January 2009
Happy New Year! →
by Brian Solis Happy New Year! Ritz Carlton Lobby, Half Moon Bay, December 31, 2008 I’m in Half Moon Bay for NYE and thought I’d share a few breathtaking views with you. Here’s…
Jan 1st
December 2008
NewTeeVee Live: Greg Goodfried of EQAL →
By Alison McNeill The hopes and visions of online video a decade ago finally came to fruition in 2006. Over the past three years we have seen tremendous progress in Web video and in 2009 the number…
Dec 31st
The Ultimate Blogger Dinner at CES 2009: Request... →
by Brian Solis The Ultimate Blogger Dinner is being hosted by Social Media Club and Lenovo at the Aquaknox restaurant in the Venetian during CES on Wednesday January 8,…
Dec 31st
BusinessWeek Seeking Guidance on Who To Profile in... →
by Brian Solis Stephen Baker and Helen Walters of BusinessWeek recently asked readers to nominate those individuals who are driving the evolution and pervasiveness of Social Media as…
Dec 30th
Internet Surpasses Newspapers as Primary News... →
by Brian Solis, originally posted in PR 2.0 Credit As a follow up to my post, Extra Extra, Read All About It! Newspapers Respond to the Social Web,” new research emerges that…
Dec 30th
DMFail Shares the Failed Attempts at Sending DM’s... →
by Brian Solis I stumbled across an interesting Twitter community today that was so different that I just had to share it with you. DMFail is a catchall service that discovers and…
Dec 29th
Twitory Ranks Tweets By Authority →
by Brian Solis Loic Le Meur asked for it and now we are the beneficiaries of his request. Jon Wheatley and team spent roughly 12 hours creating Twitory, a new service that that…
Dec 28th
Tweetree Pulls Shared Content from the Web into... →
by Brian Solis It seems that all the buzz this morning in the Twittersphere is centered around Tweetree, a new service that attempts to thread related conversations in Twitter. Considered an…
Dec 28th
Digital Family Reunion Connected Web 1.0 and Web... →
by Brian Solis His vision: The Digital Family Reunion (DFR). On Thursday, December 11th, the Digital Family Reunion united Southern California technology and business communities at…
Dec 27th
Build Portable Social Dashboards with Scrapplet →
by Brian Solis, portions sourced from PR 2.0 This week, RadWebTech released Scrapplet, a new solution aimed at aggregating social presences and brands into one central, and portable,…
Dec 26th
Tracking Santa Online →
by Michelle Lentz The Internet has made it hard for Santa to do anything in secret this year. In fact, it appears he’s teamed up with the good folks at NORAD to bring you a slew of ways to track…
Dec 24th
Micro Wishes Makes a Macro Impact →
by Brian Solis Laura Fitton aka Pistachio, is a dear friend of mine. I got word of a special project she was spearheading and I was moved to contribute. Using Tipjoy, a service that turns…
Dec 24th
Adult FriendFinder to Take Your Affairs Public →
by Brian Solis Recession? What recession? The IPO seems to be making a rare appearance. According to TechCrunch, FriendFinder Networks, formerly Penthouse Media Group, has filed to go
Dec 24th
Twitter People Search is Back →
by Michelle Lentz FINALLY! How many times have you clicked that Find People link at the top of Twitter, only to be rebuffed by a “This is not active/working” type of message? I’ve clicked it…
Dec 24th
Free Stuff for Christmas →
by Michelle Lentz Over on his New York Times Tech blog, David Pogue has listed a couple of free downloads, just in time for Christmas. They include PC Pandora (which lets you spy on those using…
Dec 23rd
Google Docs Released for Google Desktop →
by Brian Solis I recently spoke to a highly visible and influential tech blogger who observed that today’s online applications are reminiscent of the desktop experience surrounding Windows 95….
Dec 23rd
State of the Twittersphere - Q4 2008 →
by Brian Solis, originally published at PR 2.0 HubSpot released a report based on the analysis of over 600,000 Twitter users who have utilized the company’s Twitter Grader app….
