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Zennie62Blog One Of CES 2014 Most Popular Blogs! Gorkana US, a UK-based pr and marketing research firm with offices in New York, used Gorkana Social Media Pro, its social media monitoring and analysis tool, to determine the best content producers and social media conversation starters at CES 2014. Zennie62blog.com was named one of the top […]
(brianna keilar cnn anchor) Sara Sidner, Ali Velshi, and Brianna Keilar, all have two things in common: first, they all were at or are will with CNN, and second, I’m acquainted with all of them to various degrees. It’s fun to see them advance, especially from the standpoint of running my own media business. But […]
Joe Tuman, the professor and political television commentator, Oaklander, and friend of this blogger, finally decided to run for Mayor Of Oakland for a second time, and after almost saying he was going to do it again, almost the moment the 2010 Mayor’s Race ended. Standing next to Oakland City Hall’s north said entrance, and […]
Look, Facebook’s new Instagram Video Sharing app is great, but the media types drinking the KoolAid are either being dishonest – which is what happens when KoolAid is consumed – or just plain totally out to lunch. First, Facebook’s new Instagram Video Sharing app has an enormous problem that I pointed to in my last […]
UPDATE: Media Ignores Facebook Instagram Upload Processing Problem Facebook’s Instagram has video, now. Is it too late to the game? Instagram, acquired by Facebook in 2011, held a press conference today to announce its new video app. Instagram video is much like Tout in that it offers 15 second video times, whereas Vine is limited […]
Vidoco, Tout, Vine are three of the many seconds-long video-apps that are available for use on your smartphone. I’ve used Tout for as long as, well, since it’s founder and my friend Michael Downing contacted me about its creation early in 2011. Prior to Tout, I was on something called 12 seconds, which was the […]
On January 23rd 2013 this blogger was contacted by Vinay Patankar, the Founder and CEO of a new microvlog app called Vitoto regarding trying out the app, and providing feed back on his product. I sent an email reply, and then took one look at the app, figuring I would blog about it at some […]
The Super Bowl will start in just over an hour and it’s going to be a close game. Prediction: 49ers by a hair over the Baltimore Ravens. Two very closely matched teams with the Niners having the NFL’s number one offense, Baltimore behind by five spots, and the Niners defense better by a half-yard per […]
Presidential Inauguration 2013: Zennie62 trip got off underway with a stop in Chicago, a layover, really, until the morning, when I head to the airport to catch a flight to Washington DC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZrmKycGA9U I’m flying on standby, so picking the flight that I can get on is a hard go of it. But I will […]
Social TV, the basic process of using your smartphone, laptop, or tablet to make comments on a TV show you happen to be watching at the time, is not something that’s going away any time soon. In fact, the “second screen phenomena” show signs of doing nothing but exploding. This blogger was compelled to write […]
CES 2013 is history, and as this blogger sits comfortably in the hallway at the Las Vegas Convention Center blogging, people, carts, and lift-trucks go by carrying things out of the building. Signs are coming down. Workers are festive. (A big shout-out to Tout.com for sponsoring coverage!) Considering the 150,000 attendees, and record size of […]
Las Vegas, NV – The Presidential Inauguration will have a new media member, literally: Zennie62.com / Zennie62Media. As this blogger prepares to attend the second day of the International CES 2013 here in Vegas (Zennie62 coverage sponsored by Tout.com) the Standing Committee Of Correspondents Congressional Press Galleries has granted Zennie62 a press credential to cover […]
Sony has gained a reputation at CES for presenting great products and a fantastic presentation. (Zennie62 CES and NMX coverage by Tout.com) A presentation that was generally marked by the appearance of an A-list star to draw attention to Sony’s position at the nexus of celebrity, tech, and pop-culture. Taylor Swift, Will Smith, and Kelly […]
Well, talk about some real Twitter hashtag confusion: CES, the name of what some signs call “The Consumer Electronics Show” has used the hashtag #2013CES, with Gary Shapiro, the organization’s executive director, leading the way. (Zennie62 coverage sponsored by Tout.com) But now, on the morning of the first official day of CES, Intel steps in […]
The Palms Hotel, where this blogger was for the AT&T Developers Summit Luncheon, has what is undoubtedly Las Vegas’ scariest view! (Zennie62 coverage of CES and NMX sponsored by Tout.com) Take a look at this: Oh, and AT&T’s unveiling it’s new “Digital Life” system for the home. A video interview with AT&T’s Scott Peterson (no […]
CES 2013, held on Sunday at The Mandalay Bay Hotel, was the largest of its kind, ever. (Zennie62 coverage sponsored by Tout.com) There was too much to cover, so this year, I picked a few companies and focused on them. What follows are highlights with more indepth videos to come later today. (Also, if you’re […]
CES 2013 is this week, and this blogger’s trip to the giant convention starts today! (Zennie62 coverage sponsored by Tout.com) But what’s “CES” anyway? “CES” really stands for “Consumer Electronics Show” but the PR folks don’t want anyone to call it that, even to the point of asking editors not to use the reference in […]
