RIM Acquires Innovative Social Calendaring App Tungle.Me http://bit.ly/k4kskk

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For the past few months, Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) – popularly known as RIM – has been acquiring startups like its going out of style, just like SalesForce.Com! One of the more notable of these startups is Tungle.Me, a social calendaring application that has seen wide adoption among major companies during its short time on the scene. Tungle.Me touts itself as ‘scheduling made easy’ that connects with several different business calendars to prevent double-bookings and missed meetings that can be a major embarrassment to small businesses.

Tungle.Me launched a little under two years ago in 2009 and quickly rose in the ranks as the best social calendaring application available. Over 800 universities and 40 percent of Fortunes’ top 1000 companies all use this app in over 150 countries. These are impressive stats for any two year old startup.

This application should be seen as a life-saver for the small-business leader. Once a company gets off the ground, the demand is usually easily manageable by few people. Though once word of mouth starts spreading and that same small business starts receiving higher demand for its products or services, important meetings and events could be lost in the daily grind of trying to stay afloat. That’s how the makers of Tungle.Me got the idea for this social calendaring application. They were small-business owners that saw a drop in productivity and the challenge of making everything work without a proper system.

The reason we knew that Tungle.Me would be successful is because it was developed as a tool to address a communications problem! When ideas are created to fix something that is broker, or they can make it better, that is when you know you have a winner!

The calendar was seen as the main productivity draining black hole. Rather than start a whole new calendar app, though, the makers decided on creating an application that built off of the popular calendars already in the hands of most businesses. Because of this innovative idea, Tungle.Me spread like wildfire.

Tungle.Me is easy to use for any small business. It easily connects to almost any calendar program in wide use today, from online calendars to desktop ones, and notes when meetings or other events are scheduled and when free time is available. Personal availability is then shown on Tungle.Me so that others needing to meet will visit a public page and request to meet during those free times. Once a small-business leader accepts the meeting, that time is then blocked off and relayed to everyone’s calendar to avoid double bookings. Tungle.Me is also smart as it adjusts to differing time zones, and it protects privacy and keeps valuable information secure.

This is a great acquisition for RIM!

Businesses can benefit from this by creating calendar items and sharing them with their team members. This is a unique tool created by a business owner for a business owner. Try it out, set up a free account. Comment here and tell me if you like it.

RIM Acquires Innovative Social Calendaring App Tungle.Me http://bit.ly/k4kskk

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For the past few months, Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) – popularly known as RIM – has been acquiring startups like its going out of style, just like SalesForce.Com! One of the more notable of these startups is Tungle.Me, a social calendaring application that has seen wide adoption among major companies during its short time on the scene. Tungle.Me touts itself as ‘scheduling made easy’ that connects with several different business calendars to prevent double-bookings and missed meetings that can be a major embarrassment to small businesses.

Tungle.Me launched a little under two years ago in 2009 and quickly rose in the ranks as the best social calendaring application available. Over 800 universities and 40 percent of Fortunes’ top 1000 companies all use this app in over 150 countries. These are impressive stats for any two year old startup.

This application should be seen as a life-saver for the small-business leader. Once a company gets off the ground, the demand is usually easily manageable by few people. Though once word of mouth starts spreading and that same small business starts receiving higher demand for its products or services, important meetings and events could be lost in the daily grind of trying to stay afloat. That’s how the makers of Tungle.Me got the idea for this social calendaring application. They were small-business owners that saw a drop in productivity and the challenge of making everything work without a proper system.

The reason we knew that Tungle.Me would be successful is because it was developed as a tool to address a communications problem! When ideas are created to fix something that is broker, or they can make it better, that is when you know you have a winner!

The calendar was seen as the main productivity draining black hole. Rather than start a whole new calendar app, though, the makers decided on creating an application that built off of the popular calendars already in the hands of most businesses. Because of this innovative idea, Tungle.Me spread like wildfire.

