September 2011
5 posts
The $700 Million Yogurt Startup - Forbes
Just a few of the millions that go out every day. In a scant four years, Hamdi Ulukaya has built something that even Silicon Valley types should covet: a $700 million business that’s profitable, dominant and growing at a furious clip. Even more incredible: Ulukaya makes yogurt. YOGURT. The stuff comprised of milk and culture. This is the ancient food that must be produced, packaged and...
On cigarette packages, QR codes reveal a nearby...
On cigarette packages, QR codes reveal a nearby place to smoke Ronhill has begun to use QR codes on its cigarette packaging to help consumers find a nearby place to smoke. 8th September 2011 in Lifestyle & Leisure. via springwise.com Posted via email at blog @cankoklu | Comment »
The Case for Humanizing Business | Social Media...
Social media has succeeded by being more human. Social media succeeded by abandoning the traditional mindset and assumptions of our machine-based organizations, and instead embracing ideas that are much more consistent with what it means to be human. In social media, relationships matter. So does trust. So do things like meaning, humor, transparency, authenticity, and creativity. Social media...
Building Better Software Through Collaboration:...
how do we break down the artificial walls that keep us from creating great things together? How can organizations foster environments that encourage natural, unforced collaboration? There are no quick fixes, but these are far from insurmountable problems. I propose the following five-level hierarchy as a solution: There are no shortcuts to breaking down silos. You can’t fix the environment...
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The proliferation of #mobile platforms | asymco
Amazon’s entry is only rumored but I think the description of it is detailed enough to be credible. The day after the scoop with Amazon, Baidu announced the Yi platform. Baidu is the sixth most visited site in the world, so it’s not a bit player and it makes as much sense for Baidu to have a mobile platform as it does for Google. via asymco.com Posted via email at blog @cankoklu...
August 2011
19 posts
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Why your viral video never went viral -...
Don’t take yourself too seriously. Use humor, but ensure that the humor supports your brand. Humor is very personal, and in order for most things to be funny, it will usually push the edges of NSFW (not safe for work) — and if you don’t know that acronym then you should definitely not be judging whether something is funny). Don’t do creative by committee. If you want a...
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New Moontoast eBook on Facebook Commerce for...
Moontoast, one of the leading social commerce platforms working with retailers, publishers, musicians and celebrities has just published a new, useful and insightful e-book on Facebook commerce for brands. It’s most definitely worth a download – from here (free) – as it contains some of the smartest advice we’ve found on f-commerce to date. We think the smartest way for brands to understand...
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Facebook Just Bowed Out of the Check-In War With...
Image of Foursquare’s board via Fortune While some folks might attribute the rumbling feeling that hit New York this afternoon to a 5.9 earthquake in Virginia, Betabeat now knows better. It was the tectonic reverberations of defeat, as Facebook quietly phased out the Places feature of its mobile app which everyone was screaming for months would kill Foursquare. via betabeat.com ...
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16 Ways To Jump-Start Your Organization's...
Simply put, the key to increasing creativity in any organization is to make it start acting like a creative organization. Suppose you wanted to be an artist: You would begin behaving like an artist by painting every day. You may not become another Vincent Van Gogh, but you’ll become much more of an artist than someone who has never tried. Similarly, you and your organization will become...
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How Speech Recognition Is Changing Our World...
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Mobile patent lawsuits #infographic
Mike Bostock visualizes mobile patent lawsuits, improving on a graphic from Thomson Reuters that wasn’t so good. Dashed lines are resolved suits and green ones are licenses to the company. via flowingdata.com Posted via email at blog @cankoklu | Comment »
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Turkish bank earns 500k fans by offering Facebook...
by Jenny Ng, Posted Aug 16th 2011 7:15PM These days, many companies are turning to Facebook games as a way of connecting with and building their audience (e.g. Channel 4’s Beauty Town). But one pioneering company, a Turkish bank called Akbank, is really throwing themselves into their official Facebook page. As of...
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Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility - Google...
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share in cash, or a total of about $12.5 billion, a premium of 63% to the closing price of Motorola Mobility shares on Friday, August 12, 2011. The transaction was unanimously approved...
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LinkedIn opts 100 million users into sharing...
In order to opt out of social advertising, the LinkedIn user has to take four steps to escape third-party advertisements: Hover over the user name in the top right hand corner of any LinkedIn page and click ‘Settings’. On the Settings page, click ‘Account’. On the Account tab, click ‘Manage Social Advertising’. Uncheck the box next to “LinkedIn may use my name, photo in social advertising.” and...
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BankSimple Announces Funding & Partnerships to...
BankSimple, the highly anticipated web-only bank being built with an emphasis on user experience and no fees, is getting closer to launching, the company said today. CEO Joshua Reich put up a blog post this afternoon announcing that BankSimple has secured partnerships with VISA, Barcorp and other institutions to enable its customers to get transaction rewards and have their deposits FDIC...
