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Vincent Thome is a strategist, geek and captologist working at AKQA. This blog is about technology, marketing and innovation.
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Monthly Archives: August 2006
Google CEO joins Apple’s board of directors but why?
It was the news of that night. Google CEO, Eric Schmidt is joining Apple’s board of directors.
“Apple is one of the companies in the world that I most admire,” Schmidt said in a statement. “I’m really looking forward to working with Steve and Apple’s board to help with all of the amazing things [...]
Flickr introduces geotagged photos
Flickr’s great for exploring photos by photographer, tag, time, text and group, and now it’s also great for exploring photos by place with a new geo tagging functionality. The geotagging features are Ajax driven, integrates Yahoo Maps and Yahoo Search.
There are a couple of short video tutorials which give the 90 second overview [...]
Google and eBay Sign Multi-Year Agreement to Connect Users, Merchants, and Advertisers Around the Globe
Google and eBay announced a multi-year agreement to benefit both companies’ collective communities of users, merchants and advertisers around the globe. The agreement consists of two primary components involving text-based advertising and “click-to-call” advertising functionality.
Specifically, Google will become the exclusive text-based advertising provider for eBay outside the United States. In addition, eBay [...]
Vpod.tv is hiring
I’m sure you’ve already heard about Vpod.tv. Vpod.tv was one of my favorite companies. It is a video sharing site, similar to YouTube, but that focuses on transcoding to most video devices (ipod, PSP, mobile…) and allowing users to edit and to download video to those devices. They also have an innovative approach to monetization. [...]
Semapedia
Thanks to Pete, I remembered this product. I spoke about this kind of offline online link in the Infolust report but also in the marketing with barcode.
Semapedia tagging is more social focused at the moment but you easily can see marketing applications. With Semapedia you can hyperlink your physical world with knowledge that [...]
Chat with a virtual US army recruiter
Since Patrick wrote a post about the US Army website and CRM program, I follow the evolution. Since the beginning of august, they’ve launched on the website SGT STAR. The virtual recruiter has been enlisted to help guide you through goarmy.com, but he’s still in training.
“Put SGT STAR, our virtual guide, to the [...]
Digg Labs and Yahoo’s Yodel Anecdotal blog
Digg Labs is a broader and deeper view of Digg. Digg moves very quickly, and has a great many stories submitted every day, so good material could sometimes fly by before you even know it. These interactive visualizations look beneath the surface of the Digg community’s activities.
The first application, Stack, shows diggs occurring [...]
TechCrunch UK is launched
The latest Crunch Network blog, TechCrunch UK, has been launched moments ago.
TechCrunch UK is obviously not a translated blog like TechCrunch France and TechCrunch Japan. Instead, TechCrunch UK is all about UK based and/or focused startups. Many of these startups are written about on TechCrunch, but quite a few either are too early [...]
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