A couple weeks ago, Dan Zarrella – “The Social Media Scientist” – blogged about his experiment to map emotions geographically using Twitter. He combined the linguistic analysis system called TweetPsych with Twitter’s geotagging data and the Google Maps API to plot tweets based on their emotional content in and...
VendAsta – Media Distribution Solutions Partnership Brings Total Solution to Social Media Marketers Frisco, TX (PRWEB) April 22, 2012 Social Media content and technology, in a single easy to deploy offering, is the promise of a new partnership between VendAsta Technologies and Media Distribution Solutions. The partnership offers digital marketing companies...
Since Facebook announced it would spend $1B to acquire Instagram, the photo-sharing giant with over thirty million members, the media channels have been on fire. But for many late adopters (and, until recently, non-iOS users) Instagram might be something they’ve never had the chance to use. For small and...
“Radio will replace the newspaper”. “Television will replace the newspaper and radio”. “The internet will replace the newspaper, radio, AND television”. The advent of every new form of media always brings about predictions of the end of its predecessors. But the truth is, one type of media has never...
Recently our new partners at Primedia made our white-label Reputation Management platform available to rental property owners who advertise on Apartment Guide. This is a pretty big deal. Primedia is a colossus, the premier rental listing company in North America, with 61 million visitors to Apartment Guide, Rentals.com, and...
Our friends at DirectWest, Saskatchewan’s premier directory publisher, have just released two new products developed by the VendAsta team. The first is called the MyRep Reputation Intelligence Tool. Built using VendAsta’s Reputation Management platform, MyRep (to quote DirectWest’s Georgina Syrgiannis) “tells you who is talking about your business, what...
Look, I don’t want to complain, but from a marketing perspective, these last couple months have been kind of frustrating. You see, VendAsta has been doing remarkably well lately. In December and January we signed some extremely big name partners. But, for perfectly valid business reasons, we’ve had to...
Since only a fraction of businesses have mobile-optimized websites, obviously lots of people haven’t given this question much thought yet. So we made a video to demonstrate how: For mobile users, mobile websites are way less frustrating to use than conventional sites squeezed down to fit a smartphone screen;...
Google recently released the Logs Reader API which allows programmatic access to App Engine logs. A quick perusal of the documentation showed its interface to be consistent with the continuation interface provided by Fantasm. As a proof of concept, we built the logcollector application that combines the Logs Reader...
Brendan speaks! Over on his personal blog, VendAsta CEO Brendan King has just concluded a one-year experiment in non-blogging. He spent 2011 learning the ropes on Twitter, and after twelve months seems to have concluded that pith, concision, and haphazard abbreviation aren’t really his style. (Mine either.) Brendan told...
