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October 03, 2012

With InTooch, Instantly Turn New Connections Into Relationships That Matter

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For those of you who go to a lot of conferences and events like I do, collecting business cards, exchanging data and keeping in touch with people after the fact is a daunting task.

Sure, there are apps who have promised to faciliate the exchange of information in the past, but most require both people to have the app installed or the need to work in some unnatural and awkward way.

And, then there's card scanners. I've invested in three over the years and two of the three ended up in a yard sale not so long ago. 

The other one I donated to Goodwill. 

Bottom line, they're not accurate so you're stuck stuck fixing all the mistakes or retyping the contact info into your database for the second and third time.

I recently started working with a French-founded start-up called InTooch who is now based in Silicon Valley. 

Intooch Snap LogoInTooch is a mobile application that allows you to instantly turn people you meet into personal and business relationships that matter.

Selected to present their technological innovation with over 75 other companies on the DEMO Fall stage this week, their demo will be included in the social media category.

Did you realize that of all the people you meet at a conference or even in a personal situation, you won't stay in touch with 85% of them? InTooch aims to not just decrease that number but improve those relationships using their app.

The great thing about the product is that it's easy, it's fast and it's free. Instantly, the moment you meet, the InTooch social connector exchanges contact information and connects you on your preferred social networks on the fly.

While many apps have tried to solve the contact update and data overload problem, most require both people to have the app installed for it to work, or they involve connecting in an awkward way.

Frustrating

In doing research about how people around the world stay connected, they discovered that the majority call each other to exchange numbers in real time more than they connect on social networks and exchange a business cards. InTooch takes it a step further by allowing people to share more than just numbers in real time, including your social data.

 How it Works:

Whenever you meet someone you want to stay in touch with, simply call their cell. The app detects that you have called someone for the first time and prompts you automatically to exchange your business or personal contact information.  

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Works on Any Receiving Device: you can send and receive new contact information regardless of what phone the other person has. If the other person doesn’t have InTooch, it simply sends a link and the rest is done seamlessly through their social connector technology.

 Social Network Integration: In just one call, you can connect through LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. There’s no need to search for a contact in each social network nor to send invitations – connections are simply established on the fly.

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No Need for Both Parties to Have the App: unlike so many solutions which require both parties to have the app installed to work, InTooch works regardless of whether the person you just met has it on their phone, making it the most natural, straight forward and easy way to share your personal or business details.  Obviously if the other person has the app, exchanging data is even faster.

 New Connection Highlights and Personal Match Score: For personal encounters, InTooch brings augmented reality to your connections, alerting you to all the things you have in common with another person (friends, places you visited, music, movies you like, social network info, check-ins, interests you share) so you can instantly engage in mutually interesting conversations.

It also provides a matching score based on an algorithm which calculates the probability of how well you should get along with that person.

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Geo-Tagging of New Connections: since it’s much easier to remember where and when you met someone than his/her name, InTooch automatically tags the location of the initial connection, so you also can search for people by when and where you met them.

Privacy (Control What Data Your Share): InTooch respects your privacy, allowing you to customize what information you want to share and with whom.

InTooch is available for download at http://www.intooch.com and is free for users. Currently, InTooch works with both the Android and the iPhone (except for iOS6), with support for iOS6, other platforms and mobile devices coming later this year.

 

October 3, 2012 in America The Free, Client Announcements, Client Media Kudos, Conference Highlights, Events, On Mobile & Wireless, On Technology, Social Media, WBTW, Web 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

September 20, 2012

Former Facebook's Kevin Colleran: Insider View Mixed with Humor

Kevin-calleran (6)Everyone knows Mark Zuckerberg's name and and if you live in Silcon Valley, you likely know a handful of other senior level Facebook execs as well.

In Kentucky, that's not the case, nor is it the case in other parts of the world.

