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Google Wallet: Pick Up the Check in a New Way

The Social Media Incubator

The next time that someone asks if you would like to pay with cash, credit or check, just pull out your smart phone. Google is developing a new feature called Google Wallet , which will allow users to charge virtually any transaction to a credit card by using a smart phone. Photo courtesy of Google.

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The 10 Key Mobile Trends for 2011

Mindjumpers

The cross-channel customer is also a multi-device consumer and smart phones play an increasing role in communication, networking, social media usage and entertainment. Or that more people own a smart phone than use Facebook? The consumer smart phone boom will continue to put increasing pressure on 3G networks.

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9 Magic Social Media and Marketing Tools to Transform Your 2016

Socially Sorted

The year is drawing to a close and I want to share some magic tools I have discovered recently. . These are social media and marketing tools I will be taking with me into 2016. These are, without a doubt, tools that I will be taking with me from 2015 to 2016. 9 Magic Social Media and Marketing Tools. 1 Image Optim.

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Diigo: A PR Tool for Social Media Releases

Proactive Report

Diigo is a free social bookmarking tool that makes it easy to share content and facilitate conversations around that content. One of the most useful features of Diigo is the collaboration and sharing tools. It’s easy to do on Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Google Chrome. What is Diigo? Watch the video. Getting Started.

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What Twitter’s Rate Limit Changes Mean to You

Janet Fouts

When an application like Hootsuite, Tweetdeck or a mobile Twitter app like Tweetbot checks your account on Twitter, it’s what is called an “API Call” This does NOT include the number of messages you send through these tools, only the number of times the tool hits the Twitter server to check for more. So who cares?

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Which Social Media Channels Should I Use For My Business?

yMarketingMatters

Google+ has 359 million active users a month – far from the ghost town it is popularly believed to be. Many see Google+ as a combination of Twitter and Facebook, but its new features makes it a marketing paradise. Remember: Google+ is Google, which means great search engine results for your business!

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Is your business easy to find for local and mobile searchers.

Saying It Social

I promptly pulled out my smart phone, went to Google and typed merely “Italian deli&# – not having to add a geographic modifier because the GPS on my phone was enabled and would automatically pull local business listings based on my current location. First an anecdote, then the facts. billion local queries.

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