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Advertising, iPhone

Pay by Iphone coming soon to 1000+ Starbucks

Posted on 12 March 2010

Yesterday Starbucks released an update to their iPhone app. The app allows you to view and update info of your Starbucks cards, and since December it has allowed you to pay with your iPhone at 16 test stores. The test stores were mainly in Starbucks’ home town of Seattle, as well as San Francisco and [...] Continue Reading

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I wonder why this billboard is vacant.

Posted on 19 February 2010

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Newspaper Websites looking more like MySpace

Posted on 12 November 2009

If you live in the Atlanta area you may very well be aware of the changes that the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has made not only to their Website ( ajc.com ) but to their Sunday paper as well. It’s no secret that the newspaper industry is hurting – a business model almost 100% dependent on advertising [...] Continue Reading

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Facebook, Social Media, Twitter

Social Networks Cost Companies Billions cough Bull$hit cough

Posted on 26 October 2009

The brilliant people at Morse, an IT services company in the UK, released the results of a survey today that claims the time employees spend on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter is costing businesses about $2.2 Billion (USD) each year in lost productivity. This is not the first study to put a number on [...] Continue Reading

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Online Marketing, Social Media, Twitter, Videos

Twitter Case Study: Paramore

Posted on 05 September 2009

Even today, with all of Twitter’s popularity, people still ask “What’s the point?” Unfortunately these are the people that just may never get it. That’s why whenever I see a good case study for Twitter I can’t help but point it out. Today the band Paramore is seeing first hand the way Twitter can launch [...] Continue Reading

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New homepage ads for Dictionary.com – why I love em!

Posted on 13 August 2009

Recently Dictionary.com has redesigned their homepage to include nothing more than a few links, the iconic Google-type search bar and now nothing more than a giant advertisement. Some people hate the new ad space and have vowed to never visit Dictionary.com again. One of my biggest pet peeves are people who hate advertising just for the [...] Continue Reading

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Digg, Facebook, Firefox, Social Media, Technology, Twitter

Flock – my new Web browser of choice

Posted on 11 August 2009

What the Flock? A new Web browser? That’s right – the folks at a new company called Flock have developed a new Web browser built on Mozilla (the guys behind the beloved Firefox Web browser). Flock is a new browser made especially for bloggers and social networking freaks like me (and probably you). Flock is a [...] Continue Reading

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