Social media engagement has finally arrived at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The CES event, located at the Las Vegas Convention Center, actually broke over 150 people over a 2 hour period on FourSquare yesterday. Last year, right before the official opening of CES, at about the same time, check ins on FourSquare didn’t even make it over 50 people.
24kMedia has been very busy as of late visiting conferences and connecting with some of the top people in the social media, search and marketing industries. What better time to release an iOS app that operates on the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and other devices soon to use the system. Fortunately at 24kMedia we have a few fans on our social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to just name a few. We were looking for a new way to reach new fans while connect with the fastest growing mobile technology. That’s when we received a Tweet on Twitter from Shahab Zargari of Assurance Advertising (@assuranceagency on Twitter). Continue reading 24KMedia iOS Mobile Software App Software Development
Matt Cutts is the head of an important team inside of Google, a search company that you might have heard of or even used on occasion. Who are we kidding, Google supplies in the order of 80 plus percent of any websites traffic, depending on who you ask or log files you observe. Matt was about to start his Super Session at PubCon 2010 in Las Vegas, there’s also one in Austin, Texas where the founder lives. Before we get into the Super Session tips from Mr. Cutts, PubCon is a social media and search conference, which is why Google sent over an important figure in their organization to speak. This was my first visit to a PubCon conference, and thanks to Brett Tabke, my brother and I finally had a chance to do so.
The world’s largest social media conference, the first and only industry-wide, tradeshow and media event for all web 2.0, is known as BlogWorld and New Media Expo. It arrived like a fully loaded Airbus A380, with some of the top heavy-hitting social media experts in media, such as Mark Burnett, Emmy-Award Winning Producer and Darren Rowse, CEO of Problogger. This all happened at Mandalay Bay Resort’s convention center from October 14 – 16. Continue reading Blogworld & New Media Expo 2010 With Kodak Moments
Sprint and Sierra Wireless this January at the Consumer Electronics Show 2010, released what I consider the world’s fastest and most compatible 3G / 4G mobile hotspot. On June 4th, Sprint raised the bar by releasing the EVO 4G Android operating system based cell phone with built-in 3G /4G hotspot service. Continue reading Sprint Overdrive 4G & 3G Mobile Hotspot Review
Around the month of March, I received an email from Norwegian Cruise Line giving me the opportunity to be a part of an inaugural cruise in Miami, Florida for the Norwegian EPIC, the most expensive and luxurious cruise ship by NCL. The EPIC is the largest cruise ship ever attempted by Norwegian. That means it will have the most staterooms and luxury suites of any cruise liner ship, in their entire fleet. This is not where this story started. It began many months before, when cruising on the Norwegian SUN. Continue reading Norwegian EPIC Cruise And Social Media In Luxury Travel