Dec 23rd
Top 10 Twitter Apps →
by Brian Solis While I was updating my post, “Twitter Tools for Community and Communications Professionals,” I stumbled across a couple of interesting graphs that visualize the top applications…
Dec 22nd
Fear Kills Businesses →
by Brian Solis Credit: Sam_UL via Flickr Over the weekend, my latest post ran over at TechCrunch to help entrepreneurs, startups and businesses in general, focus on generating revenue…
Dec 22nd
What do You Get When You Mix Music, Personality,... →
by Jacob Morgan If you haven’t figured out the answer to the question it’s “Signal Patterns,” a new company that helps you discover…well, you! Simply put, Signal Patterns uses its Personality…
Dec 19th
Caution: Embargo Breaks Ahead →
by Brian Solis Michael Arrington: Media Predicts 2009 The saga regarding newsmakers and the battle over embargoes continues, and will do so until PR figures out that “less is more” when…
Dec 19th
Big Video Games, Little Package →
by Michelle Lentz When my husband & I bought a Playstation 3 back in August, I saw it as the best way to get my hands on a blu-ray player. I also was pretty happy about SingStar and Rock Band, as…
Dec 18th
Foodista: Wikipedia for Food →
by Michelle Lentz Seattle has a handle on coffee - and apparently food-oriented web sites. A lot of popular foodie web sites, including Allrecipes.com and UrbanSpoon are located in that fair…
Dec 17th
TextFlow for Document Collaboration →
by Michelle Lentz I’m a social media consultant but really, in Cincinnati, that doesn’t get me a lot of traction at the moment. So my bread and butter is instructional design and technical writing….
Dec 17th
Twiistup 5 Showoffs Announced →
My fellow judges and I huddled over 100 applications submitted by hopeful, innovative tech companies, to select the top 10 “showoffs” for Twiistup 5 in Los Angeles this February 2009 - an…
Dec 17th
Blog World Expo + New Media Expo = Must Attened... →
by Jacob Morgan If you haven’t heard yet, Blog World Expo and New Media Expo have merged into one event aptly called BlogWorld & New Media Expo. As usual the event will take place from October 15…
Dec 17th
Apple Takes a Bite Out of Macworld →
by Brian Solis Painting by Scott Conary All good things come to an end. This is indeed true for the once high-flying Macworld Expo. Apple pulled a “Granny Smith” on the San…
Dec 17th
Hottest Gadgets of 2008 →
by Brian Solis Originally published on Intel’s InsideScoop blog. Disclosure, I’m an Intel Insider. With CES right around the corner, I wanted to take a moment to spotlight some of the…
Dec 17th
See You Tonight at Ignition-San Francisco →
by Brian Solis The spirit of entrepreneurialism is what drives all of us to innovate and excel. Economics aside, there is no better time than now to pursue and invest in that next big…
Dec 16th
Cellity Launches Open Beta →
by Michelle Lentz Cellity today announced the beta release of Addressbook 2.0 within the cellity Communicator Suite, focusing on contact management across applications. Whether contact data comes…
Dec 16th
Tweetwaster →
by Michelle Lentz Remember my post on Twitter Timewasters? Well, that’s been taken to a whole new level. It’s a new time waster that tracks how much time you’ve lost to Twitter. Tweetwaster…
Dec 15th
Microsoft and TechSet Celebrate Startups at Beso... →
by Brian Solis Last week, the Microsoft BizSpark team, in partnership with The TechSet (Stephanie Agresta and yours truly), celebrated Southern California startups and the spirit of…
Dec 15th
Mobile: The Future of the Internet →
I love those folks at the Pew Internet and American Life Project. They release the coolest information. The newest report, The Future of the Internet, includes some information on the mobile web….
