November 30, 2010
Social Media…SNEAKERS
For those of you who worship Facebook and Twitter, you will adore these new Adidas Superstar social media sneakers. Gerry Mckay, a web designer from Glasgow had created two new concepts for social media sneakers with a complete style guide including colors, fonts, laces, logo and slogans inspired by Facebook and Twitter. These shoes won’t be able to increase your friends or followers but they will definitely send a message. “This is a small project which I was recently working…
November 18, 2010
Friend Filter! Facebook’s New Messaging System
Facebook will soon be launching a new “modern messaging system” that will include seamless messaging features, cross-platform conversation history and the social inbox. The main purpose of this new system is for people to be able to sort through the messages that they receive and organize them in a way to highlight conversations with your real friends and be spam free! With over four billion messages being send out each day CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that “people need a modern…
November 10, 2010
FREE GAP Jeans: A Social Media Revolution, or Retail Nightmare?
Facebook launched their new Deals Platform last week which allows users to get exclusive offers from participating companies by checking into the brick and mortar establishment via Facebook Places on their iPhone or Android phones. As an early adopter, GAP launched an awesome promotion offering the first 10,000 people that checked in to their stores a free pair of their premium line of 1969 jeans. How can you pass that up? What’s even better, if you didn’t make it to…
November 9, 2010
iTunes 10: Ping
In early September, the newest version of iTunes 10 launched along with a new social media music feature called “Ping” that has been described as Facebook meets Twitter for music. Ping allows iTunes users to follow artists or friends to find out what they are listening to. Users are able to customize song and album charts, news feeds, and thousands of concert listings. iTunes has reached some very impressive numbers as the most used music source in the world; more…
November 5, 2010
“Kik” Your Old Messaging To The Curb!
Are you annoyed by text conversations that seem to drag out? Do you dislike never knowing if the person on the other side even got your text? Do you sometimes feel ignored by your friends? There is a solution for all of your sorrows – Kik Messenger. Kik Messenger is real-time texting for ALL. It is comparable to BBM on the Blackberry, but is not exclusive to one particular device – any smartphone such as the iPhone, Android, Blackbery, iPod,…
November 2, 2010
Group Gifting on eBay!
With the holiday season approaching, everyone will soon start to think about what special gifts they will be giving. To make the process of gift giving a little easier, eBay has just launched a new Group Gifts service which allows you and a few friends to collectively purchase those bigger gifts by utilizing the power of social networks. This concept was developed through various notions; “First, eBay saw that people were using social websites to buy virtual gifts for their…
