Tag Archive | "twitter"
January 6, 2009 by
Lisa Oshima |
Mobile,
Social Media
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For those of you that disconnected during Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year, etc… Welcome back. Here’s a summary of the most interesting social media and mobile news I read in the last few weeks:
November 21, 2008 by
Lisa Oshima |
Mobile,
Social Media
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Apple: iPhone 2.2 Firmware was released. MobileCrunch’s review is here. Excerpted summary of the article: “Safari’s address bar/search … tweaked a bit, apps now request a rating upon deletion, over-the-air podcast downloads …, various video and audio quality tweaks, and assorted bug fixes throughout… Google Maps has been upgraded to include Street View and directions […]
November 14, 2008 by
Lisa Oshima |
Mobile,
Social Media
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Apple Apple is now the #2 smartphone manufacturer. Nokia remains #1, RIM is now#3, and Motorola is #4. More here. The iPhone surpassed the Motorola Razr as the top selling consumer phone. Facebook TechCrunch reports that Facebook violated its own privacy policy to give Microsoft access to user emails: “Microsoft’s Invite2Messenger appears to violate that […]
November 7, 2008 by
Lisa Oshima |
Mobile,
Social Media
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AOL: AOL announced its earnings this week. The most interesting part of the report: “Revenues decreased 17% ($207 million) to $1.0 billion, due to a 26% decline ($165 million) in Subscription revenues and a 6% decrease ($33 million) in Advertising revenues. The decline in Subscription revenues reflects mainly a decrease in domestic AOL brand subscribers, […]
October 31, 2008 by
Lisa Oshima |
Mobile,
Social Media
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I’m starting do to a quick weekly round-up of the Social Media and Mobile news that I find most interesting. Enjoy AOL: AOL Journals and AOL Hometown are shutting down (joining Xdrive and BlueString) Apple: Apple announces retroactive improvements to “MobileMe”. The following improvements were silently launched in Sept. : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3182 iPhone users in the […]
September 25, 2008 by
Lisa Oshima |
Mobile,
Social Media
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Yelp burned a bridge with me this week, and I’m defecting to the Rummble beta. Rummble is London-based mobile + web 2.0 start-up that provides geographically relevant recommendations and reviews from likeminded people. My frustration with Yelp started when I got an email from my dentists’ office… Earlier this year, I wrote a glowing review […]
June 26, 2008 by
Lisa Oshima |
Consulting,
Mobile,
Social Media
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If you’re a fan of ShoZu, in addition to keeping up with the ShoZu blog, you can now follow ShoZu on Twitter (when Twitter is working!). ShoZu is sending out regular updates at: www.twitter.com/shozu. Be one of the first to find out when new destinations are added, how famous people are using ShoZu, what new […]
April 21, 2008 by
Lisa Oshima |
Events,
Social Media
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Last night, I went to the San Francisco chapter Social Media Club event featuring the authors of Now Is Gone, Geoff Livingston and Brian Solis. It was a great event – pizza, beer, interesting conversation… What more could a fan of social media ask for? A couple of topics of conversations sparked my interest… For […]
January 8, 2008 by
Lisa Oshima |
Social Media
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Today, I got an invitation to try the closed ‘pre-Alpha’ of Loic Le Meur’s (former head of SixApart Europe and founder of Le Web) new start-up, Seesmic, which enables Video conversations on your phone. You can think of Seesmic as a video Twitter plus a load of forthcoming features to come. TechCrunch’s review from back […]
February 16, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Social Media
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If you’re into Twitter, try Nowthen. Nowthen is the newest brainchild from the folks at Blinkx. It’s everywhere messaging like Twitter, but besides written updates/broadcasts, you can also send pictures from your mobile phone using MMS. You can set up privacy features to use it with specific groups of friends or with the world. You […]
