Our Craftster site is the coolest place on the web for indie crafts. The indie and (do-it-yourself) movements are really advancing these days.
Crafting is big business. The Craft and Hobby Association reported that in 2007, craft sales in 39 categories reached nearly $32 billion, and nearly 57 percent of U.S. households engage in crafting. You [...]
Omniture has announced a new feature for SiteCatalyst that allows online marketers to measure brand activity on the popular microblogging site Twitter. This makes Omniture the first online analytic solution to provide actionable insight based on Twitter data.
It has been my perspective that publishers and eCommerce sites should look to the social media ecosystem, just [...]
Earlier this week I posted about Skittles new social site. The new Skittles.com isn’t so much a website as an app pointing visitors elsewhere online where Skittles material — official or not — is hosted. Skittles is tapping into the social media ecosystem about all things Skittles really leveraging Twitter. In doing this Skittles was [...]
Amazon has launched the Kindle application on the iPhone (and iTouch) today. I know this for sure as I already downloaded it first thing this morning. What a great way to start the day!
All 240,000-plus titles are available on the smaller devices which is nice. What I think is really great though is that Amazon [...]
FetchDog.Com an online community and commerce site for dog owners has retrieved $4 million in capital from Borealis Capital Partners and Harbor Light Capital Partners. The Maine-based company has been funded to date from David E. Shaw and his wife, actress Glenn Close.
FetchDog.com has been a labor of love. The site has been focused on [...]
Last week we blogged right here on JeffBennett.Org that Amazon was going to unveil the Kindle2 on February 9, 2009. As we approach the big date chatter is escalating about Kindle2, but at the same time chatter has also started to escalate about bigger concepts for eBooks.
First, Amazon has has announced it will be releasing [...]
Brands can utilize social media in many ways. This can be accomplished by a brand joining in on existing networks like Facebook, Twitter, joining targeted communities like Photo.net, DavesGarden.com, or creating their own site/community like Nike+. If done properly this type of integration with social media can effect the entire cycle of business management starting with generating [...]
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