Tag Archives: iPhone

Dodging Tornadoes? Sometimes You Want to Receive a Text Message While Driving.

By Jenn Riggle
In a world where we’re constantly connected, sometimes you can get out of touch. I learned this first-hand when driving to Disney World in April.
We were stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic on I-95 in North Carolina, and my 12-year-old daughter was serving as the car’s deejay, playing different songs on my iPod. On a [...]

2011 to Ring in Rapid Growth of Mobile Commerce with NFC

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By Pia Mara Finkell (@piamara)
If 2010 was the year we learned to dabble in social and mobile commerce and to work with social media, 2011 will mark the year we learn to make these mediums work for us.
While not nearly a new concept, NFC, or Near Field Communications has topped analysts’ lists [...]

Apps in the Kitchen

By Brona Cosgrave (@bronacos)
 
I read somewhere (I wish I could remember where and pull the stat) that foodies represent the second largest blogger community. This is not surprising really. The food community at large adopted social media early and enthusiastically and enjoys a vibrant presence in all online communities. Since the ’90s, cooking has become [...]

What’s Been Brewing: Top 5 Marketing Trends of 2010 in Bev Alcohol

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By Pia Mara Finkell (@piamara)
This is my favorite time of year. Holiday parties aplenty, wassail up the wazoo, and enough popped bottles to impress even Lil Wayne. It’s also a time to reflect on lessons learned throughout the year, and forecast trends to come, so we don’t get caught with our proverbial pants [...]

Forget Big Brother, Barbie’s Watching You

By Jenn Riggle

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Barbie dolls don’t normally scare me. But last week, I saw a commercial for the new Barbie Video GirlTM, and to be honest, it gave me the creeps.
The doll looks like a regular Barbie, but has a camera lens hidden in her necklace and a small color LCD screen with controls on [...]

What Do Cupcakes Have in Common With Social Media?

By Jenn Riggle

I read an interesting article the other day about how despite tough economic times, the cupcake industry is booming.
People can’t seem to get enough of these tasty treats. Cupcakeries, or cupcake cafes, are popping up everywhere – even in my hometown of Norfolk, Va. In fact, The Wall Street Journal credits cupcakes for [...]

Hospitals Can Have a Mobile Strategy Without Developing an App

By Jenn Riggle
The popularity of the iPhone and Droid phones are being driven by people’s desire for features and functionalities – and for easy-to-use mobile apps. Physicians, like everyone else, want to have information at their fingertips, which is why they’ve been so quick to adopt the iPhone (and now the iPad).
It’s clear people want [...]

60,000 Droids a Day Keep the Apple Away

Right now it seems every company wants to build an iPhone app. Yet given that 60,000 Android phones ship every day, one has to wonder how much longer Apple will have a lock on shiny object syndrome du jour (image by Andrew Mason).
That’s roughly 5.4 million a quarter, and the numbers continue accelerating [...]

Get Mobile Now

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This morning I am speaking at the first ever Social Media Breakfast in Washington, DC. The featured topic is, “What trends or predictions do you believe will prevail? How can we be visionaries in a space as dynamic as social media?” The answer? Get mobile now.
From the incredible outpouring of donations for Haiti [...]

AppMakr Makes iPhone Apps Acce$$ible

by Geoff Livingston
Every smart internet marketer and company wants to deploy mobile apps, starting with that hot and shiny iPhone app. Yet the cost of developing iPhone applications (as well as applications for the Blackberry and Android platforms) can be cost prohibitive. AppMakr changed the iPhone application paradigm today with the launch of its [...]