Coming to an app-store near you: StiQRd! Founded right here in snowy (at least for today) Memphis, Tennessee, StiQRd is a location-based check-in service (like Foursquare or Gowalla), but it’s unique characteristic is in the program’s marriage of QR codes and GPS location. Aaron Prather, the CEO, is the real expert though, so we’ll let [...] [...more]
Well if you’re referring to the Verizon iPhone? Hot. If you’re referring to buying your girlfriend a virtual bouquet for Valentine’s Day… most definitely not. This week’s podcast explores the ins and outs of these topics, but (as usual) we can’t stay on topic too long. So you’ll also get a smattering of… Resolution-assisting apps! [...] [...more]
Today’s breakfast had a great crowd, which was fantastic because we crowd-sourced our topic! To kick off the year, we decided to ask Expeditioners for their Predictions for 2011 in social media and technology. It seems many of the members are placing their bets on QR codes and mobile devices. Of course it’s all speculation, [...] [...more]
Nom nom buttercream icing! Reeeeal buttercream with butter and cream and no Crisco and oh, delicious. But enough about the cupcakes (or is it, really?), Jennifer Marshall is one peppy, fun lady and we were thrilled to sit down with her to talk about her social media efforts. Jennifer has a cupcake business called BFF [...] [...more]
You’d know Mark if you ran into him. He’s pretty tall, good humored, and is usually wearing a Mark’s Menus tee-shirt. Also, he’s a talented developer and can deliver a winning escalator pitch. On this week’s podcast, he shares some of the hurdles and triumphs he’s met in co-founding Mark’s Menus. If you live in [...] [...more]
Woo! Fresh blood at Twilight Camp! We were delighted to have some new-comers, and of course, always great to see some of our regulars. Once again, we did not get kicked out of Davis Kidd, which is really a shame because… The next Twilight Camp will be at the LunaWeb office! Though I suppose it [...] [...more]
Check OUT that alliteration! But seriously, the Social Expedition was delighted to welcome back one of our former hosts, this time as our interviewee. Vibrant as ever, Elizabeth told us all about what she and the Memphis Music Foundation are doing to help keep Memphis’s rich musical tradition alive by providing resources to artists new [...] [...more]
First, a participant created a Foursquare check-in for Twilight Camp, and everyone with access to the program made their presence known. This launched a comparison of Gowalla to Foursquare. Gowalla has a better iPad application (Foursquare just has the iPhone app, which you can zoom in on for the iPad’s bigger screen) But the Gowalla [...] [...more]
Can you believe it’s already the second half of 2010? Yes? Well, alright. Today in our weekly social media expedition, we discover Social Media Day. This holiday, apparently backed by Mashable.com, went unobserved in Memphis, but maybe we’ll catch the next one. Honestly, we didn’t even hear about it until a few days ago. Then, [...] [...more]
This week, the Social Expedition explores the idea of unplugging from technology – a difficult feat for most of us. We’ve got an update from WordPress, a glitch in Intuit, and a bit of irony from Mark Zuckerberg. We argue some finer points of the Android versus iPhone debate, only to find that the prodigal [...] [...more]
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