Archive for July, 2009

What is the Hottest Feature for Facebook Fan Pages?

In: Social Media

31 Jul 2009

So, we handle Facebook fan pages for a few of our clients, and the one thing that we notice is that Facebook is, by and large, very disconnected from the client’s website. Management and content sharing takes a little more time and elbow grease to really get good results and activity happening on the page.
However, [...]

Social Media: Not About Tools (Gasp!)

In: Social Media

30 Jul 2009

With all the buzz and rage about social media, most people limit it to Twittering, bloggins, and Facebook fan pages. While these tools are certainly important and worthwhile for organizations and brands to use, they in no way define social media.
The essence of social media is about relationships. Granted, these relationships are had and maintained [...]

Augmented Reality: Reality…and a half, on your iPhones.

In: Top iPhone Apps

28 Jul 2009

We found this video today:
The latest New York Nearest Subway Augmented Reality App for iPhone 3GS.

The App uses a combination of the GPS, compass and video capabilities of iPhones to offer a real time navigation along NY subways.
Augmented Reality is a small offshoot of a concept that has been the subject of hottest research in [...]

Top 5 hottest CMS based platforms on the menu

In: Website Application Development

23 Jul 2009

Avoiding them is impossible these days. They started as blogs, but over the past 5 years, they have infused the latest web design trends, shaved off all the messy coding, and evolved into systems, lot bigger than editors for personal

memoirs or daily journals: Content Management System are now the most effective way to build your [...]

Review of the iHUT iPhone App from Pizza Hut

In: Top iPhone Apps

20 Jul 2009

Last night, we tried Pizza Hut’s latest iPhone app- iHUT; and here’s how we rate it: Five stars for graphics,two for performance, minus two for flexibility and three for intuitive flow.
Remember the call that you make to order your pizza? Well, iHUT basically replaces that call with a few taps on your iPhone. The advantage [...]

How can an iPhone App be a new source of revenue for newspapers

In: Top iPhone Apps

17 Jul 2009

Now that people can subscribe to material on their iPhones, newspaper industry has strong reasons to want iPhone apps: a newspaper on iPhones is more accessible/user customizable than its web counterparts; it is available to readers even when they are not near an internet source; it is handier and greener than paper based subscriptions; and, [...]

The Fate of Fans: Starting a Community on Facebook

In: Social Media

17 Jul 2009

When many people hear Facebook, they immediately think social networking and maybe youth-oriented technology. However, Facebook can be one of the best, cheapest, and easiest ways a business or organization can start and manage a community of interested fans. Rather than get into the mechanics of how to use a Facebook fan page, it’s important [...]