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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Local News feeds The Newspaper Habit
News and local news in particular are the main reasons that people continue to subscribe to their local newspapers. Doing so out of habit doesn’t figure prominently but seeking incentives through coupons does. This makes local newspapers particularly vulnerable to the rapidly … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Media, Mobile, Publishing, Social Media
Tagged 2011, Advertising Age, Groupon, IPad, LivingSocial, Local news, newspaper, research, Roger Smith, San Francisco, Tackable, thedigitalconsultant, United States
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This Week’s Cartoon
Posted in Humour
Tagged 2011, cartoon, humor, humour, Roger Smith, thedigitalconsultant
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Measuring Every Move
Frederic Brodbeck has been busy measuring and visualizing movie data, in order to reveal the characteristics of films and to create a visual “fingerprint” for them. For his Bachelor Graduation project he has presented information such as the editing structure, color, … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Media
Tagged 2011, Film, Frederic Brodbeck, Graphic design, movie, Roger Smith, Royal Academy, The Hague, thedigitalconsultant
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Advertising Gets The Wobbles
Pudding power never looked so good. The somewhat-famous Jello Pudding Face web site which monitors the mood of global tweets, has been up-scaled to a large interactive sign board on the corner of West Broadway and Grand in New York City. When the mood … Continue reading
The Power of Like
Posted in Business, Social Media
Tagged 2011, Business, ComScore, Facebook, Likes, Roger Smith, Social media, thedigitalconsultant
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Marketing With Facebook Places And Deals
Mari Smith of Social Media Examiner explains how Facebook Places and Deals work, why you should pay attention to them and how you can use them to grow your local business. Related articles Facebook opens up Places deals to Aussie … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Marketing, Social Media
Tagged 2011, Business, Facebook, Facebook Deals, Facebook features, Facebook Places, Mari Smith, Marketing, Roger Smith, thedigitalconsultant
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This Week’s Cartoon
Posted in Humour
Tagged 2011, cartoon, geek and poke, humor, humour, Roger Smith, thedigitalconsultant
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The Sweet Tweet Of Success – Getting Your Content Retweeted
Dan Zarrella is well known for his scientific study of social media and those of us wishing to harness the power of Twitter will find this infographic of significant interest. A couple of key points: Focus on news communications and provide a link back to expanded content Be proactive in asking people to … Continue reading
A Supercharged Android Ecosystem
Google’s CEO Larry page announced today that the company has made its first significant hardware acquisition; the purchase of Motorola for the sum of $12.5 billion. Naturally they paid cash. At the time of this purchase Google has more than 150 million Android devices worldwide … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Gadgets, Mobile
Tagged 2011, Android, Apple, google, Larry Page, Microsoft, Motorola, Roger Smith, thedigitalconsultant
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Google+ First Impressions
A different vibe due to a new interface but what is the Google+ value proposition when compared to Facebook? It is certainly Google’s best social network attempt to date but will it kneecap Facebook. I don’t think it will, but … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media
Tagged 2011, Facebook, google, Roger Smith, Social network, thedigitalconsultant, Twitter
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