Category Archives: Commerce and Services

I see @claynewton over in Napa – geotagging your tweets and how it can help your small business

Yesterday I received this tweet: I clicked on it and couldn't bring myself to install Silverlight on my Mac. Boooo. This morning, however, I realized I could install it in Parallels and that would be fine (which is a bit of a rationalization, but whatever.) What I found was pretty amazing. Bing Twitter Maps. I [...]
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Mindless Self Indulgence on Bandcamp

I am very interested in Bandcamp. It seems like a really incredible service. Found that MSI is using them, new track below.
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Top 150 Marketing blogs

I find it pretty incredible that AdAge has compiled the AdAge Power150. The tout it as "a daily ranking of Marketing blogs"… and it doesn't fall short. The Power150 uses a multimetric algorithm to calculate the rankings, and keeps track of them on a daily basis. The metrics they use to calculate include: Todd Points [...]
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Funny and informative, a near perfect preso on social media ROI

Wow, I really enjoyed this presentation by Olivier Blanchard on social media ROI. With amazing archives of photos, it shoots right at the heart of what you should be measuring and considering when investing any time or money in social media.
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A/B Testing 101

Note: This was originally posted 8/5/2009, but has been quite popular. This post on Brian Cray has some great A/B testing resources. It covers most of the posts that I have been looking at over the last few months. Below is a bit of a rundown to get you started. But first, you may be [...]
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New TypePad microblog service – Will this obviate Tumblr & Posterous?

Just yesterday, I wad discussing with Jason Wehmhoener whether folks and businesses should focus on services such as WordPress and TypePad or defer to simpler alternatives such as Posterous and Tumblr.  As of yesterday, TypePad includes a microblogging capability and new tiny-templates. This may be awesome.
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serious about camo will be transitioning over to Facebook Page for many things

Often I hear from people that they are surprised by the amount of Facebook activity I generate. I don't think it's that strange considering I use Fb as a major information conduit.   Photo by Bryan Veloso About forever ago I set up the serious about camo Page on Facebook… and then I didn't do anything with [...]
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Apple tablet?

Gizmodo has a post with a secret source discussing the Apple table which people have been speculating about ad naseum. I just want the damn thing already.  Apple tablet rendering from Gizmodo Who knows if this is for real or not, but there are a couple of comments in the post that I find incredibly [...]
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iPhone app best practice: Lite

Techcrunch recently posted an overview of an internal study the appfarm performed and blogged about. It seems there is some debate in the wild about whether it is a good idea to provide free, lite, versions of paid apps.  The gist of the story? Launch a free lite version of your app at the same time [...]
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Augmented reality done right: Sony EyePet

Are you familiar with augmented reality? The idea is basically providing real world interactivity with virtual objects, or as Wikipedia explains: Augmented reality (AR) is a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real-world and computer-generated data (virtual reality), where computer graphics objects are blended into real footage in real time. The term is believed to have been [...]
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