Best Western Hotel Launches Online Booking Widget to Reach Customers via Desktops, Facebook and the Web with WorkLight (SYS-CON Media)

March 10th, 2010

Widget technology will be used by this Best Western hotel to reach customers and do business where it is most convenient for them – from within Facebook, directly from their desktop, cable TV box or on their smartphone, as opposed to making them go to a website. read more

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HTC Legend review (Engadget)

March 10th, 2010

digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/gadgets/HTC_Legend_review_Engadget’; After four three flavors of the HTC Hero , the Taiwanese mobile giant has finally brought back the chin with an additional lick of aluminum and a similarly quirky name — the Legend. If this alone isn’t of much interest to you yet, just bear in mind that this is HTC’s first Android 2.1 device with Sense …

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Racepoint Labs Sets New Standard for Integrating Social Media into PR Programs (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

March 10th, 2010

WALTHAM, Mass.—-In today’s new communications landscape, marketers are increasingly turning to social media to connect with and influence their target audiences. However, while there have been some notable successes in using social media to drive business results, many companies still remain uncertain as to which platforms and tools to deploy, how to develop social media strategies and measure …

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Racepoint Labs Sets New Standard for Integrating Social Media into PR Programs (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

Tips for better integrated marketing campaigns (BizReport)

March 9th, 2010

Just as in real estate where location is key, in online marketing integration is becoming the new key. Marketers are finding that, rather than focusing only on keywords or video or email they need to integrate email with video and the social space to truly engage consumers.

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Jonathan Takiff: Some cameras for the roughest or klutziest among us (Philadelphia Daily News)

March 9th, 2010

THE GIZMOS: Today we have cameras to bang around; a techy remedy for a St. Patrick’s Day dilemma; Android eccentricities; and a local 3-D TV demo.

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Network as a Service: Open Source Enables Efficient Cloud Hosting (ReadWriteWeb)

March 9th, 2010

To keep up with the growth of cloud computing and virtualization, networks keep evolving. But unlike Twitter’s Trending Topics, IT budgets don’t scale up. In fact one of the major initiatives in many IT shops is creatively reduce their own expense.

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MySpace Has Most Popular Social App for Android (WebProNews)

March 9th, 2010

MySpace announced today that it has the most popular social app in the Android Market, and the third most popular app on Android altogether. “Our deep integration with the Android platform is one of the reasons why we’ve seen a surge in usage,” says MySpace’s Scott Goldberg.

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Motorola Devour review (Engadget)

March 9th, 2010

While Motorola’s vanilla-Android Droid has become the most recognizable Android device on the market — thanks in part to a bombastic ad campaign — Motorola’s primary focus has been on its own custom Blur UI. At least, if quantity of devices are any indication. Hitting Verizon just as the Blur-powered Backflip heads to AT&T, the new Motorola Devour is an odd cross section of the “consumery …

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Multimedia aggregator Daylife to sell publishers cit-j images from Demotix (dotjournalism)

March 9th, 2010

“We’re absolutely thrilled to partner with Daylife – we go hand-in-hand. Daylife is busy brilliantly reinventing the way information is parsed and packaged, while Demotix is reinventing the way news is sourced,” says Turi Munthe, Demotix’s chief executive officer, in a statement on the deal.

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