iWidgets let’s website owners (non-technical) to create a widget that can be embedded on Facebook and other social networks. They are opensocial compatible and they monetize by having an ad on each of the widgets for tiered CPC. Brands can pay to remove the logo of iWidget if they so choose.
Example: A brand that has interesting content on their site (that is …
Once again, the parent company of Mighty for whom I work, Bensimon Byrne, along with the Gandalf Group have gone out to market with their Consumerology report. The Consumerology Report is a national survey commissioned by Bensimon Byrne and conducted by The Gandalf Group.
It is a quarterly initiative designed to discover how important macro trends may, or …
Whether you’re setting up an Intranet for your company or a collaborative website for your family, there are a variety of wiki solutions to choose from. Mashable has gathered a list of more than 30 of them for those that wish to try their hand at running one themselves or are looking for a fully hosted solution.
Do you have a …
Two weeks ago on a Sunday night I was standing at the barbecue cooking dinner for my wife’s birthday (15 people) when my blackberry went off. As it was Sunday night I figured it was one of my clients, the one who always emails Sunday night, well actually the one who emails around dinner time, the other client emails around 10 (she is in a different time zone). When I …
How often have you wanted to tell someone that they have, well, poor taste in clothes, bad breath or perhaps even bad table manners. Now thanks to NiceCritic, you can annonymously tell others of your concerns. The site provides anyone with the ability to anonymously criticize anyone else in order to help them to improve. …
In the 1980 movie, The Blues Brothers, Jake and Elwood sing a song all about, well, everybody!
Everybody needs somebody
Everybody needs somebody to love
Someone to love
Sweetheart to miss
Sugar to kiss
I need you you you
I need you you you
I need you you you…
The team behind Wikipedia has just been launched a new site by the name Wiki For Us. …
So the Canadian launch came, and went with as much fan fare as expected. When Rogers Wireless Inc. rolled out the red carpet for the next-generation iPhone 3G hundreds of customers including some of my co-workers jostled to be the first to get their hands on the coveted piece of technological and marketing wizardry.
By mid-morning, heavily-stocked Rogers Plus stores across Canada had run out. “It’s definitely going to sell out …
According to Steve Rubel in Adage, “recessions often accelerate social shifts that are already percolating under the surface.” One of the key trends he discusses, is the growing number of Digital Nomads. Digital nomads are workers in both corporate and consulting jobs who are on the road constantly, using web-based tools such as Twitter, wikis, Google Docs, social networks and Skype …
According to The Kelsey Group’s “US Local Video Forecast (2007-2012)” report, local online video ad revenues will hit $1.5 billion by 2012, up from $11 million in 2007. Service providers are making it easier for smaller businesses to create video based commercials and place them on local media. As well, local media including …
Not that this is any secret, but US based media giant Viacom is suing Google, which bought YouTube in 2006 for $1 Billion US. Viacom argues that media content it should control is being loaded and accessed illegally on YouTube. Viacom has argued YouTube and Google could do a better job of blocking access to copyrighted material, but don’t, because that’s what most people are searching for.
That admission by Google and Youtube has now come back to haunt them. Viacom has capitalized on Google’s position during proceedings in a New York courtroom. Taking statements from Google’s own corporate blog, Viacom asked a N.Y. judge to compel Google to produce detailed information about the users of its Youtube service, including search logs, individual IP addresses and a record of the videos they accessed on YouTube.
With the iPhone 3G coming in days, the rush to write the first iPhone killer app is on. In March, Steve Jobs unfolded Apple’s “iPhone software road map,” a two-part package comprised of a tool kit to help developers write programs for the iPhone and a venue in which to sell them, much like iTunes.
According to Apple, 25,000 people applied to be part of its iPhone developers program, of …
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