We recently ran a survey on home internet usage on behalf of a client, just to get an idea of how it is used, by whom, and what issues people face with it. There’s no point letting i formation like that go to waste, so we thought we’d blog about it as there’s some interesting stuff in there – and some seriously disturbing stuff too!
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Chirpify is a tool that integrates with PayPal allowing Twitter users to transact (buy, sell or fundraise) in a single tweet. This could turn Twitter into a social commerce platform as well as a real-time news and information network.
Chirpify was originally known as ‘Sell Simply’ but relaunched under its new name thanks to Portland-based startup investor Upstart Labs, who offered the fledgling company $50K in seed funding. The investment company rebranded Sell Simply as Chirpify and added better functionality to the social commerce tool.
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Here’s our social media roundup for March, which includes Confused.com’s ‘House of Horrors’ Facebook app, an interactive billboard from Bronx Shoes and yet another wonderful Instagram photo competition.
Confused.com has given us cheery animated television adverts and along with We Buy Any Car DOT COM, has introduced a new phenomenem of adding ‘dot com’ after EVERYTHING. Anyway, the price comparison site has taken a not-so-cheery approach with their latest promotion ‘House of Horrors’ – a Facebook app that integrates Google Maps and Facebook to create a video of a burglar in your home looking at your personal photos before leaving with a shiny MacBook.
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In one of our most exciting projects to date, Fluid Creativity have today launched a HTML 5 online game on behalf of global giant Buffalo Technology, innovative storage, multimedia, and wireless networking products manufacturer.
Buffalo Connected
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Google, presumably in a bid to underline their openness and honesty in the face of heavy criticism recently, has introduced a brand new service to users. Account Activity, still in beta but open to all, provides you with password-protected insights into your use of Google services. All of them. Except, it seems, Google+…
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