Another powerful use of social media and Twitter. LeapFish has teamed up
with the Make-a-Wish Foundation to empower Twitter users with the ability to
grant an ill child’s dream to go to Disneyland. A Tweet-A-Cause that
just hit the wires and is beginning to climb through the Twitosphere.
Jacob, who is four years of age, has a rare and life-threatening disease that
has affected him since birth. He has one big wish in life — to go to
Disneyland with his family. LeapFish is donating 5 cents per Tweet to the
Make-A-Wish Foundation until $10,000 has been raised and Jacob and his family
can go to Disneyland.
Social media is powerful and this is another great utilization of Twitter to
bring awareness and momentum to a very good cause.
The charity campaign will run from Nove... (more)
The Web has evolved. It used to be a place where people came to just search
for simple information. Now it’s a place where people come to also share
information. Information today that is multi-media and more complex.
Information today that is real-time and social – recommended by people
who know, and people you know. I refer to this new place as “The Living
Web” and recently our te... (more)
Search on Ulitzer
If you don’t understand why the Real Time Web is huge, you will soon.
Thanks to micro-blogging sites like Twitter, a constant stream of
human-posted content has infiltrated the Web. This growing infiltration has
created a bottoms up approach to content creation that via the progressive
support of rapidly developing applications has and will continue to empower
every in... (more)
Reply.com lifts Beta off its locally-targeted online marketing platform as it
posts enhanced features and significant profits. In the face of a
struggling economy, Reply.com has posted over 50 percent revenue growth in
the Automotive and Real Estate categories and significant profits over the
last several quarters.
Since its founding in 2001, Reply! has been a leader in pioneering locall... (more)
With all the publicity around WolframAlpha’s engine there has been a lot of
buzz in the search space around what the next successful search engine will
look like. It was great to get some coverage today from ChannelWeb as they
covered WolframAlpha, LeapFish and the Search space. Here is a snippet from
the post : “With [...]
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