Articles tagged with: Social Network
Loopt is a relatively new service that provides a tool for people who just have to tell others where they are.
Whether it be for finding friends, or seeing how long it will be until they arrive for an event, the service combines cell phone technology with knowledge of where the phone is, to broadcast this information to your select group of friends.
Buy.com has launched a Facebook application Garage Sale, which will allow people to sell products to their network of friends within the Facebook site. The service has a flat $5 transaction fee, and initially prices will be set and not auctioned.
Buy.com plans to open Garage Sale on other Social Networks soon.
Perception: Buying things from your friends isn’t new, and it makes sense that a product like Garage Sale facilitates this within social networks.
Combine that with product recommendations and you have a digital version of the ancient trading city.
Myspace and Virgin Comix have partnered up to create Coalitioncomix.
Coalition Comix gives users / consumers the ability to partner up with “story master” Mike Carey to create a consumer driven comic book.
Consumer ideas and voting will drive the storyline in a bid to create ground level engagement.
Would you like fries with that .. just got bigger.
McDonalds are offering Australian consumers the change to name their next burger with a very clever promotion.
The campaign will be advertised heavily on TV .. and will show a fictitious burger naming legend, known as “Ken Thomas”, retiring as Chief Burger namer . and handing the responsibilities to a younger generation.
As a follow up to it’s successful Consumer Generated Ad competition that Doritos ran for the US Superbowl (Crash the Superbowl), it is now asking for XBOX game ideas that reflect the Doritos brand. 5 finalists will have prototypes of their game ideas produced by Microsoft and they will be showcased on the snackstrongproductions.com website. The direct link is Unlockxbox.com.
An example idea from the site is called Hoopdreams .. and is described on the site as …
Joining social networking and the popular game of chess is Chesspark, which runs the game in a flash interface, but also includes many social networking elements that no doubt encourage it’s visitors to keep coming back.
Perspective: Social niche networks like this will continue to grow, and Advertisers won’t be far behind. Determining which products to sell to these demographics is one challenge, but I believe specialised new product categories will emerge that directly target these niches such as customised chess boards.
McDonalds has begun an initiative to recruit several mum’s as correspondents as part of a quality program.
The idea is that Mum’s will be given unique insight into how McDonalds works internally, in return for the mum’s telling their social network about their (hopefully) positive experience.
No doubt McDonalds will have their listening ears on .. hoping to glean some insight into one of their key consumer demographic.
The mum’s were chosen for their online influence and degree of social network. I hope this doesn’t equate just to the number of Myspace friends? (smiles).
Social networks continue to gain in popularity, and it’s no surprise that niche social networks have started to emerge.
Take Geni .. the social network aimed at family relatives. It has an extremely nice family tree interface, which lets you add in your relatives. Pretty soon, those relatives add their relatives .. and the tree grows. My tree started with about 10 people and within 2 weeks now has nearly 100 entries. (only the first 10 were added by me).
It seems that scrap booking is becoming more popular with stores popping up in many suburbs. Therefore it’s hardly surprising to see an online scrapbooking product appear .. and this one is surprisingly good and easy to use.
It’s called Scrapblog, and it allows you to add pictures, videos, to many scrapbooking templates to create an online scrapbook .. or blog.
I thought i would try it out for Mother’s day .. and here’s the result.
Ok .. scrapbooking isn’t a passion of mine .. so here’s one that has a lot more pages and formats to give you a better idea.
For many of us, knowing what colours go with what can be a daunting task. But thanks to ColorBlender, even the most colour illiterate of us can make some sense of knowing which colours fit together.
Another site doing something simliar is Color Schemer.
Adobe have even established a social network around colour blends called Kuler.
And for those of you looking for examples of new styles for websites .. this post is a great visual read.
