Sunday night's Mars landing transmitted over Internet TV reaffirmed the future of television and how Web search will integrate into streaming live broadcasts. It all came down to Curiosity, the most advanced spacecraft sent to another planet, which at just after 10:31 California time sent home to Earth several thumbnail photos of itself on Mars to dozens of scientists waiting for word from the rover at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the NASA mission. ...Read the whole story
For every 10 brand advocates who join a social campaign on Facebook, 13 new friends engage with the campaign, according to findings from a study released Monday identifying how these actions attract new customers. ...Read the whole story
On April 10, 2012, Hubspot writer Corey Eridon posted a blog summarizing a list of some of the most annoying things seen on websites. This post continues some dos and don'ts she recommended and our additional thoughts to help increase the satisfaction quotient and reduce the frustration quotient of most site visitors especially Baby Boomers and senior visitors. ...More
To an outsider, the video landscape has been dominated by the rise of new video distribution platforms such as YouTube and iTunes, as well as enabling platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. Of late, we've seen content's resurgence, staging a comeback. But, on the front lines, it's been a bit more nuanced than that. ...More
We see a lot of artificial delineations between social channels and email, but all these channels share a lot more than you might think. For example, your inbox isn't that much different from your Twitter stream -- except that Twitter is much more focused on the "now" and probably has a shorter attention span than an email inbox. A big difference between Twitter and the inbox is that people have to process the content of the inbox, while Twitter (left to its own devices) is self-cleaning. This is one reason a strong subject line is so important! Even if people ...More