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Digital Digs 25/04/11

a micro-digest of what's new and emerging

Facebook Studio: A Guide to Facebook’s Marketing Showcase
A comprehensive look at Facebook Studio. Should marketer’s get onboard and strive for Facebook awards and Spotlight domination?
Facebook Love

Researchers Display Evidence that iOS 4 Records all Your Travels
Data stored in your iPhone can be accessed fairly easily and displays everywhere you’ve traveled. There really are no secrets anymore.
Peek-a-Boo

BO.LT Lets You Copy A Site Then Do With It What You Please
Web nerds are excited about a new tool that lets you change the content of any site and share it virally.
Fun With Web

TechCrunch Review: RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook Enters The Tablet Wars
A full review of the Playbook. It’s a rollercoaster of technical emotions.
To Want or Not to Want

Digital Digs 18/04/11

a micro-digest of what's new and emerging

The New Yorker Tries Requiring Users to Like Its Facebook Page to Access Articles
Interesting take on “like-gating” and the user – content relationship.
Like Value

Web Design Evolution: Two Decades of Innovation 
For the web designers – look back at where you came from.
How the Web was Won

The Next Version Of Safari Will Block Online Marketers From Snooping Around Your Browsing History
Apple’s newest browser is appealing to privacy lovers. Though if you’re going to see ads anyways…
Same Old Argument

Are You Following a Bot?
A study on the ability of a robot to infiltrate social groups in an attempt to shape social architecture via Twitter.
Interesting and Deceitful

The Business Of Facebook
Facebook numbers that will blow you away.
Numbers Game

Digital Digs 11/04/11

a micro-digest of what's new and emerging

Now You're Talking!
Voice recognition for hand held devices makes new leaps and bounds to become, well, useful. Finally, and with Google’s help of course.
They Hear What You’re Saying

Facebook Shares Green Data Centre Technology
It’s not just a popular trend, Facebook knows that they have to cut back on their massive energy consumption and is taking steps to do so. But not quickly enough, according to green experts.
Green Friends

Be Your Own Souvenir
A very cool machine from blablabLAB in Barcelona brings new life to the novelty of kitschy souvenirs. You love yourself, after all.
All About You

GranataPet Snack Check
One of the most innovative users of 4Square we’ve seen in a while, tapping the massive dog lover’s community.
Dog Days

Compare Social Web Engagement
An awesome find for validating if a blogger has any sort of influence. Essentially, the tool measures a whole mash of social engagement metrics (Tweets, comments, digs, etc) to see if the blog has any traction across the social web.
Post Rank

Social Media and the Election

Friday was a historic day for Capital C’s mission control.  Instead of focusing on consumer sentiment and trending as it applies to our clients' brands, we worked with Business News Network and turned our intelligence gathering tools on to monitor the Federal Election.  Here is the segment that BNN produced which is followed by an in studio interview with me. 

- Tony Chapman, CEO

 

Digital Digs 04/04/11

A micro-digest of what's new and emerging

What Google +1 Means for Small Businesses and Site Owners
Daunted by +1 or simply wondering what it’s going to do? No worries, just make sure your content is shareable.
Learn to Share

Accurate and Credible News Tweets? Automated System Finds Them
A system developed by a team at Yahoo promises to steer us away from any tweets that aren’t credible. This will hopefully stop Twitter users from spreading news of untrue events.
Keeping it Real

Why Photoshop for iPad Marks the End of the Desktop Computing Era
A rebuttal to those that said the iPad would never be used to create content.
On the Move Creation

Amazon, Music, And A Sunny Forecast For The Cloud
Amazon races to beat others to the punch and make a “music locker” that cloud enthusiasts will get behind.
Forever Storage

Oscar de la Renta Releases New Fragrance via Facebook
The first fragrance in a decade from the kingpin of elegance launches on Facebook, lending authority to notion that Facebook can reach any audience a brand wishes.
Smell Here