Archive for August, 2008

Idée, the new Google for images

Idée is the cool visual search company behind the infinite images and videos found online. You could even consider it the Google for images rather than words.
Leading imaging firms such as Adobe Systems has used it as its video and image supplier. Idée has become quite popular and vastly used in the stock imagery industry. [...]

Posted in Cool Stuff on August 29th, 2008

Facebook: The Movie. Too soon?

The West Wing’s creator, Aaron Sorkin, thinks not.
Facebook has had quite a life since 2004, initially opening its network to Harvard students, then all Ivy Leagues, until eventually welcoming just about anyone above the age of 13.
Today, the social network monster has surpassed its main competitor MySpace, which currently has 117.6 million visitors compared to [...]

Posted in Social Marketing on August 28th, 2008

Google Suggest; fast searches, more efficiency

A new search tool to be launched by Google will be revealed throughout the course of the week. Such undisclosed feature will offer real-time keyword suggestions every time you execute a search query, however, it is still under Google Labs for the final tweaking here and there.
The tool is dubbed, Google Suggest, and will provide [...]

Posted in Search Engine Optimization on August 27th, 2008

UBIK.com makes your website mobile friendly

With the explosive growth of mobile internet usage and if you’re a website host yourself, it would be pretty smart for your brand to have mobile presence as well.
This way you’re guaranteed maximum coverage in all angles considering that having mobile presence is becoming as key as having a PC based internet presence.
In fact, in [...]

Posted in Mobile Marketing on August 26th, 2008

Microsoft Photosynth cool for PCs not for Macs

Mac vs. PC = eternal battle.
As you know, Microsoft Live Labs recently launched Photosynth, the software which arranges a collection of digital images into their 3D context. It’s a cool application that you can download directly to your computer ( PC not Mac ) along with its corresponding web browsing plug-in that enables you to [...]

Posted in Media News on August 25th, 2008

Yahoo’s Widget Channel to Fill the TV Void

Yahoo + Intel = TV?
Yahoo has teamed up with Intel to create a new TV experience that looks to blur the lines between TV and Internet. Unlike internet TV channels that require users to have a PC the ‘Widget Channel’ will be available on a TV with the help of a new chip designed by [...]

Posted in Video Advertising on August 22nd, 2008

Google’s Android has got Microsoft Paranoid

And Here Google Comes..Again
Google has released Android, a mobile phone open source development platform allowing third party developers to create applications for mobile devices. Speculation about Google entering the mobile phone market has been around for a while, with many a rumour in the past few years about a Google smart phone called the G [...]

Posted in Mobile Marketing on August 21st, 2008

Two thumbs up for Google, none for Microsoft

Internet activity lagging a bit lately? Blame it on the summer.
Not for Google though, the search monster has instead maintained a visitor growth rate of 1.6% between June 2008 to July 2008 according to Hitwise. Currently it holds a total market share of 70.77% amongst all leading search engine providers in the US.
Following Google, not [...]

Posted in Marketing Analysis on August 20th, 2008

Consumer response to ads, which segment has more of an impact

I just ran across an interesting marketing analysis, dubbed ‘Responsiveness to Ads Across Media,’ from MediaMark Research and Intelligence, which basically plots out the media in which Americans prefer to receive advertising from.
I guess we can all agree it is quite a quest to deliver the right message to the right audience at the right [...]

Posted in Marketing Analysis on August 19th, 2008

Say the magic word FREE and the word is spread..virally

I’m gonna leave something nice and sweet for you today. But I have to clear up one, small detail before I can go on explaining.
I stumbled upon this site for the first time last week and came back to it again today out of curiosity. It so happens something slightly changed- luckily, it still works [...]

Posted in Viral Marketing on August 14th, 2008

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