Leigh Fatzinger of OnMessage Ventures in Seattle, put together this great presentation about the trends in social media and how it is affecting the PR industry.  Check it out here. | View | Upload your own Leigh Fatzinger is Principal of On Message Ventures, a Seattle-based creative and strategic marketing firm focused on the telecom and [...]

I met Clay Loges at a business networking event last week here in Seattle. Clay’s motto is, “Look for an area of change — then you get to make up the rules.” He’s been living by this for years and has become quite successful along the way. A former banker and serial entrepreneur who once owned [...]

Although mobile content is something consumers can buy and download from virtually anywhere, Chinese start-up Duo Guo is banking on a different approach by selling such content through specialized kiosks in brick-and-mortar retail stores. Based in Shanghai, Duo Guo—a subsidiary of D Mobile Inc.—has developed partnerships with China’s largest retailers and leading global media companies to [...]

By Mark Levy, CEO MaxxoMedia Who do you want to be today? At Universal Studios City Walk in Los Angeles, they have a store where you can have the picture of your face inserted into a variety of scenarios. For instance, you can have your face placed into a picture of Indiana Jones or onto [...]

Cell Phones Still Hot; More Mobile Advertising Proposed Although a new Harris Interactive study reveals that over one-third of consumers say the dire economy will not affect their spending habits,  the 60 percent of consumers who will limit their discretionary spending will curtail going out to restaurants (74 percent) and limit their purchase of electronics (71 [...]

By Mark Levy, CEO MaxxoMedia MCPS-PRS, the U.K. music publishing licensing and collecting organization, recently released a proposal suggesting that new digital media companies that want to license their copyrights should provide equity in their fledgling companies in exchange for the license. They cited as some of the reasons behind this proposal: 1. Start-up firms present an undeniable [...]

From Kenradio.com A growing number of mobile phone subscribers worldwide are taking online social networking to the streets. The U.K. leads Europe in mobile social networking on a percentage basis — with the U.S. boasting comparable numbers. In the U.K., approximately 810,000 mobile subscribers, or 1.7% of all mobile subscribers in the country, visited social networking [...]

Now in beta, Knewsroom publishes the “Knews” every morning, featuring the previous day’s top stories in politics, business, technology, design, sports and entertainment. Which stories rank as most important is decided by the audience of readers, in Digg-like fashion. Going far beyond Digg, though, Knewsroom rewards contributors with a portion of 20 percent of every [...]

By Mark Levy, CEO MaxxoMedia I thought I had the social network angle all covered with my Facebook profile, Linkedin profile, Plaxo, my website and a blog. But then I noticed people “Twittering” and “Zanneling” through my Facebook updates and I was intrigued. What were these new strange verbs, I thought? So I went over to www.twitter.com [...]

According to a new analysis from Scarborough Research, six percent of all consumers are classified as Digital Savvy nationally, but Austin (TX) adults are almost twice as likely as the national average to be in this leading edge consumer segment. Las Vegas, NV, Sacramento and San Diego are also leading Digital Savvy cities, with 10 [...]