Author: Christopher Carfi

Ok, one small politically-oriented post.  Check out this hot mashup of Lee Dorsey v. Obama by Tano Sokolow…"Yes We Can"…brilliant.

Just re-found an article from Fortune Small Business featuring some really solid advice on putting an organization’s people forward, in this case using online video.  Key line:

"People want to do business with a company that has a personality."

Here’s the article.

Related:  And, just because, here’s an iPhone in a blender.

We just used Cerado Ventana to create an iPhone, mobile and widget application to support #votereport.  Twitter VoteReport is a non-partisan initiative to call out voting issues, and is urging those with Twitter accounts to report voting issues by adding #votereport to their tweets.  The resulting tweets flow to the site’s home page, and will also be plotted on a Google map.

Here’s where to get it.

As a blog widget

You can put it on your iGoogle page.

It’s also available as an iPhone app.

 

A very interesting ethnographic study from our friends over at CreateWithContext.  Key findings include learnings on:

• Browsing behavior
• GPS/Map usage
• Gestures and navigation
• UI Best Practices
• App store pricing do’s and don’ts

View the whole presentation

RSS readers:  Click here.

Great people make all the difference.

Sweet.  If you have an iPhone, you now have free wifi at Starbucks and other AT&T hotspots.

Related:  Even if you don’t have the iPhone, it’s easy to get free wifi there with their "loyalty" card thing.  Use the card once a month, and you get free access.

Also Related:  If you have an iPhone, these look great, by the way.

Nice liveblog here of Day 1 of the Social Media Strategies conference in San Francisco.  Rajiv, Darius and I had a blast on the "Thinking Vertically" panel, which starts at 1525.

From BrandWeek:

"Don’t be surprised if a comment left on Twitter gets a faster
response than a call to customer service. Companies are
increasingly monitoring social media sites like Twitter, Facebook
and blogs for negative customer comments and then responding
directly, even publicly, to those comments within minutes.

Companies including Southwest Airlines, Boingo wireless and
Edmunds.com have developed speedy, informal response teams to deal
with the fact that consumers are happy to air brands’ (often
entertaining) dirty laundry in public."

I just voted!  If your state allows you to do so, you can, too.

For San Mateo County, CA, the early voting locations are here.

Heh.  Looks like Dave voted today, too.