1. Create custom images catered for sharing
2. Create a profile for your brand
3. Add Pinterest social plugins to your website
4. Pin other industry content
5. Add calls to action to your YouTube videos
Much Music, along with Degrassi production firm Epitome Pictures, worked with Badgeville to develop the MuchCloser features. Swierszcz stressed the appeal of Badgeville's approach, which he said focuses on rewards psychology. "If you don't do this properly, cultivate your users, and bring people back after they've left for three weeks...it's useless," he said.
And, because Badgeville works like a plugin, MuchCloser users stay on the site. "All rewards happen on our platform so we can monetize them and keep them in our world. We want people coming to our site engaging with Degrassi, not someone else's." The API approach also enables Much Music to incorporate data it has on user interactions on other platforms like Twitter, to get a more holistic view.
facebook is teaching marketers how to reach their audiences on the platform with their media page, shows best practices, based on analysis of 100 top media sites using fbk plugins
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Nothing new and not groundbreaking technology. The online signature concept has been around since touchscreen phones - i.e. signing for receipts on Square and PayPal swipes.
But the integration into Google Chrome is interesting. The Chrome plugin adds a "sign" button next to the "view" and "download" buttons accompanying image attachments. Simply click it, scribble in your John Hancock with your mouse, and return to sender without ever leaving your inbox.
What's with Foursquare's Times Square ad?
By David Griner on Aug 30 2010
It's been a big few days for location-based service Foursquare, which just hit 3 million users and also became the centerpiece of this gigantic advertising ziggurat in Times Square. (Larger image after the jump.) It's unclear what kind of deal made this ad happen, since it seems unlikely Foursquare could afford such a high-profile placement. On
This app from the Flip videocamera team in Singapore turns Facebook profile pages into videos, but you have to download a browser extension just to make it work, and even then your friends probably have to have the plugin to see your videos. Cool in theory. Execution probably lacking/won't catch on.