Marketing Monster

This post originally appeared on One Degree, a leading Canadian online publication about digital marketing, online communications and social media.
This weekend, new media comes to town with the first PodCamp Montreal.   For the uninitiated, PodCamp is an “unconference” where people come together to share knowledge and engage in open discussion about video and audio podcasting, [...]

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Winning $50,000 at TechCrunch 50 last night, Yammer did what Twitter hasn’t been able to: create a simple solution for enterprise with a pre-defined business model.
Founded by David Sacks, former COO of PayPal and currently CEO of Geni.com, the management team is filled from the ranks of PayPal, eBay, eGroups and Tribe. Sacks wanted an [...]

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It’s been almost a year since I first started testing video conversation networks, a.k.a. video microblogging platforms, beginning with an invite to the much-hyped Seesmic alpha, a mere 3 weeks into it’s existence. In the last 11 months I’ve been exploring the field of newcomers, including Phreadz, Utterz and 12seconds. Over the coming weeks I [...]

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I recently told you a little about an innovative start-up named Akoha, that founder Austin Hill described in an interview with Tara Hunt as:
“…based off Aboriginal gift economies and it’s a pay it forward giving game whereby you earn points based off how well you give to other people. So aside from the functional, this [...]

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