What’s the best way to find events happening in Boston? Craigslist, Boston.com, or CitySearch? What about Last.fm? Maybe you simply cross your fingers and update your IM or Facebook status to read, “Whats going on this weekend?” hoping for a response from your friends?
While Facebook and Twitter are efficient ways to share events, using either to find new ones can be a bit more challenging.
This is the premise behind RiotVine, a new Cambridge-based start-up attempting to make it easier to find local events and spend time with your friends.
RiotVine is a city-based event listing site integrated with social media services; it combines the efficiency of Twitter with the personal networks we maintain on Facebook. Read more…
Boston’s startup community came out in droves on Thursday, February 4th in support of Xconomy’s Battle of the Tech Bands 3. In attendance were Shawn Broderick (TechStars), Morgan First (The Second Glass), Laura Fitton (oneforty), and many other members of the Boston tech scene. Onstage representing Seattle were Lions Ambition (Boeing) and Juda’s Wake (Microsoft). Going to bat for Boston were McAlister Drive (formerly of Linedata Services), The Dirty Truckers (of American Well and formerly of Sophos), and Deadbeat Darling (of Pictela and formerly Akamai). However, it was the local non-profits and event beneficiaries Year Up Boston and Science Club for Girls who claimed victory in this East Coast-West Coast throwdown.
Athletes like Laurence Maroney are letting us into their lives with Twitter, even if we might not want to go there...
Vince Wilfork reminds us that “everyone wants to be paid what they deserve.” Laurence Maroney is “golfing with Chi Chi girls.” And David Beckham was pleased to have “one 5 to 2 the final.” David Ortiz just hopes that everyone had a good holiday.
These are just some of the comments that athletes have posted on Twitter in the last few months. Social networking with the stars of sport and their innermost thoughts and desires.
There is no doubt that social networking has made the world a smaller place. We exist in a society of tweeters, facebookers, googlers, feeders and bloggers.
Sometimes we can even find the time to interact with human beings in person.
But when we can’t, we are more than happy to have snippets of other peoples’ lives be drip fed to us like lab rats awaiting the next shot of whatever drug will alleviate a yet-to-be invented pandemic. In some ways, Twitter has become that disease. Read more…
We are lucky enough to share the Hangout Hub with Pinyadda, a start-up that makes getting your news easier. Billed as “the easiest way to find and share articles and blog posts,” Pinyadda is a new way to discover and share web content. Users can follow people to see the articles they recommend, follow sites to get new links as they’re published, and follow topics to have relevant links from all over the web delivered. With a single action, (called “Pinning”) users can comment on and share any link with their followers on Pinyadda as well as share the links to to social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook.
Pinyadda went into Open Beta last Fridy, so we made a little congratulations video for them. Here’s to Pinyadda, making their official debut on BostInnovation!
It’s been sports week here at BostInnovation and with sports comes testosterone, so we’re dedicating this week’s edition of BostInno’s Follow Friday to the ladies. We dove deep into to Twitter to find you the women of Boston who are some of the coolest entrepreneurs. These women are being talked about and we’re here to bring their faces (or Twitter avatars) to the masses.
If you follow these ladies, you won’t be disappointed. They’ll make you think and laugh all in 140 characters or less.
Emmi Sorokin
1) @askemmi- According to Emmi Sorokin’s Twitter profile, she is saving the world one outfit at a time and that couldn’t be anymore accurate. Emmi is a personal wardrobe stylist for men. Being fashionable is tough, especially for guys, but not worry because Emmi has your back. Her fashion tips are surprisingly refreshing and have a hint of humor in them. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Emmi in real life, and she’s as enthusiastic on Twitter as she is off it. Hey guys, being fashionable is tough, but Emmi can make it so much easier for you. Read more…
If the Red Sox website is little more than a local storefront for MLB.com to deliver it’s content to baseball fans, the Bruins website is a great example of how a league-run platform can take a creative approach and host original content. Also, the NHL isn’t nearly as bullish as the MLB about promoting league content on team sites, so that probably makes it easier.
Northeastern's GGJ participants made three sweet games in 48 hours!
This past weekend was Global Game Jam. For those of you who don’t know, GGJ is a worldwide event during which gamers, artists, developers, programmers and anyone else who might be interested come together at different locations around the world and team up to build a video game over the weekend.
If you’re wondering what kind of games were created, think 2D web-based. Something you might find on Addictingames or Xbox Live Arcade at the highest level of production. Last weekend, over 4,000 people participated worldwide, resulting in around 800 games. I hit up the Northeastern University location to see what some of Boston’s best game designers cooked up. Read more…
Ortiz casts a giant shadow on other players' pages
The Red Sox 2010 season will be starting up again this April. Until then, we know you’re watching everything about their preparation.
We’ve compiled a list of Red Sox Facebook pages so you can dive headfirst into the Sox social media scene. The Red Sox are one of the more popular Boston teams on Facebook, but they still have a lot of room for improvement. The top dog, however, has edged out everyone else on the team in a big way:
What can I say? Big Papi has a BIG Facebook page. In addition to a fantastic profile image, the page has video, tons of pics, discussions – almost every tab is chalk full of Papi goodness. As the most engaging page of a New England athlete I’ve seen so far, Ortiz’s page shows us what a successful Facebook fan page should look like. He’s also the only Sox player on Twitter, (@DavidOrtiz) where he has 18,673 followers. Read more…
If the Patriots website is all about providing enough homespun content to float a ship in, RedSox.com is just one small vessel in MBL.com’s armada.
In a much stronger show of force than any of the other pro sports league in America, Major League Baseball presents team content in a unified front. It’s all about equality in content for all teams. That means the Kansas City Royals have the exact same layout and content design as the Red Sox. All the teams are offshoots of the battleship that is MLB.com.
Randy Moss is the only player with a sizeable Facebook following
I’m as disappointed as you that we don’t get to watch the Pats duke it out in the Super Bowl this Sunday. Almost as dissapointing is the Patriots’ Facebook presence. Fan-created Facebook pages can be packed with videos, commentary and pictures relating to your favorite Pats players, but most of the pages I found were pretty scant. Since some are more active than others, we have a breakdown to let you know who’s in the Facebook game, and who’s on the bench.
In order of Facebook clout, here’s the team:
Randy Moss – 41,519 fans
As it turns out, Moss pulls in Facebook fans like he pulls in passes. At the top of the list with over 40,000 fans, his page easily kicks QB Tom Brady to second place. Unfortunately, updates are infrequent, suggesting the page is more to show support than to actually interact. Still there are some good links and plenty of goofy fan photos to browse.
Tom Brady – 15,670 fans
Our very own pretty-boy QB: Considering his media popularity in news and television, his Facebook presence is seriously struggling. Though the wall conversations are involved and frequent, other media forms are virtually nonexistent. Without a single photo, and only one vaguely relevant spam video, Brady’s Facebook group leaves a lot of room for fan contribution. Read more…