I was surprised I had not run into Boston-based Kevin Calleran, Facebook's 7th employee in my circles before now....now being this past week in of all places, Kentucky. That said, I met the CTO of the White House for the first time in Louisville at Idea's Festival annual event - same time, same place a year ago.

Kevin did a l'il history of Facebook to a less social media savvy crowd than he may be accustomed to in Silicon Valley or Boston. Most people in the room were Facebook users however, which was a mix of high school and college students, academics, innovators, technologists, researchers, artists and local business owners.

Kevin's a natural sales guy and no surprise that its his background and raison d'etre. He's a great storyteller and adds a lot of humor throughout his talk, all done in a very informal style. In the early days, he ran the East Coast office out of his New York City apartment for months before meeting Zuckerberg for the first time. He laughed as he shared stories of the first two years, most of which captured humorous early stage moments.

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He moved onto memories....you know, the Facebook kind. Showing a video of a Facebook employee who captured every moment of his life in his timeline (from birth and graduation to marriage, his child being born and beyond, Kevin notes that his only recollection of his grandparents is the four black and white photos in his house.

While he's no longer officially at Facebook, he's certain still a positive spokesperson for the company. He says of Mark's vision: "Mark never wants 'that to ever happen again. Mark feels that every piece of our life should be chronicled." 

He then went deeper into the company's history, what Facebook was and where it is today. A few of the latest stats according to Kevin's data:

  • There are now 955 million active users
  • Instagram just passed 100 million users
  • 552 million daily active users on average
  • 543 million monthly active users who used Facebook mobile products in June 2012
  • Facebook is now translated into over 85 languages and has nearly 4,000 employees.
He showed the game that was created over a forty hour period and how Facebook was thereafter translated into 85+ languages. When they launched the translation app, 95% of the site got translated into French in less than 24 hours.

He also heavily encouraged hackathons and believes every company should do them. He says that some of the best products they have ever shipped have come from an all nighter coding event. In other words, "academics meet coder types all night long and great ideas have come out of it."

In addition to a trend of people moving to more of an 'asset-free life,' he shared some of the Emerging Themes are in technology: 

Mobile:

  • Rent or lease only: rather than own something, almost everthing is available to lease or rent, so there's a trend away from owning material things.
  • The world is moving mobile. 31.5% of U.S. households are mobile only and users log on an average of 77 minutes per day using apps on their smartphone.
  • 40% of Facebook's traffic is mobile-specific.

Transportation Reinvented:

  • Uber (see my review on Uber when it launched in Paris)
  • Parking Panda (shows nearby parking garages and space availability)
  • Lyft (ride-share program)

Rental Culture:

  • Zip car (rent by the hour for when you need it)
  • Airbnb (is doing a million room nights, people are renting out their homes while they're on the road)
  • Spotify (there's no reason to own music anymore when you can pay $10 a month to have access to any music you want)

Distributed Workforce: (technology enabled entrepreneurship/self employment & task entrepreneurs)

  • Task Rabbit (you can outsource work to people who can do a task for you within your zip code)
  • Cherry (a new request a car wash app. The idea is that you park your car at work or home and you put up the address where your car is parked and someone will come and wash your car for you)
  • Instacart (you can get people to your shopping for you)

September 20, 2012 in America The Free, Conference Highlights, Events, Social Media, WBTW, Web 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Now in its Third Year, Tech4Africa Hits Johannesburg Next Month

Tech4africaNow in its third year, Tech4Africa is a premier mobile, web and emerging technology event held in Johannesburg on October 31-November 1 at The Indaba Hotel, Gauteng.

The theme is “Unlocking the next billion consumers” and sessions will be focused around mobile and content, the enterprise opportunity, entrepreneurship and financing, social business and innovation.

The Developer Day and Hackathon on the kick off day includes three tracks: a day on Agile software development, a Hackathon with sessions on Ruby on Rails, Python, Raspberry Pi, PhP etc., as well as workshops for social media marketers on apps ecosystem and monetization.  

