VentureBeat
Daniel James loves to show up at video game events dressed as a pirate. The CEO of Three Rings has announced he has scored a $3.5 million bounty in a venture funding round.I visited Three Rings offices in an airy San Francisco loft years back when it had just four people and was at work on Puzzle Pirates, a casual online pu (Read More)
Submitted by Geekers:
"Daniel James has a presence which extends somewhat beyond the borders of his person, so that when you meet him it seems like you are having a Very Real Experience. As a game designer and a CEO (in that order), his company Three Rings is known for putting out incredibly quirky shit. I asked him to write a piece because I (Read More)
TechCrunch
MultiTouch, a company specializing in, you guessed it, multi-touch technology, today launched the world’s first modular multi-touch LCD screen, which will allow owners to create screen tables and walls to their desired size.Dubbed the MultiTouch Cell, each LCD screen unit is available in both 32- and 46-inch sizes and (Read More)
Submitted by Phillymarketing:
It is becoming increasingly evident that businesses and companies need to not only join these social networking sites for the exposure, but be active participants in conversations and build real relationships with their target market on the major social networking sites. (Read More)
: I agree with you. Businesses need to have a relationship with their potential customers. Trust comes from a client, when there is a one on one relationship. I tell children, there is no profit from anything, where there is not an investment, including friendships and relationships. Starting is the hard part.
: Conversation Marketing! Love it. Really focuses how Social Media should be used for marketing, to engage the conversation of the community. Nice work, Marilyn. Cheers.
Submitted by Louisgray
from Google Reader:
I have just bumped into an interesting post on Powerset blog about a small survey they have carried out to see students’ attitude towards Wikipedia. Powerset is a semantic search engine recently acquired by Microsoft. The first product launched by Powerset is the tool to search Wikipedia to get more relevant results using t (Read More)
: One could also get "bad" data from the library! What if a student used a book by David Icke, or a similar kooky writer because it was available in the library? in what way does a printed source have more authority than wikipedia? Instead, academics should perhaps focus on how to get their students to develop critical thinking abilities, rather than dismiss wikipedia because it is not "peer reviewed".
: Great point, critical thinking abilities solve the entire issue with non-credible sources. Being intelligent enough to decipher what is quality and what isn't is key.
Submitted by Raavi:
Twitter have today removed all link juice from profile bio links and it’s fair to say this hasn’t gone down too well in the SEO industry.The move follows Dave Naylor’s backlink tip which caused Matt Cutts to notify Twitter founder Evan Williams, appearing to recommend that hyperlinks are removed from profile bio pages. (Read More)
Submitted by Michaelfidler:
How do you know a connection is secured by SSL? The handy “s” after “http” will tell you. For example, https://mail.google.com is encrypted while http://mail.google.com is not. You can force an encryption by adding the “s” yourself, or by turning on “Always use https” from the Browser Connection settings of your Gmail accou (Read More)
Submitted by Nikki Pilkington:
I understand why people find it hard to see twitter as anything more than ‘fun’ and a ‘waste fo time’ - and indeed it can be both of those things (separately and together in fact!).
But Twitter can also be a great business and marketing tool. (Read More)
: I agree, Twitter is an excellent tool for networking. Perhaps it's a generational thing, Millenials and Xrs seem to be pretty adamant about having fun with our careers. We work as hard as our parents did, but we want cartoon whales and chatty friends to be a part of the daily grind.
: I am part of the re.net crowd that is adopting social media to create transparency and innovation in Real Estate. Many of the early adopters gather on Twitter....truth be told, Between Twitter and FriendFeed, this is where i get most of my industry news.
: I think Twitter can be used as a business tool. Just look at what Southwest Air, Zappos and others are doing with it. I think it's really a question of what you want to accomplish with tools like Twitter and then work it into the framework of your business.
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
Following on our very successful 1st socialmedian design contest, we are announcing today details for the 2nd socialmedian design contest: design the socialmedian iphone app! Win $1000.00 first prize + a free iphone3G$500 2nd prize + a free iphone3Giphone.jpgThumbnail image for SM_logo_F.jpg*** An iphone app is one of the t (Read More)