Article Archive for November 2009
Audi Turns to Social Media for Inspiration
Audi today released the final social media video installment documenting behind-the-scenes considerations that shaped its entries in this year’s Los Angeles Design Challenge, a competition associated with the upcoming L.A. Auto Show involving Southern California automotive studios. As part of the design process, the Audi design team leveraged social media as an interactive forum through which to solicit consumer insights. Using the Audi Facebook page as a central hub, the team was able ... Read More
Twitter Statuses Can Now be Preserved in a Paperback “Microbiography” with a New Publishing Service Launched by 140bio.com
Twitter has taken the online social networking community by storm. Millions of users post updates throughout the day that are now going well beyond the classic tagline of just “what are you doing?” Rather, what is posted on Twitter contains a wealth of information about ones life experiences. Just like a diary or journal, a stream of Twitter updates come together to tell a story. A new service recently launched by 140bio.com now allows users to publish those experiences as their ... Read More
Open-Xchange Announces Agreement with Dotster Providing Users with E-Mail and Groupware
Open-Xchange, the leading provider of business-class open source collaboration software, announced today an agreement with Dotster, Inc., a leading full-service provider of essential resources for businesses and individuals to get online and grow online, to deploy Open-Xchange for its e-mail users. Dotster has established itself among the world’s largest domain name registrars with more than 3 million domain holdings under management and servicing hundreds of thousands of customers ... Read More
7Summits to Leverage Jive Software’s Social Business Software
7Summits, a new type of Social Business Agency, announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with Jive Software designed to deliver more end-to-end social business solutions for enterprises through a combination of Jive’s Social Business Software (SBS) and 7Summits’ Strategic Framework for Applied Social Media. 7Summits provides Social Business Strategy and related services that leverage Jive’s SBS to deliver custom, tailored social communities. Jive SBS is applied to key ... Read More
First iPhone Social Networking App to Have Free ‘Phone’ Calls
myRete is announcing WhosHere 2.0. The WhosHere 2.0 marquee new feature is WhosHere Voice. As long as both parties have a Wi-Fi connection, WhosHere Voice allows our 750,000 users to call any other user for free. The recipient does not even have to be in the app to take a WhosHere call. There are two unique components of WhosHere Voice. First, each user controls who has permission to call them. Second, users do not give out any personal information to make or receive a call. Users do not have ... Read More
KODAK Gallery Launches New Application on Facebook Platform(R)
As part of its commitment to providing the best photo sharing experience for customers, KODAK Gallery launched a new application that allows users to share Gallery photos directly to their Facebook streams and profile pages. In a few quick clicks, Gallery members simply select favorite photos or albums and click the link to share on Facebook. “KODAK Gallery’s Facebook application is part of the faster, more user-friendly Gallery, which helps members easily share their pictures in ... Read More
