Sunday, July 31, 2011

Interesting Look at Search In South Korea

This is a cool article that goes over the major search engines in South Korea and no...its not Google!

The overall design is more reminicent of a traditional web portal (Think Yahoo and AOL). Fascinating to see what South Koreans determine as useful with regards to search. It seems like they want more quality information about current trends and events than a clean interface. Naver itself has a pretty cool real time updating social network stream, now if only i could read Korean! Just goes to show you that one size certainly does not fit all, especially with regards to International SEO.

Best Regards,
-The Marketing Ninja

Monday, July 18, 2011

Photovine: Weaving A Story In Pictures?

This recent addition from Google is a mobile photo sharing network that allows individuals to snap a picture and create a theme for it. Once this is posted others are able join in and add photos of their own along that same theme, weaving together a story in pictures.

Pretty nifty concept but will it stick? I think its time for me to buy a new phone so i can try out some of these nifty new mobile experiences. My Palm Pre + just isn't kicking it any longer.

Anyways take a look at this video that starts with a heart melting intro. Enjoy!


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-The Marketing Ninja

Monday, July 11, 2011

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Key To Future Of Social Networks Lies In Mobile

Google+1 launched this week, and it seems most people think its sort of cool but just another version of Facebook. I feel that most are missing the "big picture" just by looking at the desktop interface and not all of the features included. Technology introduces the means in which we consume and interact with the world and the people in it. Figuring out "Mobile" is the big thing and Google seems to have seen the light.

Huddle, a feature that is restricted only to Android users (hopefully just for now), allows people to communicate with their circles, setup events, and give updates to those events via mobile group chat in real time. Such a cool feature that at the very least this (ME) individual could use on his Friday/Saturday night adventures.

This ability to take all of those useful functionality of a social network with you, and use them real-time to augment daily experiences is the penultimate "next-big-thing" that is actually already here. Keep in mind that the product is still in "beta", its user-base is slowly but steadily trickling in, and too me the most important feature is limited to Android smart phones only. Still....bravo Google. Something might finally just start to stick :)

Best Regards,
The Marketing Ninja