Future of News

After another busy week, its nice to end with a smile.  With all the talk about the decline of traditional media, this Charlie Brooker spoof on how to report news is hysterical.  Its been floating around the web for a couple weeks, but we had to pass it along.

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Social Pooling Explodes

Everyone loves getting a deal, but everyone loves to talk about it even more…its human nature.  Over the past 6 months, Groupon is on a massive traffic surge and along the way lined its coffers with significant revenue growth and a smooth $30 million in VC.  Groupon has single handedly

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Seth Godin's eBook "What Matter's Now"

Seth Godin has recently published an eBook called What Matters Now, where he collaborated with 70 of today’s ‘big thinkers’such as, Jason Fried, Arianna Huffington, Tim O’Reilly, and Fred Wilson to create a must read for anyone intrigued by the possibilities of the year ahead. Godin released the eBook on his Blog yesterday in typical [...]

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Building Social Clout

As the engagement between savvy consumers and brands rapidly evolves, it is becoming increasingly important for these brands to embrace non-traditional channels for interaction and sentiment.  Led by Amazon.com, online reviews have shaped savvy consumer behavior and created a powerful, open platform for trusted like minded opinions. Today’s savvy consumers and raving fans expect a [...]

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The Rise of Social TV for Mobile

As Social Media continues to influence how we absorb information, most flat surfaces will turn into displays and become repurposed with some type of social depiction. This type of continuous interaction will begin to shape Social TV, while tremendously expanding the reach for online media aggregators, global brands and politicians. Pretty soon, anyone with a video camera [...]

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Social Land Grab

Everyone knows the first thing to do before creating a website and/or company for that matter is come up with a name and subsequent url. For years, entrepreneurs and marketers have searched high and low on GoDaddy to find what precious .com real estate is still available without resorting to premium url prices. In 2009 [...]

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