Keynote speakers include IBM's Tom Rosemalia and Ralph Simon of Mobilium, with other speakers being Amolo Ng'weno, MD of Digital Divide Data in Kenya; Neal Ford, Director, Software Architect and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks; Vérone Mankou, CEO of Way-C in the Democratic Republic of Congo; Emma Kaye, CEO of Bozza, Josh Adler, social entrepreneur and others.

IBM's Global Entrepreneurship Programme has been brought into the Tech4Africa 2012 agenda and Claudia Fan Munce, Managing Director at IBM Venture Capital Group, will introduce GEP and an award programme. Tech4Africa 2012 will also be running Ignite again - a start-up workshop and pitching competition, which is being run by AngelHub and Deloitte.

A Google G+ Hangout will be held live at the conference so that tech hubs from around Africa can be part of the conference and so that delegates can interact with a panel, asking questions and finding out more about what is happening on the ground in Senegal, Liberia, Uganda, Tanzania, Egypt, Kenya, Congo and other parts of Africa.

Disclosure: we are a media partner of the event.

September 20, 2012 in Conference Highlights, Events, Magic Sauce Media, On Africa, On Technology, Social Media, TravelingGeeks, WBTW, Web 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

September 01, 2012

Support "Founders Less Than Three:" Funny, Sexy Novel About Startups

HalleyFounders Less Than Three is a funny, sexy novel about 10 start-ups with 5 CEO girls, 5 CEO guys and their race for funding and fun.

The author? Boston-based Halley Suitt Tucker who doesn't think that there are enough entrepreneurs starting companies and creating jobs.  Especially women entrepreneurs. 

The novel is a funny, sexy story about a Boston-based accelerator where female and male founders and their teams fight it out to make their start-up company the next big thing.

It's a book with solid entrepreneurial advice, adventures, laughs, love and all the twists and turns starting a business involves, as they race towards their demo day, when the teams show off their start-up ideas and see who gets the best deal.  

HalelysuitHalley says, "I especially want more women to become entrepreneurs because I think they are well suited to the unpredictable path a new business usually takes and I want people to learn the lessons of entrepreneuring via a novel, not a business book, and not a textbook."

Her book aims to inspire female and male entrepreneurs alike and make them all say, "I can do that!"

Just like the business novel, The Goal, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox, which MBA students read to learn about running a factory, the book will give readers an inside look at an accelerator program and teach them about founding start-ups, as well as show them the crazy fun that entrepreneurs have outside the accelerator walls.  

Help make her book a reality through Kickstarter. Any pledge that you make will contribute towards an editor, a proofreader, a book cover designer and as well as create a small budget for book promotion when the book is launched.  $15,000 is her goal however even a pledge of $1.00 will get you a preview copy of the book in digital format as soon as it's done.   

How cool is this? Some of the pledge levels let YOU write part of her book whereby you can create a fictional start-up, write their elevator pitch and give birth to an imaginary CEO. A pledge level above the imaginary company level is all about REAL start-ups, meaning, she'll mention your actual start-up company in her book and your CEO. As she says with humor, "My character will drink your soda."

I love it! Check out the Kickstarter project here and donate away. If you're broke, then tweet and Facebook away so others can learn about the book.

September 1, 2012 in America The Free, Books, On Women, Social Media, WBTW | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

August 26, 2012

PR Summit: Who Owns the Message? PR or Social Media

PR Startup BootcampThe PR Summit is an all day pow-wow now in its third year. The August 27 event held in San Francisco will take on a wide range of topics from discussing PR for Startups & Early Stage Companies to the dynamics between social media and more traditional PR.

The morning kick-off panel will discuss how to blend traditional media outreach with social media tools with Elliot Tomaeno from The Morris + King Company, Kym McNicholas from PandoDaily.com, Ricky Yean from Crowd Booster, Mike Barash with Knock Twice and Robert Scoble.

