Archive for the ‘Reviews’ 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 ...

Best MySpace Design Team… Ever

Friday, May 15th, 2009

By: Matt Clark I need to give a quick shout out to Daddy Design.  These guys make the best MySpaces pages out there. If you looking to run a MySpace campaign, but don’t want to spend the $250-500k it would cost to get a custom page through MySpace, use these guys.  They ...

10 Things I Think, I Think About Social Media

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

By: Matt Clark I had to work on NFL Draft Saturday.  I was in the office during my favorite time of the year.  It was horrible.  My boss was nice enough to buy me a pizza, but that didn’t help take away the pain of not celebrating the Jets draft of ...

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 ...

JibJab’s Jabs Make for Great YouTube Page

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

By: Matt Clark I don't have too much to say to this.  JibJab has really impressed me with their satire videos.  The one below is particularly great.  I have played it 10 times today at work.  I have to give props to my old man for finding it and sending it ...

NBC Belly Flops Olympic Games Online Video Initiative

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

By: Matt Clark According to the Wall Street Journal, NBC failed to hit its revenue goals with their Olympic web-videos. eMarketer estimates that NBCOlympics.com will only generate $5.75 million in video-ad revenue from the Olympics. NBC went wrong in a few places. For one, they only aired a few events over the ...

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 ...

Obama’s Social Media Push Sets a President

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

By: Matt Clark Its official. Barack Obama is the champion of political social marketing. His camp has conquered the social graph and the digital frontier. Use any Web 2.0 word you want, and Obama’s the best at it. Yesterday, his camp said that Barack Obama will announce his running make via ...

Review: GetSatisfaction a Win-Win for Customers and Brands

Friday, May 30th, 2008

By John Cantwell GetSatisfaction.com is an excellent new website that can help companies and brands monitor and manage their online reputation from a centralized location. By combining aspects of social networks and the traditional customer service experience (i.e., interacting with a living human), the site offers a deeply personal experience that ...

Summize.com Falls Short of Past Hype

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

By Matt Clark It’s not easy to cultivate brand equity in a world where candid customer feedback and conversations increasingly dominate news and search results around products. But a proven method of success is using social media to embrace customer engagement. But how do you track everything? Summize.com allows PR and Marketing ...