Google Glass Diary, Part 6: Using Facebook, Twitter & Google+ In Glass

Jun 4, 2013 at 8:57am ET by Matt McGee   

Beyond the inherent value of being able to do local search and navigation or do basic informational searches, I believe that Google Glass needs to have a strong social integration if it’s going to succeed with average consumers. Way back in part two of this series, I said that Glass needed — at minimum — [...]

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Twitter’s Vine App Now Available On Android Devices; iOS Version Hits 13M Users

Jun 3, 2013 at 2:50pm ET by Matt McGee   

Twitter’s popular Vine app is finally available for Android devices. Twitter bought and released the social video app on iOS back in January, and it’s been one of the most popular apps among iPhone and iPad users for several months now. (It’s currently the No. 4 free app on the iPhone, for example.) In today’s [...]

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Google Analytics Dashboard Sharing Among Profile Users Coming Soon

Jun 3, 2013 at 2:09pm ET by Ginny Marvin   

Soon you’ll be able to share Google Analytics dashboards with other profile users. Google announced that dashboard sharing will be available to all users in the coming weeks. Currently, users can share dashboard template links, which don’t pass any traffic data. Template Links are a great option for sharing dashboard configurations you think other Google [...]

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Survey: Windows Phone Gaining At Android’s Expense

Jun 3, 2013 at 1:17pm ET by Greg Sterling   

New consumer survey data from Kantar argues that Windows Phones “have begun to capture consumers from across the competitor set.” According to the research unit of ad-agency holding company WPP, recent Windows Phone purchasers were upgrading from feature phones (42 percent) or another Windows handset (25 percent). The other 23 percent were Android users changing [...]

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As Yahoo Begins Scanning Email To Target Ads, Is It Next On Microsoft’s “Scroogled” List?

Jun 2, 2013 at 5:29pm ET by Danny Sullivan   

Did you know Yahoo scans email to do contextual ad targeting similar to the way Google does for Gmail? That wasn’t on my radar, but it is now, as the company is ending older versions of Yahoo Mail and forcing everyone to use the latest version, where terms of service allow for this type of [...]

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Google: No Facial Recognition Apps Will be Approved For Google Glass

May 31, 2013 at 9:59pm ET by Danny Sullivan   

Think Google Glass would be great if it could help you look at someone and automatically bring up information about them? Looks like you’ll have to do it the hard way and recognize them yourself. Google’s put up a statement saying it won’t approve any facial recognition apps. Google posted on Google+ about this, saying: [...]

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How To Get A Million Repins On Pinterest: 5 Questions With Better Homes & Gardens

May 31, 2013 at 2:56pm ET by Amy Gesenhues   

Earlier this month, we learned Better Homes and Gardens ranked in the top five brands for Pinterest boards with the most repins, likes and comments. Generating more than a million repins, BHG’s Blogger Recipes We Love board won the top spot for Pinterest board with the most repins. The Blogger Faves from BHG.com board claimed [...]

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What Images Get Pinned On Pinterest? Red Beats Blue, Portrait Over Landscape & Lose The Faces

May 31, 2013 at 12:22pm ET by Amy Gesenhues   

According to visual analytics and marketing platform Curalate, brand images on Pinterest are 23 percent more likely to receive a repin if the image does not contain a face. Using custom algorithms to evaluate more than 500,000 Pinterest images, Curalate researched how an image’s visual characteristics influence social media activity. Examining 30 different visual characteristics, [...]

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Google Stands In For “The Emerald City” In The Internship Movie

May 31, 2013 at 11:41am ET by Greg Sterling   

There’s a scene near the climax of the film The Internship, starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson (opening June 7), where they and their team of Google summer interns try to sell a local pizza restaurant on Google advertising (presumably AdWords). Many of the different Google tools and services are paraded out (i.e., search, Google [...]

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Twitter Set To Launch FBX-Like Retargeting Ad Exchange [Report]

May 30, 2013 at 6:26pm ET by Ginny Marvin   

In its latest effort to beef up advertising offerings, Twitter is aiming to get in on the rise of retargeting and programmatic, real-time ad buying. The company is  gearing up to launch a new ad retargeting exchange that would function much like the successful Facebook Exchange (FBX) and allow brands to retarget ads to site [...]

