Category: News

  • The New CRM: Content Relationship Marketing

    Advances in technology, particularly mobile, provide companies with expanding platforms to reach their target customers. Smartphones, tablets and desktop computers can extend audience reach, but is the content shared through these vehicles resonating with your intended audience? Is it building and/or maintaining relationships? Does it provide a third-party view of your organization?  According to an…

  • Shut That Off! Or Oversharing In The Age of Personal Broadcasting

    “You have to put this into a column,” my wife insists as the ER intern is stitching her index finger. “I should write about your slicing your finger with a hand blender?,” I snarked as I filmed the procedure with my iPad. “But I think you will get points at least for delaying your self-assault…

  • Behold: The First Video Taken with Google Glasses

    Google unveiled on Friday the first video taken with its sci-fi eyewear concept, Project Glass. The topic: jumping and flipping on a trampoline, doing a backflip while wearing Google glasses. Google launched its Project Glass goggles on Google+ in April, and the news sent the concept of Google’s futuristic glasses — which would project augmented…

  • Facebook Is Looking At Another Big Acquisition: It Might Buy Web Browser Opera (FB)

    Facebook Is Looking At Another Big Acquisition: It Might Buy Web Browser Opera (FB)

    Summary Opera is a web browser developed by Opera Software. It handles internet tasks like displaying websites, e-mail, managing contacts, downloading files via BitTorrent, and reading webfeeds. It was released in December of 1996…. More »

  • myYearbook/MeetMe Leverage Mobile Virtual Currency As ‘Payment Platform In Your Pocket’

    A year after cutting a deal to acquire the meetup network myYearbook, Quepasa will roll out a rebranding of the merged companies as MeetMe. The project will start in July at myYearbook.com. Citing comScore metrics, the combined companies say they are among the 40 most-trafficked sites online. myYearbook in particular saw a 40% rise in…

  • SCRAM! -Harnessing Social Customer Relationship Application Management

    If you’ve been following the trends recently in Social Media you are no doubt watching a new revolution taking hold; brands and retailers creating customer tools using SCRAM and reaping the benefits of the data it provides. What is SCRAM? Social Customer Relationship Application Management; the SocMe version of a web form where users “connect”…