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Earlier today I wrote a post about how to earn various Super Bowl check in badges with foursquare, Getglue, Miso, IntoNow & ScreenTribe. During the Super Bowl, I checked in using all five apps earned four badges and took a few screenshots to estimate the check-in numbers. Take a look:
Not shown is ScreenTribe but early numbers looks like over 68,000 people checked into the Super Bowl with Foursquare, Getglue, Miso, IntoNow & ScreenTribe. Note, these numbers are just an estimate right after Super Bowl 45 half-time and does not include check-in numbers from the actual Super Bowl game in Texas.
Did you check into Super Bowl 45 and/or earn any new badges?
Update:
From @alexiskold CEO/founder of GetGlue
@waynesutton we have 20,000 checkins via 11,000 unique people.
Alex Iskold
alexiskold
foursquare Super Bowl Venue numbers
I just wanted to use the word “breaking” in a blog post, it sounds exciting right? Sorry about that. Either way the big news is there’s a new iPhone app on the way that will allow you to upload photos and videos to FourSquare. How you ask? Well, the iPhone app called SquarePik. SquarePik is created by Florida based startups Thirtynine and Pikchur and uses FourSquare API to post. The way the iPhone app works is a very simple. You login with your FourSquare email address or phone number. After signing in you’ll see list of recent FourSquare activity from your friends. There’s a places button that will use FourSquare’s API to find locations nearby. After you select a location, then you click the icon to upload media which can be either existing media or taken on the spot. Next SquarePik will check you into the location and post links to the uploaded media inside of FourSquare and send links to your social profiles such as Twitter & Facebook status updates if you have those options enabled in your FourSquare settings.
Why is SquarePik important? Well in the very competitive location based app market, apps such as Whrrl, Brightkite, TriOut and Yelp provides a way for users to upload a pictures but Foursquare has yet to implement such features. Now with SquarePik not only does it allow Foursquare users to send media to there networks but if FourSquare was thinking about adding media uploads, SquarePik has developed the app to show them how. Note there are a few more features to SquarePik but I’ll let you find them out once the app is released. I don’t have a release date for the app but be sure to follow @Squarepik on Twitter for updates and a big thanks/congrats to Davide Di Cillo @DavideDiCillo of Thirtynine along with Pikchur team for allowing me to test the app.
The Pitch:
SquarePik is an easy way to add photos and videos to your foursquare check-ins. It will also show you all photos and videos that were dropped at a venue.
URL: http://squarepik.com
Twitter: @SquarePik
SquarePik is a joint venture between Pikchur Inc. and 39llc.
Would you use this app?
So tonight MTV video music awards has gone all social media online and offline from iJustin pre-show hosting, a customize tweet all from Radian6, displaying both tweets and Facebook walls comments on their homepage MTV.com. But clearly the star stealer and news of the night is non other than Mr. Kanye West who embarrassed and insulted Taylor Swift after she won “Best Female Video” award.
If you’re not familar with Radian6 who’s created MTV’s tweet wall showing music artist, Radian6 provides the social media monitoring platform for marketing, communications and customer support professionals.
Now taking a look at the dot you can clearly see there have been a lot of tweets about Kanye’s rude behavor tonight at the VMA’s and I’m sure they are a lot of blog post about the situation too. If you’re using a social media monitoring platform such as Radian6 you would see a lot of negative content online right about now and the upcoming days. Kanye’s behavior isn’t new, from the President Bush remarks to previous MTV awards outburst but tonights incident clearly takes the cake and could be career threatening to such an artist the relies on the public to make money by selling music and performing.
So now what? Can Kanye’s personal brand overcome his latest outburst? If you were in charge of Kanye’s marketing what woud you do? Here’s a start list of a few options.
Fixing Kanye West
- A public apology to Taylor Swift online via YouTube
- Enforce a no drinking before attending an awards show rule
- Sit Kanye at least 5 rows back from the stage
- Create a song called I’m sorry Taylor
- Make video with Taylor Swift
- Take a 3 year break form the public spotlight.
- Stick to producing music
- Or you just wouldn’t was your time
Could you fix Kanye West personal brand problem? Is this the beginning of the downfall of Kanye West? Should MTV invite Kanye West ever again?
PS. Taylor Swift stay positive and continue to make great music.
The Mashable / Regator Atlanta, GA Mixer was held on May 14, 2009. For more information see:
http://www.regator.com/blog/?p=541
http://mashable.com/2009/04/30/mashable-mixer-atlanta-update/
Talk Social News attended to interview some of the organizers, sponsors and attendees and we had a great time! The Mashable and Regator team planned a great event and the Atlanta community welcomed us with open arms.
FYI below is a video playlist of 10 interviews from the Mashable / Regator Atlanta Mixer. Use the navigational arrows to skip to the next video or wait for one video to end and the next video will automatically start. If you want to watch each video separately view the Mashlanta page here: http://talksocialnews.com/mashlanta
Photos by: Jeff Cohen – @dgtlpapercuts | http://digitalpapercuts.com Thanks Jeff!
Today I was interviewed by Fox News 8 ( Bob Buckly & Stewart Pittman @Lenslinger out of Greensboro, NC about Social Networking Etiquette. I was recommended to discuss the topic by Jennifer Ruggiero a long time twitter follower and friend who I recently met in real life at a Tweetup in Greensboro. As I prepared for the interview I made a few notes and asked via ping.fm the following question: What are some good & bad examples of Social Networking Etiquette that you have seen?
Below are my notes, a few other blog post on the same subject and some feedback I received from Brighkite, Twitter & Friendfeed.
Brightkite Feedback:
ocell: “Bad: anything automatic. Auto followback, autoresponders, autoDM… dilutes real social interaction and relationships.”
ninanord: “Having a hard time understanding why some people constantly use ie Facebook and Twitter to tell others how ill they are and what kind of bad mood they´re in… Easily turns into oversharing in a sphere where so many people talk, not knowing eachother personally.”
Twitter Feedback:
Bad:
hartsock: @waynesutton saw a “social media” company spam all users exposing all emails on the to line. Sign up for their site get ur email harvested!
synergyblog: @waynesutton Bad example: constant “selling” of your wares, belittling others, never engaging (i.e. one-directional), ignoring good advice
Robert_Peterson: @waynesutton the autobot dm to new followers “Hey thanks, now read this great blog.”
Good:
samuraivt: @waynesutton good: social, human, good links shared bad: Constant self promotion & no interaction. Flooding Facebook with Twitter updates.
synergyblog: @waynesutton Good example: Be polite. Be kind. LISTEN. Add value when you have something powerful/meaningful to say. Be open to new ideas…
FriendFeed feedback
The interview will air on TV this Friday and the reporter asked me a closing question, “If I could only give people just one suggestion for social networking etiquette what would it be?” I told him for people to be themselves.
What would be your suggestion?
Also read:
social networking etiquette: how important is it?
10 signs your Twitter etiquette could be improved
14 RULES OF BUSINESS REFERRAL ETIQUETTE
A Rant on Social Networking Etiquette or, When did Rude Become Acceptable OnLine?