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Google Glass Diary, Part 5: Why Brands Must Give Users Control

May 30, 2013 at 1:23pm ET by Matt McGee   

Google Glass means checking tweets every freaking minute. I turned the Twitter app off very quickly. — Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang) May 25, 2013   I’ve heard a few similar comments from other Glass owners like the tweet above from Altimeter Group analyst Jeremiah Owyang. And, as Glass spreads to more people, there’ll surely be more [...]

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Amazon Launches “Login With Amazon” Service For Third-Party Sites, Apps And Games

May 30, 2013 at 9:09am ET by Ginny Marvin   

Amazon is hoping to extend its reach and integration beyond its own properties with yesterday’s launch of Login with Amazon. The new service lets Amazon’s 200+ million users to sign into websites, games and apps with their Amazon logins. Third-party developers can implement Login with Amazon on their web and mobile properties in the same way [...]

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Twitter App Update Makes Photo Sharing Even Easier & Lets Users Proof Tweets Before Going Live

May 30, 2013 at 7:11am ET by Greg Finn   

A new Twitter app update has rolled out to both iOS and Android platforms, making it even easier to share photos, locations and to see how your Tweets will look before sending. By skipping a few previous steps, users can now Tweet out a photo in under six seconds: Tweet a photo in under six [...]

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Facebook Starts Verifying Popular Pages & Profiles

May 29, 2013 at 2:57pm ET by Matt McGee   

Following in the footsteps of both Twitter and Google+ (and Pinterest and other social networks), Facebook has started to verify a small number of Pages and personal profiles. There’s currently no way for a Page owner or regular user to request verification. Facebook explains how it determines which profiles and Pages might be verified this [...]

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How Not To Pitch Your Infographic

May 29, 2013 at 9:00am ET by Danny Sullivan   

I love good infographics. And as the person who considers which third-party infographics we run, I appreciate a good pitch, one that demonstrates that someone is aware of what our site is about, what’s appropriate for us and doesn’t take a cookie cutter approach. That’s a good pitch. Here’s a bad one that I received [...]

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Twitter Reaches Spam Lawsuit Settlement With Tweet Adder

May 29, 2013 at 7:31am ET by Matt McGee   

Twitter has settled its lawsuit against Tweet Adder, one of five companies that Twitter sued last year, accusing them of making tools that spread spam across its service. As AllThingsD first reported, the settlement places strict rules on what Tweet Adder is allowed to do with its current software — primarily, it has to play [...]

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Quora Says Its Metrics Are Up 300 Percent, Doesn’t Say From What

May 28, 2013 at 4:50pm ET by Matt McGee   

Quora says all of the company’s important usage metrics are up at least 300 percent in the past year, but it isn’t sharing its baseline for comparison. Company co-founder and chief executive Adam D’Angelo shared the non-specific stats today in a new video on its blog — a video that exists primarily to sell Quora [...]

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Product Placement: The TV Ads Consumers Can’t Skip Or Hop

May 28, 2013 at 2:58pm ET by Danny Sullivan   

In case you missed it, several major US television networks are suing Dish over its ad “hopping” technology that allows viewers to easily skip past ads. But there’s one type of ad even Dish can’t help them skip. Product placement. Let’s revisit this type of unstoppable, poorly disclosed ad product using a recent episode from [...]

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Facebook’s Mesmerizing 3D Music Map: Can Artists, Brands & Developers Use The Data?

May 28, 2013 at 2:47pm ET by Matt McGee   

Photos may be the king of social sharing, but music must be part of the royal court, at least. And it appears to be an increasingly important part of consumers’ social lives. Google has launched a number of music-related services over the years (with varying degrees of success), and Twitter recently launched a music service [...]

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EU-Google “Rival Links” Antitrust Settlement Provision Creates New Controversy

May 27, 2013 at 5:26pm ET by Greg Sterling   

The US Federal Trade Commission declined to address the alleged “search bias” (vertical search) claim against Google in its settlement with the company earlier this year. It’s a highly problematic issue from a legal standpoint but it’s the one Google’s critics and rivals care most about. In short they would like to blunt or stop [...]

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