How-To 5 Ways Small Businesses Can Use QR Codes After a few years of buzz in mobile marketing circles, QR - or "quick response" - codes are finally starting to pop up in the United States, thanks in large part to the proliferation of smart phones. While they're still not exactly mainstream, QR codes are appearing in major print publications and plastered on storefronts and buildings. At this… John Paul Titlow View comments
SaaS Zoho Takes on Quickbooks with New Accounting Application Zoho launched the 26th addition to its growing suite of Web-based applications: Zoho Books. It's now available both from Zoho and from the Google Apps Marketplace. It costs $24 per month, with two users included. Additional users will cost $5 per month. The application also integrates with Paypal, Google Checkout & Authorize.net to receive… Klint Finley View comments
News Bloomberg Confirms Playstation Phone Think the mobile space is crowded now? Just wait until next month. According to Bloomberg sources, Sony is indeed launching a mobile phone, as previous rumors had indicated. The so-called "Playstation Phone" will be shown at next month's Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, alongside a new portable game player, the report says. The gaming… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments
NYT Only 66% Use Twitter Profile Location as Intended The first in-depth user research study on the usage of the "Location" field within Twitter profiles has just been published by the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). With a sample size of 32 million English language tweets in hand, PARC summer intern Brent Hecht selected a group of 10,000 active users to study. Remarkably, he found that 34% of… Social Sarah Perez View comments
News Amazon Web Services Gets into the Platform-as-a-Service Game with Elastic Beanstalk Referencing Jack's magic beanstalk that just kept growing and growing, Amazon Web Services launched its first platform-as-a-service today: Elastic Beanstalk. Initially, AWS will only support Java, but the company plans to add support for other languages and application environments in the future. For example, Engine Yard is working with AWS to… Klint Finley View comments