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Weekly Wrap Up – 10.1.10

October 1st, 2010

My top 10 reads for the week.   This is a SMALL sampling of what I come across in my weekly media consumption addiction.  If you’d like to be on my email list, please email me and I will add you.

Foursquare Takes The Next Step In Working With Brands – ReadWriteWeb

Gifi Lets You Hide Money for Your Friends to Encourage Foursquare Check-Ins – NYTimes

Facebook Sees Social Commerce Reaching Tipping Point – WSJ

AOL’s Tim Armstrong: We Got TechCrunch! – TechCrunch

How Important Have Apps Become? – FloTown Infograph

Barcode Scanning Up 700% This Year – MediaPost

Facebook and Skype Readying Deep Integration Partnership – AllThingsD

Google betting BIG on Mobile for future revenue – Business 2.0 Press

Why Chipotle Ditched Ad Agencies – AdAge

The Value of a Liker – Facebook

Digital Marketing, Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Social Media

Weekly Wrap Up – 8.13.10

August 13th, 2010

My top 10 reads for the week.   This is a SMALL sampling of what I come across in my weekly media consumption addiction.  If you’d like to be on my email list, please email me and I will add you.

Facebook Readying Its Mobile-Social Move – Adotas

Heavy Twitter Users Bring Social Activity to New Heights – eMarketer

How Starbucks Plans to Capitalize on Free Wi-Fi – Mashable

The Science of Sharing: Platforms inject data into the art of going viral – AdWeek

How Nike’s CEO Shook Up the Shoe Industry (off topic, but GREAT read) – FastCompany

Is Facebook Foursquare’s Enemy? It’s Complicated – Mashable

Facebook’s Foursquare competitor is imminent – CNET

Social Media Strategy Lessons From Pepsi – Business Insider

D.I.Y. Tool for Apps Needs Work – NYTimes

The Best and Worst Campaign Deals on Foursquare’s Turf –  ClickZ

Digital Marketing, Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Social Media

Weekly Wrap Up – 8.6.10

August 6th, 2010

My top 10 reads for the week.   This is a SMALL sampling of what I come across in my weekly media consumption addiction.  If you’d like to be on my email list, please email me and I will add you.

Say goodbye to the era of new stand-alone social networks – Guardian UK

Why Facebook Questions Could Be Zuckerberg’s Dream Come True – ReadWriteWeb

Google, undisputed heavyweight champion of mobile search – Pingdom

More Than 60% of Phones Web Capable by 2015 – ReadWriteWeb

Vice, a Media Company, Shows Big Brands How to Reach the Hip Crowd – NYTimes

Digital Media Director 2.0: Jack-of-all-Trades, Master of Many – FastCompany

A Look Back at the Last 5 Years in Blogging – Mashable

Check-In On Foursquare Without Taking Your Phone Out Of Your Pocket – TechCrunch

BlackBerry’s New Torch Makes a Leap From Drab – WSJ

Apple and the war for the mobile market – arstechnica

How Starbucks Reached 10M Fans: 6 Tips From A Social Media Superstar – Critical Mass

Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Social Media

Weekly Wrap Up – 7.30.10

July 30th, 2010

My top 10 reads for the week.   This is a SMALL sampling of what I come across in my weekly media consumption addiction.  If you’d like to be on my email list, please email me and I will add you.

Forrester: Why Most Marketers Should Forgo Foursquare – AdAge

And the rebuttal…

Four Reasons Brands Must Check in to Foursquare. Now. – AdAge

Twitter Disconnect Between Marketers And Consumers – MediaPost

Are Location-Based Services All Hype? – NYTimes

Majority of Consumers Use Social Networks to Inform Buying Decisions – ReadWriteWeb

There will be blood: why Apple and Intel are destined to clash – ars technica

Once More, with Feeling: Making Sense of Social Media – Brian Solis

The Race to Organise Television – The Economist

Google Develops a Facebook Rival – WSJ

Why the Facebook-Amazon.com integration is bigger than you think – VentureBeat

Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Social Media

Weekly Wrap Up – 7.23.10

July 23rd, 2010

My top 10 reads for the week.   This is a SMALL sampling of what I come across in my weekly media consumption addiction.  If you’d like to be on my email list, please email me and I will add you.

Android Versus Android: Which Phones Are Winning on the Web? – Mashable

Content Farms 101: Why Suite101 Publishes 500 Articles a Day – NYTimes

Beyond Foursquare: What Search Engines Could Do With Location Data – ReadWriteWeb

How to Measure Brand Value: Likes, Followers, Influencers, Views? No, Social Currency – FastCompany

A Look Back at the Last 5 Years in Social Media – Mashable

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Talks to Diane Sawyer – ABC News

Amazon Mobile Sales Topped $1 Billion In Past 12 Months – paidContent

Facebook Connects 500 Million People: Defines a New Era of Digital Society –  Brian Solis

11 Mind-Blowing Mobile Marketing Infographics – HubSpot

Facebook Could Transform Mobile Phones – BusinessWeek

Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Social Media

Weekly Wrap Up – 7.16.10

July 16th, 2010

My top 10 reads for the week.   This is a SMALL sampling of what I come across in my weekly media consumption addiction.  If you’d like to be on my email list, please email me and I will add you.

