Cool things spotted in NY

One Day Project: 3 iPhone developers, 3 games, just $100

With over 90,000 apps in the App store, getting your app noticed can be a bit of challenge. So the 3 developers at Tiny White Tribe decided to add a little excitment in the whole marketing of their app, and came up with One Day Project (ODP) concept. They spent the $100 on essentials such as Redbull, beers, snacks and ice-cream, and created 3 iPhone games in just 3 days. That's only 24 hour per game; pretty...

How to embed your Foursquare check-ins in Google Maps

I absolutely love this, as I can now easily remember the places I checked in but also take a look at my shout-outs! Here are the three easy steps you need to follow: 1) Log into your foursquare account and head over to http://foursquare.com/feeds/ 2) Copy the URL for your KML feed and paste that URL into the search box 3) Add ?count=1000 (or more/less depending on your number of checkins) afte...

Foursquare: A Missed Opportunity for Businesses in London

This is a guest post written by my good friend and fellow Social Media practitioner @GuillaumeFoutry Foursquare, the location based social game, has taken over the social media world. Given that, you would think that businesses in London – the Twitter capital of the world and a European technological hub – would jump on the band wagon and use it. But they seem surprisingly reluctant to try it. I estim...

Interview with a Flickr A-Lister: meet Paola Cermak

A few months ago, I blogged about falling out of love with Flickr, as I felt Yahoo! had failed to keep up with the rapidly changing social media landscape, and Flickr users' needs (no Twitter/Facebook integration, lack of innovations within the platform, no status updates but to name a few). I am a huge fan of the Flickr community and I still post occasional photos on my basic Flickr account, which allows me to...

Coach Poppy Project

Coach are no strangers to social media, having accumulated an impressive fan base on Facebook and Twitter, and a small army of bloggers who frequently write about their products and campaigns. Their latest social media experiment, The Coach Poppy Project, is by far the smartest thing I've seen in social media year, and I am thrilled to be part of it. Have you spotted the pretty Poppy banner on the left...

Cool things spotted in NY

Culture affects everything we do. This applies to all areas of human life from personal relationships to conducting business abroad. When interacting within our native cultures, culture acts as a framework of understanding.

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Here are some of the things that made me tick…

An Absolut Vodka billboard strategically placed next to the Bank of New York

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Gigantic billboards in SoHo (DKNY), Times Square (McDonald’s) and Madison Square Garden (Patron Tequila)

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And finally this Twitter sign for the Wholefoods store on Union Square. I could be wrong, but from conversations with my American friends, it seems that social media usage is much more important Stateside with ‘regular consumers’ gradually joining Twitter.

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You can also check out some Polish adverts I liked whilst traveling in Poland a couple of years ago.

More NYC photos on my Flickr stream

One Day Project: 3 iPhone developers, 3 games, just $100

How to embed your Foursquare check-ins in Google Maps

Foursquare: A Missed Opportunity for Businesses in London

Interview with a Flickr A-Lister: meet Paola Cermak

Coach Poppy Project

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