Twitter’s First Christmas
Brian Kress
Friday kicked off America’s first Twitter Christmas. While Twitizens are sharing deals, steals, and Thanksgiving meals over the weekend, companies like Toys ‘R’ Us, Best Buy, and Barneys were leveraging Twitter to drive practical goals.
New Google Search Ad Formats
John Keehler
Advertisers will not longer be constrained to short text ads in search results. These new ad formats can include video, maps, images of products and more. More options to get the right ad in front of the right person using Google.
Further Signs of M-Commerce Adoption
Jeff Whang
Coming off the heels of eBay’s announcement that its mobile value of goods sold is growing at a double-digit rate, month-over-month, reports are coming in that m-commerce is beginning to make a significant impact. One indicator: mobile online payments through PayPal on Black Friday surged nearly 650% from a small base last year.
Revisiting Art, Digitally
Jill Krumsick
Digital technology allows us to experience, and in this case, re-experience, in ways not previously possible. Check out this video of a 3-D exploration of Picasso’s famous painting, Guernica.
New Facebook Promotions Guidelines
Luke Lancaster
Facebook has launched new promotions guidelines. The biggest changes? Those wishing to conduct a promotion soup to nuts through Facebook will need to use an application to do so, and get approval from their Facebook sales representative.
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December 1st, 2009 at 9:03 am
I am intrigued and a bit bothered by 3D presentation of Picasso’s Guernica. The flat, black and white quality of Picasso’s original helps evoke the flatness of emotions when confronted with the apparent ubiquity of human capacity to be inhuman. You’re left emotionally “flat” with helplessness and despair. It’s a powerful work that needs no technical trickery to enhance its message. What’s more compelling here, technology or the message?