Video: Introducing Google TV
June 3rd, 2010 | by Tommy | published in Technology, Video
May 5th, 2010 | by Tommy | published in Interactive Marketing, Technology, WordPress
Yesterday Google announced they’re opening a new third party Application Gallery for Google Analytics. The gallery already has more than 30 applications. Applications are organized into 12 categories, including business intelligence, campaign management, content, data collection, e-commerce, email marketing, mobile marketing, phone tracking, reporting tools, SEO, site auditing, and widgets and gadgets. A few that [...]
March 28th, 2010 | by Tommy | published in Design, Technology
This is pretty darn interesting. Alex Faaborg, who is the Principal Designer on Firefox, has posted a study on how people use the application, with a heat map that highlights the most and least used menu items. As you might expect Bookmarks got the most use by far, followed by copy and paste. Copy was [...]
February 15th, 2010 | by Tommy | published in Social Media, Technology
Google Buzz Explained Google today announced a new service, Google Buzz, that automatically brings social networking into Gmail and the rest of the Google-sphere. Whether or not you’re big on social networking sites like Twitter or Facebook, Buzz offers a somewhat new and intriguing approach. Hands On With Google Buzz Buzz integrates directly with your [...]
February 10th, 2010 | by Tommy | published in Technology, Video
Twitter recently launched a Twitter Engineering blog, focused on the nuts and bolts and “geeky” stuff. In the first post Ben Sandofsky, decided to share a video he made representing Twitter’s development history using Code Swarm, a software tool used to visualize data, so you can get a feel for what is happening at Twitter [...]
February 9th, 2010 | by Tommy | published in Social Media, Technology
Yesterday the blogs and social networking sites were all a buzz with rumors of a new service from Google that would take on the likes of Twitter and Facebook. And for good reason. With all the reach, power, and market share Google enjoys, they’ve been either non-existent or a failure in the social networking space. [...]
January 7th, 2010 | by Tommy | published in Advertising, Technology
The Google Nexus One marketing blitz is well underway, including an ad that appears on the search giant’s famously ad free homepage. This is the kind of advertising that money can’t buy, because the space isn’t in fact for sale. You can bet this is going to catch the attention of a ton of people. [...]
December 15th, 2009 | by Tommy | published in Technology
Not sure what to get somebody for the holidays? How about giving away a free browser in a neat and unique manner? In their continued effort to promote Chrome almost 24/7, Google has launched Chrome For Christmas. It’s a pretty simple, but effective marketing site. You first choose some themed paper which gets wrapped around [...]
October 18th, 2009 | by Tommy | published in Technology
I’ve tried just about every do-to list and/or project management tool out there. From Outlook ’07 to Google Calendar to Basecamp. But I have to admit I find maybe the most simple of the bunch, Remember The Milk, serves my needs the best. Remember The Milk is as intuitive as possible and the clean and [...]
Hi, I'm Tommy. I'm an interactive marketing executive, writer, tech geek, and sometime designer. I live in St. Louis, Missouri. I currently work as a marketing consultant.
weBranding is my creative outlet, testbed, and digital playground. You’ll find articles and posts about interactive marketing, online publishing and community development, information architecture, graphic design, gaming, and all things digital. To contact me you can send an e-mail to tommy [at] weBranding [dot] org.