Tim Tebow’s coming to Sin City for CES 2013! (Zennie62 coverage of CES sponsored by Tout.com) New York Jets QB and Heisman Trophy Winner Tim Tebow’s making his first official product launch at CES, with his Thursday, January 11th appearance at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas at 9 AM. Now, Tebow is trying to […]
YouTube Capture was reviewed by this blogger last week. It’s designed as a new app for the iPhone and will be available for the Android soon. What it allows you to do is upload videos from your iPhone to your YouTube account, and Facebook and Twitter. In short, it does exactly what Viddy does. Thus […]
Jae Son, Harvard PhD in Robotics and the Inventor & President of GoSmart, will be at CES 2013 to talk about his products and inventions (Zennie62 coverage by Tout.com) GoSmart Stylus – the smoothest and most precise stylus for iPads, touchscreen tablets, smartphones and other devices. Made of ergonomically designed solid aluminum and a flexible […]
The Women In Consumer Electronics will meet at CES 2013 (Zennie62 coverage sponsored by Tout.com) January 8th Paris Hotel, 7-9 PM to honor five women who’s made significant contributions to the industry in different ways. The event will led by The Master of Ceremonies: Tricia Nystrom, Senior Merchant, Audio, Best Buy. Here’s what Women In […]
YouTube has created YouTube Capture and perhaps as an answer to Tout.com, Viddy, Social Cam, and other smartphone-based camcorder devices. Whatever the case, it’s an easy to use app, but does have some challenges. First, what this blogger likes about the app is its simplicity of use. Second, it’s available only on the iPhone and […]
Tout is back. The popular 15-second app and favorite micro-vlogging tool of this video-blogger is partnering with Zennie62Media for the 2013 CES in Las Vegas. But here’s a bonus: Zennie62Media will also attend Blog World Las Vegas on January 6th to January 8th. Tout.com has sponsored almost every event coverage program that Zennie62Media has attended […]
Tout.com, the 15-second video cross between Twitter and YouTube, is enjoying a very rapid growth phase fueled by its partnership with WWE Entertainment, the producers of the wildly popular wrestling shows and television programs. WWE put $5 million of the current total of $15 million invested in Tout and uses it to help fans directly […]
For some reason Facebook is down and the word’s spreading via Twitter. Oh, Facebook’s not working? Let’s all go on Twitter and complain about it!?!?! — Matt Rogers (@CaptainRiggers) December 10, 2012 Reports in: Facebook appears to be down… at this time, no information as to why it is down. — Anonymous Press (@AnonymousPress) December […]
Earlier today, It was suggested to me that I sign up with what appeared to be a kind of online app that allowed bloggers to be matched with potential sponsors. Given that Zennie62.com has over 11,000 blog posts (actually over 12,000) and has been around since 2005 (when it started life as a blogger blog), […]
World Series Game 4 is set to start in minutes, and the question of the day is “Can the San Francisco Giants sweep the Detroit Tigers and win the World Championship?” The answer appears to be yes, although it’s hard to see the Tigers law down for the SF Giants for the third straight game. […]
The >play 2012 Digital Media Conference is today at the UC Berkeley Haas Business School, and it promises to be an excellent presentation. The event is entirely student-run, and concerns the latest developments in digital media and social media (really, the same) with respect to mobile devices and video. And on the note of video, […]
For some reason, many new to Social Media act as though blogs don’t exist. While the number of blogs has not diminished, there’s a lot of anecdotal evidence to suggest that the vast majority of people who “do” social media, don’t have a blog of their own or contribute to a blog. (As an aside, […]
On Saturday, this blogger participated in a fun event: the America Scores effort to break the Guinness Book Of World Records record for number of people to dribble soccer balls at once. America Scores is a nationwide organization that was formed to, as its website explains, “partners with urban schools to provide a high quality, […]
On Monday, a panel of media-types, old media types, will gather for an event by the great organization, the San Francisco Chapter Of Women In Sports And Events, to talk about the coverage of the Olympics. Since there’s not one person on the panel who represents New Media, their evaluation will likely be limited to […]
Good Social Media and restaurants involves a call-to-action. In other words, you have to use social media to get potential guests (note that I did not use the term “customers) to visit your eatery or shopping center. All too often a restaurant or retail marketing person will just stick a Twitter logo or a Facebook […]
Pantech USA offers a neat looking but not well-designed-to-use Android-based smartphone called BURST that AT&T’s offering for 99 cents and has a set of annoying problems. This blogger’s Mother was the recipient of one of those phones, and she’s had a hard time with it. It’s increasingly obvious that many smartphone developers just either don’t […]
Thanks to a lot of WOOOS, by Victoria Azarenka, the World’s Number One Tennis Player, it looked like Serena Williams was going to lose the 2012 U.S. Open Tennis Final. But, down 2,5 in the final set, Serena roared back in dramatic fashion to take the set 7-5, and win a match that she admitted […]
As this blogger was heading to Time Warner Center for the final night of the Democratic National Convention, a woman passed by who had some kind of Bible verse written on her body. Upon request, she was kind enough to stop and talk for this video. But what she had to say was rather wild. […]