Google posted a funny new video advertisement, asking Gmail fans to poach all their friends from other email services. It’s as easy as visiting emailintervention.com, logging in, and picking out your friends who don’t yet use Gmail. Google will then send your friends a stylish invite to join its insanely popular email service. The...
Daily Archives: July 28, 2011
Twitter begins placing Promoted Tweets at the top of your timeline
how can companies think that’s a good idea? Guarantee they’ll actually see follower counts drop if they promote one in this current iteration. With twitter’s level of power-users vs. consumers they’ve the perfect opportunity for premium, ad-free accounts, perhaps with other bonuses, such as a greater historical search capability, but this is just stupid....
THE MICROSOFT INVESTOR: Microsoft Not Helping The Deficit; Reported 7% Taxes On Pre-Tax Profit (MSFT)
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Motorola Triumph’s Camera Issues Are Way Worse Than A Little Screen Flickering
The Motorola Triumph is off to a rough start. A flickering screen issue, while annoying, isn’t all that bad when compared with what new Triumph owners are complaining about now: Apparently the handset’s 5-megapixel autofocus camera forgot how to autofocus. We figured this may be a settings issue, but it seems that most people...
Move over Android, China has a new cloud-based phone!
Android and iOS phones may be gaining traction around the world, but after three years of development, Alibaba thinks there’s room in China for another smartphone platform. The company is launching its mobile platform, Aliyun, on the K-Touch W700 handset later this month. The Aliyun platform focuses on cloud-based, web applications but is also...
And Then There Were Ads: Promoted Tweets Appear In Your Main Stream (If You Follow That Brand)
About a month ago, talk began to surface that in-stream ads would soon begin to roll out ads (that is, their Promoted Tweets) in user timelines. The truth is that they’ve been talking about this possibility for a while. And they’ve even tested it with third party partners like Hootsuite. But today comes the...
Twitter Is Launching In-Stream Ads Soon – Seriously This Time (If Tests Work Out)
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Image: Flickr/David Berkowitz See Also: Wow, Everyone’s Complaining About “Natural Scrolling” In OS X Lion The Bassackwardness Of Being Verified On Twitter, Facebook Google+ America’s 25 Most “Social” Cities Twitter has talked about selling in-stream ads for a long time now. For almost as long, these ads have been “coming...
Skype for Windows updated with improved Facebook integration
If you’re a Skype user running Windows, it’s well worth grabbing the latest update to the soon-to-be-Microsoft-owned VoIP and IM software. Version 5.5, fresh out of beta, brings a number of useful improvements. First up, Facebook integration is improved, with the ability to see which friends are online from a new Facebook Contacts tab....
Google TV price slashed to $99 as Logitech stumbles
Logitech told investors this week that it is preparing to slash the price of its Revue Google TV set-top box to just $99, down from $249. The price cut is meant to “remove price as barrier to broad consumer acceptance,” it stated in its investor slides. (PDF) In other words: The Revue just didn’t...
The Revolution Will Be Gamified
It was bound to happen. The Egyptian uprising quickly turned into an opportunity to make a quick buck. There have been t-shirts, jewelry, bumper stickers, flags, and even patriotic songs turned into downloadable ringtones – which you must pay for, of course. The latest money-making effort to hit the online scene is possibly the...