Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Yoono: An Easy Way To Manage Social Networking Overkill

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

By: Matt Clark One of the biggest problems with social media is the management of a consistent message across multiple platforms. I am constantly switching between Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, ect… it really is a pain in the butt. Now there is a desktop application that will let you manage your client’s ...

What Marketers Want - Size vs Stamina

Friday, February 13th, 2009

By: Matt Clark As reported by TechCrunch and every other technology/social media/marketing/consumer Web site in the world--- comScore recently released their stats for 2008. Facebook has beat up, made fun of, and taken the lunch money of every social networking Web site in the world.  With 221 million members, they are only ...

I Rock… just incase you didn’t know

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

By: Matt Clark Towards the end of January there was a HARO request by PRChannel, looking for advice for the PR grad.  I shared some of my personal experience in hopes to help out.  Of course they used your boy’s stuff.  I mean, who wouldn’t.  I am sooo a thought leader.  ...

Obama v. McCain Digital Scorecard and Poker

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

By: Matt Clark I'm back Vegas for the WSOP final table.  So far my guys are dominating with five of the six players left when I post this.  No much social media happening out here except for @taopauly doing a great job with the Twitter updates.  We also have about 12 great ...

Riding the Search Wave with VideoSurf

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

By: Mallory Dash With the TC50 finally over lastweek, we've seen a lot of cool companies launch recently, including Ashton Kutcher's Blahgirls and tons of other great startups. Here at DBlab we'd like to take a more indepth look at VideoSurf, one of the 50 (well, actually... 52) companies that unveiled ...

Is Facebook Making a Video Push?

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

By: Matt Clark Get on the Facebook video bandwagon now. I’m just saying… As reported by Silicon Alley Insider, this week CBS announced that it’s feeding TV content to Facebook, MySpace and Google homepages. Althought other stations already have deals with social networking pages, CBS will not require users to leave their ...

Google to Scan the World and Save it Online

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

By: Matt Clark Google has taken another step towards world domination (we have mentioned this notion before). Yesterday Google announced they will be scanning newspaper archives and making them searchable on the internet. The project will start with a small number of North American newspapers, but Google's intention is to have ...

Obama VP Text Hit Late But Still Hit Hard

Monday, August 25th, 2008

By: Matt Clark Two weeks ago I praised Obama’s social media and digital marketing savvy after finding out about his plans to announce his VP pick via text messaging and e-mails. Obama promised that his supporters would be the first to know his pick if they opted into his marketing ...

The Rise of Web Over Print Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

By: Matt Clark Jonah Bloom wrote an interesting article in this week’s Crain’s New York Business about the proposed death of newspapers. Bloom came to the defense of the newspaper industry, claiming that the industry is not dying, but do need to revamp their digital content and technology. I won't go ...

The PR War: Part 3 (The Manifesto)

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

By: Matt Clark and Mallory Dash That’s right: we're double-teaming this one.  (Matt: Oh, yeeah) (Mal: You're fine... no double-teaming here...at all) We would like to welcome you all to PR World War 3.  I (Matt) call it WW3 because this seems to be the third major attack on the PR industry ...