Pownce on this

June 28, 2007 at 8:37 am · Filed under Beta, Social Networking, Applications

Anyone out there have a Pownce invite that they’d consider sharing? I’m dying to see what they’ve pulled together with AIR.

Reply to this post if you have one and I’ll be sure to contact you. Thanks! If I can scurry up an invite to something in return, let me know and I’ll try!

Don’t know about Pownce? Check it out…

UPDATE: I’ve gotten an invite, signed-up, and installed the AIR Desktop and will fiddle around and report back. The signup and installation process was simple and quick.

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Red Bull Flugtag online and off

June 21, 2007 at 9:22 am · Filed under Online Marketing, Social Networking, Games

I’m getting ready to head to Tennessee for Flugtag Nashville, the latest U.S. “flying day” put on by Red Bull. Terralever has been working on some cool interactive tie-ins to the event, and we fortunately need some boots on the ground to do some coordination. If you’re in Nashville on Saturday (23rd of June) stop by—it’s free! Directions and entry information is on the Flugtag USA site, on the page for the Nashville event.

The team has also updated the wildly popular Flugtag Game. It now features:

• Multiplayer support (Tournament style)
• A Chat window for Multiplayer games
• Three crafts to choose from
• Five Flugtag locations to choose from
• New crash sequences and in-flight antics

If you have previously installed the game on your MySpace page, it will be updated automatically to the new version. If you haven’t put it on your MySpace page, but are curious how to do so, just go to the game page—there is a button to install it right below the game.

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Do you Twitter?

March 18, 2007 at 3:12 pm · Filed under Privacy, Events, Mobile, Social Networking

At the SXSW conference, there was a phenomena I was exposed to called Twitter. Twitter is described on the Twitter site as “A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing?” Twitter allows you to let the world (or your select group of friends) know where you are and what you’re doing via phone, IM, or online. I signed up to give it a try, and, well, I’m not a Twittter.

There definitively is a movement that is not only comfortable, but highly motivated to share the details of their life. Down to the minutia. As often as not with complete strangers. Everyone has heard of Flick’r, MySpace, Instant Messaging and blogs. Twitter is focused on a different level of information provided on a different frequency of updates; quick-hits of information, where you are and what you’re doing, provided as frequently as the Twitter user wants to provide it. An Instant Messaging Blog in some ways.

I’m not a Twitter for a few reasons. First, the people in my life may use Flick’r here and there or post some interesting marketing or technology tips to their blog, but they aren’t on the edge of the curve running towards the lifestreaming movement. Second, I don’t have the desire to share minute-by-minute (or hour-by-hour) detailed information of what I’m doing or where I am with my circle of friends, never mind the Internet community at large. To be honest-I don’t understand it. More than anything, what’s intriguing about Twitter and the state of online social networking is how rapidly the online social networker’s outlook on privacy, security, and transparency is changing.

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Instant messaging for a cause

March 3, 2007 at 3:40 pm · Filed under Applications

If you use Microsoft’s Instant Messenger (and if you don’t this might make you consider using it) you can have Microsoft share a portion of their advertising revenue to an organization of your choice. From the Microsoft site:

i’m is a new initiative from Windows Live™ Messenger. Every time you start a conversation using i’m, Microsoft shares a portion of the program’s advertising revenue with some of the world’s most effective organizations dedicated to social causes. We’ve set no cap on the amount we’ll donate to each organization. The sky’s the limit.

So any time you have an i’m™ conversation using Windows Live Messenger, you help address the issues you feel most passionate about, including poverty, child protection, disease, and environmental degradation. It’s simple. All you have to do is join and start an instant messaging conversation. We’ll handle the donation.

It doesn’t appear that the OS X Messaging client can participate yet-hopefully it will be able to in its next release.

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