I'm on a panel entitled: Battlefield 2.0 - Social Media versus PR (Who Owns the Message?), with Y’Anad Burrell from Glass House Communications, Harry McCracken, Fred Bateman, PRSA's Gerard Francis Corbett and Teresa Rodriguez.

Bad Marketing or Bad Timing will discuss how companies can avoid failure in crisis? Cathy Brooks moderates the panel with Peter Delevett from SJ Mercury News, Venture Beat's Jolie Odell, Jason Johnson from Founders Den and Abraham Hyatt from ReadWriteWeb.

 ROI, Metrics, Measurement, & Engagement panel will be moderated by Alastair Goldfisher from Reuters. Panelists include Murray Newlands, Connie Zheng, Oliver Starr and Jiyan Wei.

Ben Parr and Kim Bardakian take on winning pitches: turning your idea into a national news story.

Keynote addresses include Michael Tchong with Ubercool: “Social Revolution: A good week for crowdsourcing” and Porter Gale on the "3 Degrees of Separation." There will be a few workshops as well scattered into the mix and a fireside chat with Brian Solis and Kara Swisher.

August 26, 2012 in America The Free, Events, PR & Marketing, San Francisco, Social Media | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

August 03, 2012

Cory Doctorow on the Century of War Against Your Computer

Cory_DoctorowCory Doctorow spoke this week at the LONG NOW Foundation. The topic? A provocative one entitled: The coming century of war against your computer. 

The war against computer freedom will just keep escalating, Doctorow contends. The copyright wars, net neutrality, and SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) were early samples of what is to come. Victories in those battles were temporary.

Conflict in the decades ahead will feature ever higher stakes, more convoluted issues, and far more powerful technology. The debate is about how civilization decides to conduct itself and in whose interests.

Stewart Brand's fabulous summary of the event below where Doctorow kicked things off by framing the issue this way: “Computers are everywhere.  They are now something we put our whole bodies into---airplanes, cars---and something we put into our bodies---pacemakers, cochlear implants.  They HAVE to be trustworthy.“

Sometimes humans are not so trustworthy, and programs may override you: “I can’t let you do that, Dave.” (Reference to the self-protective insane computer Hal in Kubrick’s film “2001.”  That time the human was more trustworthy than the computer.)  Who decides who can override whom?

The core issues for Doctorow come down to Human Rights versus Property Rights, Lockdown versus Certainty, and Owners versus mere Users.

Apple computers such as the iPhone are locked down---it lets you run only what Apple trusts.  Android phones let you run only what you trust.  Doctorow has changed his mind in favor of a foundational computer device call the “Trusted Platform Module” (TPM) which provides secure crypto, remote attestation, and sealed storage.  He sees it as a crucial “nub of secure certainty” in your machine.

If it’s your machine, you rule it.  It‘s a Human Right: your computer should not be overridable.  And a Property Right: “you own what you buy, even if it what you do with it pisses off the vendor.”  That’s clear when the Owner and the User are the same person.  What about when they’re not?

There are systems where we really want the authorities to rule---airplanes, nuclear reactors, probably self-driving cars (“as a species we are terrible drivers.”)  The firmware in those machines should be inviolable by users and outside attackers.  But the power of Owners over Users can be deeply troubling, such as in matters of surveillance.

There are powers that want full data on what Users are up to---governments, companies, schools, parents.  Behind your company computer is the IT department and the people they report to.  They want to know all about your email and your web activities, and there is reason for that.  But we need to contemplate the “total and terrifying power of Owners over Users.”

Recognizing that we are necessarily transitory Users of many systems, such as everything involving Cloud computing or storage, Doctorow favors keeping your own box with its own processors and storage.  He strongly favors the democratization and wide distribution of expertise.  As a Fellow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (who co-sponsored the talk) he supports public defense of freedom in every sort of digital rights issue.

“The potential for abuse in the computer world is large,” Doctorow concluded.  “It will keep getting larger.”

