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SnazL & Flip.to, Social Media Tools For Sharing Content


SnazL and Flip.to
SnazL and Flip.to are two of the first open source tools to bridge the gap between content and community. By allowing users to create and share their videos, photos and content from one central location, the user become the center of his or her own sphere of influence cross social media platforms.

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As Seen On TV: The AeroGarden


The AeroGarden is an indoor gardening system that claims to grow herbs, tomatoes, and flowers at an increased rate and size with a minimum amount of time or effort on the part of the gardener.  But does it work?

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Robots In Advertising


Robots have permeated modern culture thanks to the likes of R2-D2 and the Transformers, not to mention a wide-range of real inventions that help daily existence.  Is it any wonder that advertising firms utilize these metal constructs to influence product purchasing?

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Valentines Jewelry: Engagement Rings Sold With A Honeymoon On The Side!


In a period of economic downturn, businesses have got to do what they've got to do in order to make people spend money, particularly when their niche is one that people can take or leave when they're pinching pennies. While some women might not agree that jewelry falls into this category, there's one business that's not taking any chances with a unique business plan!

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Sarah Palin Trades In Twitter Tweets For Facebook Powder!


Sarah Palin Going Rogue on Facebook
How can anyone forget the now infamous 'lipstick on a pig' reference during the last political campaign and the hockey Mom from the Tundra that turned "going rogue" into a mantra. Well now that same lady is using the "powder" of social media to sell books and position herself for a run at the highest post in the land.

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"Pirate" Murdoch Claims Search Engines Arrrhhh Stealing His Material


Rupert Murdoch, the Pirate
What do you get when you cross legacy newspapers with an arch conservative right-wing publisher? Rupert Murdoch, that's who! In a new twist as how to not play nice with Google and the other top search engines, Murdoch's controversial approach might either become a new business model for other newspapers to emulate, or a crash and burn scenario that sees the rise and fall of his own Phoenix!

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Women’s Weird And Whimsical Fashion: The Umbrella Dress


Sometimes it's unfortunate that the most talked about fashion items only make it to a period of conceptualization and never actually hit the streets or the runways. In some cases, they've been created strictly for the purpose of chatter, where the fashion isn't the focus at all, but a manipulative marketing ploy is. Released earlier this year, there's one concept that should make it off the pages of a magazine despite its role in media manipulation.

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SNL & Social Media Christen Largest Cruise Ship In The World


Cruise Ships are not usually the butt of a joke, or comedy-rich fodder for comedians. However, in the case of the largest cruise ship in the world, Seth Meyers has set his lampooning sites on Royal Caribbean's "Oasis of the Seas." Celebrating its global stage 'coming-out' party, Royal Caribbean knows they've made it when SNL takes their cruise ship out for a spin and the social media airwaves hype their maiden voyage.

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Inflatable Lingerie Has China Reaching For The Top


Inflatable Lingerie Has China Reaching For The Top
New, push-button inflatable lingerie from China will have the ladies smiling and the men, er, smiling too.

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"Geotagged Tweets" Coming To A City Near You!


Geolocation and Twitter
Since the "location-based social network" train has left the station, Twitter has not only jumped on board, it appears to be the locomotive engineer. And now with 3rd party apps purchasing tickets on the "Twitter Local Express" the microblogging network is expanding its coordinates to offer up the longitude and latitude of all your tweets.

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Golf Bra By Triumph Japan Suits Us To A Tee


Golf Bra By Triumph Japan Suits Us To A Tee
Sports lovers rejoice, Triumph Japan is at it again, saluting the game of golf by making it easier to lower your score - oddly enough, by raising the number of strokes

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Advertising In Video Games


Dear Marketing Firms:

Please insert real-life products into my video gaming environments so I don't forget they exist.

Your biggest fan,

J. Barker

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LinkedIn & Twitter - Like Peanut Butter & Chocolate!


Twitter & LinkedIn
In the days of yore (3 years ago), when social networks were first making their mark on the digital landscape, there was a divide between those networks you chose for business and those selected for fun. Today, those worlds collide, as LinkedIn and Twitter formally get "linked" to each other. And the combination is sweeter than PB&J.

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First Exclusive Green Marketplace For Hotels Launches


EcoGreenHotel Store Launches
On November 9, EcoGreenHotel announced the official launch of it’s new online store, EcoGreenHotelStore.com. It's virtually a green marketplace for hotels and a one-stop marketplace of over 1000 products and services for the green hospitality industry. As more and more hotels become green-certified and more guests request "green" accommodations, the EcoGreenHotel Store is satisfying the needs of both the hotelier and the traveler.

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NC-17 Rating For Xbox 360 Users Restricts Tweets


Restricting Xbox Live for 17 yrs-old and younger
Not only are teenagers 17 and younger allowed to watch certain movies, Xbox 360 just banished them from accessing social networks. Strange that the teen demographic that is the target market for Xbox systems are restricted from from the Xbox Live's new integration of Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm. And with Christmas right around the corner!

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Junaio Adds 3D & AR To Location-Based Social Network


junaio zone
When Rod Serling first uttered, "there is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity...this is the dimension of imagination," he might  have been giving us a prescient glimpse into the future of Junaio.

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Sanyo Eneloopy Battery Checker Nose When To Recharge


Sanyo Eneloopy Battery Checker Nose When To Recharge
Meet 'Eneloopy', Sanyo's cute canine battery checker! Eneloopy's LED nose lights up in a range of colors corresponding to how much power is left in your batteries. Bow, er, wow!

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The Droid "Cash For Clunkers" Deal For iPhones


Droid "Cash for Clunkers" Deal For iPhones
With the heightened buying frenzy surrounding the launch of Google's new smartphone, the Droid, it was no surprise that someone would piggyback off of the hype! While Google conducts its first-time TV advertising, Flipswap, a trade-in service aggressively jumped into the foray with a unique offer to swap cash for your old 'clunky' iPhones. ( Where was the Administration on this one?)

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Bufferin Plus S Cures Headaches Fast - For A Price


Bufferin Plus S Cures Headaches Fast - For A Price
When you've got the mother of all headaches, you want relief and you want it NOW. Bufferin Plus S has been specially formulated to dissolve twice as fast as ordinary pills, thus delivering its four active ingredients to the bloodstream quicker than you can say "not tonight, honey".

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"Social Awareness" To Replace Social Networking


Social Awareness to replace Social Networking
The Internet of Things is fast approaching and with it comes Web 3.0, where "social awareness" will replace "social networking." Soon tweets and status updates will become fully automated and generated by the world around us versus us ever having to touch a keyboard again.

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