. Video of some panels, including mine, will be archived sometime next week. I’ll post when that happens. Meanwhile, check out the live tweets from the conference at #FMFGT Some of my thoughts on the future of television were posted in a presentation “Tracking Tomorrow’s Television Today” to the TV Academy Faculty Seminar.
Related and relevant are two videos from a recent GigaOm conference, one from VC Mark Suster and this one from visionary exec Robert Tercek. The buzz over UK-based TV companion app Zeebox continues with the news that the company will build companion apps for Channel 4. Privacy Transmedia: Storytelling, Story Tools. Kno: Software is eating education. Kno, a Silicon Valley-based education software company, isn't just liberating students from the burden of lugging costly textbooks around campuses.
Through its app (available on the web, iPad, and Facebook), the start-up is rewriting the rules for how students learn and interact with teachers. Co-founder and CEO Osman Rashid recently told a group of students at Play, a conference recently held at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business that, "education technology is now a custom fit problem for Silicon Valley. " After the company scraped plans to build a dual-screen tablet earlier this year, it's been steadily adding features to its software and broadening its focus to include tools for educators.
ZDNet asked Rashid about the progress of his company's eTextbook software and where the future of education is headed. You've recently announced Facebook integration with social learning features including "stickies", "bookmarks", and more to come like "Journal". Related: Compare & Find Best Free Solutions. 100 iPad Apps Perfect For Middle School.
Boxee To Get Update With Live TV. The next update to Boxee Box will let users watch live network TV, according to a leaked software update obtained by GigaOm. Boxee version 1.5 will allow you to connect a TV tuner to your Boxee Box so you can pull in live TV from the airwaves. This is pretty big news for anyone who wants to cut cable for good. Assuming the new update works as GigaOm says it will, this is the first time a connected TV box will be able to provide live TV in addition to connected services like Netflix, Vudu, etc.
And since it's network TV, you won't have to pay anything extra. Despite the abundance of cable channels, network TV still has the best stuff you'll want to watch: live sports, award shows, sitcoms, the evening news, you name it. Plus, if you have an HD tuner, that will all come in at perfect 1080p HD. Don't Miss: Our Boxee Box Review > 5 Ways Tech Companies Are Committing to Sustainability. The Commerce With a Conscience Series is supported by Fedex. FedEx does more than shipping. They offer solutions like transporting heart valves to those in need and helping entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life. See how. The Great Law of the Iroquois places responsibility on the tribe's chief for his decisions' impact on the seventh generation to come after him.
"We need to provide for the needs of the current generation without compromising the needs of the future generation," says Conrad. Sustainability — that is the practice of considering of the earth's long-term well-being — has become a major buzzword. The study also emphasizes that investment in sustainable practices have survived the economy's downturn. Tech companies are among the leaders of the sustainability movement, which is not surprising because they're in the business of innovation. 1. Can you imagine what it would be like to never need to plug in your computer? 2. 3. 4. 5. Does your company promote sustainability? Login. What Comes After Reading on iPad.
I’m bullish on the iPad. Some people have assumed the opposite, based in part on my frequent criticism of the way publishers have risen to the challenges and opportunities that it presents. But I really do believe that the iPad is a truly transformative device, an innovation that’s going to re-make the way we work with and play with technology. Looking back at its introduction in January of last year, it’s fitting that it debuted at the start of what I believe we’ll look back on as ‘the tablet decade’ — if we don’t end up thinking of it as just ‘the iPad decade.’ On the other hand, I think it’s still too early to know exactly how these devices are going to shape the next ten years. We’re all still discovering and exploring how different a multitouch tablet is from laptops and desktops.
