This Saturday night after the Live Arts Gala, the After party “Afterglow” will be at Live Arts. Dancing, raffle items, high-flying entertainment, drinks and a midnight breakfast. The money raised will benefit Live Arts. To receive updates about the event, use Blastogo. Text “follow live arts” to 32075 to receive any urgent updates on your phone.
Great article in the NY Times last week about the effects of constant friend updates via Facebook / Twitter etc. on relationships and culture. Read it here: Brave New World of Digital Intimacy
Interested in Marketing, Advertising or PR? Would you rather lose your wallet than your phone? Are you usually the one behind the scenes making sure the party is not lame? We want to hear from you.
We have several openings for a semester-long marketing intership that is open to incoming UVA students. You will be helping to launch, market and manage a new social networking internet service at UVA. We need help thinking critically about what people like, don’t like, creative marketing and how to throw exciting launch parties.
If you are interested or want to know more, read this:
We are preparing to release the all new, completely different, super-awesome FixTunes version 5 and are looking for volunteers to help test. This will be a free upgrade for all current FixTunes customers, so don’t worry if you want to buy the current version. We are looking for both XP, Vista and Mac OS people that can test the new FixTunes and give us some feedback. If you help us test and provide usable feedback (good or bad) we’ll give you a couple of free purchase codes (to share with friends) for your trouble. We are only looking for a couple of dozen testers and will try and get a variety of system setups.
If you are interested, please email testing@cloudbrain.com and include details on your computer and how roughly how many songs you have.
Thanks!
Marketing isn’t so hard. You just need to inspire people. Way to go Discovery Channel. I’m downloading some of your shows now…
When browsing real estate websites online, ever wish you could look at pictures around the neighborhood rather than at the pictures that are just of the front of the house (and carefully selected by an agent for the best angle)? Maybe look up and down the street to make sure there is a dump or a grave yard next door?
We’ve begun rolling out a solution to this at CurbPlaces.com: Street Pictures. Now, when you zoom all the way in on the CurbPlaces map, little camera icons will appear throughout the neighborhood. Clicking a camera will bring up 360 degree pictures of the area. Try it out. We’ve started with Downtown and the City and our slowly making our way across the map (as fast as our intern can ride his bike carrying a laptop, digital camera, and GPS device…)
Click here to check it out (Just zoom all the way in).
(Yes, we know Google is doing this as well. But we couldn’t wait until they got around to photograph little ol’ Charlottesville. So we went ahead and did it for them. Thank you very much.)
Now that its beautiful outside we’ll (Cloudbrain) be trying to spend some time hanging out on the Downtown mall hardly working working hard. Come find us. If the weather is nice, we’ll be Enoteca around 3pm (look for the laptops…). And: http://www.bostogo.com/fritops
We are looking to hire a Marketing Director. The primary responsibility of this role will be the marketing, advertising and promotion of our FixTunes product, though the position will be involved in developing marketing strategy for other products. If you know a talented, brilliant, creative person that loves marketing and wants to work for a fun Internet company in Charlottesville, send them our way. Job Description
We recently released a completely re-written Bostogo with the tag line “An Away Message For Your Phone”. Pretty much everything has been re-written and is brand-spankin-new. It is now even easier to find and “follow” friends, keep people up to date with what you are doing, update your current location and see who is hanging out where. Bostogo Groups have a lot of new features and you can even follow your favorite websites from within Bostogo. Check it out.
One of the original reasons behind creating CurbPlaces was due to the poor quality of other “big” Internet real estate websites. Most of them tend to ignore Charlottesville completely or have pretty poor search results when it comes to our area. Check out the difference between these two maps of the same area on CurbPlaces and Yahoo Real Estate. One driving principle of CurbPlaces is that you can’t make a good local website if you do it everywhere and try and be all things to everyone.