CNN explores a topic that we know well here at Blue Fountain Media: Making Money through Social Media. Anchor TJ Holmes explains that you can use social media “for more than just building up your fans, friends, and followers.” CNN sent financial expert Clyde Anderson to a small retail business that wasn’t using social media to give them a few tips. Read the rest of this entry »

TOPGUEST lets users earn reward points for using geo check-in software at participating partners. The site is compatible with all the major geolocation apps (Foursquare, Gowalla, Google Latitude, Loopt, Twitter, and Yelp). While geolocation services are among the hottest startups around, what they’re useful for is still being worked out. By monitoring your whereabouts for checkins at its partner hotels, TOPGUEST ties geolocation-based checkins to loyalty and reward schemes.
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As web designers go digital with their conceptualization process, they’re losing some of the magic in hand-drawn sketches. Read the rest of this entry »

Mashable.com, the gold standard in media coverage of social media, thinks that QR and barcodes are ready about to go mainstream. In author Jennifer Van Grove‘s estimation, the primary roadblock keeping scanable codes (i.e. barcodes and QR codes) back from being used by the masses is an application that can “take the nerd-factor out of the QR code scan, and drive home the potential rewards of seeing a code, scanning it, and then engaging with the served-up content.” Enter Stickybits. “Stickybits…integrates the barcode scan in intelligent and fun ways.”

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One of the great things about working with so many terrific clients is hearing about the great work they’re doing. We just wanted to share some news involving two of our clients working together on the biggest commercial solar power installation in Long Island. Read the rest of this entry »

No, I’m not taking about adding bass drums to the background of your blog. I’m referring to the pattern of your blog posts, and how they should be congruent with your audience’s lifestyle.

How Often Should You Update Your Blog?

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After building The World’s Largest Stickybits Barcode, we discovered that Stickybits‘ headquarters is just a few blocks away from Blue Fountain Media. So we got in touch with Stickybits founder and CEO Billy Chasen, invited him and his team over for an event we dubbed “Giant Stickybit, Regular Sized Beer”.

I’m a huge music aficionado and aggregating all the web’s music sources–streaming, downloading, and even my own collections on iTunes–is pretty distressful.

Extension FM is a powerful way to stream, play back, buy, and discover music across the web. Read the rest of this entry »

More and more tweets include geolocation meta data these days. This means that tweets are interwoven with GPS coordinates that mark where each tweet was sent from. There are sites that show live tweets on a map and the advanced search page on Twitter.com even lets you search for particular words in tweets from or near a particular location.

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“RollCall: Bloggers Listing Blogs” is a new series by Blue Fountain Media. Bloggers are invited to submit a list of great blogs in their area of expertise.

Well Done Burger Blogs

Rev. David Ciancio runs a blog dedicated to that all-American bit of gastro-heaven that is the hamburger. If you’re looking the lowdown on New Yorks greatest ground beef, look no further than BurgerConquest.com. Blue Fountain Media invited David to write the inagural RollCall blog post. -RM
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