Reading Is Fundamental, But It Ain᾿t Everything Traditional publishers are pouring millions into establishing a beachhead on tablets and e-readers, perhaps with good reason. Content vs. Content Snackers Become Cord Cutters; Change The TV World As We Know It. Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Frank Barbieri, the SVP of Emerging Platforms at YuMe. You can follow him @frankba Every five or so years for the past two decades the introduction of an Internet connection to a new device type has created a boom in disruptive businesses. Most of these booms—computers, followed by mobile phones, gaming consoles and now tablets—have been clearly successful. Others (remember the Network Computer?) Have been ill-timed. Now manufacturers, and a growing ecosystem of partners to support them, are betting big that consumers are finally poised to accept an Internet connection in their most cherished living room technology mainstay, the television.
With every platform change, both new and established companies have lined up to try and capture a share of the redistribution of rewards that inevitably comes when consumers change their habits. Technology has always been on the side of the consumer, especially in the realm of television viewing. Bandwidth Is the New Black Gold - 10 Ideas for the Next 10 Years. Everyone knows someone who has experienced the 21st century's quintessential gotcha moment: the unexpected, budget-breaking mobile-phone bill. Most aren't as bad as the $22,000 bill a California man received from Verizon Wireless for his teenager's Internet usage, or the New York family whose iPhones racked up nearly $4,800 by automatically checking for e-mails on a Mediterranean cruise.
But these incidents aren't just stories of human folly or corporate greed, they're subtle signs of a deeper issue: the increasing shortage of bandwidth relative to Americans' growing appetite for it. In the U.S. in 2010, a family can easily spend hundreds of dollars a month on cable, mobile phones and Internet and telephone services. Some families already spend at least as much on bandwidth as they do on energy.
Technically, bandwidth is best defined as the capacity to move information through a channel. In time, the mere slowdowns we see today may be eclipsed by full-scale information traffic jams. The Future of The Internet is Converged Services. A recent report about the "future Internet" by the UK's national innovation agency, Technology Strategy Board, has some illuminating information about the emerging Internet of Things. It suggests that converged services and a brokerage model, amongst other things, will define the future Web. The report is available as a free PDF download, but as it's 59 pages long we'll summarize some key points in this post.
The report defines the future Internet as "an evolving convergent Internet of things and services that is available anywhere, anytime as part of an all-pervasive omnipresent socio-economic fabric, made up of converged services, shared data and an advanced wireless and fixed infrastructure linking people and machines to provide advanced services to business and citizens. " The report goes on to state that "the Internet was initially about communications and then a means of delivering services. With iTunes In The Cloud, Apple Under-Promises And Over-Delivers.
As the summer winds down and we near the fall, we know two things are for sure about to enter existence in the world of Apple: iOS 5 and iCloud. Given that both offer third-party developers various opportunities, both are in the process of being tested by that community. And that means things are starting to leak out. Tonight brought perhaps the biggest surprise revelation yet: iTunes in the Cloud will support streaming as well as downloading of music. Now, before everyone works themselves into a tizzy yelling “FIRST!!!”
, yes, it’s true that other music services have offered cloud-based streaming before — notably both Google Music Beta and Amazon Cloud Player this past summer. But neither of those is iTunes, the largest music retailer on the planet (online or “offline”). And there are plenty of other services that are streaming-only. And this is a big deal because during the iCloud unveiling at WWDC in June, Apple didn’t say a word about streaming. TV In The Cloud. TV is moving to the cloud. It is inevitable, just as other kinds of media from books to music are increasingly delivered over the Internet. Netflix, Hulu, and even Apple TV are making inroads when it comes to distributing traditional TV shows and movies to Internet-connected screens.
YouTube keeps grabbing more of our attention, accounting for 7 percent of total time spent on the Internet in the U.S., according to comScore. And yet the TV (and movie) industry are proving more resistant to change than any other form of media. Change will come, but it won’t happen as quickly as it is with music, news, or books. The TV industry is digging in.
But does anyone really doubt that eventually the Internet will triumph here to smash the rigid program guide that cable and satellite companies shove down our throats? Unlike the Smartphone which could only have emerged to leverage the Internet, TV has no “smart content” to leverage. Bott concludes: Photo credit: Flickr/zizzybaloobah. Speed up your PC - Explore Windows.