We have witnessed many events in the last year that were captured by a Twitter user and then shared and distributed around the ecosystem. I have always been struck by this. Twitter is a real time communication platform where one can broadcast to many followers who can then retweet and then you have a huge [...]
Over the years I guess you could say I have been a tech gadget junkie. I have shared many posts on this blog about the Apple iPhone espousing that it is one of the best things I have every bought. I was taken to the simple elegance of the iPhone on release now almost two [...]
I believe Twitter is a technology service that is transformational. I believe this for many reasons. Twitter comes to the cover of Time this week with avery interesting article worth the read: http://tinyurl.com/p2j27l
Boston sports fans have nothing to complain about. In the last decade the Patriots, Red Sox and Celtics have given us six championships and many runs in the playoffs. There is overwhelming sentiment with the Bruins as they are having their best season in many wiht a real team oriented approach to hockey. This era [...]
Top posts on JeffBennett.Org for April 2009:
1. NHL Scores With Twitter
2. Patriots Day Big For Boston
3. Verrill Farm In Full Swing For Spring
4. Celtics Pride
5. Ice Out For Winnipesaukee
6. Baseball Star Mark Fidrych Found Dead
7. Apple Approaches 1 Billion Downloads
8. Time To End Non-Competes In Massachusetts
9. Pandora Internet Radio Is Cool
10. Social [...]
The NHL kicked off their use of Twitter with a “Tweetup” celebration on the opening night of the NHL playoffs on April 15. That night over 100 Twitter personas gathered at the NHL Store in New York to watch playoff games. The NHL Tweet Up generated activity on Twitter for over 230,000 followers.
I contend that [...]
I have tried all sorts of Internet radios over the last several years. Never had one grab me or monopolize my interest.
At the suggestion of a “tweet” on Twitter that said: “With Pandora why does anyone download music to their iPhone…” I got to thinking that maybe this is for me.
Internet radio is surely not [...]
Pepsi has launched a pretty cool site that it is calling Pepsi Zeitgeist,to track all of the action at the upcoming South by Soutwest Festival (SXSW). SXSW has grown from a tiny music festival to a massive gathering that showcases trends in culture and media. SXSW will be the social media capital of the [...]
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 [...]
