On Digital Media

On Digital Media 90: Award Winning

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In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Craig Calder (twitter: @ccalder), Ken Gellman (twitter: @kengellman) and Steve Hatch (twitter:@shatch) opine about:

• Craig was featured in articles on Forbes.com and AdAge.com representing TravelZoo
• Craig’s team at TravelZoo won the SAMMY Award (MediaPost’s Social Media Award) for The Top Branded Twitter Campaign beating out MadMen and M&M Mars. Congratulations to Craign and the TravelZoo team!
• Audible.com is still hiring developers. You get to work with Steve Hatch! (Trust me, that’s a good thing. – jf.)
• Breaking News! Twitter has new avatars!
• Twitter will add geo-location as a built-in feature. Don’t worry, it will be opt-in.
• John is using a combination of BrightKite, FourSquare and GoWalla for location-based status updates.
• Twitter doesn’t want to have to deal with subpeonas - after 14 days, the location metadata associated with your tweets is expunged.
• “Project Retweet” is an effort to redesign the user experience of retweets - this time, officially by twitter as opposed to the community.
• Tweetie already supports the Project Retweet API extensions
• John has decided to add video to the mix during ODM recording sessions. They’ll be posted in the show notes on occassion.
• Steve equates the retweet with FriendFeed’s and Facebook’s “Like” feature and that it will ultimately morph into the same nomenclature and user experience.
• Craig believes that retweet etiquette requires the retweeter to add value in some way to the retweet. (The value IS the retweet! It’s “retweet-worthy!”)
• Mashable asks if people are ready for the features of Project Retweet. Justine Bateman wasn’t as the change caused some confusion until she realized what was going on - and she’s Twitter-savvy. What about people who aren’t? Apparently her
• BlackBerry Twitter client (UberTwitter) already supports the Project Retweet API extensions as well.
• Justin Timberlake has signed on to appear in the movie “The Accidental Billionaire” based on the book of the same name.
• 27% of people access twitter through dedicated applications. How could a company like comScore track that? Do they track API calls? Do people in their panel note the fact that they use Twitter apps? Craig will ask and report back.
• Twitter just raised $100 million to support the build-out of all these service updates - at an approximate $1 billion valuation!
• Jason Fried’s Satirical post about the 37Signals “$100 Billion valuation” pokes fun at Twitter’s recent funding and valuation
• Where’s our Audible sponsorship, damnit?! Jonathan? Are you listening?
• Livestream launches Livepack - the world’s first solution for wireless live streaming at HD quality
• Craig rediscovers TweetDeck…and loves it. A random tweet of his was included in an IgniteNYC presentation. (With attribution, of course.)
• John wil be speaking at Web2Open at the Web 2.0 Expo New York on Social Media Hacks
• Craig shares a Social Media Hack that will make its way into my presentation!
• Send any social media hacks, tips or tricks you have to comments@odmcast.com
• Google Sidewiki was released for FireFox and IE browsers - it’s a distributed commenting/social discussion system
• Remember ThirdVoice? It was the original distributing commenting system that was launched - and died - during the dotcom boom.
• Danny Sullivan used Sidewiki in a unique way (http://bit.ly/3bbzUY), commenting on Seth Godin’s post about Squidoo’s “Brands in Place” service. Not sure why people were so ruffled by Brands in Place. In a way, it’s not much different than allowing anyone to create a space on GetSatisfaction.com.
• Google introduces Google Frame for IE Browsers, bringing the standards compliant Webkit rendering engine to Internet Explorer - and a 10x increase in speed. Surprise! Microsoft doesn’t like it. We hope it will push Microsoft to make IE much better than it is currently.
• Mike Abundo from 901am writes about The Delusions of Carol Bartz.
• Comparing Yahoo’s decline with AOL’s decline.
• Yahoo is selling off Yahoo Small Business
• AOL’s decline was hastened by the rise of broadband. Yahoo’s decline was hastened by lack of focus and competing services.
• Looking for a new gig? You can probably make a difference at Yahoo or AOL - and they’re hiring.
• iRex announced the DR800SG with global 3G downloads and partnerships with Barnes & Noble for eBooks, wireless connectivity through Verizon and retail sales through Best Buy.
• AT&T finally allows MMS on the iPhone
• Newspaper publishers divide over paid content - too bad their consumers aren’t! Only a small fraction said they would pay 2 cents per article.
• OneForty.com is an app store for Twitter. Congratulations to Laura Fitton (@pistachio)

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