Tropical Storm Irene (click image for enlargement)

To the relief of everyone on the Eastern seaboard and the rest of the world, Hurricane Irene has now been downgraded to Tropical Storm Irene. Throughout the time the storm soaked the eastern seaboard with blustery winds and a deluge of rain, NASA’s GOES-13 satellite has been sending magnificent pictures back to Earth. This latest shot was taken at 8:32 A.M. EDT on Sunday morning, 28 minutes before Irene’s landfall near Coney Island in New York City.

Notice how the storm lacks the tight organization showed in the Hurricane Irene pictures NASA sent back to earth yesterday, with today’s Irene lacking that ominous eye that peered out from its center as it moved up the coast as a Category 1 hurricane. By the time it had reached New York City, its maximum sustained winds were a manageable 65 mph.

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Afianzado el modo 3D y con diseño y grosores ya casi imbatibles, este final de 2011 debe ser el momento en el que empecemos a ver en serio a las llamadas teles inteligentes.

No se trata ya de hacer mejores técnicamente los paneles o las conexiones, esto está superado. Ahora hay que hacer del televisor el centro del entretenimiento por dentro. Hay que mejorar su cerebro. Y el usuario lo pide a gritos, pues está aprendiendo a experiencias de usuario enriquecedoras en la palma de su mano y no se resigna a que el aparato frente al que pasa tanto tiempo al día, no le ofrezca lo mismo.

Por parte de los fabricantes, ha llegado la hora de poner el máximo interés en mejorar los servicios. En IFA veremos adelantos, y uno de los que más nos ha llamado la atención será el de InOut TV, creadores de uno de los mediacenter de este año, el 4G. En Berlín nos enseñarán su tecnología integrada directamente en el televisor.

Smart TV 4GHD, servicios integrados en el propio televisor

Smart TV 4GHD será el primer televisor inteligente de la gente de Inout TV, que aprovecharán la feria de Berlín para desplegar todo su encanto y comenzar la internacionalización de sus servicios.

El televisor de InOut TV será fabricado por Oki, y se espera que para navidades ya esté disponible. Su punto fuerte será la funcionalidad del MediaCenter 4G en las entrañas, sin necesidad de equipamiento externo, además de modos 3D opcionales, imaginamos que formando parte de una gama de diferentes modelos.

Lo común a esos televisores es lo mínimo que le podemos pedir ahora mismo para ser competitivo: panel de tipo LED, función de grabación, Wifi integrada, HbbTV, el navegador Opera y alguna sorpresa más que os podremos traer en unos días.

Apple quiere lo mismo

Junto con la salida de Steve Jobs de la dirección de Apple, la noticia de la semana para la empresa ha vuelto a ser la televisión. Seguimos pensando que un televisor propio está lejos, pero viendo el ejemplo de InOut, ya nadie puede asegurar nada.

Apple ha conquistado el mundo de la telefonía, avanza rápido en el de los ordenadores y el televisor es un negocio por explotar todavía y en el que los últimos rumores afirman que la empresa de la manzana quiere hacer algo revolucionario. Estamos ansiosos por ver qué nos propone, con Google siempre al acecho. De hecho, parece que finalmente será a principios de 2012 cuando lo podamos ver en Europa.

Vía | Desdelanube.

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Business cards are one of the most popular personal marketing tools for anyone who is meeting a lot of people in a professional context, and it’s no wonder – they’re portable, affordable, versatile and people actually expect you to use them!  Yet more than 90% of business cards wind up in the trash the day they’re received.  What a waste!

Business card design is more than just the look of the card, although that’s important – it includes the text on the card as well.  And to get the most mileage from business cards, you should also design them with marketing in mind.

Long gone are the days when you simply handed over a white piece of paper with your name and contact info on it to potential clients. Nowadays, who do you think clients will call first, the guy with his name on a sheet of paper or this other one with her name engraved in this colorful plastic wonder?

In this collection we present more than 20 beautiful business card designs for inspiration, we hope they’ll give you some ideas and inspiration for your next design project!

1. Business Card Design Concept Render by Stephan Florquin

2. Business card idea by mitch2004

3. Business Card Design by R3M1X3D

4. .:Indus Tuesdays:. by MolefaceNZ

5. Business Card Design by Popcorn Initiative

6. E kwiat by RadASS

7. Sorin Bechira and Adrian Labos

8. Osram Invitation by mohamedsaleh

9. Flisky do net business cards by flisk

10. Business Card Design by Hidden Creative

11. Sketchbot biz card by Sketch guy

12. acidGFX business cards by AC-1D

13. .:xplicit business cards:. by 7UR

14. business cards by kpucu

15. Muymra business cards by loc0

16. Just Creative Design Business Card by Jacob Cass

17. Viewzi by SuperWindy

18.ODD BUSINESS CARD VERSION 2 by MolefaceNZ

19. akira business cards render by daan-rutgers

20. Business Card Design by XTR Design

21. pfd business cards v3 by crezo

22. Jason Woan

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Antony Mayfield is iCrossing’s Senior Vice President, Social Media, leading the company’s services and innovation efforts related to the social web. He is also the author of Me and My Web Shadow, a newly released everyperson’s guide to the social web. You can find him on his blog or Twitter.