Tungle.Me is easy to use for any small business. It easily connects to almost any calendar program in wide use today, from online calendars to desktop ones, and notes when meetings or other events are scheduled and when free time is available. Personal availability is then shown on Tungle.Me so that others needing to meet will visit a public page and request to meet during those free times. Once a small-business leader accepts the meeting, that time is then blocked off and relayed to everyone’s calendar to avoid double bookings. Tungle.Me is also smart as it adjusts to differing time zones, and it protects privacy and keeps valuable information secure.

This is a great acquisition for RIM!

Businesses can benefit from this by creating calendar items and sharing them with their team members. This is a unique tool created by a business owner for a business owner. Try it out, set up a free account. Comment here and tell me if you like it.

Pepsi Makes it Possible to Send a Virtual Gift that is Redeemable in The Real World http://bit.ly/iOeV4N

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With so many continuous technological advances, there's always new ways to interact with others. Pepsi is offering a new way to interact with friends, family, co-workers, and business prospects. With vending machines that offer the ability to send a free drink to your others, you can take advantage of a more fun way to connect with the important people in your life.

How does it work? The new vending machines made by Pepsi have a variety of features. To start, you're able to purchase a beverage of your choice while also reading up on nutritional information and other important data. In addition, you're also able to use the machines as a way to send a free beverage to a friend. All you have to do is pick a drink that you'd like to send, fill out important data such as your friend's name and cell phone number, and then you create a video. Your gift will then be sent to your friend's cell phone. You can even use the machine to retrieve a gift that a friend sent you. Lastly, the new machines allow you to learn more about Pepsi and it's latest happenings. You have the ability to sign up for more information, including valuable coupons.

As a business owner, this new vending machine can offer many benefits. You can use this as a great way to connect with current clients, potential clients and future partner prospects. This is just another way to show that you care. It can also show that you're up to date on current technological trends. Pepsi has yet to sync this feature with Facebook and Twitter. As soon as this option is available, the possibilities can be endless. You may be able to gift free beverages to loyal friends from your business Facebook page. If you're looking for a new way to test out the latest technological advances, take a look at the new Pepsi vending machines.

You can help to improve your business in a variety of ways. Taking the time to thank your current and future clients can be a great way to improve your many business interactions. With the use of this new tool, you can change the entire way that you handle gifting.

Yahoo Sells Delicious to YouTube Founders http://bit.ly/koxlDf

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Delicious was one of the original social bookmarking websites, a company at the forefront of the Web 2.0 revolution that swept Silicon Valley in the early part of the 21st century. But despite its continued popularity among many internet users, Delicious has seen a slide in recent years as other companies encroached on the turf that once was their domain.

Websites like Facebook and Twitter have been the biggest cause for their decline. Over the past couple of years, these social sites began to expand beyond their original purpose of connecting friends and family to each other. Increasingly, these sites have been used to more broadly connect people to information, a framework upon which people can spread news around the world almost instantaneously. Twitter has taken on this role with aplomb, becoming the new medium through which people share stories and articles.

But what has been wonderful news for Facebook and Twitter has been disastrous for Delicious and other social bookmarking websites like Digg. Yahoo bought Delicious back in 2005 for approximately $30 million when the website was on surer footing. Yahoo was hoping to expand its social graph at a time when companies like Google were eating into its market share with its superior search product.

However, Delicious did not provide the kind of advantages Yahoo thought it would when they bought the company. Indeed, by the end of 2010, things had gotten so bad that Yahoo fired most of the staff working on Delicious. After that, a leaked memo suggested that Delicious would simply be shut down, angering the millions who still used Delicious to find their favorite stories from around the web. Yahoo immediately denied those reports, suggesting that they would instead be looking for a buyer for the site.

After months of bargaining and negotiating, it appears that Yahoo finally found a buyer for Delicious, selling the site to a company named AVOS, a company created by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, co-founders of YouTube. Although the details of the purchase are still unclear, AVOS seems to have every intention of continuing to operate Delicious.

