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Atlanta-based What’s Up Interactive announces its 2009 Board of Advisors, a highly respected group of local experts in technology, marketing and finance whose counsel will be aimed at helping the company continue its aggressive growth strategy. (Read More)
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Adam Singer, from thefuturebuzz.com recently wrote a brilliant post that touched upon 5 reasons why you should learn about social media. He also tagged me for my thoughts on the subject, so in good spirit, I thought I would do a post on 5 reasons why businesses should learn and use social media for marketing. This is also a (Read More)
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The weather outside may be frightful and budgets might be tight, but with just the click of a mouse you and your family can be enjoying the sights and sounds of the tropical rainforest this holiday season!. (Read More)
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Experts, parents and teachers are discussing the movement to get kids outside. But who's talking to the kids? SNA. (Read More)
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While Google has been tightening its belt in some areas, attempting to photograph every square inch of the world for its Street View product doesn’t appear to be one of them. The company pushed out a massive update today, doubling the amount of terrain covered in the US. In addition to incorporating street level photos (Read More)
Submitted by Normansm:
2008 has been both an exciting year and a very trying year for the world of Web innovation.When the year kicked off, we were still in the middle of Web 2.0 fever. We were just two months removed from Microsoft having invested $240 million in Facebook at a stratospheric $15 billion. In the first week of January, Yahoo! CEO J (Read More)
Search is still king, and real-time search is having a huge impact on the way people find news, share ideas, and see trends. Summize built its business around being a search engine for Twitter, and soon became more stable, and theoretically, more useful, than Twitter itself. The Twitter team, in desperate need for more engineering help, acquired the company and absorbed into the microblogging service.
Expected Exit: Acquired - Already Complete
Twitter's acquisition of Summize was a smart move, considering how real-time search is becoming critical in times of breaking news. Many, including myself, are turning to Twitter search instead of Google, Yahoo! and the traditional news wires to hear reports from people on the ground, unfiltered.
2) Socialmedian
While many different sites have conquered the online activities aggregation space, Socialmedian went about the process in a different way than all the others, letting people not only follow friends and pipe in their shared content from a wide variety of 3rd party sites, but organized it in terms of categories. The category feature was so successful, CEO Jason Goldberg has been able to showcase specific events, including the 2008 election, and the financial crisis, and make Socialmedian a go to site to interact with "newsmakers". The site, starting from scratch in the Spring, has risen up to challenge FriendFeed, Digg and other sites for social news - and continues to grow at a rapid clip.
Expected Exit: Acquisition by First Quarter of 2009
With Goldberg and team having raised so little capital to get the product off the ground, and having kept costs very low, with the development team in India, the bootstrapped Socialmedian looks to be a ripe target for an acquisition, in my opinion. Without strong revenues and the public markets the way they are, Socialmedian would be smart to find a strong content or media partner, to join forces and enable the service to continue its growth.
3) BackType
Technorati and Google Blog Search, as well as many other directories and search engines have typically focused on the blog as the central nervous system for their offering. But as many would agree, it is the comments and conversation, no matter where they are, that have real meaning to blog authors and participants. While everyone was busy trying to see who could land on the Techmeme leaderboard or break new ceilings in Technorati Authority, BackType debuted a site that tracks comments by individual, lets you follow individual commenters across a wide variety of sites, be alerted when comments with keywords take place, and see charts that display keywords' momentum.
Expected Exit: Acquisition in Second Half of 2009
The BackType founders are working together on their second startup, having abandoned the first when it didn't gain traction. While BackType doesn't yet have an amazing market presence, they have forged a unique foothold that so far looks unchallenged. With any luck, I would expect the BackType team to deliver more enterprise-capable brand and identity management tools that would enable the service to gain revenue and exposure, letting the service to remain independent through the majority of 2009 before finding a place within WordPress, Six Apart, Google or Twitter.
4) TweetDeck
TweetDeck isn't a Web service, but this Adobe AIR application introduced new functions to Twitter usage that changed the game in terms of how people use the service. By introducing a multi-columned app that features groups, integrated search, direct messaging, and replies functionality, many are swearing by TweetDeck, and it looks like it may soon overtake Twhirl as the most popular Twitter application. Busy Twitter addicts including Guy Kawasaki swear by it.
Expected Exit: Remaining Independent through end of 2009
Iain Dodsworth is continuing to upgrade the product, and it's widely rumored he may soon integrate multi-account support, as well as integration with additional services, outside of Twitter. If he can get enough people to donate or pay for the application, there's no question he could make a full-time living from the resulting revenue. The question is, will people who expect a free service to have 100% uptime spring for the app that gets them there?
: Excellent, and I love this site, Jason. You and your team have done a superb job here with this. I've been in and out of many sites on the web but find this and (and Facebook) my only two daily routine sites.....well, and email.
Submitted by Pitchengine:
According to my PR managers, today’ top two PR 2.0 tools are PitchEngine, which is a social networking site that connects PR professionals, bloggers and journalists and MyMediaInfo.com, a comprehensive new media database with hundreds of thousands of media contacts/new influencers as well as additional PR tools including ed (Read More)
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New media is inevitable in almost every space now - and it's exciting to see the dynamics of marketing changing along with it. Great post!. (Read More)
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Submitted by Louisgray
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By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Twitter/FriendFeed)In this era of high-speed Internet connections, satellites, wireless connections, cell phones, and computers, our world is increasingly becoming connected. Currently, there are enough cell phone connections to cover half the world's population, and they reach places tradit (Read More)
: Granted it is a small sample size, but if mainstream media really do think like the guys Jesse was with, they really are in more trouble than I thought.
: I think the problem is that traditional media is simply slow to embrace the changing technologies that we are all obviously engrossed in. Many traditional media outlets are taking strides to incorporate new media into their routines. It's a slow process, especially given that traditional media moguls aren't exactly known to be the most forward thinking.
Journalism will not die, it will change, and indeed it has changed. Most of what we get from our "news providers" is info-tainment at this point. It's the Bill O'Reilly's and Ketih Olbermann's of the world giving us their opinions about the news. What I think we are seeing is a watershed change in the way the news is communicated, not the death of any singular form thereof.
We will always need journalists, because there is most certainly a level of professionalism that much of new media lacks. While we on the inside may think that twitter is the best place to get our breaking news, we must remember that there are hundreds of millions of people in the US alone who do not use twitter, or digg, or delicious, or social|median.
Submitted by Sylvain
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A-ha moments often come when the conventional method lets you down and you need to try something new. That happened on Saturday when Gmail was unavailable to me for over an hour. The outage was long enough for me to have to set up a Yahoo Mail account to send an urgent email. I also used Basecamp to communicate with my Read (Read More)
: "Most of the commentary on our Help Twitter Find A Revenue Model post focuses on the social aspects of Twitter and uses those as the basis of a revenue model. Those models, though, mostly feel like an intrusion on Twitter's primary function.
Submitted by Missmo Atl:
The World's Largest Aquarium has unveiled the first phase of its Web site redesign by its online agency-of-record, Atlanta-based What's Up Interactive. (Read More)