Posts on ‘December 5th, 2008’

Via the Sydney Morning Herald
With the Prime Minister on Twitter, blogging his way to the next election, maybe business should get a little more serious about social media. All the evidence suggests it will.
Paul McIntyre
December 4, 2008 - 11:00AM

Twitter, a micro-blogging venture in which users post views, or “tweets”, to a maximum of 140 characters, [...]

Via Being Peter Kim
Peter Kim has compiled an extensive list of Social Media Marketing exmaples - here’s the very tip of the iceberg:
Examples of companies using and being used by social media marketing:

3 Italia.  Social networks:  Facebook Business and La3 DVB-H groups.80 
Abbott Labs.  Social networks:  Facebook Labs Are Vital scholarship contest.45
Absolut Vodka:

Online video:  [...]

Via Mashable

December 4, 2008 - 1:11 pm PDT - by Adam Ostrow

Facebook Connect is now open for business, allowing any developer to let users login to their websites using their Facebook credentials. Additionally, other key Facebook features, like your friends list, can now be integrated into third-party applications, which can [...]

Via Tech Crunch
by Erick Schonfeld on December 4, 2008

Update: Facebook just opened up FB Connect as well in a self-serve fashion. It’s mano-a-mano.
The battle over who will control access to your online identity is heating up. In the wake of more and more partners finally starting to take a shine to Facebook’s [...]

Via Tech Crunch
by Jason Kincaid on December 4, 2008

German startup Club Cooee has launched its 3D instant messaging service in private beta, and it doesn’t disappoint. The service is a hybrid between traditional instant messengers like AIM and 3D social networks like Second Life, allowing users to converse in chat bubbles while using [...]

Via Mashable

December 4, 2008 - 6:49 pm PDT - by Sean P. Aune

WordPress is quickly becoming the standard software for the majority of blogs.  This fact makes every major release of the software seem like a huge event, but the thing is that this time it is.  WordPress 2.7 comes [...]

Via ARS Technica
By Nate Anderson | Published: December 04, 2008 - 09:35PM CT
Now that the official Amazon Mobile iPhone app is here, it’s easier than every to check prices from anywhere, even while shopping in retail stores. And the company’s clever new “Amazon Remembers” service will use humans to identify product pics snapped with the [...]

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December 4, 2008 - 9:38 pm PDT - by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins Add a Comment

TalkShoe this afternoon released a major upgrade to their live podcasting platform, one that allows for a call to be created mobile, on the fly and independent of a connection to the web.
CEO Dave Nelson [...]