Less than three months after its acquisition of social business pioneer Dachis Group, social media SaaS vendor Sprinklr launches the next stage in its drive to bring greater integrated ‘social at scale’ ability to large enterprises with the introduction of paid social media to its modular infrastructure software platform. In…
Intro: New FIR Interview coming with Howard Greenstein and David Mitnick of DomainSkate; Quick News: SEC issues guidance on use of social media in offerings and proxy fights, 3D printers print ten houses in 24 hours, two NFL teams post their 2014 schedules on Snapchat, the LinkedIn crowd decoded; Ragan…
The bane of contemporary mobile life is your smartphone running out of juice sooner than you expect (what many would undoubtedly see as a classic ‘First World problem‘). It usually happens to me at a conference or other event when I’m using my device a lot for tweets and pics…
New FIR Interview posted; Quick News: US court says blogs are not only media they’re also an important source of news and commentary, General Mills’ terms of service could prevent people from liking its brands’ Facebook pages, LinkedIn releases Android app for Slideshare, the American view of technological progress in…
A quarter-page ad by the Bank of England in yesterday’s Telegraph caught my eye primarily because it contained a QR code. The print ad informs you that the £50 note featuring an engraved portrait of Sir John Houblon on the reverse side will be withdrawn from circulation at the end…
The websites of most musicians adhere to a highly predictable template. There’s a bio, a page hosting some music, another with photos and video, a tour schedule, and a merchandise store. In developing the recently-launched Jerry Garcia website, the team at global digital agency Critical Mass were anxious not only…
One word that’s been all over the web this past week is ‘Heartbleed.” Together with a highly-visible image, it has been the focus of much commentary and opinion, some of it contradictory, some of it confusing. Heartbleed is a major security vulnerability on the internet, one that I’ve seen described…
Intro: FIR Interview with Critical Mass coming, no reports this week from Dan York (get well soon, Dan!) or Michael Netzley; Quick News: FTC investigation of Cole Haan offers insights into how to run a Pinterest contest, Staples wants to bring 3D printing to the masses, journalists are mining Whisper…
