Fresh snow in the morning, ginger bread flavoured everything and shiny lights at every store front. The holiday season is official upon us. A time of generosity where we give back to those less fortunate than us. In that spirit, bv02 has decided to make a difference this holiday season by helping out those [...]
Consider these recent headlines and stats:
- Foursquare recently hit a billion check ins and has over 10 million users.
- Facebook is killing off its “Places” function, but replacing it with an option to check in when updating your status.
- Gowalla is redesigning its apps and redefining itself more as local guide application.
With such a substantial [...]
The majority of businesses are jumping on the social media marketing bandwagon and have no plan implemented, nor have they done any research on whether or not social media will even work for their company.
Why are they spending all this time tweeting or attempting to draw traffic to their Facebook and Google+ pages if it’s [...]
Everyone’s been in this situation: You’re standing in a line or sitting on a bus and the person next to you is not even aware that you’re there because they are so engulfed in writing a text. Or you’re having a conversation with someone, and they stop in the middle of it to answer a [...]
Sometimes you need to give up the applications you love to use, especially if you are the only one left using it. I am sorry to say, Gowalla it’s you. We’re breaking up.
We often carry extra apps on our smart phones/tablets that don’t get used that often. Some are for productivity, some for fun and [...]
Facebook has made quite a few changes as of late. First, Facebook “Deals” was introduced early last week – a huge game changer for businesses who want to build loyalty and drive business by rewarding customers with discounts and other special offers.
This Monday, however, Facebook announced the launch of a modern messaging system that merges e-mail, [...]
On Wednesday Facebook officially announced that their wildly anticipated location based feature, Facebook Places was up and ready for business. Two days later it has slowly began trickling into Canada, it seems to be available sporadically throughout the country. As always with every Facebook announcement there has been an out poor of questions, blog posts, [...]
I’ve heard a lot about twitter lately. Twitter is mentioned consistently in the news, it’s being talked about incessantly on various blogs and news sites, and yet is still not understood by many potential user groups – most notably, post-secondary students. As 20-somethings, one would expect that this market would have jumped on the twitter bandwagon at its inception, but so far there has been minimal adoption rate from this user group (although in recent weeks adoption has been picking up).
