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December 2011
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Oink App Review
By Roland Quitalig
Milk Inc. has launched their first iPhone app from Kevin Rose’s new startup. Oink is a recommendation service which lets users recommend specific items from a specific place. Combining the social networking power of both Twitter and Facebook with Foursquare’s check-in service, Oink has the potential to become the next Yelp. With it’s simple to use interface, Oink pushes...
November 2011
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AnyBeat First Impressions
By Roland Quitalig
I finally received my AnyBeat invitation today. Staring at my measly CRED score of 2, I’m already researching how to increase it. I posted a picture, answered two questions, changed my relationship status, and liked a random stranger’s forum post. I was able to increase my score to 5.
Taking focus of this figure, I realize that Dmitry Shapiro’s site is not much...
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Anybeat's Take On Social Networking
By Roland Quitalig
When I first entered the Web 2.0 scene, I began with MySpace. It provided me with the ability to add friends, post profile pictures, comment on walls, and check people’s relationship status. When I learned Facebook could do this exclusively within my school, I quickly jumped boat.
What made Facebook different from MySpace? Facebook took the desire to connect with others...
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Evernote App Competition
By Odessa Fernandez
Evernote, a suite of software and services designed for notetaking, decided to host their very first app competition open to the public. Despite their novice position in the industry, over 1,000 developers from around the country submitted apps, ranging from simple, clean, and efficient apps, to superfluous and creatively driven apps.
With $100,000 of prize money at...
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Exploring Google +
By Odessa Fernandez
Is Google’s fourth attempt at competing with the king of social media (Facebook), finally worth taking a second look at? Well, maybe you should ask one of the ten million users that signed up for Google+ in just two weeks, making it the fastest growing social network in Internet history. And if it is in fact a force to be reckoned with, what does this mean for small and...
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Our tribute to the Harry Potter & The Deathly...
By Rae Visita
Buy a Twizards Shirt Here (don’t worry, we’ll say it’s for your niece or nephew)
In lieu of our favorite wizard and his diabolical nemesis, “He Who Must Not Be Named,” Kasama Media is launching our first social media & pop culture brain child: Twizards! A merger of some of your favorite wand-wielding scholars and the Twitter birdy, Twizards...
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How Much Klout Do You Have?
By Renee Mitson
Social influence may be the next way you’re judged. Do you get a free pass to a movie? A dinner reservation? Red Sox tickets? Or do you get a whole lot of nothing? Klout, and other similar products, tell you just how much you deserve, based on how much influence you have.
Klout is a social media analytics tool that puts a fresh spin on engagement measurement. Similar...
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Who Said Geeks Were Losers?
By Odessa Fernandez
With a 6-digit annual salary, these ‘geeky’ software engineers are anything BUT losers. Giant tech companies like Google, Facebook, & Zynga are shelling out a hefty sum to keep their MVPs satisfied. Ever since the Department of Justice knocked the wind out of any anti-poaching agreements last Fall, all claws came out to find the best of the best.
And as...
October 2011
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Twitter and Tweetdeck: A Match Made In Heaven?
By Renee Mitson
As you may have heard, Twitter is in the process of acquiring TweetDeck. No one knows the numbers for sure, or what the final number will be but it is in the ballpark of $50 million and includes stock in Twitter.
Even though this might be appear to be a love story of sorts, do not be fooled. Buying TweetDeck was a completely defensive move. TweetDeck, owned by Uber Media is...
Breaking Into Drupal – Using What You Already Know...
By Renee Mitson
Although we may pride ourselves as marketers, we are constantly adapting to new information and without that adaptation, our expertise finds itself obsolete. I recently attended DrupalCon Chicago 2011 with my compadres Rae and Kaywan. This was a great chance for me (a non programmer/developer) to learn more about the Drupal community and how I can market the capabilities...
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Online Communities: In The Beginning
By Renee Mitson
The shift towards online communities started more as a fantasy than an actual movement. Above is a map used on Mashable dictating the original “road map” of where people thought online communities were headed. Made in 2007, MySpace still reigned supreme with content-based “journaling” communities such as Xanga and LiveJournal right behind them. Wikipedia was known of as more...
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Welcome to Drupal, Partna'
By Kaywan Shiraz
Back in the chaotic nether of the early pre-2000 Internet, codeslingers whipped out their dual pistols of HTML and Javascript and corralled the eyeballs of viewers through animated under construction signs, dancing hamsters, and long-forgotten “frames.” Times were tough in those early days—a developer had to work the virtual land with nothing but...
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The Future of Ubiquitous Media
By Kaywan Shiraz
Note: This is a repost from my personal blog from February 7, 2010
Nestled in the trendy mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles, the Interpublic Emerging Media Lab aims to prove that any message can be embedded into…well basically anything. IPG’s high-tech lab seems more like the geek’s ultimate fantasy apartment than a space for intensive media study, but big...
PodCamp Boston
Last week Podcamp 5 Boston was held at the Microsoft New England Research and Development Center. For those of you unfamiliar with Podcamp it’s a nationwide “unconference” that holds meeting and discussion rooms about podcasts, videos, blogging, social media, you name it anything new and exciting. The crowd is a healthy mix between media mavens and newbies and the atmosphere is casual and...
Podcamp Continued: Looxcie & Other Life-Changing...
By Renee Mitson
Okay I promised I would tell you more about Podcamp. But instead of writing about the entire day, the ups and downs, I have decided to write about the products that got me really “jazzed,” so to speak. The first, and probably the best, is Looxcie.
Looxcie is a wearable camcorder. That in itself made me want to lose my mind. As someone who does not like to be in...
More Than Just Having A Twitter
By Renee Mitson
Everyone has a Twitter page, even companies that no one would ever want to follow. XYZ Plumbing, follow us on Twitter! It’s easy to ask yourself, “Why would I ever want to follow a plumbing company?” The answer is that almost anyone can have a successful Twitter account, but just having one for the sake of using social media will not cut it. Which brings us to the bigger...
Flickr Gets It Right with Creative Commons...
By: Rae Visita Something that all producers should know about is Creative Commons. As creators, we should be well aware that everything is copyrighted upon creation with the default “All Rights Reserved”. We’ve all seen those words somewhere. They are super important and should not be taken lightly. It’s the reason why you legally can’t post your favorite CW show on YouTube, nor can you produce a...
5 Design Management Tips
By Rae Visita
1. Establish clear deliverables and a timeframe from the get-go. Non responsive clients. We’ve all been there. It’s actually quite common but one way to help keep communication open and positive is to make sure expectations and due dates are clear. Instead of “Please send me the main homepage image when you get a chance” your might email and say “Please send me the homepage image by...
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15 Important Facebook Functionalities
By Roland Quitaling
“Add me on Facebook!”
“Please don’t tag me in those photos.”
“Ew. Did you like her status?”
These are just a few of the common phrases we find in our colloquial language today. Facebook is becoming more than just a social networking site. It’s becoming part of culture. I want to delve deeper into why Facebook is the largest social networking site in the world. Why,...