Food For Thought: Where Would We Be Today Without Social Media?
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6 Key Attributes To Demand From Your Sobile Analytics Provider
Analytics are a means to an end – not an end themselves. Mobile app publishers need to be able to answer the “how, why and what” questions from the data they collect. Ask yourself: How is my app doing? Why is it performing well or poorly in certain areas? And, what can my business do to fix any issues and build on our strengths to improve the user experience? Analytics can and should be employed to address these questions and to optimize user engagement and monetize mobile apps. More after the jump.
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Join us on July 31 for our Social Curation Summit in New York, where you'll learn new strategies to connect and engage with your audience using visual communities such as Pinterest, BO.LT, and Tumblr. Speakers include Scott Belsky (Behance), Shane Rahmani (Thrillist), and Elias Roman (Songza Media). Register by June 7 and save.
Use Visual Social Network Sites to Market Your Business
Join us on July 31 for our Social Curation Summit in New York, where you'll learn new strategies to connect and engage with your audience using visual communities such as Pinterest, BO.LT, and Tumblr. Speakers include Scott Belsky (Behance), Shane Rahmani (Thrillist), and Elias Roman (Songza Media). Register by June 7 and save. Food For Thought: Where Would We Be Today Without Social Media?
How would your world, and the world as a whole be different without Twitter and Facebook?
Has Music Become Social Enough? Sean Parker Thinks So
Listening to Sean Parker’s advice is a bit like trying to take life lessons from your parents seriously. Sure, they have experience and probably know what they’re talking about, but you always have the sneaking suspicion that their viewpoint may not be entirely relevant anymore. Just the same, let’s talk about the Napster founder’s recent decree that social music has finally reached its proper level of, umm, social-ness.
Only 1 in 500 Branded Online Videos Break 500,000 Views
The time has come to face the facts: creating a viral video is a lot harder than it looks.
On The Curious Power Of UFO & Bigfoot Videos To Go Viral
UFO and Bigfoot—two of the world’s most mysterious phenomena—are laughed at by most, yet are among the most viral topics on YouTube.
Social Media Marketing Boot Camp Starts Tomorrow
The newest Social Media Marketing Boot Camp is starting tomorrow, and I have to say that the speakers and itinerary are really incredible. We’ve had a big success on the past few boot camps, and now with our relationship with Inside Network we’re able to centralize a lot of experts from a variety of fields. Sign up now and get in on it.
My favorite session is definitely going to be the Lessons Learned from Viral Video, with YouTube’s own trends manager, Kevin Allocca. Check out more about it below!
Lessons Learned from Viral Video
What makes a video turn into a sensation that millions of viewers watch and share? What are the lessons you can draw as you create video content on social platforms? YouTube Trends Manager Kevin Allocca, who reports on trends related to the most shared videos on YouTube, provides his insights into what drives video views on YouTube. Learn how some of the most innovative digital advertisers have succeeded in video, and apply those lessons to your own work.
Apple Patent Suggests their Cloud Will be the Fluffiest of All
In a recent article on the status of the could music battle between Amazon, Google and Apple, I tendered my opinion that victory wouldn’t be based on chronological order, but on a litany of factors. I also touched on the fact that Apple has a storied history of entering the market later than competitors with a superior product and almost immediately leaving said competitors to fight for a very distant second place. Well I’m not one who revels in saying ‘I told you so’ (that’s an absolute lie, I love it) but a recently unearthed patent application strongly suggests that Apple’s cloud-based music service could be a game changer.
5 Likely Reasons Nobody Is Subscribing To You On YouTube
Don’t have any subscribers on YouTube and can’t figure out why? We’ve put together a list of five likely reasons to help you get to the root of the problem.
What Makes A Video “Viral”?
“Viral video” is one of those buzz words that gets thrown around a lot but nobody is really sure what it means. I mean, what exactly constitutes a viral video? In this post we’ll deal with a number of factors that relate to whether or not a video is viral, including viewership, buzz, parody and longevity.
Intel’s AppUp – Is It Too Late to Succeed?
At the recent AppUp event in San Francisco I had a chance to checkout the Intel AppUp store at their booth. Most of you probably have never heard of AppUp, but it was launched in September of 2010 and currently has a selection of over 3,500 apps. That app selection seems almost laughable compared to 134k+ apps on the Android store and 121+ apps on the iTunes store, but Intel seems to be optimistic (not like they have a choice not to) that they will get some traction in 2011.
Currently their Windows store is up in running, and some blockbuster mobile titles such as Angry Birds are available for purchase. In fact AppUp is the only way to play Angry Birds on your PC. Unfortunately there are no numbers available with regards to the size of App Up’s user base, so it is still a high risk choice for developers unless they already have an existing title which they’d like to port over to AppUp, which supports C, C++, .net, Java & Unity. Intel tries to assist developers with porting their games to AppUp by working with their preferred porting providers, as well as offering to cover porting costs for certain developers.
Intel is heavily betting on the rise of touch screen netbooks, laptops and monitors that are being released, such as the Lenovo IdeaPad s10-3t (netbook). The s10-3t is basically a hybrid between a tablet and a laptop. It comes with a rotatable screen that you can flip over and turn into a tablet, then flip back over and open to use its built in keyboard as you would on any normal netbook/laptop. So for those of us who would like a portable touch screen productivity tool, the new wave of netbooks may be the best choice.
Until Intel releases their numbers for AppUp and provides some serious incentives for developers to come on board, I predict that it will be very difficult for them to gain significant traction.