How Old Spice won the Internet – FastCompany

The Future of Mobile is Now – Canadian Marketing Association

Corporate Social Media Policies: The Good, the Mediocre, and the Ugly – FastCompany

Inventor of cell phone: We knew someday everybody would have one – CNNTech

TV on a PC or Phone Has Some Drawbacks – NYTimes

How “Real” Media Misses The Point Of Social Media – Business Insider

Skype and Fring Go to War Over VOiP Video Calls – Mashable article

Can WinTel gain a foothold in tablets? – MarketWatch

The Trouble at Twitter Inc. – Valleywag

Social Media is F**king Addicitve – Slideshare

Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Social Media

Weekly Wrap Up – 7.9.10

July 9th, 2010

My top 10 reads for the week.   This is a SMALL sampling of what I come across in my weekly media consumption addiction.  If you’d like to be on my email list, please email me and I will add you.

Foursquare Launches Location Layers – ReadWriteWeb article

How Social Media Has Radically Altered Advertising – Mashable article

For Those Facebook Left Behind – David Pogue in NYTimes

In Social Networks, One-Third of Consumers Talk Brands Every Week – BrianSolis.com article

Do you know who the mayor of your business is? – The Brand Builder article

Clay Shirky on the death of newspapers, why paywall will fail & how the internet brings out creativity – UK Guardian article

Reading in a Whole New Way – Smithsonian article

Facebook Makes Headway Around the World – NYTimes article

Andy Grove: How America Can Create Jobs  – Business Week article

Foursquare Is Five Times Larger Than Gowalla And Growing 75 Percent Faster Every Day – TechCrunch article

Marketing, Social Media

Weekly Wrap Up – 6.11.10

June 11th, 2010

My top 10 reads for the week.   This is a SMALL sampling of what I come across in my weekly media consumption addiction.  If you’d like to be on my email list, please email me and I will add you.

Ad Age 2010 Women to Watch: Deborah Conrad – AdAge

Behind Foursquare and Gowalla: The great check-in battle – Wired

The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains – Wired

Starbucks clobbers all consumer brands on social media – Venture Beat

A Guide To The Cultural Battle That Is Reshaping The Media Business – paidContent

City of New York Blankets Times Square with Giant QR Codes – Mashable

More Adults than Teens Consume Mobile Video – ReadWriteWeb

Mashable Media Summit 2010 Recap and Complete Videos – Mashable

How to Manage Your News Consumption in the Real-Time Web Era – NYTimes

The iPad: Changing How We Build Business Relationships –  Inc.

Marketing, Social Media

Weekly Wrap Up – 5.28.10

May 28th, 2010

My top 10 reads for the week.   This is a SMALL sampling of what I come across in my weekly media consumption addiction.  If you’d like to be on my email list, please email me and I will add you.

World’s Most Reputable Companies – Intel #10 – Forbes

Apps are a must-have element to brands’ overall marketing strategy – Mobile Marketer

Huge Gap Remains Between Mainstream Media and the Social Web – Mashable

Twitter power: Learning from ourselves, in real time – USA Today

SMS is key to a well-rounded app strategy – Mobile Marketer

Guide to Facebook Ads: Get the most out of your advertising experience – Facebook

From Blahniks To Badges. How Status Has Changed, & Changed Us In The Process – Edelman

It’s Only a Matter of Time Before Your Mobile Device Knows Your Every Want and Need – AdAge

Are Location-Based Services All Hype? – Mashable

The Half Truths of Mark Zuckerberg – ReadWriteWeb

Marketing, Social Media

Weekly Wrap Up – 5.21.10

May 21st, 2010

My top 10 reads for the week.   This is a SMALL sampling of what I come across in my weekly media consumption addiction.  If you’d like to be on my email list, please email me and I will add you.

Google and Partners Seek TV Foothold – NYTimes

How the U.S. Engages the World with Social Media – Mashable

Intel and Vice Launch Creators Project: Selling Out or Boosting Creativity? – Wired

Hulu, Best Buy Battling for Your Web Streaming Movie Custom – FastCompany

Google TV: What Does It Mean for Advertisers? – AdAge

Friday Five: Macro Trends To Watch – Edelman

Facebook and Others Caught Sending User Data to Advertisers – Mashable

Why iAds will fail – iMedia

Google TV Preview: The Mom Test and the Nerd Test – FastCompany

Google I/O Recap: The open web moves forward, Froyo delights developers and TV meets Web – Google

Marketing, Social Media