This is great news for small businesses looking to expand their marketing through social networking. Such advertising is completely free and can have an even bigger impact than traditional advertising since it appears organic. Of course, such a marketing strategy is not the easiest way to promote your brand. If you can reach that critical mass, however, it may be the most effective means imaginable of growing your business.

Why Wall Street Is Betting Big on Your Social Media Data? http://bit.ly/jpI532

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Wall Street investors are using information you give to social networks such as Twitter and Facebook to make investment decisions based on information you give to them. You may have thought Twitter, Facebook, and other sites were just places to keep in touch with friends or play games, but one investment banker from London is planning to launch a fund with financial decisions based solely on information from Twitter. His company is investing $100 million!

The fund, called the “the Twitter hedge fund” by some on Wall Street is being managed by Derwent Capital Markets. The launch of the “Twitter hedge fund” has been delayed.

The interest on Wall Street for using social networks is broad. Twitter is not the only social media platform receiving attention from the investors. Not all seeking to use Twitter and other sites to make money are traditional investors. Many are actually computer experts seeking to use their knowledge to make big amounts of money from the sale of stocks, options, bonds, and other financial investments. They’re using their own knowledge instead of giving lots of money to brokers.

Those seeking to make the money don’t care whether computer users turn to Twitter, Facebook or another site. They only care that they make money from the information given to the sites.

Many in the mainstream business press are still ignoring investors who spend a lot of time on the computer trying to make large amounts of money. In 2009, however, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times did cover the issue.

Many of those seeking to make money by investments after following trends online do it for a variety of reasons:

• Up to 73% of trading volumes are using systems that are designed to use computer power and
speed. Such systems use massive amounts data to seek even small profits.

• Social networks are especially suited for use on Wall Street. Social networks utilize a massive amount of content. Those who use Twitter and other sites do so voluntarily. Most information on such sites is public.

• Those who use social networking sites don’t do so because it is new. They do so because they feel they have to, if they want to make money. Trading on Wall Street is fast, and the social networks are fast.

It is for these reasons that many are seeking to find as many was as possible to use social networking sites to make money. Are you surprised?

Companies can benefit from the information captured from social networks by placing ads to their exact demographic. If you wanted to approach a very specific demographic, say male, 34-38, single, lives in Manhattan, interested in action movies, likes soccer, has a college education, and speaks English and Russian, you can now approach them!!! 

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Why Wall Street Is Betting Big on Your Social Media Data

Wall Street investors are using information you give to social networks such as Twitter and Facebook to make investment decisions based on information you give to them. You may have thought Twitter, Facebook, and other sites were just places to keep in touch with friends or play games, but one investment banker from London is planning to launch a fund with financial decisions based solely on information from Twitter. His company is investing $100 million!

The fund, called the “the Twitter hedge fund” by some on Wall Street is being managed by Derwent Capital Markets. The launch of the “Twitter hedge fund” has been delayed.

The interest on Wall Street for using social networks is broad. Twitter is not the only social media platform receiving attention from the investors. Not all seeking to use Twitter and other sites to make money are traditional investors. Many are actually computer experts seeking to use their knowledge to make big amounts of money from the sale of stocks, options, bonds, and other financial investments. They’re using their own knowledge instead of giving lots of money to brokers.

Those seeking to make the money don’t care whether computer users turn to Twitter, Facebook or another site. They only care that they make money from the information given to the sites.

Many in the mainstream business press are still ignoring investors who spend a lot of time on the computer trying to make large amounts of money. In 2009, however, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times did cover the issue.

Many of those seeking to make money by investments after following trends online do it for a variety of reasons:

• Up to 73% of trading volumes are using systems that are designed to use computer power and
speed. Such systems use massive amounts data to seek even small profits.
• Social networks are especially suited for use on Wall Street. Social networks utilize a massive amount of content. Those who use Twitter and other sites do so voluntarily. Most information on such sites is public.
• Those who use social networking sites don’t do so because it is new. They do so because they feel they have to, if they want to make money. Trading on Wall Street is fast, and the social networks are fast.

