Since embarking on this photo technology binge this year, I’ve been on the hunt for a simple and easy-to-use app that could do one simple thing: take a photo with my iPhone and post it immediately to my social platforms. Then one day, I got word of the new iPhone app, Snapsta …

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Today I sat down with my good friend, Jonathan Stein—VP of Business Development for a new startup called Kapture—and got really excited about Kapture’s iPhone Application. Kapture is a way to incentivize customers to return to establishments by offering rewards, and, at the same time, creates a free …

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Yesterday I ran into an old friend who’s been focusing on her rapidly growing start-up, influenster.com. Influenster ships boxes of products—everything from high-end beauty to health food—and solicits extensive feedback from its members. These influential members then take to the digital streets, talking up the products on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube …

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One particularly creepy aspect of the future depicted in the 2002 Tom Cruise thriller Minority Report was the retinal scan that retailers used to instantly serve up personalized information to Cruise as he entered a Gap store (see clip, bottom). What would you say if I told you that part of that technology was available …

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A nationwide out-of-home ad campaign that brought together Posterscope USA and the United Nations Foundation concluded last month, proving that out-of-home can have an impact on one of the most difficult branding projects in the world: the fight against global problems. The partnership proved that Americans respond to …

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“CMOs are the new power brokers.”  That’s what Tad Martin, CEO of Cross Commerce Media, told me over lunch recently. His logic was simple but compelling. In an age of unlimited distribution, the most competitive asset is data that informs marketers on what’s working (and what’s not). The person who …

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This video has an amazing way of keeping you captivated and focused. I really enjoyed the way I was able to visualize trends and supporting data of how the world has evolved so quickly since the 1900s during the era of the Industrial Revolution to the Internet and Social Media Revolution which is taking the …

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This weekend I caught up with marketing and PR genius Anthony David Adams, who blew me away with his latest endeavor, One Toy Spaceship. Anthony—named as one of the Top 25 Bloggers in the World by Time—wanted to find a way to give the outer space education kits he and his father developed …

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I sat down yesterday with Neil Vineberg, CMO of ThingLink, a Finnish-American startup that is reinventing digital images as a platform for rich media. Not only did I learn about their  really cool new company, I also learned some neat facts. There are 90 billion-plus images online and over 6 billion images added …

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The other day I sat with Chris, the founder of Hotlist.com, and was fascinated with his business model and how he, thru his platform, has aggregated over 110 million people’s social plans (and it’s growing rapidly). So what is Hotlist.com? It’s a platform that allows users to connect vis-a-vis events and Geographic …

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