Video-Sharing iPhone App Limits Users to 1-Minute Clips [22Sep11] - 0 views
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If mobile video sharing is to follow in the footsteps of its more desirable mobile photo-sharing cousin, which application will users want to use to shoot, share and discover video clips? It’s too soon to tell, but startup Klip joins the fray and is now vying for your video attention. The startup released its application for iPhone on Monday with a focus on letting users share super-short 1-minute video clips — on Klip or with Facebook, Twitter and Youtube — and helping users discover clips from friends or other users based on topics of interests. “Klip re-invents the way consumers experience the world by organizing mobile videos in real time and by connecting consumers with the people and the topics that interest them,” the company says.
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Digital Content Curation Tools - Trunk.ly Adds Search and Curation to Social Bookmarkin... - 0 views
6More'Web Clipping 2.0′ Startup Clipboard Backed By Andreessen Horowitz, Index, Cr... - 0 views
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Clipboard aims to become the go-to service for saving and sharing the relevant parts of any page or service available on the Web, including much of its core functionality, or put differently taking care of everything in between simply bookmarking a URL and having to save an entire Web page.
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Using a bookmarklet, Clipboard users can ‘clip’ things like search query results, stock quotes, tweets or Facebook status updates, video clips, images with captions, a Google Maps map, a forum answer, an Amazon book review, an eBay product summary, a digital coupon, and the likes.
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Select part of a Web page or service, and use your mouse (simply by hovering over something or, preferably, by using the scroll wheel) to increase or decrease the number of ‘zones’ you would like to clip. Your selection – including links and images etc. – will be saved to your Clipboard profile instantly, and you can jump straight to it to visit your clip collection
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Clips can be annotated, saved, shared publicly and with specific users, tagged and all that jazz. But you can also just bookmark simple services you use, games you play, or parts of Web pages you often visit, and interact with your clips by visiting just one website instead of all them separately.
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Not all of a site’s functionality can be simply clipped to Clipboard, as you will notice, but that’s of course not necessarily their fault. Inevitably, some services that reside on other websites or rely on third-party API calls or whatever, will be tougher to clip in full.
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TechCrunch has learned that Clipboard has raised an undisclosed amount of financing from the following, impressive list of investors: - Andreessen Horowitz - Index Ventures - CrunchFund (note: TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington is a founding partner) - DFJ - SV Angel / Ron Conway - Betaworks - First Round Capital - CODE Advisors - Founder’s Co-Op - Acequia Capital - Vast Ventures - Ted Meisel (former CEO of Overture and now at Elevation Partners) - Blake Krikorian (former CEO of Sling and now an Amazon board member) - the elusive Vivi Nevo
1MoreWhen Books Are Social Networks [25Jun11] - 1 views
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Craig Mod dreams of a different sort of book: Imagine a future where instead of lending someone a book, you lend them your bookmarks. Where your notes, annotations and references are synchronized across platforms and applications. Where your bookmarks belong to you, and a record of every book you read is saved and stored securely, no matter how or where you read it. Kevin Kelly envisions how the publishing industry will adapt. Alexis Madrigal explores how the New York Public Library has moved beyond books, existing now as a social network with three million active users.
2MoreHow does Netswipe work? | Jumio - Netswipe - 0 views
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How does Netswipe work? Camera + Credit Card = Secure payment Jumio’s patent pending technology turns the camera of a computer or mobile device into a card reader. The most secure form of online payment possible. Step 1 Scan your card with your webcam or phone camera. Actual card needed. (online card present transaction) Step 2 Enter security (CVV) code to complete transaction. You’re done. Netswipe – the online card present transaction, a new technology product from Jumio.
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How Netswipe uses the webcam as a credit card reader Your webcam or phone camera is turned on during the payment process to scan your credit card and verify its authenticity. Hold the credit card in front of your camera as illustrated below. Jumio’s Netswipe scans and verifys your card details. No details are stored upon completion of the payment and the camera will be turned off automatically.
3MoreSpread Your Wings- Get More Retweet Action Today - 0 views
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Making Re-Tweet Ready Posts Make sure your post info has room for your original info plus a retweet. If your original post is close to 140 characters, the person retweeting has to edit your post to send it back out. Smells like work? People won’t make extra effort to retweet you if they have to edit your posts. Make sure you use URL shorteners like bit.ly or is.gd or ow.ly (there are dozens) to get back more of your real estate. If you’re going to tweet a URL, give folks a sense of what they’re clicking into. For instance, I use (video) or (youtube) when pointing to a YouTube video. And make sure you use (NSFW) on things that are Not Safe For Work. The more helpful or entertaining your tweet, the more likely people will take an action. The more jumbled with @ names and multiple urls and hashtags your tweet is, the less likely it will be retweeted. People will gladly retweet causes (unless you fatigue us). Starting a tweet with an @ means that a good chunk of folks won’t see it.
