These days more people than ever are glued to their mobile devices. Last week at the IMA’s AppsMania event in Tel Aviv a presentation from mobile ad network InMobi showed just how big mobile is becoming.
Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. 
Reddit is fun, one of the top unofficial Reddit browsing applications for Android, has released version 2 and it adds all kinds of cool features. Most notably the pro version is now optimized for tablets, but there are a bunch of bug fixes that make the app the easiest way to use Reddit on a mobile device. The app is available in the Google Market Play store.
I remember when I first visited Japan in 1997. Our group of North Americans were shocked at how even teenage girls had their own cell phones, complete with dangling bells and ornaments. What surprised us more was their use of “SMS” messaging to send chat messages to one another. After I’d returned from the trip, I did some research and found that the phenomenon was also spreading all over Europe — Brits in particular sent millions of text messages per year.
It would be a few more years before we had it over on our continent, but once it hit, it hit big. That’s what it’s a bit of a changing of the guard to see that social media messaging (Facebook, Twitter, etc) is costing mobile operators billions of dollars in SMS revenue.
It’s Valentine’s Day and the pressure to plan a fun and exciting date is on. If you don’t have a clue about where to take that special someone (or are interested in finding some cool folks to spend the evening with), there’s a new mobile app in town that just may help you plan something out of this world.
This is a guest post by Josh Williams, President and CSO of Kontagent
Whether in the early stages of developing a mobile application, or already launched with a substantial user base, mobile app developers and marketers can gain a huge advantage and greater chance at success by looking at the way social app developers scientifically optimize their Customer LTV and ROI.
How do you engage with online video? Do you watch more online video on your computer, tablet or mobile device? How and where do you share online video content? A new infographic from Wistia, with data from a quarterly Ooyala report that analyzed the viewing behavior of over 100 million users, explores these questions and more.
Google has updated their Google+ Android app including — wait, it wasn’t there before? — Search. Other features added are giving “+1s” to photos and comments and better photo and video upload support. I’ve found the Google+ Android application to be an easy-to-use app, with the big clear icons and pastel colors, and am glad to see Google focusing on keeping it up to date.
Mobile technology and social media — once hailed as the future of retail — have arrived.
Guest blogger Dr. Gary Edwards, Chief Customer Officer of Empathica discusses how it’s critical for companies to understand how customers use mobile and social channels to interact with their brand, and then devise strategies capable of facilitating meaningful dialogues and better customer experiences.
With Thanksgiving over, you’re most likely slouched miserably on your couch, while your extra poundage rests comfortably in your stomach from yesterday’s feast. By now you’re finally realizing why the extra round of stuffing was a bad idea, and the amount of gravy poured on your turkey, could have been used to fill the Nile (twice over).
Even though you feel disgusted with yourself now, eventually you’ll want to start dieting to losing your extra stomach fat. To assist you on your journey, the Social Times team has put together a list of healthy mobile apps to help you track, monitor and keep your weight loss goals in check.
Catch, the mobile app for capturing, discovering and sharing notes has just launched a brand new feature called Streams, giving users the option to create collections (aka “streams”) of notes privately, or work on collective streams with friends and family, co-workers, group members or anyone.