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Gartner's Hype Cycle places #NFC at 'Peak of...
ON TOP OF THE WORLD? Gartner puts NFC payments right at the top of its hype curve, facing an uncomfortable slide into consumer and industry disillusionment. Hold on tight! Click to enlarge. “Mobile technologies continue to be part of most of our clients’ short- and long-range plans and are present on this Hype Cycle in the form of media tablets, NFC payments, QR codes and color codes,...
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How #Visa Plans To Dominate #Mobile #Payments,...
Creating the digital wallet, both on the mobile and web platforms, is no easy task. Visa has a name for itself in the credit card industry but the fact is that the brand still has to attach innovation to itself in order for people to take these products seriously. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons why Google’s Mobile Wallet news created waves, even though NFC technology is in its early stages. ...
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Why Most #Facebook #Marketing Doesn't Work
A big secret of Facebook marketing is that it is easy and cheap to drive promotions using ads targeted only at your fans that link to landing tabs that deliver the offer and encourage fans to share to their newsfeed. A brand on Facebook should be like a casual friend or neighbor and not try to suck people into heavy levels of interaction. What do you do with a friend? Comment on their photos,...
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The Changing Face of Corporate Facebook Landing...
As businesses get more involved in using social media, they are starting to redo their landing pages, or places where you enter their ecosystems on Facebook, Twitter et al. We were reminded by this post by my colleague Paul Gillin that it could be a good time to brush up on your Facebook Markup Language and other techniques to not just pretty up the place, but provide solid information as well as...
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Older People Not Using Smartphones or Digital...
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New #Android #virus secretly records phone calls -...
A new Trojan virus that targets Android smartphones covertly records users’ phone calls. Unfortunately, this malicious software is just one part of a new trend in hacking that targets Android and Apple iOS devices. A new Android virus records users’ phone calls without their knowledge, reports Network World. via digitaltrends.com Posted via email at blog @cankoklu...
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#Facebook Officially Launches #Ads #API, Opening...
Facebook today announced the official launch of Ads API, which allows developers to create tools and services that programmatically create, buy, and manage Facebook ad campaigns. The Ads API had been in limited private beta since late 2009, and has been used by brands via third-party providers to run and optimize multi-million dollar ad campaigns too complex to conducted through Facebook’s...
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Flixmaster makes HTML5 video interactive — Online...
Founder Cameron McCaddon, who previously worked in casual and online gaming, said the startup wanted to make sure from the beginning that it would be “really, really easy to use.” Hence the drag-and-drop interface. But if a user wanted to get more creative in building an interactive storyline, Flixmaster offers more advanced customization if needed. via gigaom.com Posted via email...
Farewell Flash? Adobe Launches HTML5 Web...
Adobe’s Support for HTML5 Continues with Edge “HTML5 is an opportunity for Adobe,” explains Devin Fernandez, Group Product Manager for Adobe’s Web Pro Segment, “that’s not to say there aren’t opportunities for Flash.” He contends that Flash will continue to push forward, and, as we have reported previously, it will focus on areas that HTML5 cannot...
July 2011
24 posts
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The fight gets technical: mobile apps vs. mobile...
To cover all bases, it is important to recognise that consumers are not using these channels in a mutually exclusive manner. They are using both native applications and browser-based apps, so the best strategy is to develop both types. The decision to invest in an app or in a mobile website depends on the company’s target audience and the functionality of the app. Companies also need to...
Springwise: RFID Wristbands Let Themepark Guests...
Guests at Great Wolf Lodge resorts already use RFID wristbands as room keys and in-house charge accounts. Now, beginning at the chain’s property in Grand Mound, Washington, its new Great Wolf Connect service allows guests to register their wristbands at a dedicated kiosk and link them directly to their Facebook account as well. Then, when they stop to pose for a photo at any of the park’s five...
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To Spread Your Brand On #Facebook, Don't Target...
ComScore recently released a white paper based on the data that shows why brands should focus more on the friends of their fans, and engage the most hardcore users with interactions that will ripple throughout their network’s newsfeed. The data was collected through a massive survey of privacy-flouting Facebookers who volunteered to have their complete Internet behavior vigorously tracked....
Confident Technologies Unveils New Mobile...
Confident Technologies Unveils New Mobile Authentication Technology source Payments News - from Glenbrook Partners via feedly Posted via email at blog @cankoklu | Comment »
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Internet #Strategy Briefing | Econsultancy #ux...
Downloads Internet Strategy Briefing (1.4 MB PDF) Econsultancy’s 46-page Internet Marketing Strategy Briefing, which is is free to download, covers some the most significant online trends and is recommended reading for anyone interested in digital marketing strategy. The report, which includes case studies and examples of best practice, includes...
