Archive for the ‘Technology News’ Category
Friday, August 27th, 2010
Brands are using interactive barcodes in their marketing strategies to amplify consumer interaction and interest in movies, retail and entertainment. Universal Pictures, Brooks Shoe Company and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) have all started to increase their use of interactive barcodes such as QR codes that typically require download through a Smartphone. Marketers place the QR [...]
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Tags: consumer interaction, interactive barcodes, Interactive Marketing, interactive marketing campaign, marketing strategies, print and promotional materials, print marketing, print material, qr codes, video content
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
On Wednesday, August 18, Facebook launched Places, their location-based social media application – which is gradually rolling out to all U.S. users in the next few days. Like other popular location-based social media networks, you can check in from your mobile device to immediately share where you are. Facebook Places also allows you to share [...]
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Tags: facebook, Facebook application for iPhone, facebook marketing, Facebook Places, Interactive Marketing, location-based app, Location-Based Social Media App, location-based social networks, social media application, social media marketing, social media networks
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Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Anyone that enjoys the games and applications on Facebook knows the enormous popularity of Zynga’s games Farmville, YoVille and Mafia Wars. Nearly 64 million people play Farmville each month, which is how parent company Zynga brought in $490 million in revenue last year, according to CNET News.
Taking the Facebook games’ popularity and bankability one step [...]
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Tags: facebook, facebook marketing, Interactive Marketing, marketing campaign, marketing strategy, social media marketing, social media network, social media program
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Friday, June 11th, 2010
The 2010 FIFA World Cup is upon us, and you can enjoy the games while getting up-to-date information and interaction on social media networks! You can follow the World Cup on TV and on your Smartphone as well as on all the major search engines and Twitter.
In search news, Yahoo has introduced search shortcuts for [...]
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Tags: Android, bing, Google, mobile phone apps, search engines, smartphone, Social Media, social media networks, Twitter, World Cup, Yahoo
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Although already known as the World Wide Web, Internet has truly gone global now that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved a new Internationalized Domain Name Fast Track Process.
What does this mean?
You’ll be seeing internet addresses containing non-Latin and non-Western characters (Keep an eye out for Arabic or Chinese characters) in the Internet extension [...]
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Tags: optimizing the URL, Search Engine Optmization, seo strategies
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