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The Seven Virtues of Social Media

Search Engine Journal’s Jennifer Horowitz wrote last week about the  The Seven Deadly Sins of Social Media, which got me thinking about the Seven Virtues and reinforcing the positive rather than the negative in order to reap the rewards of marketing in social media.
1. Chastity (which I am defining as “Courage and boldness. Embracing of [...]

Google Latitude Blog Bling

Monday Google published two new applications that take advantage of Google Latitude.  The first is a widget that allows you to show your location on your blog. I’ve currently got it added to the right column of my blog, but I don’t think that it fits the blog layout and probably won’t last. I’ve [...]

Wanting Conversation not Advertising

Sara Taylor is the former political director of the Bush White House and she has one idea [about what will be next in harnessing grass-roots political support via technology]. “We’re at a place in the country where almost everybody has a cell phone, but not many people have a smartphone, meaning a video-enabled phone. But [...]

Marketing Bytes

I’ve fallen a bit off the blogging wagon in the last few weeks because of travel for work, a new agency of record agreement and a lot of deliverables, not to mention trying to spend some family time. As a result there is a bunch of news that I’ve thought about over the last few [...]

Viigo’s Tango Video Explains New Features

Viigo posted a video describing the features of the Tango beta release for WES. It’s been there for awhile, but it’s whetting my appetite for Tango. Some details on the release’s new features; RSS, sports, weather and WES Conference data, are explained. More features including podcasts, stock information and flight schedule updates [...]

Viigo Tango Beta June 16

Viigo’s new Tango program looks like it will release on June 16 according to their teaser page that includes screen shots that promises a new interface, channels for weather, sports, flight status, reviews, news and excitingly podcasts. The interface looks sexy, cool and most importantly easy to navigate. Clearly Viigo’s trying to [...]

Viigo Adds Google Reader

Viigo, the RSS feed reader application for BlackBerry and other smart phones that I recommended in my review has added Google Reader as an aggregator. I’ve no idea when this addition took place since there have been no press releases or blog entires about it, which would have been nice, but then again there’s [...]

BlackBerry RSS Feed Readers Reviewed

After switching to the BlackBerry from a Treo last year I undertook a pretty exhaustive review of the available readers and compiled my reviews. If you don’t use RSS or know what it is, read this useful primer and then come on back to find a tool to harness that power. If you are [...]

The iPhone’s Affect On The Mobile Web

A few articles recently point to the influence of the iPhone on the mobile web. The New York times reported the surge in traffic to Google’s mobile site from iPhones.
“Consumers are going to demand Internet browsers” as good as Apple’s, said Vic Gundotra, a Google vice president who oversees mobile products.
Better browsers will of [...]

Google Reader Mobile Issue Fixed

As I mentioned previously I’ve found Google Reader mobile pretty useless on my BlackBerry due to it displaying only the header and no content. But the solution has been found! It seems that the issue was having Support Style Sheets enabled in the Browser Configuration. Once I unchecked Support Style Sheets [...]