Ideas and Concepts from Damian Davila
Back in March 14, 2011 there was a man claiming that he knew how to hack video screens on Times Square and to prove it posted a YouTube video.
Unfortunately, it turned to be marketing ploy for the movie “Limitless“, where Bradley Cooper takes this miracle drug called NZT and gets super smart.
So it is really possible to really control a screen in Times Square?
Apparently, Adi Isakovic, a 27-year-old entrepreneur, is able to do that with his product, TubeMote.
Check it out:
You might have heard of the Amazon.com deal on Livingsocial and the Gap deal on Groupon.
Both of these deals made the big headlines and with good reason. Back in August 19 , 2010, by day’s end, 441,000 Groupons of the GAP deal were sold, bringing in a little more than $11 million. Groupon usually splits the revenue with partners, but declined to disclose its share.
However, there’s another company that is making good use of the group buying industry. Keeping under the radar, Fandango has been dishing out deal after deal through group buying websites. Here’s how Fandango does it.
The most successful startups are able to stay a step ahead of their competition by analyzing the current trends to predict the next hot application that will captivate the public.
One way to get a few ideas of where to go with your new business venture is to take a look at recent successes. Here are some examples of recent startups that stayed in touch with the average user to create exceptionally usable products:
The ability to share photos is almost as popular as the ability to share music online. However, it can be a pain to post those cute baby pictures on a host of social networks and check each site for comments.
With Instagr.am, you can take pictures, apply filters, and publish them all over the net. Instagr.am is quickly going viral as it attracts about 100,000 new users each week.
Group buying is a trend that had incredibly growth throughout 2010. Group buying, which refers to social buying or collective buying as well, is the buying an offer which has been significantly reduced, due to the fact that it is only valid if enough buyers are found.
From the graph above, you can take a look at the number of monthly unique visitors from the top 2 group buying websites in North America: LivingSocial, and Groupon. As you can see, another player in the group buying industry, Tippr, does not even come close to the number of monthly unique visitors from LivingSocial and Groupon throughout the period April to December 2010. Here is a short review of these 2 key players in the online group buying industry.
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Whenever information is needed, it seems that the first outlets most people turn to are search engines. As such, search engines are constantly evolving to keep up with the latest user demands. One of the latest developments that is rapidly expanding in popularity is the idea of image based search engines rather than keyword based searches.
When using a traditional search engine to locate specific information, you have undoubtedly become frustrated at one time or another from keywords producing irrelevant results. When searching for specific images online, the keyword based search options are nearly useless.
On August 25, 2010, Social Media Informer launched.
Social Media Infomer is a new hub and aggregator for social media content makes it easier to cut through the noise and find a signal. You can use the site as a daily digest, or search articles based on topics or dates.
SMI was developed by some of the same people as the popular B2B Marketing Zone b2b marketing portal. It also uses the same underlying Browse My Stuff technology, which enables publishers, PR agencies, corporations and other enterprises to efficiently SEO-friendly build branded content aggregation hubs.
Fans of indie films from the Asia and the Pacific rejoice: there is an incredible online company streaming hundreds of films that never see the light beyond the normal circuit of films festivals.
AsiaPacificFilms.com was born out of founder Jeannette Hereniko’s experience organizing film festivals. She is best known as the Founding Director of the Hawaii International Film Festival, launching it in 1981 to showcase significant films from Asia, the Pacific Islands, and the USA. She served in this position until 1996. Frequently attendees to the Hawaii International Film Festival would write to her and ask where they could see a certain film again and her honest answer for most was “You can’t, sorry.” Finally, using deep connections in the Asian film world, she decided to create a place where you could.
Learn more about the service that is TechCrunch is calling “a Netflix for Asian Pacific indie filmmakers” and get a code for a free month of unlimited streaming by redeeming the code idaconcpts at AsiaPacificFilms.com.
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If you received a dollar for every online community idea that has been tried on the Internet for the last decade, you’d probably be a very rich person by now.
Launching an online community it’s quite easy.
The options to launch an online community are endless: you can create a Ning community, launch a Facebook Page or Group, use a simple online forum, create a Myspace page, etc.
However, the hard part comes when it’s time to keep your community members engaged and interested enough to let others know about how cool your community is.
On this post you’ll learn from the experiences in running an online community by Photojojo’s Founder, Amit Gupta.
During December 2009, while playing the iPhone app, Words with Friends, it was not unusual to find an ad promoting another iPhone called Wink.
Wink is a great iPhone and web app developed by the guys and gals of Shutterfly.
This photo app truly brings back your pictures into your life by not limiting itself to one single platform (it works both on the iPhone and on the web, and they are currently working on apps for other smartphones) and by playing well with your photo collections on Facebook, Flickr, and, of course, your own computer. The best part about Wink is that it offers a tangible reward within 2 minutes after you play it: a printed photostrip™ that you can mail to anybody anywhere in the world for just $2.50.
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