How would you like a free Facebook phone? Did you know Truphone built an app for one in 2007? How about a mobile phone signed by Mark Zuckerberg? Would you pay $1 a year for a Facebook phone? Perhaps free Groupon coupons would get your credit card out of your wallet? Facebook Phone Idea Killed [...]
Take a Vacation with Social Media Mobile Devices
July 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Have lots of social media mobile devices? You’re ready to take a vacation. (Don’t miss the dramatized podcast.) Picture this. You’re relaxing under a beach umbrella with a gorgeous view of the ocean, your kids happily playing in the water, your spouse enjoying beach volleyball. And you? Well, you’re happy as a clam reading your iPad, [...]
Get Tagged with Steve Sarner at Tagged.Com
May 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
What do you do when you’re part of a social network company with 100 million members in 200 countries who love to get tagged? Steve Sarner, VP of Marketing at Tagged.com, is working on that challenge right now. Oh, by the way, he’d loved the firm to generate $100 million in revenue. Not bad for [...]
Social Networking Privacy Issues Raised in Facebook Movie
October 2, 2010 By 2 Comments
“The Social Network,” a fascinating, caustic movie about Mark Zuckerberg and his “friends” who launched Facebook, continues raising social networking privacy issues. When I first saw the movie, I watched several people in the theater playing with their phones. I wasn’t sure if they were viewing Facebook but I imagined it so. I had a [...]
Small Business SMS with Linda Daichendt
September 15, 2010 By 2 Comments
Linda Daichendt is busy, very busy, but she loves every moment. As CEO and Managing Consultant of Michigan-based Strategic Growth Concepts, she helps small businesses and nonprofits, among other things, develop SMS marketing and social media campaigns. A prolific blogger and mobile devotee, Linda founded Mobile Monday in Michigan with the first local chapter in [...]
Mobile Privacy and the Loss of Wireless Security
August 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The United Arab Emirates has decided that BlackBerry smartphones are dangerous to national security. Other countries, like India, don’t like RIM’s email, instant messaging and web browsing securitty either. The core issue is clearly mobile privacy in a world where some governments feel threatened by wireless device security. Surprisingly, the U.A.E.’s announcement was announced a day [...]
Facebook Mobile Privacy in a Social Networking Age
May 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Facebook mobile privacy concerns are rising faster than Google’s.The latest incidents about release of individual Facebook information caused public uproar among members, consumer protection organizations and Congress. According to Facebook, more than 250 million users access its site through mobile devices, usage growing 300% in the past year. Mobile phone and wireless device users, [...]
Mobile Music Location Based Services at Soundtrckr
May 10, 2010 By 2 Comments
O.k., you’re Facebooked, Twittered, social networked and mobiled. You’re into location-based services. People appear on your smartphone map filled with tiny dots representing your friends like jets on radar. But you haven’t merged mobile music, social networks and geotagging into your life. Soundtrckr, a new mobile music streaming service, may be your salvation. The company’s [...]
