Crowd sourcing

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?