Viadeo Dev Challenge: Meet the winners!
Developers from around the world submitted their applications to the Viadeo Dev Challenge, a 5-week long competition, which ended on Sunday, October 16th. After evaluating the apps individually first, jury members met for the final deliberation at Viadeo’s San Francisco office on Friday the 21st. Robert Scoble, Myles Weissleder, Richard Ling, Hermione Way, Kin Lane (who couldn’t be there on Friday), Arturo Garrido and Christophe Thibault decided on the three winners below: First prize winner: AvriGeo is a 3D visualization […]
Finding Inspiration in the Unexpected: Pixar Paris Style
Have you ever thought about the amount of light above the Eiffel Tower in the Disney’s Pixar movie Cars 2? Imagine how much thought and inspiration goes into something as subtle yet vital as the lighting in an animated film. This post is about unexpected inspiration combined with innovation, Paris – California style: a story that starts with Paris, continues with light and ends with Haute Couture. Now, I don’t think that this is “the most burning question of the […]
Social Media Monitoring: Measuring the Metrics that Matter
Your online identity is more important than you think. But in the continuously expanding world of social media, it’s difficult to know where to start when it comes to monitoring. First, establish whether your online presence is strong enough. If you or your brand is still finding your footing on social media, take your time to build and strengthen your digital influence and then start measuring and monitoring activity. Once you are an engaged and informed user, it’s clear that […]
Digital Identity & Anonymity
We fear the confusion between public and private spheres, which is understandable. Nevertheless, we tend to react inappropriately to certain analogies: be it one’s presence on search engines or the publication of private content, this is a situation of crisis, of deep change concerning online confidentiality…
How to Effectively Blend Online and Offline Networking.
As all professionals already know, networking is an essential aspect of strengthening a business or an individual career. Building professional relationships with new contacts and companies will expand your business and improve your professional reputation. For start-ups, networking online can give your brand or product the little boost it may need. If done well, creating an online web of other businesses and individuals will build you a strong market presence and improve awareness about your brand. Businesses did fine before […]
Calling all Hackers!
It’s a good time for developers! Hackdays, dev contests, API platforms opening everywhere… The San Francisco dev community has a lot of opportunities to shine! First the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon, very soon the Twilio Hack Night, next weekend the HTML5 Hackathon at Eventbrite, which Viadeo is sponsoring, and of course the Viadeo Dev Challenge, still ongoing since its launch at SF New Tech! Indeed, at the Bring on the APIs event, Viadeo launched a Developer Challenge online, running until the 14th […]
Social Media Marketing and Monitoring Conference 2011: Our takeaways
Viadeo was one of the proud sponsors of the London Social Media Marketing & Monitoring Conference 2011 on Monday, hosted by Our Social Times. The day began with a thought-provoking panel discussion about the future of social networking. Viadeo’s Wayne Gibbins, communications consultant Neville Hobson, NixonMcInnes’ strategy director Jenni Lloyd and the Guardian’s technology editor Charles Arthur, set the tone for the day. They generated stimulating questions including: – Will niche networks and applications will always be popular? The resurgence […]
Social Networks’ Transformation of Modern Politics
Social media is forever re-inventing itself, altering how we interact, communicate and…vote?
We used to rely almost exclusively on newspaper, television and radio for political information. Today, the Internet is a core source of information (A study in the US showed that over half of the population used the Internet to follow the 2008 presidential election). In addition, political blogs have sprung up all over the world and often top lists of the most powerful blogs in the world. Now, we can research independent blogs, read multiple articles, watch videos and discuss in forums before we form our own opinions instead of relying on traditional media.
Bring on the APIs!
300 people gathered last night at Mighty, downtown San Francisco, for SF New Tech’s Bring on the APIs. An all-geek event organized by Myles Weissleder, that Viadeo’s PR team thought of at Web 2.0 Expo back in February while discussing with Myles. The idea was to showcase Viadeo’s partners and other companies working on cool social services for an API-only evening. 8 companies presented their APIs and all the fun stuff you could create with them. Beers and free tacos […]
How to create a social website using APIs
There are only a few days left to go before the official US launch of the Viadeo API at Bring on the APIs in San Francisco - Join us to find out why you should be interested in social APIs for your business! So we asked Amy Reams, Business Development Manager at Gigya, a successful integration platform for websites and social networks, to give her thoughts on why developers and entrepreneurs should be interested in social APIs and how they can […]
