I watched a webcast hosted by Clickable today, featuring Jordan Franklin, Director of Social Solutions. The topic was around Facebook marketing, advertising and Sponsored Stories. Here’s what I got out of the webcast in quick bullet-point summary: Facebook has always tried to bridge the engagement between brands and people. 1. In the early stage FB [...]
Ever wonder what time of day your Facebook posts and Twitter tweets have the highest potential of getting comments/likes/RTs/replies? Here are the answers, for within the United States: The best time to tweet is 5PM ET The best days to tweet are midweek and on the weekends The best days to share on Facebook is [...]
More and more people are creating Google+ Brand Pages for their companies/brands despite having an existing Facebook Fan Pages. The 2 pages are similar in features and functionality, but here are the noted differences: Publish to Audience: With Google+ circles, companies can better categorize their customers. Companies could put different target audiences/customers in different circles [...]
What to do tonight? Facebook launched “Suggested Events” in place of the previous “Friends’ Events” tab. The suggested events are generated based on your check-ins at different venues: bars, restaurants, events, etc. Facebook collects the FB pages, artists, and performers you like to include in Suggested Events. Although Facebook is still testing out this feature, [...]
Product Description: Facebook Subscribe is a one-way subscription to get updates on people and websites without having to be friends. The Goods: Anyone with a Facebook account can subscribe No subscriber maximum Don’t have to be friends to subscribe. e.g. won’t see all info/pictures you normally only share with friends No 140 character limit Broader [...]
On December 8th, Facebook rolled out the Subscribe Button for websites so that users can follow authors, journalists, etc. directly from websites and get updates just like how they receive updates from friends. Users can often find the subscribe button after a journalist’s name in an article (see image below). Clicking on the subscribe button [...]
Facebook rolled out their one-way follow feature called “Facebook Subscribe” about 3 months ago, which has been compared to the Twitter following concept a lot. In both cases, someone can follow you, get your updates, and you don’t have to follow them back. For Facebook Subscribe, you don’t need to be friends to subscribe to [...]
We’ve all heard of the concept, “never eat alone”, apply the same to flying. Planely makes traveling more interesting if you’re in the mood for it. The concept is simple: Sign up with a Planely account, enter your upcoming flight schedules (departure/destination cities and times), and Planely will show you a list of travelers with [...]
This Tuesday the TechCrunch NYC meetup officially happened at Bar 13 in lower Manhattan. Setup of the place was: photo booth machine and karaoke on the 1st floor, full bar, DJ, disco ball and “VIP” tables on the 2nd floor, then there’s the roof top. Total 3 levels of mingling, 1,500+ RSVPs, packed on every [...]
NY Tech Day 2012: Startups that Stole the Show
Last Thursday, April 19th was NY Tech Day. Over 3,500 people registered to attend and 160+ startups exhibited alongside sponsors at the Lexington Armory in New York. The first part of the event had startups showcasing their products to the media, VCs, and tech industry enthusiasts. The latter part of the event was the Awards [...]
Private Event: AT&T & Nokia Limo Party + 230 Fifth Rooftop After Party
[Photos: Alexis, AT&T; Kathy Garfield, 1000heads; Heidi, Head of Blogger Community Outreach, Techlicious; Billy Sorrells, MTV; Johan, MobilityMinded; Chaim Haas, SVP, Kaplow PR; Eddy, dancinghotdogs.com] Yesterday I was invited by @SirKneeland to a dazzling private event for AT&T + Nokia to showcase their Best Phone of CES 2012, the Lumia 900 and for media personalities [...]
WIMLink Women Leadership and Negotiation Event
Last Thursday WimLink hosted an Advancing Women: Leadership Confidence and Negotiation event at the IAB Flatiron office in New York. Founder and Organizer Tania Yuki @taniayuki invited accomplished women in media and technology to sit on the panel. Panelists include: Sharon Feder, COO of Mashable; Laurel Touby, Founder of Mediabistro, startup Investor/Advisor and also host [...]
Developing for Nokia with Windows 7 Phone – Mobile Monday Event
Last night, Mobile Monday NY @MobileMondayNY held their March event at the Canal Room in Soho, NYC. With Nokia as the sponsor, developers showed off their Windows 7 apps and Nokia raffled a few winner of CES Best Smartphone Lumia 900 phones. Roughly 150 attendees in the mobile industry mingled by the open bar and [...]
News.me: Your Curated News Social Network
Many companies are now trying to solve the problem of users experiencing content overload whether from popular social networking sites, the media, or your friends’ constant check-ins and tweets by curating content, qualifying and repackaging them in an easier digestible format. One such company’s product I recently checked out is News.me. It grooms through your [...]
The Social Radio is Like Your Twitter Mix Tape
I got hooked on audiobooks while working at Audible, aside from providing a different way to ingest content, they make train rides and falling asleep easier. Recently, I discovered The Social Radio, it reads your Twitter feeds out loud along with music in the background, like a Twitter mix tape. The “stations” on your Social [...]
http://www.sonar.me/ Product Description: While you’re out in a public space, Sonar attempts to answer the question “Who do I know here?” Once a user checks-in, Sonar displays a list of all users that have checked-in to the same venue as well as any shared connections you have with them via Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and LinkedIn. [...]
http://uplanme.com/ http://www.crunchbase.com/company/uplanme Product Description: My first encounter with UPlanMe was through UrbanDaddy‘s newsletter New York edition, calling it “The Pandora of Calendars”. It describes: “Introducing UPlanMe, a self-aware smart calendar that’ll constantly evolve to meet your extracurricular scheduling needs, available now in private beta.” UPlanMe is a service that provides events suggestions based on a [...]
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