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Facebook Social Commerce
At one of my companies Atomic Tattoos we just recently did an interesting experiment that involved Facebook, contests, sweepstakes, prizes, gift certificates and social commerce. For the last ten years we have given gift certificates and gift cards to our media partners to use in contests and promotions and we routinely give them away to non-profit organizations to auction off for fund raising campaigns. Over the last few years we have shifted more and more of our advertising and marketing budget away from traditional media to online media. More specifically, we have focused our efforts on micro-sites, mini-sites, fan pages combined with interactivity campaigns.
Cold Fusion or Not To Cold Fusion
It started in October 2010, a dear friend and associate came to me with the remnants of a Cold Fusion code base and a fantastic business opportunity and said "What can you do with it?". Of course I said, "Let me see if I can take her for a spin!". Over one year later and over five years since I last programmed in Cold Fusion I can say a few things.
More Android Development
So, I have had more adventures in Android development this week. I wanted to try out some of the canvas, paint, animation and more advanced GUI interface development. So, I decided on a paint application! Of course, I am not going to settle on just any boring old paint application. Nope, not me. Instead it is a face tagging (graffiti) application and my target is none other than Lady Gaga. Why? Remember, Google over Gaga? And Android is Google.
Socially Responsible Enablement Technology
At one of my companies Atomic Tattoos we have actively engaged in Socially Responsible campaigns since 2003. Specifically we created, launched and have maintained Toys for Tats and Tats for Tatas. Both of these are socially responsible commercial campaigns that generate more benefit for the participants than the costs of the campaigns. In fact, the commercial costs of these campaigns is actually less than the commercial value while producing extensive social and community value. The problem over almost the last decade has been management of what was a primarily manual effort. So, this year, 2011, we decided to introduce technology and business automation into the design and ended up creating what we now call a Socially Responsible Enablement Platform.