Amplify for your iPhone, iPad or Android
New... Amplify Mobile! You can now use Amplify to clip and share what you're reading on your iPhone, iPad and Android Phone!
Nice quick way to clip content from a page to your posts. Now do it from your mobile device.
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Social media use is exploding, but ad spending in the sector continues to be a blip on the radar for most brands.Razorfish, one of the largest digital ad spenders, compiled data on its 2009 digital ad spending. It found that social media display advertising made up just 3 percent of its clients' budgets. Non-display in social media accounted for another 1 percent. The figures pale in comparison to the time spent online. According to comScore, U.S. Internet users spent 11 percent of their time online in 2011 on social media sites.
Need help navigating the world of advertising in social media? Drop me at note at brent[at]stirsolutions.com and we can setup a free 30 minute social media marketing consultation
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Most recent Canadian Mobile news has rumoured a new service called Social View from Rogers Wireless. Up until now, no one could figure out what it was, although we all could safely assume it had something to do with amalgamation of social networking services. Here is the official description:
a built-in feature of these exclusive smartphones that brings together, in real-time, your contacts’ updates from popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. It also includes a display of recent traditional communications such as texts, calls and instant messages from your contacts. Right in the contact list!
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This release adds the ability to translate Twitter and Facebook messages on the fly — in 50+ languages! Additionally, users can update Facebook accounts, compose Twitter messages in landscape view, share geo-location info, “reply-to-all” with one click, and “Bump™” iPhones to follow one another.
This great hootsuite toolset keeps getting better.
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Mobile ad network AdMob, a San Mateo, Calif. startup that Google hopes to acquire as soon as the FTC approves the deal, has removed two major restrictions in hopes of broadening its customer base.
First, it has enabled support ahead of time for Apple’s iAd system that will serve ads to iPhones and iPads. They did this by complying with confidential rules and restrictions Apple has provided. AdMob customers will be able to use both AdMob’s network and iAd.
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The company's new mobile advertising platform, called iAds, is built into the operating system--application developers will be able to use it to sell ads and will get 60 percent of the revenue.Mobile advertising is seen as a potential goldmine because, at least in theory, advertisements can be tailored to a person's precise location and activity.The announcement will intensify competition between Apple and Google
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Google is integrating its social networking service Buzz into the Web-based version of Gmail for the iPhone and Android phones, but there's no word on an official dedicated Buzz app for either of the popular mobile platforms.
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Apple has revised its iPhone Developer Program License Agreement changing the terms and conditions to insist iPhone applications are written in native code.
An "intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool" is now prohibited, which means iPhone developers will no longer be able to use Adobe's iPhone compiler software to help build applications.
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Apple has revised its iPhone Developer Program License Agreement changing the terms and conditions to insist iPhone applications are written in native code.
An "intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool" is now prohibited, which means iPhone developers will no longer be able to use Adobe's iPhone compiler software to help build applications.
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Can't buy this iPhone App in Canadian iTunes store yet.
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In just three weeks, the new PayPal Mobile iPhone app has been downloaded more than one million times.
PayPal Mobile 2.0 [iTunes link] appeared in the App Store (
) on March 15 with an array of new features, including the ability to “bump” money to friends. PayPal worked with the developers from Bump Technologies, the company that makes the Bump iPhone app, to make the process of sending money faster and more fun.
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So does Apple, whose specialty isn’t advertising, stand a chance in a duel to the death with the Google juggernaut? The answer is a surprising “yes”, depending on what shape iAd takes and how the iPhone vs. Android () battle plays out. It’s fighting a more experienced competitor, though.
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So does Apple, whose specialty isn’t advertising, stand a chance in a duel to the death with the Google juggernaut? The answer is a surprising “yes”, depending on what shape iAd takes and how the iPhone vs. Android (
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Apple's iPad arrives in stores tomorrow and reviewers agree that it's a magic revolutionary new class of computer. But you shouldn't buy one. Not yet, anyway.
Let's break this down.
First-generation Apple products are for suckers. Only lemmings with no self-control and excessive disposable income buy first generation Apple products, especially in a new gadget category. When they do, they pay the double the price for immature hardware and software.
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A new geolocation app for the iPhone was released today called Rally Up. What differentiates Rally Up from the likes of Foursquare and Gowalla is that it has a strong focus on privacy and content sharing. Rally Up bills itself as “a social network for real friends,” letting users share messages and photos with the people they trust.
To this end, Rally Up takes a very different approach to friends lists and friends management from other social applications. For instance, Rally Up doesn’t integrate with Twitter (
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Attention Vancouver iPhone Developers
No, this isn’t an April Fool’s joke, it’s true that HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes will share knowledge with mobile developers and aspiring entrepreneurs in Vancouver when he speaks at the iPhone and Social Media meetup on April 1 at the Guinness Tower in Vancouver.
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