It is for these reasons that many are seeking to find as many was as possible to use social networking sites to make money. Are you surprised?

 

Companies can benefit from the information captured from social networks by placing ads to their exact demographic. If you wanted to approach a very specific demographic, say male, 34-38, single, lives in Manhattan, interested in action movies, likes soccer, has a college education, and speaks English and Russian, you can now approach them!!!  

Why Users Are More Engaged With Social Media on Fridays? http://bit.ly/kDuYWx

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With millions of people zipping around on social media every day of the week, the times and days when there is more activity is the sort of information of interest to any small or medium-sized business owner. This is the time when the odds are higher of interesting your potential customer or client. If the two of you are looking for one another, when is it more likely that you’ll find each other, and can you do anything to contribute further to that bit of kismet?

Sure, you can. Recent research has shown that social media activity is greater on Fridays by a notable percentage. For example, Adam Bain, Twitter Chief Revenue Office, noted at the Ad Age Digital conference recently that there are significantly more tweets on Fridays.

To maximize this phenomena, getting into the mindset of the social media traveler is a boon. First of all, people are getting into a social mood on Fridays. The weekend has arrived, people are wondering if the dorm party is still on, they’re inviting friends to movies, they’re planning last minute items for a dinner party.

Or social media travelers are preparing to put on their weekend warrior garb, thinking about the yard work or the household repairs they intend to accomplish. They’re putting together their shopping lists – clothes-buying, groceries, haircuts, household items – the lists go on.

People are wondering what their at-distance parents or children or friends are doing, remembering birthdays and anniversaries, checking outfacebookc  walls and the like.

In other words, Friday brings many millions of us back to our personal lives, and we become, well, personal.

In addition, the social media traveller is probably spending a few more moments on each click, winding down from the frenzy of the week, studying things that catch the fancy with a bit more attention.

This is a great moment for a business to gain the attention of this potentially more engaged audience. Present something to them that is meaningful and applicable to their search while the window is open. That window begins to slide shut on Friday evening as people become physically involved in what earlier in the day they were visualizing.

If your business has something to do with what all these millions of social media travelers are searching, you’ll be ahead of the curve by fulfilling their needs. It’s been suggested that marketers are generally unaware of the Friday social media traveler “bump.” So, for the time being, in addition to a larger searching population, another advantage is less competition.

StumbleUpon Hits 1 Billion Stumbles Per Month http://bit.ly/jZAofi

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If you haven't take a leisurely stroll around the web with StumbleUpon yet, you might be behind. The discovery and recommendation engine just hit 1 billion stumbles per month, an impressive standalone figure, but even more impressive when considering the incredible growth the website has experienced in the last quarter alone.

StumbleUpon is an innovative and fun way for users to surf the web. Users can define preferences based on their interests, and then click "Stumble" to discover a new website or web based application. With categories for the serious - like art, history, science - and the silly - like cartoons, memes, and games - there is something for everyone to Stumble over. Best of all, the site learns your preferences as you stumble and allows you to vote for or against sites. Users can also submit recommendations to the site for other stumblers.

Just two months ago, StumbleUpon reported a figure of 800 million stumbles per month, according to Business Insider. Their new figure of 1 billion stumbles each month indicates incredible growth for a business over just a two month period. Why has StumbleUpon been able to expand so quickly? Partially because this website is not just a fun way to pass the time, but an innovative tool that is changing the way people discover and use websites.

From a business standpoint, StumbleUpon is a tool that allows other businesses to advertise to users in an unobtrusive way. Imagine, you are stumbling through sites based on your photography preferences when you StumbleUpon a stock photo site offering a reasonably priced membership. You may not even realize you are, for all intents and purposes, viewing an advertisement for a business.

It is this unique environment of user-defined control and mutual advertising benefit that has allowed StumbleUpon such exponential growth. The site closed its second round of funding last March, netting an impressive $17 million in series B financing. This rise to 1 billion stumbles per month certainly serves as a wonderful success story for small business owners. So go ahead, take a Stumble. You never know what you might discover.