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Retweet other people and promote other people 15x to every 1 time of your effort. Don’t tweet every damned thing you write about or do. Folks will fatigue quickly. Befriend and add value to the best retweeters. It’s a live network, a human network, a give-and-take relationship. That’s it. That’s how I do it. What about you? How are you getting it done? Photo credit Mike Baird ShareThis Tags: communication, howto, socialmedia, twitter ChrisBrogan.com runs on the Thesis Theme for WordPress Thesis is the search engine optimized WordPress theme of choice for serious online publishers. If you’re a blogger who doesn’t understand a lot of PHP, Thesis will give a ton of functionality without having to alter any code. For the advanced, Thesis has incredible customization possibilities via Thesis hooks. With so many design options, you can use the template over and over and never have it look like the same site. The theme is robust and flexible enough not only to accommodate a site like ChrisBrogan.com, but also to enable the site to run far more efficiently than it ever has before. Go on a guided video tour of Thesis and see the amazing things you can do with this theme! Seriously, you’ll love it. Check out the Thesis demo site See more Thesis-based sites in the gallery showcase
2More21 Tips for Using Twitter and Facebook for Business [03May10] - 1 views
simbeckhampson.amplify.com/...tter-and-facebook-for-business opportunities business tips Socialmediashared by Dan R.D. on 03 May 10 - Cached-
"Businesses want to see results, that's the bottom line. Social media, as the title suggests, describes a social experience not necessarily a business one. This list helps to focus in on how business can benefit from the social processes to engage both internal collaboration and external customers and partners; perhaps a more appropriate name would be 'Business Media'?"
10MoreWhat is Coming? - The Future of Geolocation [21Apr11] - 1 views
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Since location-based check-in app Foursquare was launched at South by Southwest in 2009, the app has seen exponential growth, reaching over 7.5 million users this year.
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Apart from gamification through leaderboards and badges (or stickers, or pins), the motivation for users to participate in location-based networks is severely lacking.
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developers continue to chase after our elusive social graph to make geolocation as indispensable as microblogging and photo sharing.
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RFID (radio-frequency identification) and NFC (near field communication) technologies are going to become much more popular as geolocation apps continue to evolve and developers look for ways to make sending and receiving location-based data easier.
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Foursquare has already begun testing NFC check-ins and Coca-Cola used RFID at last year’s Coca-Cola Village teen camp to enable Facebook Likes and status updates to be sent with wristbands.
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What Else Can We Expect? There are some exciting innovations emerging in geolocation already, but there’s surely much more value to be had from this technology. Some of the developments I’m most interested to see are: A collection of user-generated information about a place, like a location-based Wikipedia Mobile check-in for flights, bypassing the long check-in counter queues Mobile check-in at doctors’ offices, sending the secretary an automatic notification of your arrival Mobile identification, providing entry to adult-only venues like nightclubs (our phones are already replacing cash, so why not our photo IDs?) Digital, geotagged nightclub stamps to prove you’ve paid to get in Bookmarking for places with push notifications, so you’ll finally remember to check out that café your friend keeps recommending Interactive maps attached to promotional material (with QR codes?) so you can easily find the new pizza place that sent you coupons in the mail
25MoreAdding Gamification to Your Community | Social Media Today [25Oct11] - 0 views
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It is interesting to see gamification now being applied in a marketing/website/community context, because many marketers and community managers have already been using these techniques to build engagement for several years.
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there are many ways to incorporate game mechanics into a community and which ones are appropriate depend a lot on the make-up of your community audience and what the ultimate goals for the community are.
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my belief is that you need to gradually introduce new elements into a community and make sure that any new features are fully explained and documented.
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According to a definition in the Gamification Wiki,"Game Mechanics are constructs of rules and feedback loops intended to produce enjoyable gameplay."
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Recency -- when was the last visit? Frequency -- how often does the member visit? Duration -- how long do members stay on the sight when they visit? Virality -- how often do members share content on the site? and how much is their sharing amplified through their network? Ratings -- how often do members rate content on the site?
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What goals are you trying to accomplish with the community? Can you measure them? Do you have any elements of gamification incorporated into your community today? Does your community platform support gamification elements? Can you track your measures in your community system?
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Do you have an open or closed community? Is your community a professional, social, support, informational, hybrid or something else community? How do you want members to use the community? How many members do you have and how many do you add in a typical week or month? What is the typical member profile? How engaged are your community members? How do you measure engagement? What motivates your members to join, participate and stay engaged in the community? Do you have robust member profiles? Are member profiles searchable? Can members 'friend' or message other members? Do you have a way for members to add their Twitter or Facebook accounts to their profiles? How easy is it for members to share content on other sites?
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I also want members to receive recognition for their achievements by earning badges that can be displayed on their profiles and announced via their social networks. As a community manager, I want to be able to create different types of badges including limited edition or special occasion badges.
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I definitely want to keep track of points, but I want to be able to customize the calculation of the points. I don't know what the ideal point values would be, but I know that I would want to experiment with rewarding members for recent visits, the frequency and duration of their visits, their sharing of content on the site or in their social networks, creating content, participating in discussions or rating content.
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Customization is also important in the leaderboards. I want to have multiple leaderboard; for example, I may want a weekly, monthly and all-time versions of the leaderboard that I will post in different parts of the community site to recognize leaders who are currently contributing the most to the community experience and to others who have been long time contributors.
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First of all, the member profile system needs to be robust with the option to upload a picture and have free form bio descriptive fields. Most importantly, I should be able to link my profile to my Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn profiles and possibly use single-sign-on use those services. The profiles should also keep a history of a user's activity, badges and points. Another requirement for the profile system is that members should be able to create virtual friendships or groups within the community site.
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Content ratings have been around for awhile, and they are an important part of increasing engagement. I would push the envelop further by making it easier for users to share their content ratings and to search for content based on the rating.
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Members must be able to easily share content they like within their social networks, via bookmarking sites and by email.
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As a phase 2 implementation, I would also want to add some custom challenges to my community to drive additional engagement. I am not sure what form these would take, but I would start thinking about how to incorporate challenges while implementing the other elements noted above.
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