Monthly Archive for June, 2009

Explaining Facebook

Published on June 30, 2009 in from HTI, social marketing and social media. 1 Comment Tags: facebook, funny, how can facebook help my business, how to, should i be using facebook, social media, video, youtube, Youtube.com.

Lots of people I meet ask about Facebook and how to use it for their business. It can be a great tool if you use it right.

But many still ask me to explain what it is and how it works. This video will probably make it more confusing – but we’ll pretend this is a public service to explain Facebook as if it were the real world.

Facebook Parody from the BBC

Watch the video after the jump. Note: this is mostly only funny if you’re familiar with facebook. Also, some may find some of the language inappropriate. Continue reading ‘Explaining Facebook’

Are You in the Loopt?

Published on June 29, 2009 in Uncategorized, from HTI and social media. 0 Comments Tags: BlackBerry, blake lively, cell phone tracking services, chace crawford, dan humphrey, data, does loopt offer user privacy, ensuring user privacy on social networking sites, facebook, friend finders, geo-aware, get loopt, google, gossip girl, how is loopt different, how to use loopt, is big brother watching me, is loopt the next google, keeping in touch with friends via loopt, loopt on goosip girl, macbook, nate archibald, Networking, penn badgley, season finale, serena van der woodsen, social gps, social networking, social networking applications for iphone, social-mapping service, the oak room, thw cw, twitter, updates, upper east siders, what does loopt do, what is loopt, why is loopt important, xoxo.

When Serena van der Woodsen asked on-again-off-again beau Dan Humphrey how he found her at The Oak Room on the season finale of “Gossip Girl,” he replied that he Loopt her.

Now, we’re savvy enough to know that his choice of verb wasn’t part of GG’s growing database of original vocabulary, but we’ll admit that we’d never heard of Loopt before. So, like millions of other fans, as the curtain closed on the characters’ final moments of high school, we opened up our Macbook and did a Google search. Sure enough, Loopt exists – and unlike most of the other things that fill the lives of Manhattan’s elite – it’s available to the general public, and for free.

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You Can Take Our TV and Cell Phones, But Don't Touch the Internet

Published on June 22, 2009 in Uncategorized and from HTI. 0 Comments Tags: 3.0, 3g iphone, apple, broadband adoption increases, cnn, cnn.com, cost of internet service increases, economic hardship and the internet, home broadband adoption 2009, internet trend data, internet usage among low-income households increases, iphone, iphone 3gs, is the internet recession-proof, john horrigan, more broadbands connections in american homes, more people over 65 using the internet, more people purchasing high-speed internet, new iphone, people cutting back on cell phone and cable service, pew internet and american life project, recession, statistics on internet usage during the recession, stats, study on internet usage, study shows americans' devotion to the internet, survey, USA.

Don’t let the throngs of people clamoring for the new iPhone 3G S outside your neighborhood Apple store fool you. A new study from Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that in this time of economic hardship, people are giving up cell phones and TV.

One thing Americans aren’t willing to part with, however, is Internet service. In fact, even in the face of financial turmoil, more and more people are purchasing high-speed Internet.

A few key stats from the study:

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Study Shows Demographic Differences in Internet Marketing Priorities

Published on June 17, 2009 in Networking, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Uncategorized, Viral Marketing, emarketing, from HTI and social media. 1 Comment Tags: carlos redlich, copywriting, data, e-book on internet marketing, graph, hypnotic copywriting, internet marketing, internet marketing statistics, linkedin, marketing strategies, Networking, organic SEO results, poll, poll on internet marketing, polls, results, results from internet marketing poll, sales letter techniques, SEO, stats, what are you biggest questions on internet marketing, what do people want to know about most in internet marketing.

A recent poll on LinkedIn, published by freelance marketing advisor Carlos Redlich, revealed some rather interesting results.

In an attempt to narrow the focus of an e-book he’s preparing, Redlich asked members of the professional networking site to answer the question “What Are Your Biggest Questions On Internet Marketing?” They had five categories from which to choose:

-Hypnotic Copywriting
-The All Mighty Salesletter
-Magnetic Marketing Strategies
-Organic SEO For Top Results
-I Want it ALL!

Not surprisingly, of the 182 people who participated in the poll (the number of respondents just before this post was published), 35% said they ‘Want it ALL,’ with another 25% preferring ‘Magnetic Marketing Strategies.’ The other half chose more specific interests as you’ll see on the graph after the jump.

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Goodbye (and Good Riddance) IE 7

Published on June 15, 2009 in Statistics and from HTI. 2 Comments Tags: 3.0, firefox 3, firefox user stats, graph, ie 8, internet explorer, internet explorer 8, internet explorer user statistics, StatCounter, Statistics, statistics on ie 7.

Internet_Explorer_7_Logo-1 Internet Explorer, long the bane of Web site developers everywhere, is being given the old heave-ho by many users.

In my weekly look at browser statistics (thank you, StatCounter), I was pleased to see that the combination of IE 8 and Firefox’s growth has finally taken over Internet Explorer 7′s dominance. As of today, June 15, 2009, at 11:20 a.m. EST, Firefox 3.0 has 32.09% of the browser market, with IE 7, for the first time ever, dipping below Firefox ever so slightly and coming in at 32.05%. These numbers are for the North American marketplace.

UPDATE: I was wrong. Well, only partially. At the time I wrote this post Firefox 3.0 hadn’t surpassed IE7. But that’s because it was still morning. However, it is worth noting that Firefox is VERY close. See the graph after the jump to see what the day of deliverance will look like.
Sorry for the false excitement!

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