For more information on future LONG NOW Seminars in San Francisco, visit their site. They bring one amazing speaker after another to speak, so it's worth attending one if you haven't and live in California or don't live closeby but can plan a trip around one of their upcoming events.

Photo credit: Oreillynet.com.

 

August 3, 2012 in America The Free, Events, On Technology, On the Future, San Francisco, Social Media, WBTW, Web 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

July 20, 2012

Flipboard's 2nd Anniversary: The Team Celebrates in Palo Alto

Flipboard teamFlipboard is turning two years old this weekend and celebrated its anniversary this past week in its Palo Alto CA parking lot with friends, family, employees, investors and Silicon Valley influencers.

For those of you who don't know what Flipboard is, you're missing out on a beautiful online experience. Pegged as a 'social magazine', Flipboard is an app for the iPad, iPod and Android which allows you to view content in a way that is stunningly delicious, where photos and simplicity rule.

Part aggregator and part stunning UI for content you already consume, it was listed in the 50 Best Inventions in 2010 by Time Magazine and they describe the experience: "Flipboard ends the chaos by grabbing updates, photos and links from your friends and other interesting people, then reformatting everything in a wonderfully browsable, magazine-like format." Well said and it's spot on.

MikeMcCue (7)The other thing that makes Flipboard such a cool app is the people behind it.

The team is headed by former Tellme head Mike McCue, who is a natural "marketing machine," precisely because he "isn't one."

Mike one of the most genuine, down-to-earth understated entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, with a heart and brain that are equally matched.

So, when the team said c'mon down and celebrate with us, how could I refuse?

They have attracted great talent who want to make a difference in the way we consume content today.

In a world where we're constantly barraged by irrelevant stuff, whether its from social media or websites and blogs, Flipboard lets you dictate what you want to see in a gorgeous format.

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The casual outside party held a number of surprises, such as the photo booth where you could get your photograph taken in front of magazine cover, like Rolling Stone. You could also feel ten years old again, while you fished for a miniature teddy bear wearing a Flipboard T-shirt from a machine. And, they had a buffet of pork, beef and chicken barbecue as well as a variety of salads, beer, soda and wine. 

Below Flipboard CEO Mike McCue and Klout's COO Emil Michael 

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We all know that Scobleizer aka Robert Scoble is a huge fan of the app :-)

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Back to the local touch. Sinister Dexter who has an awesome sound, played blues, rock and hopping jazz for several hours and sadly by the time I wanted to kick off my shoes and swing dance to a number, they were starting to pack away their instruments.

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Kudos to the Flipboard team for all of their successes to-date. I, for one, am a fan, and no I sadly don't have any stock or work for them.

Photo credits: team show in car and Emil/Mike shot from Eric Alexander of Flipboard, other photos by Renee Blodgett.

July 20, 2012 in America The Free, Europe, Events, On Technology, Photography, San Francisco, Social Media, WBTW, Web 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

July 09, 2012

Is Social Media Turning You Into a Low Self Esteem Anxiety-Rich Freak?

Social socialA University of Salford in the UK conducted a story which indicates that social media contributes to lower self esteem and higher anxiety.

Roughly half of the survey’s nearly 300 participants, reported that their use of social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and others reduces the quality of their lives.  

Confidence is affected, they say, self esteem is lower they say and two-thirds claim they find it difficult to relax or sleep after spending time on social networks.

This isn't rocket science. Ask anyone you know who spends a lot of time in front of a screen, glued to online games, social networks, management platforms like Hootsuite or sites where they're engaging in any way.

Roughly a quarter cited work or relationship difficulties due to online confrontations and more than half of the participants say they feel “worried or uncomfortable” at times they are unable to access their Facebook or email accounts. I have seen anxiety arise around me when people can't access their worlds online, including something as small as a Foursquare check-in.

Spend more time in an always on digital world and of course you're anxiety will increase. This isn't rocket science. But people are so hooked into the notion that it connects us 'more' that they don't look for the obvious negative side effects.

