Aug 29
Facebook hasn’t been a very GIF-friendly part of the Web. It’s still not. But a third-party Flash workaround lets you incorporate these animated gems into your timeline anyway.
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Aug 29
Facebook wants you to share as much information about yourself as possible. It wants your friends to do the same. After all, the more personal details you feed into the network, the less likely you are to pack your data …
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Aug 28
There’s a lively debate as to whether an intangible service as mundane
as online car insurance could possibly benefit from the value of social media.
However, when these marketers realized that the marketing and selling of
auto insurance is no different than the marketing and selling of
another intangible product such as hotel accommodations, they quickly
seized the opportunity with vigor – and with mascots to boot!
Aug 27
Adding video production to your social
media tool box is essential today for both business and pleasure. According to the web
tracking-and-measurement firm ComScore,
89 million people in the United States are going to watch 1.2 billion online
videos today alone. And, 76 percent of marketers plan to add video to their websites,
making it a higher priority than Facebook, Twitter and even blog integration.
Aug 26
Facebook has just unveiled a new feature that allows multiple users to share one photo album.
Posted in: Today's ChiliFacebook has just unveiled a new feature that allows multiple users to share one photo album. Now, up to 50 different "contributors" can each upload up to 200 photos into one, collaborative album—contributors can only edit their own photos while moderators get absolute power. In other words, let the public shaming commence.
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Aug 25
The U.S. Open is all set to begin in an explosive manner this coming August 26th, where you will find that as a tennis fan, things have never been better. Sure, I am quite sure that Roger Federer is going to find it extremely difficult and challenging in adding to his impressive list of Majors considering how his steamrolling days are just about behind him for quite some time already, not to mention the rest of the field having caught up and surpassing him in different ways already. Still, I would like to root for him because he’s been an all round nice guy, just like the Good Guy Greg meme. Having said that, it is not going to be about tennis balls and hot dogs, as the US Open will also boast of a giant social media wall which measures an impressive 50 feet in width and 8 feet in height.
This social media wall will be able to depict content pulled from Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, where it shows off the tweets, posts and photos in real-time. Fans are able to share their “voice” and be a collective “reporter” by using the official hashtag #usopen. Not only that, this particular wall will show what is trending so that attendees will be able to keep up to date with the latest news and upcoming events – at least the tech savvy ones out there. I do wonder whether this social media wall, should it be effective in its nature, be implemented in other Majors?
US Open To Feature Social Media Wall original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Aug 23
Everyone needs a vacation every once in a while. It’s healthy and you should take one if you haven’t this year. Beach? Sure. Europe? Go for it. Hell, pitch a tent in your own backyard and don’t talk to anyone for a weekend if that’s all you can manage. But a vacation isn’t a vacation unless you really really get away from the minutiae of your everyday existence. Question is, how do you do that without also stripping out the conveniences of technology?
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Aug 23
Online comments are trollish and broken. Luckily, there are some great alternatives.
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Aug 20
It’s the 21st-century version of the Polaroid: Q Lifestyle’s theQ camera launches today, a chunky point-and-shoot that’s designed to get your shots off the memory card and into the cloud as quickly as possible. The digital camera is optimized for sharing the photos you take across the popular social networks with a single button-press, while […]
Aug 20
The Great App.net Mistake
Posted in: Today's Chili
A year into its grand experiment, App.net may finally be ready to change the world. But first it has a lot to overcome — not the least of which are the many misconceptions about what the hell it is exactly.
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