We finally got to it … our new site.

The site may be new, but our passion and commitment to providing excellent service remains the same.

We look forward to the adventures ahead!

I liked urtak.com from the first time I saw it. The fresh and clean approach to sensing the crowds’ thoughts cought my attention when they presented on NYTM.

When you ask questions, users answer. When you rank questions, users follow and share.

That’s what urtak does.

Now urtak released their new widget…

The last New York Tech Meetup provided a few entertaining moments which peaked at the presentation of translationparty.com, created by Will Carlough. I love these times- talented and driven people are able to do and share their amazing work.

Playing a little with the translation mechanism leaves no doubt that delivering your message across languages is simply impossible… After seven years in the US doing business in English, all I needed is this little app to reassure me that “ALL WE NEED IS LUCK” ! Have fun…

Will wrote:
Here’s a video of me presenting it to 700 people at NY Tech! (You might want to skip the first two minutes to avoid a technical difficulty plagued screening of the rap sensation that is sort of sweeping the nation, LOL.):

I’m working with one of our major clients on a plan that will harness every tool we could think of, to drive traffic to the client’s network.

As expected… the buzz of the word combination “social media” is still humming in my ears…

After a lot of work I was left with a big question…
Is Social Media an effective traffic generation tool
or
Is Social Media the traffic itself

Well as always I find questions to be the best answer… consider the following:

Is your website a place of business or a means to deliver a message?

My son Boaz is almost four years old and never fails to impress me with his attention to details.

Recently he started paying more and more attention to advertising and brands. Scary.

Today he shocked us with what seems to be a new level of brand awareness… We were having lunch in the local cafe, while a remote TV was on. Truthfully, I could never understand why anyone would like to have a bunch of TVs in a cafe, but that’s a different story.

A short while after the commercials begun, Boaz asked “Mommy has an apple on her phone, right?”. “Why do you ask?” I answered him just to learn that he just watched an Apple commercial.

“So why do you think she has an Apple on her phone?” I tried my luck, hoping to get a cute and naive answer but instead I received a “shopping list” of the other Apple computers in the house including my recent purchase (see an earlier post Against Apple’s product release policies) and even the purchase of the Apple router that was supposed to get our music from iTunes to our stereo but never did. Boaz even shared his opinion that the Apple logo on the phone means that he can play games on it.

Fast forward 6 methodical years- would he ever be satisfied with a computer/ phone / whatever they’ll sell then, that doesn’t have an Apple logo on it?

My simple explanation – Apple got it right. One could probably write a complete thesis (wouldn’t be surprised if it’s been done) on how they got it right and why it’s working… I’ll let it be at that… Steve got it right.

What other brands do it well?

a couple of tweets I posted recently:

• the funny police are not to you too Janine go eat my accent
• voice the non Vlingo does funny things for nothing and is funny tweet that turned out Compton gate to be completed the driveway

I posted them Vlingo Speech to Text-direct Tweeting feature.

I like enabling technologies, Vlingo easily falls into this category, but what I like more is the surprising and hilarious results…

Bottom line, I wouldn’t relay on this app to deliver my messages accurately, but I’ll keep using it for the heck of it, just because it makes me laugh.