I’ve been pretty disparaging about Pandora’s business acumen in the past (twice). I love the service because it’s just so quick and easy to ‘get’ and I was intrigued by the Music Genome Project. Or, should I say, ‘loved’ – because, being non-American, I can’t use it anymore. If you’re resident outside the US you probably [...]
Archive | January 24, 2008
Video beats text hands down (Look ma, no hands!)
Three days ago (so my del.icio.us account tells me – and boy, do I find typing del.icio.us tedious with all those fullstops) I bookmarked a beautiful example of trigger-response: the article by Tom Hodgkinson in the Guardian lambasting Facebook and all that he thinks it stands for; and Shel Holz’s video response on seesmic (better with [...]
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- Turn Instagram Photos Into a PosterEnjoy uploading pictures to the Internet via Instagram? Now you can turn your collection into a poster. Thanks to London-based online retailer Firebox, Instagram lovers can create their own poster by selecting their favorite photos to build their own. By clicking the Buy button on Firebox’s Instagram poster product page, Instagram members are prompted to add […]Samantha Murphy
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- Are Artists Luring Grammy Votes Via Social Media?Music artists have invited fans deeper into their lives through social media for years, but is the content they share online starting to capture the attention of Grammy voters? The 54th Grammy Awards airs Sunday, and the Recording Academy has declared digital, mobile and social media a focal point of this year’s proceedings. With more focus on social media, […]Brian Anthony Hernandez
- Is Your Blog Doing Okay?Last week, I told the story of how I achieved my best month ever on DPS. While I used that post as a case study to present some ideas that I hoped you may be able to use on your own blogs, there’s a hidden hitch with that kind of post: it can give you the impression that you should be aiming to triple your revenue each time you hone a promotion on your site. […]Darren Rowse
- U.S. Consumers Buy 20% of Valentine’s Gifts Online [INFOGRAPHIC]Consumers are expected to spend $17 billion on Valentine’s Day gifts this year, roughly a fifth of which will be spent online. That’s according to projections from the National Retail Federation and eMarketer, whose data is visualized in the infographic from Monetate below. Interestingly, men spend more than twice the amount women spend on Valentine’s Day: $ […]Lauren Indvik
