social marketing

RunKeeper :: Update

Looks like the dude (Jason Jacobs) did it! Also, according to Geek.com,  it looks like RunKeeper successfully garnered a bunch of press. Plus, it looks like he ran it in 4:01 which is one hell of a great time for 3 weeks training. Way faster than the best (4:25) I ever did. Nice work Jason!

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RunKeeper at the Boston Marathon

RunKeeper is an awesome iPhone app that I use during some of my quick jaunts on the trails of Marin that I call runs. I’m not quite in the marathon shape I once was. But RunKeeper is a fun app that aids my motivation and provides tons of utility. RunKeeper reached out to Dave Gerzof [...]

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Great 2009 (Online) April Fool's Day Jokes

Expedia’s Flights to Mars. Dust surfing. Utopia spa and resort. In this economy you can’t afford not to go. And you can’t afford not to visit the page and check this one out. They did a great job. Opera Labs Introduces Face Gestures. “A revolutionary technology designed to make interacting with your browser easier and [...]

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Aardvark :: Social Search Gets Fresh

Aardvark is a social search service that you use through your email or IM. Have a question? About anything? Ping Aardvark and it will find an answer for you.

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Tidal Communications

All things ebb and flow. So does communication. Communication is a flow of energy and information between two or more parties. Just like a pebble dropped in the proverbial pond, all communication involves a transmission. And, depending on what your transmission encounters along its path, your waves of communication may grow larger or dissipate and [...]

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Seth Godin :: Talks about social networking for small biz

Non-embeddable, sadly, but here’s the link to the TwitPwr video of Seth Godin talking about the ‘giant cocktail party’ of social networking. It succeeds in reinforcing the face that the most important thing you have in your life is relationships. Whether those relationships are with family, a lover, a client, a coworker, or someone who [...]

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More Social

When will we social out? I dunno. People are inherently fascinated by people. I think it will just all continue to evolve into some network-thought-mapping-extravaganza. So, right on cue, in the ongoing battle for our social attention, Google’s announced a new social bar for your site. According to the Google Social Web Blog (is there [...]

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Roble Scoble and Kevin Barenblat on Social Marketing

Here’s a great interview from Roble Scoble of fastcompany.tv. Kevin Barenblat is the CEO of Context Optional, a social marketing agency based in San Francisco that designs networking games and apps for a bunch of big brands. Kevin talks about engaging users on social sites with activities and experiences, such as the Kidnap! game they [...]

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Oasis is Taking it to the Streets

You can say what you want about Oasis. Good or bad, I’ll most likely agree with you. But you gotta admit, enlisting street performers to play their new songs around town–before they’ve even been released–is a pretty cool concept. The new album is called “Dig Out Your Soul.” Learn more about it at Creativity.

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