Posts Tagged ‘Apple’

Affiliate Bites: Remembering Steve Jobs, Twitter Opens Doors in NYC, + More

» You’ve heard it by now and whether you’re listening to your iPod or plugging away at your iPad or MacBook, you know that the world has lost a visionary. [TechCrunch] » Pace Lattin has penned a great post in remembrance of Steve Jobs. [Performance Marketing Insider] » For more perspectives on one of technology’s [...]

Affiliate Bites: Apple to Kill iPod Classic?, Mark Zuckerberg Kills a Bison, + More

» Kashmir Hill has done a great write-up of some of the more obscure information about you that Facebook records for posterity, including a history of everyone who has ever poked you or who you have ever poked. [Forbes] » Apple is planning to kill the iPod classic. [Ars Technica] » A brand new tool–not [...]

Affiliate Lunch: Networks vs. Agencies, Spotify Use Surges on Mobile, + More

» What separates networks from agencies? [Adotas] » Get into the spirit of giving leading up to ASE 2011 and you can score some great NY sports swag in the process. [Missy Ward] » Lots of people are using Spotify on their iPhones. [TechCrunch] » Speaking of mobile, quite a few of you used your [...]

AM Affiliate: Facebook Rolls Out “Happening Now” Feature, Google Employees Are the Happiest Ever, + More

» The fine folks at Ragan have syndicated our guide to fixing terrible Twitter habits–original posted over at Outspoken Media. [Ragan] » Segmentation can be pret-ty tricky. Here are 36 tips to improve your email habits and help you deliver sharper pieces of correspondence. [Seth Godin] » An important Internet Week discovery: The adtech industry [...]

AM Affiliate: Blog World NY Wraps Up, LinkedIn’s Stock Madness Slows Down, + More

» One of the most thorough round-ups of Blog World New York you will read. [SocialTimes] » It’s a lesson in segmentation: The Nook Color draws many female readers. [NYT] » You know who may not have such a happy holiday weekend? LinkedIn. Analysts predict that it’s all down-hill. In all fairness, it’s not like [...]

Amazon Bets on Lady Gaga to Give It Edge Over Apple

So in talking about tech spokespeople, Amazon hasn’t wasted anytime in snapping up Lady Gaga in the race for cloud computing supremacy against Apple. But we’re not talking about yet another bit of product placement; we’re talking about a smart deal that very directly offers consumers some pretty great value: 20 GB of Amazon cloud [...]

AM Affiliate: Royal Wedding Drives Social Media Into a Frenzy, What’s the ROI on Your Mom?, + More

- Twitter has lost its collective hive mind as hashtags like #RoyalWedding and #ProudtobeBritish have started trending in light of Kate Middleton and Prince William‘s wedding earlier. [USA Today] – The livestream of the Royal Wedding topped 300,000 viewers at 6 AM. Were you an industrious affiliate marketer who found a way to set that [...]

AM Affiliate: Is Search Marketing the Worst Marketing?, Apple Opens Up About Tracking You, + More

- Is SEM the worst kind of digital marketing? [AdAge] – Is your marketing persona not profitable? It’s time to try something new. [Seth Godin] – Apple has finally come on the record about the big breakthrough that their products may have been tracking and logging users’ coordinates from last week–in the form of 10 [...]

AM Affiliate: Online Ad’s New Dirty Word, Affiliate Marketers Are Collateral Damage in Ad Tax Battle, + More

- Is your business breeding bullies in the workplace? [Seth Godin] – Apple continues making the headlines–this time as two individuals file class action lawsuits against the company in the wake of last week’s news of iPhone and iPad devices tracking its users. [PC Mag] – Is “agency” now the interactive advertising’s new F-word? [AdAge] [...]

AM Affiliate: NYC Gets Silicon Alley, Google and Apple Are Both Tracking You, + More

- As the tech boom from the West Coast spills over to New York City, the Flatiron and Chelsea neighborhoods are emerging to comprise “Silicon Alley,” an off-shoot of “Silicon Valley.” [New York Times] – If you’re an Android user who was smugly chiding your iPhone-using friends about Apple’s location-tracking antics, know that your smartphone’s [...]