Western society's habits, according to a new survey, are resulting in overly individualistic behavior that makes us depressed. But before that news makes you sad, a different piece of research says the social networking boom may be ...READ»
Twitter Peek is slick on paper. It's the first device designed in part by Twitter, for Twitter-ers. And of course it lets you Tweet anywhere, anytime, even without a wi-fi connection. And it comes from the folks behind Peek Pronto, an ...READ»
Ever since social media data started growing like bathroom flora, there have been aggregation tools to make managing your stuff easier. Some are limited in scope; FriendFeed, for example, pulls together just a few services, but does ...READ»
Halloween happenings at Fluid Studio!
Fluid Studio pumpkins
Want to know how we spend some of our staff meeting time in October?
Carving pumpkins!
At Fluid, we are nothing if we are not creative.
So when we are ...READ»
Even as we busily plug our personal information into Facebook, the powerhouse social network is about to get a whole lot more personal. It's getting ready to link geo-location information to your actions on the social site.
The ...READ»
Twitter is great for tracking trending topics, but not so hot for trending places. A new service attempts to change all that by creating standardized #hashtags for businesses, bars, and restaurants.
HashCeratops, as the service is ...READ»
Everyone loves the iPhone--today. It does two things extremely well: calling and email. To date, no other device can top it. But by this time next year, that may not be enough. And Android will be waiting in the wings.
Google and ...READ»
Should businesses and human resources departments create social media policies for employees? If so, how?
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April 15, 2009 is a day that will go down in the annals of Domino’s
Pizza history. The day started out ...READ»
Part 1: Today's Author, Yesterday's Business
Forget everything you've heard about book publishing.
For instance, recently at a party to celebrate the publication of my latest book, a number of people asked, "Is your ...READ»
Update: Marissa Mayer, Google's Vice President of Search Products and User Experience, has just announced that the search giant has "reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results." Bing has won what ...READ»
We've heard suggestions like it before, but apparently Microsoft is now very close to securing a connection to Twitter's digital data stream to get live Tweet search powers into Bing. Google's execs will surely be foaming at the mouth ...READ»
My head was with reeling with all the recent white papers and prescriptive blog posts on how every brand should start twiterring or else they will cease to exist, when I landed at San diego airport yesterday. How should you advertise ...READ»
Las Vegas was host to Blog World '09, the nation's first and largest conference on blogging. While it may seem imprudent to put the shenanigans of Sin City nightlife under the microscope of the most public medium in human history, the ...READ»
We know Google's desperate to get its paws on real-time social networking data, but it's apparently just pulled off a surprising move in exactly that direction: It's enabled real-time comment searching in YouTube. Now if their ...READ»
Everyone online knows about social networking--there're even Twitiquette guidelines, for goodness sake. But that doesn't mean everyone's taking part, or that each network is the same. Even online there are class distinctions. Facebook ...READ»
We were wary about Fox's on-TV Twitter experiment, and then surprised by quite how badly it failed...but obviously the folks at Cliqset and Boxee disagreed: They're bringing yet more sophisticated social net chatting to TV ...READ»
In a world where "gourmet" has been replaced with the more egalitarian "foodie", over-scheduled families prefer 30 minute meals, and search engines serve up more than one million different recipes, could Gourmet have survived?READ»
How to Survive the Tough Times, Personally and Professionally
Let’s
be honest. There’s no one-size-fits-all solution to survival during
challenging times. But there are some strategies that will help no
matter ...READ»
Want an agency job? Get web savvy!
Looking to get hired in the ad agency and/or graphic design world?
Get familiar with digital mediums, including how to integrate social media into the marketing mix.
More than ...READ»
