QR codes are awesome. I don’t care how geeky that sounds cause it’s true. Clearly we’re not the only ones who think so with the recent and explosive 1200%increasein the use of QR codes in North America. What makes QR codes really cool is the fact that there is literally no end to how they can be used. It can be as creative as creating a scannable and ediblewafflethat leads to a specific URL, or as useful as appearing incampaignsigns....
Ottawa-basedShopify, the online software-as-a-service eCommerce platform, is celebrating its 5th birthday by giving back to those that helped make it such a runaway success. And it’s doing it by giving a $100,000 donation to theAcumen fund, which is a non-profit venture fund that serves to help budding entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life. Also known for its Build-A-Business contest, which has just kicked off for a second year, Shopify has put together some impressive numbers in its five years of existence, including powering 16,000 online stores (ranging fromAmnesty Internationalto Angry Birds) and a user base that is spread to 79 countries across the globe....
A newservice has launchedthat allows brands to take a unique approach in how they rank their customers online. While services such as Klout attempt to rank people in terms of their social influence (number of followers, retweetability etc),ShopIgniter’snew commerce platform takes it one step further by analysing which of your customers are using their social networks most effectively to promote your products and services by word of mouth. It extends influence measurement by looking at how specialist their influence is....
When we first profiled ShortForm, the service focused on users (VJs) subscribing to video channels that interest them or create their own, sharing anything they like with the world. ShortForm today has announced the launch of Live Video Parties enabling VJs to broadcast curated video channels to a live audience. The launch comes on the heels of ShortForm reaching 1M unique viewers of VJ curated channels in July. To date, VJs have created thousands of channels using ShortForm’s existing web-based video curation platform, using video from sites such as YouTube and Vimeo, sequencing them into their own unique mixes....
We took a look atShortmailback in July andfound the Web service to be really promising. It has the noble aim of making all our lives a lot easier by restricting you from sending or receiving email messages that exceed 500 characters in length and banning attachments. To know more about why, you should to take a look at theEmail Charter. The servicebecame further enriched on Wednesdaywith the introduction of a “Shortmail Me” widget for your blog, Markdown support, open conversations and other features....