Led by #LinkedIn, Social Recruiting Continues to...
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ING Bank runs Group-Buy Deal to Acquire New...
So it looks like the financial services industry has got the social commerce bug. Yesterday we covered Amex’s innovative open-graph powered Link-Like-Love rewards program that offers personalized rewards based on Facebook Likes and activity, and today ING bank (Canada) is running a group-buy deal to acquire new customers on dealoftheday.com. via socialcommercetoday.com Posted via...
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Jobs for Data Scientists Explode Across The Market
In what’s likely just the beginning of a long-term story, job listings indexed by employment search engine Indeed.com indicate that market demand for data scientists and people capable of working with “big data” took a huge leap over the last year. David Smith of Revolution Analytics performed several related queries and posted the results today on his company’s...
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American Express: Link, Like, Love Demo -...
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Kidfographics: #Infographic: Cisma //...
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Sync #Google Plus to #Twitter, #Facebook &...
Want to sync your Google Plus updates to other social networks, without having to use a browser extension? There’s a new way to do this, called “Agent G,” which is actually a special Google Plus user account. Once configured, you can automatically share your Google Plus updates to the social networks of your choice, just by adding “Agent G” alongside the names of the...
Cisco: 50 Billion Things on the Internet by 2020...
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What G+ really about (pst!!! it's not social)
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9 Secrets To Successful #Facebook #Viral...
Nine Secrets of Viral Marketing On Facebook Click rate * share rate = viral index Create an instant emotional response Cater to 100 percent of the population Make me look sexy Amplify my emotions Affiliate with a brand of higher resonance Give stuff away Make a baby with the user Follow the collective conscious via allfacebook.com Posted via email at blog @cankoklu...
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#Mobile #Trends - June 2011 - #Trending The Future
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Fortumo Brings Carrier Billing to #Android, Now in...
One unique feature offered by the updated SDK from Fortumo is the addition of a “fallback” method for customers whose mobile operator does not support direct carrier billing. In these cases, Premium SMS will be used instead. And both options can be implemented with one integration. Besides the fallback to Premium SMS, the new SDK also offers the...
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#Facebook and #LinkedIn Block #Apps TOS-Violating...
Late last week, a Google Chrome browser extension called Facebook Friend Exporter received a flood of new interest as Google+ users looked for a way to import their Facebook friends into Google’s social network, Circles. However, since the app collects contact information from Facebook, it violate’s the site’s terms of service, and Facebook implemented a throttling mechanism that prevents it...
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#Mobile #Facebook Apps are upon us! - On The Eve...
You’ll recall that Project Spartan is the HTML5-driven mobile application platform that Facebook has been quietly building for months with the help of a group of third-party app developers. While some of those very developers believe Facebook’s intentions here is to break up the control Apple (and Google) have over the mobile app space, Facebook started freaking out when we reported that. The...
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Confirmed: Google+ iOS app is awaiting approval...
Today, Google’s own Erica joy has confirmed, that the iOS app has in fact been submitted to Apple for review some time ago. It is now stuck in review and waiting for approval. Erica actually posted it to the public on the Google+ network itself: via 24100.net Posted via email at blog @cankoklu | Comment »
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#Google’s Six-Front War - Techcrunch
The Browser Front: The Mobile Front: The Search Front: The Local Front: The Social Front: The Enterprise Front: It’s easy to pile on Google given their size, their wallet, and their global influence and impact. They are the goliath, and have been for many years, and are now facing many challenging tests, all at the same time. And while it’s a fun parlor game to sit around and...
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Yankee Group: Global #mobile transactions to...
The value of global mobile transactions will grow from US$241 billion in 2011 to more than $1 trillion by 2015, a compound annual growth rate of 56%, according to Yankee Group’s latest Mobile Money Forecast, part of a new Mobile Money Strategies research service. via nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com Posted via email at blog @cankoklu | Comment »
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#Multichannel: it’s not what it used to be… |...
Converting a consumer from a browser to a buyer no longer happens on a single channel, it happens across a multi-channel journey. And at each step of the way during this multi-channel journey you will have to make sure that: You deliver what your customer is after at that stage of their user journey, whether this is information or transactional capability. The touchpoint is easy to access and...
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The History of Payments - a mockumentary from...
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The Official Lookout Blog | How a Phone is...
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June 2011
30 posts
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#Infographic: What Makes People Want to Follow a...
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TDL-4 creates 4.5 million PC ‘indestructible’...
New malware TDL-4 has features that may make it indestructible, enslaves over 4.5 million PCs in early 2011 According to Kaspersky Lab, a new TDSS rootkit variant called TDL-4 has infected more than 4.5 million PCs worldwide in just the first three months of 2011. The security experts say that this sneaky malware is one of the most technologically sophisticated threats to date. Because of...