Monthly Archives: March 2010
AT&T Rep Is A Proud “She-Mail” [PIC]
AT&T has these in-store promotional flyer that shows a man that is proud to be a “she-mail (schedule and email.)” I wonder if this she-mail has a Hotmail account. [The Daily What]
Categories AT&T, AT&T Inc.
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Apple iPad Orders Drop To About 1,000 Per Hour
On the day that Apple started selling pre-orders for the iPad, they were selling at about 25,000 per hour. However sales have slowed down to about 1,000 per hour.
Daniel Tello is a blogger and analyst that has been tracking the numbers of the iPad pre-orders at the AAPL Sanity board on Investor Village. The weekend number was about 152,000 pre-orders as of Sunday at midnight. These numbers do not include reservations for pick-up.
Regardless of the drop of about 25,000 to 1,000, these are some solid numbers considering the device is still weeks away from being available to the public. I’m also anxious to see how these devices affect iPhone app developers.
[Fortune]
Categories Apple Inc., Apple iPad
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First Registered Domain Name Ever Symbolics.com Turns 25 Today
Symbolics.com was the first domain name ever to be registered. The registration took place on this day about 25 years ago (March 15, 1985). Symbolics was a computer manufacturing company and now the domain name is being used as the personal blog of Aron Meystedt. About 668,000 domain names are currently being registered every month, but back then the rate was about 6 registered in all of 1985. [Mashable]
Categories Aron Meystedt, Symbolics.com
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KIT Digital Acquires Multicast For About $18 Million
KIT Digital is a Prague, Czech Republic based video tool player company that has acquired a rival called Multicast. The deal is rumored to be worth about $18 million. This is about one week after KIT Digital announced a $15 million equity offering in order to buy back 4 million outstanding warrants. Multicast will receive about $4.9 million in cash and the rest is 1.3 million shares of KIT digital common stock. Multicast is based in Atlanta and they have over 90 employees. [paidContent]
Categories KIT Digital, Multicast
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USF Grad Student Uses Facebook Instead Of Blackboard For Handing Out Assignments
Alessandro Cesarano is a grad student at the University of South Florida (USF) that decided to use Facebook to send out homework assignments instead of Blackboard. Blackboard is an academic content management system powered by databases that is commonly used in small-to-major colleges and universities. “I like the Facebook page?better than Blackboard because students have more access to authentic cultural material, and I don’t have to waste class time teaching them how to use a new program because many of them already use Facebook,” stated Cesarano in an interview with The Oracle.
Cesarano said that this also adds a collaboration, communication, and increased student engagement outside of class advantage. Cesarano also plans to use this social media experiment as his dissertation. However other instructors are resistant to the idea because they see Facebook as being a distraction and there could be privacy issues that arise between students and the instructor. To avoid this, Cesarano encouraged students to create a separate account for academic purposes instead of personal use. [The Oracle]
Google Director of Product Management RJ Pittman Leaves For Apple
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) Director of Product Management RJ Pittman has left the company to pursue a career at Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL). Pittman tweeted about his departure but later deleted it. Blow is an e-mail that Pittman sent out about his departure [TechCrunch]:
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Categories Apple Inc., Google, RJ Pittman
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About 53.3% Of Social Gamers Willing To Engage In Alternative Payments For Virtual Currency [STATS]
Offerpal released data that contains survey information about how much social gaming consumers are willing to engage in alternative payments for exchange of virtual currency. Below are the stats:
-53.3% percent of consumers are willing engage in alternative payments to earn virtual currency
-29.7% of social gamers do not have the ability or the means to pay for virtual currency with cash options
The study was put together using a study by comScore and Offerpal’s own monetization performance. Some of the alternative payments include filling out surveys, joining groups on Facebook, watching a video, shopping at retailers, or signing up for a subscription to a newsletter.
“The data we’re seeing shows that there is clearly a strong demand within social gaming for alternative ways to pay for virtual currency,” stated Offerpal Media CEO George Garrick in a press release. “When you think of how easy it is to conduct some of these marketing actions like watching a video ad, and the fact that so many people are already doing them online frequently and for no compensation, it makes complete sense that they might as well get rewarded in virtual currency for it. Our goal is to leverage all the most popular alt-pay methods to monetize the maximum number of users at the highest Revenue Per User for our developer partners.”
Categories comScore, George Garrick, Offerpal Media
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StrongMail Launches Social Studio With Limited 60 Day Free Trial
“Until now, marketers have been limited in their ability to measure the impact of social media on their business, but StrongMail Social Studio changes the game,” stated Ryan Deutsch, VP of emerging media at StrongMail. “Marketers finally have access to the metrics that they need to evaluate the performance of their social media efforts. Whether they are launching viral referral campaigns or making content sharable, everything can be measured and tracked back to the business’ bottom line. 2010 will be the year of accountability for social media marketing.”
StrongMail’s Social Studio software allows companies to monitor the analytics around social media campaigns. Social Studio tracks conversions in addition to reach and awareness. StrongMail is based in Redwood City, California. You can find them at Facebook.com/StrongMail and Twitter.com/StrongMail. [StrongMail Blog]
Categories Ryan Deutsch, StrongMail
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Nikon and Yfrog Put Together SXSW Picture Gallery (#SXSWpics On Twitter)
Nikon and Yfrog are teaming up to create a gallery of pictures and videos of the South by Southwest conference. “In addition to viewing content and posting comments, site visitors and attendees can use yfrog to upload images and videos to the Nikon gallery by using the hashtags “#SXSW” or “#SWSWpics” share content through their own social networks, and follow a real-time Twitter feed on the site,” said Katie Carlson of AtomicPR.
Between Nikon and Yfrog they hired five popular bloggers to post videos with Nikon digital cameras. These five bloggers include Jeff Pulver, Chris Brogan, Sarah Austin, Marko Slavnic, and Brooklyn Vegan. The gallery is live at http://www.yfrog.com/Nikon.
Detroit Based Startup Leftos.com Launches
Leftos.com has launched over the weekend. Leftos is a place for users to anonymously discuss issues that are related to male and female interactions. “Think Yahoo! Answers meets Loveline or Dr. Phil” said Ken Wohl, co-founder of Leftos. Leftos was also co-founded by Zach Lipson, one of the founders of the Future Midwest conference. Leftos is currently in Beta so if you have any feedback, let the team know at Twitter username @Leftos.
Topics include single life, dating, sex, relationships, marriage, and divorce. Adding topics and replying to the threads are very simple. Leftos is an acronym that stands for “LEssons For The Opposite Sex.” Maneesh Sethi works as the Lead Developer behind the site.
Categories Ken Wohl, Leftos.com, Maneesh Sethi, Zach Lipson
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