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This is snappr.net presentation at the sfnewtech meetup. They are not the first ones to develop this kind of technology, but from what I understood, they try to make it really easy for anyone to create bar codes, opening the door to mainstream mobile marketing (please comment if wrong).

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Yesterday night was the Sf Newtech Meetup down at the Mighty. chi.mp was there to introduce their new service to the very select SF tech crowd. Chi.mp is a "Content Hub and Identity Management Platform". If this doesn't mean anything to you, watch the video :)

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As I am in the post-prod of Aggregate Knowledge's video interview for HyveUp, I decided to share this chunk of video that I believe fits today's news. If social graphs are not ad preformance boosters, then why exactly shall Facebook be a money-making makina? Most ads I see on Facebook are about a friend who liked something or joined some network. I never click on those (I just never click on Facebook ads), and I don't usually care about those. That's why I don't see how integrating Live Search into Facebook will be profitable for Microsoft's search technology, branding strategies put aside. ...

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On October 2nd, 2000, the popular P2P software company Napster was accused and sentenced for "engaging in, or facilitating others in copying, downloading, uploading, transmitting, or distributing plaintiffs' copyrighted musical compositions and sound recordings, protected by either federal or state law, without express permission of the rights owner." By outlawing P2P file-sharing providers, music labels thought they were putting an end to anarchic uncontrolled distribution channel, to impose their own traditional distribution models online. However, the deed was done. At the time of the trial, 10,000 music files were downloaded every second (and growing due to the publicity of the trial). Today ...

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Disqus announced this week the launch of the Disqus' API. So far, the API is young but allows you to handle some rudimentary parameters: "The methods provided are enough to let you write your own comment import tools, export tools, or even a custom Disqus plugin for your platform" What's so juicy about this API, and what is yet to come? On the Inquisitr, Duncan Riley breaks the news and offers a positive opinion of Disqus' move, arguing that it will allow newcoming 2.0 publishing tools like Habari to offer an ultra-performing commenting system. Louis Gray is also an enthusiast of the initiative. To ...

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Most people I meet, even tech savvy individuals, are very confused by the multitude of different video platforms that exist out there. Usually, it's Youtube, and then the long tail of video platforms. So in this post, I will methodically compare Youtube, Revver and Viddler to explain the basic differences. I am leaving Dailymotion and Metacafe on the side simply because I have not been a power user of those two video platforms. I won't elaborate on their APIs, because it would be too long and too complex. So this post is mostly for non-developers curious to know the differences between ...

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Since the Internet stepped in the music distribution game, the music industry is suffering. In a way, music labels have always over-priced music albums, so when it became easy to freely share music through P2P softwares, fans just left the stores to download their favorite songs online. Music juggernauts like iTunes have managed to build a stable music economy online, but for the Founders of Popcuts, that is not enough to tackle the economic crisis music artists are going through. For the newly-launched startup, it is not music distribution that needs to be redefined: Fans need to be rewarded for ...

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Today, Click2Map is releasing a new feature that changes a few ground rules in the world of online mapping. The France-based map editor now offers its users the auto-clustering tool, which allows you to create a unique marker for spots where markers are overlapping each other. The map below shows where movie celebrities live in Hollywood. It perfectly illustrates the need to cluster markers to make the information accessible. The developers of Click2Map made it super easy for any map creator out there to customize the clustering rate of their maps' markers. If customizing is not your thing, you will find ...

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In our latest interview, Charlene Li joins us to discuss the Groundswell – what it is, what it means to marketers and why trying to contain the groundswell just doesn’t work.. such as the ill-fated Streisand effect. Why its really about relationships, not the latest technology fad and how low-involvement brands can effectively leverage the Groundswell to create conversation and community.

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A few weeks ago, I interviewed David Sifry, Founder and CEO of Offbeat Guides. For the screencasts, I went through the guide creation process on Offbeatguides.com, and created a guide for Rochester, the city used by David Sifry to illustrate his speech. Unfortunately, I was not planning to go to Rochester at all, but totally forgot to cancel the order I submitted. With the sharpest precision, today, ie 3 days before my fictional trip to Rochester, I received the guide to Rochester and decided that it should be part of the experience I must share on HyveUp. Link to original article. ...

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