Tumbling ideas

A few random thoughts and a lot of sharing
on Innovation, Social Networks, Marketing and Technology.

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Facebook ads grreat opportunity for Local Business

Fresh from the oven:

Local Businesses now can offer deals on Facebook Places

Starting today, local businesses will be able to offer you deals when you check in to their place on Facebook. Deals will be rolling out over the next few days and will only be available in the United States at this time.

We launched Places to let you share where you are with your friends and see who’s nearby. Now with Deals, you also can see what offers are nearby and share those deals with your friends.

Finding deals near you is easy. On touch.facebook.com or the latest version of Facebook for iPhone, touch “Places” and then touch “Check In.” Nearby Places with deals have a yellow icon

Excellent opportunity!!

[via Facebook blog]

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14% of online shoppers intend to buy a tablet in the next 5 months… that’s 28 million people… So… what platforms are you targeting for your next online marketing … and webdevelopers.. are you ready for the iPad?? [via Focus.com]

14% of online shoppers intend to buy a tablet in the next 5 months… that’s 28 million people…

So… what platforms are you targeting for your next online marketing … and webdevelopers.. are you ready for the iPad??

[via Focus.com]

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On building Mobile Websites

Mobile websites are increasingly becoming a necessary complement to any website, if not a project in itself.

Just think about how many of your target audiences have any sort of smartphone, how long do they have it with them, and what they do with it.

Mobile Phones Share (C) Nielsen

Source: Nielsen Study, Image credit

So… although not yet sliced bread, there is a lot of development in easing things:

Smashing just release a nice wrap-up about the general aspects you’ll need to consider. Take it as a roadmap and consider it on your planning. Nowadays I ask the question -if not offer it all along- about wether the site will be iPhone or iPad ready.

If you happen to use a framework like Joomla, there are developments like T3 that provide a lot of things already done for you, and you just have to concentrate on your particular styling, if at all. See for example.

Surely there are many other great tools, frameworks and approaches. Like for example what Opera does with its mini-browser: a proxy that “mobilizes” the website…. why isn’t Google into this??? Right from the search results as they do know from where you are browsing.

Anyway, good luck with your endeavors, we’ll all need it!

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Almost 3M emails per second… 20hs of video uploaded per minute on youtube … 50M tweets per day…. And this is just the beggining …. Amazing graphs about the fabolous world of data we are creating. I recall once a historian said that all this digitalization would create a new “Medieval Age” as if any disaster would happen, then survivors or extraterrestrials would find nothing -as everything would be under digital support… Well.. I think this is very difficult to turn back from, and we are surely finding ways out to survive to such events. What do you think? [via Good Technology]

Almost 3M emails per second… 20hs of video uploaded per minute on youtube … 50M tweets per day….

And this is just the beggining ….

Amazing graphs about the fabolous world of data we are creating.

I recall once a historian said that all this digitalization would create a new “Medieval Age” as if any disaster would happen, then survivors or extraterrestrials would find nothing -as everything would be under digital support…

Well.. I think this is very difficult to turn back from, and we are surely finding ways out to survive to such events.

What do you think?

[via Good Technology]

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On the future of Magazines…

heyitsnoah:

“Social media, if it’s not already obvious to everyone, is going to continue to change everything — including publishing. And it’s a no-brainer to me that content consumption is going to be intimately if not inextricably linked with your social graph. Combine Flipboard or whatever comes along and improves upon it with the real innovation in recommendation technology that we’ll almost undoubtedly see in the next few years, and I can’t see how the 20th Century concept of a magazine can survive, even if it does look great on a tablet.”

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Subtraction.com: My iPad Magazine Stand

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