The Pew Internet and American Life Project discovers that Twitter users tend to be a younger, more diverse, and untethered bunch. 11% of online American adults said they used Twitter or similar services to share updates online about their activities from research collected as of December 2008.
Nearly one in five (19%) of online adults ages [...]
Silverpop’s Loren McDonald released a slideshare presentation ‘Email Marketing Trends 2009’ the other week. It focuses on 7 key trends that Silverpop believes will affect Email Marketing in 2009.
1. Beyond Customer Control – to Customer Expectations
Customers have come to expect the ability to manage their online profiles and control their online privacy. Customers want [...]
Amazon and Sears were quick to capitalize on the potential of m-commerce with Sears launching its mobile optimized site sears2go.com and Amazon launching its ‘TextBuyIt’ service in April 2008. Amazon’s latest innovation, ‘Amazon Remembers’ allows iPhone users to take a picture of a product, the Amazon system will then scan the millions of items in [...]
Twitter has just released an official statement indicating that effective immediately Twitter will no longer be offering outbound SMS in Canada. Shame on Canadian mobile carriers for continuing to squeeze customers at every turn and forcing companies like Twitter to remove services that many people use. Twitter stated that a scalable solution is in the [...]
