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NFL.com focuses on Football Fans

Posted on 06. Aug, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

NFL.com launched its new Fans section yesterday, which has been designed with the football fan in mind. It’s a major NFL initiative to engage fans, and this new section represents both a step and a long term commitment to this fan-centric philosophy.
Here are some of the highlights of the new Fans Section that we designed:
1) The crowd has [...]

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10 Must-Have Firefox Add-ons

Posted on 31. Jul, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

This is my collection of ten must-have Add-ons for Firefox, what are your favorites?
1. Adblock Plus
Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them. Watch a quick overview.
2. Xmarks
Xmarks is the #1 bookmarking [...]

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New Twitter Homepage Days Away

Posted on 27. Jul, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

Despite the recent surge in Twitter’s popularity, there are still many folks out there who don’t understand the concept of Twitter.  With a homepage redesign, Twitter has two primary goals:
1) Communicate to users that Twitter is a place where people can discover what is going on in real-time.
2)  Provide the opportunity for a user to try it out first, so [...]

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Twittering from the Womb

Posted on 20. Jul, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

Corey Menscher, a father-to-be, has constructed a device called the Kickbee that notifies him when his unborn baby kicks inside the womb.
The Kickbee is a stretchable band with attached sensors, and is worn by a pregnant mother over her stomach. A microcontroller in the band then captures the movement of the baby kicking, and transmits the signals wirelessly to an application on a [...]

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Spymaster, Twitter game or Twitter spam?

Posted on 01. Jun, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

For those of you who are familiar with Facebook’s social networking games like “Knights” and “Mob Wars”,  Twitter’s Spymaster is in the same mold.  It’s the typical social networking game where you recruit members to build up your clan, and simultaneously purchases weapons, buildings and revenue streams to grow stronger. And then there’s the standard mode [...]

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Latest Research: Twitter is better than Facebook and LinkedIn for business

Posted on 18. Feb, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

Abrams Research recently surveyed 200 social media leaders made up of founders, bloggers, journalists, entrepreneurs and members of the Twitterati.  The questions were posed at Social Media Week on February 13, 2009. While the respondents don’t represent the best sample size/type, it’s still an interesting bit of research to discuss.
The Key Findings:

Businesses need to rush to Twitter today!
40% of [...]

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The Top 150 Twitterers

Posted on 04. Feb, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

I was curious which twitterers (or twits) make up the twitter leaderboard. According to twittown.com, here’s the top 10 twitterrs by total number of followers, including their twitter handles:
1 Barack Obama
(BarackObama)  - 226827
President
2 Stephen Fry
(stephenfry) – 104531
Writer/Actor
3 Evan Williams
(ev) – 59454
Twitter CEO
4 Veronica Belmont
(Veronica) – 59289
Host of Tekzilla on Revision3
5 Michael Arrington
(TechCrunch) – 56870
Founder of [...]

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Superbowl.com is alive and twittering!

Posted on 26. Jan, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

Thanks to major redesign efforts, we have a much improved Superbowl.com for this season. Again, please pass on your comments, thoughts, likes and dislikes.
Check it out: http://www.superbowl.com
Also, we’ve setup a twitter account to provide on-the-fly commentary behind the scenes.
Check that out: http://twitter.com/SuperBowl

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