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February 2009

Marketing

Coffee Coffee Coffee

In light of these trying times, I just had to make a quick post about what I think is a fun map: the locations of Starbucks around our office here in the Downtown San Diego area. We always end up at the one on F & 5th, which I think is mainly so our coffee comes with the thrill of knowing we are stepping out of Ninthlink territory, and in to Digitaria's hood. Some day, our dreams of a Downtown…
February 27, 2009
Design

Nice to meet you

Here is a cool new website I stumbled upon yesterday. Meetup.com is the world's largest network of local groups. Meetup makes it easy for anyone to organize a local group or find one of the thousands already meeting up face-to-face. More than 2,000 groups get together in local communities each day, each one with the goal of improving themselves or their communities. So check it out. It seems like there is a group for everything. In New York There is…
February 27, 2009
Development

Today’s Hot App: Audience Chat

Fans of 24, Two and a Half Men, Nip/Tuck, Life On Mars, Entourge, etc., get ready! Mobile app developer Mobui introduced a new live Audience Chat application soon to be available for a wide variety of mobile devices, including the iPhone, that provides an interface for something viewers already love doing -- chatting, texting, and tweeting their friends during their favorite shows. Network partners such as VH1 can set up show chat rooms to facilitate social viewing, sponsored contests or celebrity-moderated events. The iPhone…
February 27, 2009
Marketing

Audiolife: Sell Your Music Online Today

Musicians have loads of options with which to sell their music and merchandise online. If you're Radiohead, you can afford to give your music away for whatever fans feel like paying and you'll get enough returns to pay the bills. But what about up and coming bands? A new site called Audiolife has the right idea. The site offers tools to build an online storefront for digital tracks, hard copy CDs, ringtones and other goodies that exists as an embeddable widget. So…
February 26, 2009
Development

You & Your Life & Self Online: Profiles, Searches, Info

We've all done it: egosurfing. Betting that the practice of Googling yourself is only so rewarding, a start-up called MyLife launched this week to carve out a niche in people-based search. The result of a merger between Reunion.com and Wink Technologies, myLife scours profiles on Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter and other public sources to pull up information on folks, filtering by name, email address, company, school, location or specialty. Various tools help users refine searches, suggest contacts and alert users when others…
February 26, 2009