Sure, I can meet new people across the globe if I am constantly glued to my Hootsuite stream, and given that I run a travel blog, there's a lot of pluses to that, but bottom line, it takes us away from real human connections - there's only so many hours in a day.

It doesn't help that tools like Klout, Kred, PeerIndex and others assign us grades on a daily basis that encourage high school "who's the popular kid of the day" behavior. Offline for a day or a week and your Klout score goes down.

The tools are so one dimensional and dare I say "unheathily addictive" that it keeps you drawn into a social media online game you can never win, particularly if you want to have healthy relationships offline. Nicholas Carr's book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains doesn't lie. Not a new book, but the behavior shift is real whether or not you agree with everything in the book. Also see my post from last year on multiple digital personas.

I find it ironic that a post entitled: How Social Media Makes Romantic Relationship Thrive is immediately above a post entitled: Social Media Fuels Low Self Esteem & Anxiety on Mashable, where I originally learned about the study. Here's a link to a video reporting some of the results.

People I talk to seem to be fighting to get quality time with their other halves and the main culprit in the way? Mobile Devices and their PCs. Enuf said.

 

July 9, 2012 in America The Free, Europe, On Geo-Location, On Mobile & Wireless, On Technology, On the Future, Reflections, Social Media, TravelingGeeks, United Kingdom, WBTW, Web 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

June 23, 2012

Top 100 San Francisco Twitter Users

Here's a list of top 100 Twitter users in San Francisco. We Blog the World made the list. Rock on!! Thanks to Evan Carmichael for putting together the list over on his blog.

#1) @jack - Jack Dorsey
#2) @biz - Biz Stone
#3) @Veronica - Veronica Belmont
#4) @mrdannyglover - Danny Glover
#5) @Ustream - Ustream
#6) @kevinrose - Kevin Rose
#7) @GavinNewsom - Gavin Newsom
#8) @goldman - Jason Goldman
#9) @travelbargains - Travel Deals
#10) @MythBusters - MythBusters Official
#11) @dickc - dick costolo
#12) @gadgetlab - Gadget Lab
#13) @karaswisher - Kara Swisher
#14) @wefollow - wefollow
#15) @twitter_de - Twitter auf Deutsch
#16) @wiredscience - WIRED Science
#17) @donttrythis - Adam Savage
#18) @GuyFieri - Guy Fieri
#19) @Metallica - Metallica
#20) @TwitCause - TwitCause
#21) @mingyeow - Ming Yeow Ng
#22) @RoomtoRead - Room to Read
#23) @BrianWilson38 - Brian Wilson
#24) @iheartquotes - i heart quotes
#25) @Kiva - Kiva
#26) @IGN - IGN
#27) @klout - Klout
#28) @grantimahara - Grant Imahara
#29) @Twitvid - Twitvid
#30) @TylerFlorence - Tyler Florence
#31) @jess - Jessica Verrilli
#32) @zynga - Zynga
#33) @Kjer - Kjerstin Erickson
#34) @womensprosoccer - Women's Pro Soccer
#35) @davemorin - Dave Morin
#36) @delbius - delbius
#37) @Samasource - Samasource
#38) @1bog - 1 Block Off the Grid
#39) @dougw - Doug Williams
#40) @jennadawn - jenna
#41) @humphryslocombe - humphryslocombe
#42) @aspirationtech - Aspiratio
#43) @WeBlogtheWorld - Travel,Ideas,Culture
#44) @rsarver - Ryan Sarver
#45) @jkalucki - John Kalucki
#46) @rk - Ryan King
#47) @mrtall - Andy Lorek
#48) @JoinTheFlock - Join The Flock
#49) @abdur - Abdur Chowdhury
#50) @bs - Britt Selvitell
#51) @starwars - Star Wars
#52) @stop - Doug Bowman
#53) @anm - Alex McCauley
#54) @Macworld - Macworld
#55) @kevinthau - Kevin Thau
#56) @kanendosei - Kanen Flowers
#57) @Fresh - Davon Scooter Hill
#58) @balletrusse - Maria Kochetkova
#59) @todsacerdoti - Tod Sacerdoti
#60) @CNETNews - CNET News
#61) @abduzeedo - Abduzeedo
#62) @briansolis - Brian Solis
#63) @digg_updates - Digg_Updates
#64) @TheKevinButler - Kevin Butler
#65) @SocialMedia411 - Social Media News
#66) @drkiki - Dr. Kiki Sanford
#67) @pcworld - PCWorld
#68) @Techmeme - Techmeme
#69) @onlyinsf - Only in SF
#70) @tyleroakley - Tyler Oakle
#71) @djshadow - DJ Shadow
#72) @github - GitHub
#73) @californiabeat - California beat
#74) @thirstyapp - Michael Abehsera
#75) @willsmith - Will Smith
#76) @Revision3 - Revision3
#77) @summertomato - Darya Pino
#78) @petecashmore - Pete Cashmore
#79) @00joe - Joe Royall
#80) @Hameed_Hemmat - Hameed Hemmat
#81) @crystal - crystal
#82) @Focus - Focus
#83) @couponlovin - Coupon Lovin'
#84) @dlprager - David Prager
#85) @k - Kevin Cheng
#86) @pud - Philip Kaplan
#87) @fANNEtweetworld - Lifestyle
#88) @mickhagen - Mick Hagen
#89) @EcoGlam - EcoGlam
#90) @Sfkeiko - Keiko Marutani
#91) @Jvascellaro - Jessica Vascellaro
#92) @sumaya - Sumaya Kazi
#93) @patrickklepek - Patrick Klepek
#94) @Maggie - Maggie Mason
#95) @noah - noah glass
#96) @TammyCamp - Tammy Camp
#97) @narendra - Narendra Rocherolle
#98) @c - Coley Chen
#99) @emilychang - Emily Chang
#100) @Trace_Cohen - Trace Cohen

