Apple just announced the passing of Co-Founder Steve Jobs. As I write this post on one of my many Mac computers and dismiss a call on my iPhone – I draw breath at the sheer impact he has had on millions of lives. We are a wired society thanks in large part to his vision, [...]
The Web and mobile have gone local. One out of every five searches has local intent. One out of every three mobile searches has local intent. So, if you are a local business and you aren’t engaging your connections via mobile, you maybe missing a vital component of your interactive marketing. Here at the SMX [...]
How do you manage your online experience? Are you more concerned with getting the highest scores you can on the social influence sites… or are you in social media to connect with people? Do you can check in on Foursquare, check TwitterGrader, buy Groupons, try to raise your Klout score or sell your “social stock” on [...]
As social media evolves, it appears that tribes are being created online. Small groups of influential people are congregating in various social media sites and helping each other create more influence. This appears to be a relatively new phenomenon. There are several sites out there that gauge our social influence. They take our actions on [...]
If you don’t know Mike Blumenthal, you don’t know local search. He is one of the brightest minds in the local seo game. He has a direct connection to Carter Maslan, product management director of local search over at Google and therefore, Mike gets the low-down before the rest of us plebes. Anyway, Mike put [...]
Yesterday at SMX Advanced Seattle, industry experts offered case studies on how mobile local social marketing are helping brands reach audiences at the point of sale. During the event’s “SoLoMo Revolution: Social Media, Local Search & Mobile Search Collide” session [should have been called, MobLoSo], it was discussed how mobile content has the potential to [...]
The daily deal space has always interested me. Back in April 2007, I went out to San Francisco and went to the Web 2.0 conference. It was alive with great energy and ideas. Twitter was 9 months old. Yahoo was still strong. I gained tons of insight from this conference. Before going to the conference, [...]
There is a science to creating the perfect landing page the generates lots of conversions. Look at this infographic to give you some valuable insights on how to increase your conversions. Via FormStack
Seriously. This will be awesome.
There has been much speculation the past couple months on whether Apple and Verizon will announce a partnership on with the iPhone running on “America’s Most Reliable Network.” or whatever slogan they have, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in early January. The reason is, AT&T’s customer experience is consistently bad. Worse than [...]
Why the best password to secure your data is “password”
Map 2.0. Paul Butler, an intern at Facebook, began pairing users locations and their friend connections and before he knew it, he had created a social cartograph of the world. When the data is the social graph of 500 million people, there are a lot of lenses through which you can view it. One that [...]
Before you tear me apart for a sensationalist title, let me explain. I do not think that Gawker Media, the multimillion dollar blogging corporation, will fall. As a general rule, I do not second-guess the business strategies of multi-million dollar companies. However, the bloom is definitely off the rose as far as Gawker’s standing in [...]
Watching the search landscape evolve these days, I can’t help but think of the real estate agents’ mantra: “It’s all about location, location, location!” The emergence of location-based services, such as Facebook Places, Twitter Places, and Foursquare, is clearly a game-changer on the web. Social networking sites are more locally focused. Online media are now [...]
Are you ready for some liiiiiiveblogging! It may be a rainy Monday but all is right with the world here at SMX East. The next few days will be jam-packed with conference coverage and antics so I hope you’re stocked up on vitamins and coffee. To kick things off we have a killer local panel [...]
Earlier today, while monitoring some feeds on Tweetdeck, I was thinking about how handy it would be to check on all of my facebook pages, my twitter feeds, my Rss feeds, my favorite forum threads, etc… and boom Seesmic releases their new Desktop 2. It doesn’t add forum threads, that was my idea… but the [...]
Haven’t you heard? There is a recession going on!! Nobody is spending any money on marketing! Everyone is broke! Well, this just isnt the case. According to Marketing Sherpa’s Social Media Marketing Benchmark Survey, almost every niche surveyed is increasing budgets. I know a lot of small business people. That’s why I blog about their [...]
As I skimmed the iPad app store the other night, the one app that struck me most (besides Flipboard) was one that actually set way, way down at #55. It was the highly-touted Hulu + app, possibly one of the most hoped-for and touted apps by the iPad crowd. The price was set at $9.99. [...]
Looks like Engadget has the scoop on a possible (probable?) Android/Sony gaming phone. Here’s some info: “Here’s what we can tell you about the hardware: if you’re a gaming fan, this is exactly the kind of phone you’ve been waiting for. The device is described as cross between the Samsung Captivate and the PSP Go [...]
There has been a lot of talk and maybe a little drama surrounding the Fast Company Influence Project and I wanted to write a little something about why I wanted to be a part of the project and why I continue to ask for the support of my friends and colleagues by the way of [...]
Obviously, Best Buy was going to start selling a tablet soon… that isn’t a surprise., however it is a bit surprising that its CTO Robert Stephens shot a few pics of the tablet branded RocketFish and tweeted them out over Twitter earlier today. Beyond the shot above and the one after the break, we don’t know much about the HP [...]
They say if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Well I’m doing nothing to help with bad AT&T service. In fact, I’m going to encourage it by buying another iPhone. So screw all of you people whining about dropped calls and slow internet.
AT&T, in a move that people could see a mile away, is going to upgrade away the Unlimited Data plans through upgrade pricing for the iPhone 4G.
D8. All Things Digital, the an annual conference where the worlds top tech gurus come to discuss the state of the digital world was created by the Wall Street Journal’s renowned tech journalist, Walter Mossberg, and his colleague-in-crime, Kara Swisher. This year the conference is in it’s 8th year, first year at the new location, [...]
You know the rules, and so do I.
So, sometimes I wonder: “How have we been able to attract these amazing writers that we have at MobileLocalSocial.com that we are blessed with? There is no big compensation right now for writing. No revenue to speak of, yet. People are trained to NOT click advertising, for the most part… we are sophisticated technological consumers… [...]
Greetings Earthlings. The team at Mobile Local Social, has connected with some amazingly bright minds here in our hometown of Kansas City, and are forming a Mobile Media Club to connect with businesses and show them the error of their technological ways. What we have here is the very first podcast / experiment of this [...]
The iPhad empire. Only two or maybe three operating systems can hang with the top dog. Ok, maximum five are possibly real iPad competitors. Six then. That’s it! 2010 is shaping up to be the year of the tablet/pad/slates.
Read on for the major comparisons.
Each year the best and brightest developers and engineers head out to Google I/O. This is a web developer-focused conference held annually by Google to discuss web applications using Google and open web technologies. It’s been held annually at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California for the past three years.
I freakin’ LOVE this. Unfortunately, this isn’t an app, but some code created to play this song with Processing.org. So, you can’t download a player that does this… but WOW, someone talk to Pandora. I’d LOVE to sit with this rocking on my iPad, reading the words to the song as it bumps to the [...]
Google may have collected emails and other private information while using their “Street View” cars. If they traveled over WiFi networks while one of the cars was in range, they may have started to collect your data. Previously, the company denied that any data was ever intercepted. In a blog post published on Friday afternoon, Google [...]
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Mobile Local Social started out as an experiment to see what kind of traction it could get and to find out what kind of talent that we could find to write for it, consistently. The experiment was an overwhelming success, so instead of being on a very slow, shared server wit Dreamhost… we began our [...]
After a rough week surrounding my first Mother’s Day without Mom, a look back at how we grieve and how social media can help us in those times of loneliness
For the first quarter in over six years, the Japanese giant, Nintendo, lost money. Heads have to roll! It looks like they may have declared war upon Apple, since apparently, they’ve already defeated Sony. Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo, is believed to have told his senior executives recently the war on Sony is victory. Time [...]
