Web Strategist - Web Strategy & Social Media Strategy

That online display advertising growth so many digital marketers have been anticipating may be arriving a little early. According to a new report from Rubicon Project, digital ad spending grew 47% during the first half of the year. That's not including search revenues — and despite an economy that has yet to nudge past the brink of rebound. The economy has ...

I first heard about Recorded Future from Mathew Hurst’s blog The Recorded Future is Here where a brief introduction to this new analytics platform was shared.  Basically, Recorded Future is akin to Adaptive Semantics and Crimson Hexagon in that it creates structure and meaning from unstructured data using a combination of machine learning and custom programming. Matthew Hurst picked out this ...

It’s a promise sounds too good to be true: free, unlimited texting to and from your iPhone. And even if a service did manage to offer it, it certainly couldn’t be sustainable, could it? Pinger, a startup that launched back in 2006 as a voicemail service but has since pivoted in a big way, would beg to differ: the ...

Selecting the right wine for every occasion is a form of art most of us only pretend to understand. That’s why Lion Nathan Wine Group, a wine owner and importer, has put QR codes on wine bottles to help everyday wine buyers make better selections.Cellar Key, a joint initiative between Scanbuy and Lion Nathan Wine Group, applies QR code technology ...

Stunning. Just stunning. Color me wrong for saying that Apple wasn’t going social, because it just has. The Ping social network is a social network specifically for music. As you follow friends and artists, you’ll find more information about them. Ping is broken down into two sections, to truly be a social network for music. Artists: Posts Favorite songs Concert Dates Releases Social Updates Friends: Posts Favorite Songs Events they’re ...

I run, I work out, I cycle and doing all that with an iPod or with my mobile device playing music is a bit difficult. I am always cautious about dropping the device and suffering a major loss. There are cheaper, smaller MP3 players but I am game for a quality product. Appears Apple has just got the right product ...

Google announced a new feature for businesses in Google Maps in the U.S. today. The feature lets businesses include sponsored map icons that appear on the maps themselves. The feature actually began in a pilot program earlier this year in Australia. "Now, when you zoom in to areas of interest on Google Maps, you'll more easily be able to spot ...

Facebook is in what’s called a recruiting sweet spot right now. Out of control growth in users and revenue and a nearly certain IPO run in the near future. That’s when employee growth expands at the greatest rate for a company as it grows from hundreds to thousands and then tens of thousands of employees. And with low priced private ...

Apple today announced a number of upgrades to its music and media service, iTunes. Most notably, it’s giving iTunes a social layer. Chief executive Steve Jobs showed off a service called Ping, which he described as Facebook or Twitter for music. Jobs described this as Apple’s attempt to solve the problem of “discovery” — how to find the content you want ...

Apple is announcing a complete new iPod line up today with the iPod shuffle up first. The new version might look familiar because it’s basically the second and third generation combined. Fine by us. It’s the best of both.

Apple’s Steve Jobs has taken the stage at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco to make a slew of announcements related to iOS, Apple TV, iTunes and the iPod. First though, he dropped some big stats on the state of the iOS ecosystem.According to Jobs, Apple has sold more than 120 million iPhones, iPads and ...

Within a week or two, the voting model will end at Sphinn. Stories can still be submitted, but editors will consider those in addition to others they find. Why? Rather than build community, voting -- an activity which is also in decline -- seems to foster an anti-community "who's winning" atmosphere.

If mobile browser developer SkyFire has its way, its new SkyFire 2.0 browser will finally give iPhone users access to the wealth of Flash video on the web. The company has submitted its new browser to the App Store, and it seems confidant that Apple will approve it. SkyFire’s cloud-computing technology allows the browser to translate Flash videos in real-time to ...

Last year, Aurora Feint launched a comprehensive social gaming platform dubbed OpenFeint. The platform has seen considerable success in attracting independent iPhone game developers to its rapidly growing community and Android developers as well. Today, the network is launching PlayTime, a set of technologies that will allow developers to make real-time multiplayer games with voice chat across iOS ...