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Wednesday, 28th September 2011

Flickr Launches Android App

Flickr just announced its first native Android app for shooting and sharing photos. It offers quick filters, topic and location tagging, access to comments and groups, and full-screen browsing and slideshows. It has a full list of sharing options as well as privacy controls. There's also a new feature for all Flickr users called Photo Session…

Jon Mitchell comments

Cross-Platform Ads Work [study]

Google and Nielsen measured the impact of advertising across multiple screens, and the findings were stark. Advertisers will be happy to learn that advertising across devices appears to significantly increase brand retention by eyeballs... I mean, people. The study tested a 15-second car ad on different subject groups. Some saw no ads, others…

Jon Mitchell comments

MeeGo Becomes Tizen -- What Now?

Yesterday we wrote about the LiMo Foundation and how it could team with Intel to save its mobile operating system MeeGo from the depths of an icy grave. Well, MeeGo is dead. From its ashes rises Tizen, an open mobile OS partnership between LiMo and Intel and hosted by the Linux Foundation. The first release of Tizen and its software developer…

Mobile Dan Rowinski comments

Social Media Grocery Hall of Shame and Fame

When was the last time your food tweeted you? In the case of many well-known food brands, an embarrassingly long time ago, as Chris Brogan found out in a post today. He researched food-related Twitter accounts and commented on those that were more suitable for the dumpster along with those that belong squarely front and center on the dinner table…

Enterprise David Strom comments

Wikipedia Unveils Probably the Coolest QR Thingy Ever Made

Wikipedia today introduced a program called QRPedia, a QR code creation service that lets users snap a picture of a QR code and be automatically directed to a linked mobile Wikipedia entry in whatever written language their phone uses. If there's no article in their language for the designated topic, the program directs them to the most relevant…

Mobile Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

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