Category: Startups

• Simply Tap: how the Mobile Money Network aims to make mobile shopping easier

  Mobile Money Network sounds like a great name to me. I had started envisioning a new rap group and crazy videos but then found out that it has everything to do with payment transactions conducted through mobile phones. The Mobile Money Network (MMN) is a new UK retail alliance, created by Monetise, Best Buy Europe…

  marcabraham

  April 13, 2011

  Mobile, Startups, User Experience

  MMN, mobile

• From music discovery to music sharing

  Tools like Shazam and Soundhound are great for discovering music. Call me geeky, but I do enjoy sitting in a coffeeshop finding out through using my phone what song is playing in the  background. Now that music search and discovery seem to have been nailed, the likes of Shazam and Soundhound have started exploring new…

  marcabraham

  April 6, 2011

  Digital Strategy, Mobile, Music, Social Media, Startups, Technology

  cross-platform, Facebook, Music, Shazam, TV

• It’s all (Social) GO for building personalised networks

  Today I learned about SocialGO a tool that enables users to build their own personal social networking sites. I found great examples of Cheryl Cole fans and the Bible Baptist Church of Marilao who used SocialGO to create their own networking sites. What triggered my attention was the news that UK-based SocialGO has swung into…

  marcabraham

  April 3, 2011

  Social Media, Startups

  Facebook, socialmedia

• Rdio creates API and launches affiliate program

  It all seems to be happening in the world of online music services; in January I blogged about the linkup between music stream service Spotify and mobile music discovery service Shazam and last week I learned about on-demand social music service Rdio opening its API to developers and starting an affiliate program. Rdio is the…

  marcabraham

  March 14, 2011

  Digital Strategy, Music, Startups

  API, Music, Rdio, Shazam, Spotify

• Setting the record straight through ICorrect

  “Setting the record straight” is what ICorrect.com promises to do. This site was officially launched earlier this week to give people and organisations a chance to correct any information about themselves that they believe to be untrue. Sir David Tang, the founder of ICorrect, believes that 99% of what’s written on the Internet is based on…

  marcabraham

  March 12, 2011

  Online Trends, Social Media, Startups

  ICorrect, Online, socialmedia