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Jul 08 2011

Different Between Two Smartphone Commercials

I’m an Apple product lover, I don’t know if I would call my self Apple obsessed but everything I own is Apple. It is this way because I like their products, they fit my life and work how I want them to. I have no complaints about them.

Ironically I have found watching other smartphone makers commercials more enjoyable, like this one by Samsung. They are eye catchy and draw me in with effects and fun music. They are fun to watch, over and over again. They don’t really make me want a their phone though, what they do is make me want to get up and move or figure out how they did that effect in the middle. Nothing about the actual phone. This is where Apple has the floor.

Keeping in mind, a commercial isn’t what decides which phone I’m going to get. Apple nails down the WHY in their commercials. Why do people need this phone. They have commercials that tell you why Doctors, Teachers and Parents use them. They add a, soft, narration with classical soothing music. They don’t spin the phone around on the screen as someone dances to music, or shows you some analogy of why the phone is cool. Apple is going to pull at your heart-strings and give you real life applications of how the phone is used (not to be mistaken with how the phone works).

So one commercial is fun to watch and has a catchy beat and the other gives you reason and shows you why you need it. I find it shows how each company thinks and delivers a product. Although Apple has the market share and is making billions of dollars, they project an image that shows they care about their customers and want to give them something that works for them.

What do you think? Which commercial would you most likely cave too?

Written by kylewith · Categorized: Social Media/Internet · Tagged: apple, commercial, iPhone, market, samsung

Jun 30 2011

Fort St John Social Media Day

I’m am disappointed to say that Fort St John is not celebrating Social Media Day. It was something I really wanted to head up and get something going, but unfortunately on this day, June 30, 2011, I am actually driving back from Yellowknife to Fort St John.

Social Media Day is a day when over 1300 communities across the world get together with themselves offline. The people within these communities get to meet each other, they connect, they talk, they enjoy each others time. According to Mashable Social Media Day is a day to celebrate Media becoming Social.

Just because we are missing Social Media Day doesn’t mean we can’t ramp up our Social Community in Fort St John. I would like to see us become even more of an online community than we already are. Since I’m sure most of the people who will read this are already participating on Twitter and Facebook, I want you, over the next week, to get someone you know on Twitter. Show them how it works and show them why it can actually beneficial to them.

By next year I want Fort St John to celebrate Social Media Day like we should!

Social Media Day

Written by kylewith · Categorized: Fort St John, Social Media/Internet · Tagged: celebrations, fort st john, Social Media, Social Media Day

May 25 2011

Cool New Canadian Site For Bloggers

Oh yes my blogging friends, this site is for you. Ever want a site where you can go and search for other Canadian blogs, well now you can. TheCanadianBlogDirectory.com launched today at the Mesh Conference in Toronto.

Blogs are broken up into categories and subcategories, with the addition of tags. It is a nice looking site and the functionality seems good. It is built on WordPress (this bloggers favourite) and con incorporate blog with their feeds.

The process for submitting your blog maybe a little slow right now as I think they are doing them by hand and with the launch I’m sure they are backed up.

Nonetheless, go submit your blog or recommend one. Be heard.

Canadian Blog Directory

Written by kylewith · Categorized: Social Media/Internet · Tagged: Blogging, Canadian, Canadian Blog Direcotry

Apr 08 2010

Questionable about Adobe Flash

This was meant for Facebook but ended up to long. Please share your thoughts.

What is everyone thoughts on Flash? I’ve disliked full Flash websites since day one, but some design companies keep making them.
The iPhone has never supported flash but because of it small screen it wasn’t really an issue, but now with the iPad and its ability to show full webpages it seems that Apple really is pushing for HTML5.
Flash is good for somethings like advertisements and online video, but do you think we should move away from it? When you think about it, it does seem odd that you have to have flash downloaded in order to make certain function work, should websites be fully compatible with a standard web browser?

Written by kylewith · Categorized: Social Media/Internet · Tagged: adobe, flash, html5, iPad, iPhone, websites

Apr 06 2010

Going Joint Venture

Nothing is set in stone yet and I don’t even know what I’m going to be approached about, but I know that it may be something about making YkOnline.ca a joint venture. YkOnline.ca is my local or hyperlocal blog that I started almost a year ago. It is my pride and joy and I truly see the potential within it and the need for it in the community.

That being said, I want nothing more than for it to succeed. That is why I am torn about the possible opportunity of making YkOnline a joint venture. Losing something that you built from the ground up is hard, especially something you’re passionate about. That is not to say I would loss the site completely, but going into a joint venture I would loss a certain percentage of control. I’m personally worried that once another person comes along I would fold to any idea they offer. In some areas I’m not very good at standing up for myself, which is a self-confidence issue.

Part of my reasoning for being a little paranoid about a JV is because I don’t understand what it is. I’m obviously looking for help with the site; it is hard for me to keep it up-to-date with current information on a daily base. What I was hoping for in a partnership was someone who shares the passion of the community rather than someone with a journalism background. That’s not to say that wouldn’t be great, but as someone with out any journalism background I would feel intimidated and feel as though I didn’t have the smarts or any good ideas for that matter to contribute.

Then we run into the question of money. I have put countless hours into YkOnline.ca over the last year where I have made no money, then add in the cost of running the site. There is no way I could give up 49% of the site with out getting a good deal in someway or another.  The site currently makes no money but come the end of April I will start to push getting advertisers and try to generate revenue through ads. If YkOnline.ca were to split between more than me, how would we split the revenue? Considering I would probably sell the ads, invoice, and do all the dirty work, what does that entitle me to. Many of these questions will be answered upon meeting the possible partner, but I’m just putting them out there so I have an idea.

Now you know the situation, so my question is how would you go about this if it were about your blog, or hyperlocal site? What you even consider it? What would you want out of it? What is your general opinion of Joint Venturing a site like YkOnlineca?

Written by kylewith · Categorized: Social Media/Internet · Tagged: Blogging, contributor, Hyperlocal, Joint Venture, news, partner, website

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