The measure of your reputation is what you do plus what others say about you. That was one of the first things I learned in PR. A reputation can be managed, and can be influenced by the things we do, but it can never be designed or decided upon by its holder. Reputation is earned.

As the social web has distributed the power and influence formerly held by the mainstream media, it has created the need for personal reputation awareness. And despite being a long-time user of social media, I found I learned some new things as I navigated these waters for myself. Below are three tips that I found useful.

1. You Are Your Network

It made me think about my own family’s personal details and images. What if I became a story? What would a journalist find? My profile’s privacy settings were locked down, but sure enough, a few clicks showed that my wife’s was wide open.

It was a clear lesson: If you want to manage privacy, reputation, and your security to any extent, you have to think about those around you — especially those who are not as tech-savvy.

2. If You Can’t Delete, Compete

The time may soon come when so much content about our lives is online that we get suspicious if we find no unpolished or slightly embarrassing bits about someone when we look. Why are they so perfect? What are they hiding?

Reputation is a messy and uneven business. Playing the content game is often preferable to an all out war — a battle you will most likely lose.

3. There’s a Cottage Industry Around “Reputation Protection”

There is, in fact, a small industry growing up to help people manage how their privacy is affected by the web. At the high end, rich and powerful celebrities now hire digital security specialists to help them lock down everything from their voicemail inbox, to their e-mail and Facebook accounts, and to look for the weak points where stalkers or prying journalists might try to get some juicy information.

For the rest of us, a host of services promise to safeguard your identity and reputation online — I even get one service free with my credit card. It tells me less than my Google Alerts, though, so I’m broadly skeptical about the effectiveness of services like this. At best, they should be combined with an effort to develop personal web literacy and an understanding of how to manage online reputation responsibly.

Conclusion

As Howard Rheingold says, “What you know or don’t know about networks can influence how much freedom, wealth and participation you and your children will have in the rest of this century.”

It should be the goal of every web-savvy professional to have their online reputation precede them.

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This is part 3 in a 6-part series detailing a simple process for developing a successful Social Media Marketing program based on the acronym L-I-S-T-E-N.

Part 1: L is for Listen & Learn

Part 2: I is for Interpret & Identify

What was the last ad you saw that solved a problem you had?

Or the last email that did?

The last tweet?

Better yet, when was the last time a company asked for your help in solving a problem?

If you’re anything like me the times this happens are few and far between.

As a result too much advertising interrupts us solving problems we don’t really have or, worse, just bombarding us with ‘we, we, we’ messages.

And it’s a shame really because what an opportunity we have as marketers in the digital age to find out what problems people have and involve them in the solution!  There’s probably never been a better time in history.

If you’ve been following along in our process for developing successful social media marketing, by now you’ve used the many tools marketers have today to listen in on the conversation.

And, based on that, you’ve identified the problem(s) your target market has along with the online communities where they congregate and the key influencers.

The third phase of the social media process – Solicit & Solve – solicits influencers – whether they’re current customers or potential customers –in solving the problem at hand. This is done by engaging them to find out their ideas, thoughts and preferences in creating a mutually beneficial outcome.

Sometimes the solution may be as simple as creating new content to speak to the need of a certain demographic. For example providing party hosts with a drink recipe app or, conversely, a blood-alcohol calculator to convince guests to take a taxi.

Other times a solution may be more complicated; changing your product to offer Moms a sanctuary in the middle of an indoor playground for example. Or, harder yet, asking an individual who had a negative experience with your product to participate in the resolution process so that the issue doesn’t occur in the future.

The goal of this process is simple: to solicit your customers help in solving the problem so that those with a good experience are even more encouraged to share it with their network and those with a negative experience, at the very least, don’t negatively influence anyone else with respect to the product or company or, best case scenario, become brand advocates and tell others how pleased they are with the solution.

So do yourself – and your customers – a big favour and base your Social Media marketing strategy around solving a core problem and solicit the communities help in creating the solution.  It’s a simple but rare approach that will make you more successful.

Next week: Testing & Tracking

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Solve A Problem To Achieve Social Media Marketing Success

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