Empire Avenue Starts Tapping into Google+

Empire Avenue My Profile

Yeah we might be a little biased around here, but we think Empire Avenue is quite the hot item. Sure, it would be great if you bought shares in me, the real story here is that Empire Avenue is fast out of the gates with support for the new Google+ API. Sure, it might be [...]

Catch Me at the Social Media Week Blogging Summit

The Blogging Summit » Social Media Week

Social Media Week is, as expected, coming to (celebrated in?) Vancouver September 19th–23rd and recently organizer Shane Gibson sent out an email asking some Vancouver bloggers if they would participate in the Blogging Summit portion of the week on Monday morning. Well, not that I’m a morning person by any stretch of the imagination, I still wanted [...]

Good fences make good neighbors, especially when they are Flickr Geofences

Your account_Geo Preferences-1

One of the things I’ve always liked about Flickr was the easy granular control over pictures. I have pictures of my kids up on Flickr, but to protect their privacy only people I mark as family and friends can see them. This is great, but what if I take a picture of something close to [...]

Vancouver’s Zite scooped up by CNN—Welcome to the new era of news

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It was rumored last week during the GROW conference, but today it’s been confirmed. Vancouver-based Zite has been acquired by CNN (Techvibes and RWW) for a rumored $20–25 million. Beyond kudos to the developers (who came out of UBC), I think this affirms what I’ve thinking for sometime—apps like Zite, Summify, and Flipboard might very [...]

HootSuite ups the ante with new Facebook features and support

HootSuite - Social Media Dashboard for Teams using Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

HootSuite does it again adding more features to the already stellar social media app. This time it’s all Facebook love for HootSuite and by the looks of the video from the newly updated HootSuite Facebook features page, I don’t think you’ll ever after visit Facebook again. Which is just fine by me. Now, if you’re [...]

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