Dec 15th
Next ‘09 in Hamburg →
Dear Santa: Please send me to Hamburg in May. next09 looks awesome. Thanks, Michelle Truly, I would love to go. Germany, right? Next09, the conference put on by SinnerSchrader and…
Dec 13th
hi5 Introduces Virtual Gifts →
by Michelle Lentz hi5 is an international social networks. It has now introduced virtual gifts - and virtual currency - to its network. The hi5 Gift Store will initially offer an assortment of 36…
Dec 11th
Merry Betamaxmas! →
by Michelle Lentz This is such a fun idea. Betamaxmas takes a bunch of holiday specials and episodes of old TV shows available on YouTube and drops them into an old-fashioned non-cable TV set via…
Dec 10th
Appy Holidays from Google →
by Michelle Lentz Other than a bad pun, what is Google’s Appy Holidays? Well, it’s a surprisingly useful collection of their applications themed and ready for the holiday season. Appy…
Dec 10th
See You Tonight in Hollywood at Ignition-Los... →
by Brian Solis Join us at Beso in Hollywood toight for free hors d’oeuvres and drinks, and also the opportunity to network with some of the most influential technologists around. All…
Dec 10th
Pause for Tea: Congrats to Zack Luye →
by Michelle Lentz There’s a videocast out there on tea. Well, it’s not just tea - there’s some Ginger Beer in there, some Key Lime smoothies, a bit of cola, but for the most part - tea. Bottles,…
Dec 9th
Social Networking Forum Set for March 2009 in... →
by Brian Solis This March, join thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and social architects at the Social Networking Forum in London. This two-day conference is dedicated to exploring all…
Dec 9th
Magpie: The Fastest Unfollow in the Midwest →
by Michelle Lentz Locally, I followed @Cincinnati_News on Twitter. I’m not sure who runs it (neither is anyone else it seems). The web site on the profile is the City of Cincinnati site and the…
Dec 8th
PeopleBrowsr Puts Twitter and Social Networks to... →
by Brian Solis Originally published at PR 2.0. I’ve invested a significant portion of time and energy into the support, development, and refinement of an ambitious project led by…
Dec 8th
Infectious Art for Your iPhone →
by Michelle Lentz I caught this on TechCrunch this morning, and it seemed worth a mention here. Infectious, which makes vinyl art for your vehicles, is now offering vinyl art for your laptop…
Dec 8th
The Holiday Bailout Party →
In my last post, I stressed the importance of holiday parties during these tough economic times and how to cut costs to make the party a reality. That blog post ended with this teaser, “
Dec 8th
NewTeeVee Live: Jesse Alexander of Heroes →
By Alison McNeill NewTeeVee Live’s most recent conference “Television Reinvented” brought together the top online video producers, technologists, executives and venture capitals to explore where…
Dec 6th
Brian Solis Announced as Judge for Twiistup 5 →
Twiistup, SoCal’s most prominent and well-known tech event, is having a 5th outing on February 12, 2009. Getting Twiisted includes getting to know several start-ups chosen by a panel of judges….
Dec 5th
Vidtel: The Future is Here →
by Michelle Lentz When I think of video calling, I think of two things: - The Jetsons. The image above seems to be seared into my brain and permanently attached to the phrase “video…
Dec 5th
Silicon Valley PRSA Hosts Media Predicts 2009 →
by Brian Solis The Silicon Valley PRSA chapter hosted its annual Media Predicts event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Industry trendsetters, chroniclers and luminaries…
Dec 4th
Avoid Wrap Rage: Frustration-Free Packaging →
by Michelle Lentz When we were away for Thanksgiving weekend, I’d forgottten my curling iron and had to buy a new one. I had a terrible time opening the ridiculous packaging since I was in a hotel…
Dec 4th
TechMeme Adds a Human Touch →
by Brian Solis Gabe Rivera announced that TechMeme will complement its advanced news aggregation algorithms with a human touch. Last month, Megan McCarthy, formerly of ValleyWag and…
Dec 3rd