 

 

June 23, 2012 in America The Free, San Francisco, Social Media, WBTW, Web 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

June 13, 2012

Fotobabble for Websites, Facebook Timeline & New iPhone App Release

Fotobabble4Fotobabble announced three new updates this week: Fotobabble for Websites, Fotobabble for Timeline and a new iPhone App release.   

Fotobabble for Websites is a new application that for the first time lets an organization run photo and audio-driven campaigns and promotions directly from any website. Through the visual impact of photos, the emotion of voice and the power of social media, brands and businesses can increase web traffic and audience engagement.

Everloop.com, the leading online social site for kids and tweens, selected Fotobabble for Websites to power its INSPIRE contest with international pop star Greyson Chance. Kids were invited to take a photo of what inspires them, add their voice, and enter to win an iPad and autographed posters.

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Fotobabble for Timeline is the only Facebook application that engages fans with the visual impact of photos and emotion of voice. Easy to install, brand and customize, the app lets organizations launch creative Facebook marketing contests and campaigns.

Fotobabble features such as photo contests and voting; "like-gating" with Talking Photos; customized photo galleries; and more are now fully Timeline compatible. 

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Creating Talking Photos with Fotobabble’s iPhone App allows you to make iPhone photos bolder and more beautiful with just a couple of simple clicks. Powerful effects, filters, cropping tools and more help you create Talking Photos that you’ll want to share with everyone. 

  • Effects – Choose from ten gorgeous effects ranging from vivid color to washed-out retro.
  • Filters – Enhance, adjust, and perfect your photos with one-click editing tools.
  • Cropping and rotate tools – Flip, crop, and rotate your photos to position them however you want to.
  • More – Fix red-eye, brighten or saturate your photos and more. 

June 13, 2012 in America The Free, Client Announcements, On Mobile & Wireless, On Technology, Photography, PR & Marketing, Social Media, WBTW | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

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