• Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings
• Nielsen: U.S. Consumers App Downloads Up 28% To 41; 4 Of The 5 Most Popular Still Belong To Google
• How’s The Gold Rush Panning Out? 70% Of Mobile App Users Pay Little Or Nothing, Study Says
• Gartner: Q1 2012 Phone Sales Declined 2%, Dragged Down By Asia-Pacific. Samsung Leads All
• ITU: There Are Now Over 1 Billion Users Of Social Media Worldwide, Most On Mobile

TIPS, TRICKS and TOOLS

•  PROXITUBE- De blocks nonUS users on Youtube – Chrome
•  Engagio- Social inbox

• Social Mix 2012 – Toronto – July 26, 2012

NEWS

• Google Sites Top Facebook On Mobile; 4 Out Of 5 Mobile Media Minutes Spent In Apps
• Smartphones Top Computers For U.S. Facebook Time In March 2012
• Nomophobia: 66 Percent Are Afraid To Be Separated From Cell Phones, Survey Shows

TIPS, TRICKS and TOOLS

• HowToGoMo – Converts your HTML site to a mobile site
• Pricenomics – Look up the average price and price range of any product on the internet
• Pathwright – Build and sell your own online courses

• Steve: Google Video Ads Now Available For Canada & US
• Steve: $75 Credit for Google AdWords
• Steve: YouTube – My Business Story
• Steve: YouTube – Advertiser Playbook
• Martin: Google Vault – Online Storage
• Martin: Adobe Releases CS6 – with cloud based version
• Hessie: Whose driving the social media bus? Marketing or Customer Service?
• Hessie: Is Facebook Timeline good for business?

TIPS, TRICKS & TOOLS

• Hessie: Question: Recently, Facebook provided a new feature that allows users to categorize contacts as  ”close friends”. Once this happens, you will now receive notifications of their status updates, regardless whether you are tagged. I cannot remove this from notifications — it doesn’t exist. Can someone help?
• Martin:
• Steve: Klout App for iPhone (Android will be available soon.)

TANGENTS

• Xtranorml
• TNT Ad: A DRAMATIC SURPRISE ON A QUIET SQUARE 
• Dropbox
• Forrester 2016 Predictions
• LiquidMetal
• Fiskars Scicssor’s Fiskateers

Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/monarchcreative/5905481003/in/photostream/

• Hessie: Facebook Acquires Instagram: Brand Implications
• Martin: Gartner Predicts 665 Million Tablets In Use By 2016, Over 45% Of Them iPad Devices
• Steve: IAB Canada Releases Detailed Mobile In Canada Report To Accompany IAB US Global Mobile Anthology

TIPS, TRICKS & TOOLS

• Hessie: Blurtt - another photo app but cooler
• Martin: Arq – Pro level cloud backup for Mac users
• Steve: Instaport - A simple way to export all your Instagram photos to other social services or your local hard drive.

Photo Credit:

Risa has worked on a ton of games since then, here’s a list of her production credits to give you an idea:

• Raven Squad: Completion Bond IFG
• The Witcher: CD Projekt / Atari
• Alone in the Dark 5: Atari
• Jamie Oliver “What’s cooking”: Atari
• Rogue Trooper: Completion bond FFI
• Urban Chaos2: Completion bond FFI
• Piglets BIG Game: Disney / Take 2
• ALIAS: Disney / ABC TV / Acclaim.
• Martian Alert: Warner Bros. / Atari
• Martian Revenge: Warner Bros. / Atari
• Lucky Luke: On the Dalton Trail / Atari
• Adventure of the Smurfs: Atari
• Tintin: Moulinsart / Atari
• Loons: Warner Bros. / Atari
• Dark Earth: Microprose
• “In the tracks of Gabriel Yared”  Documentary film TPS France, RTBF BENELUX
• “In the tracks of Maurice Jarre” Documentary film TPS France, RTBF BENELUX
• “City Rats” feature film Scanner Rhodes Productions
• “Night Junkies” direct to DVD, Scanner Rhodes productions

You can find Risa on Twitter @risacohen

For a full Bio, check out http://europeanfilmbonds.com/risacohen.html

• Google Tackles Market Research for Publishers via Consumer Surveys
• Google’s Future: Marissa Mayer Explains What The Search Engine Will Look Like In 20 Years
• Jim Balsillie Resigns from RIM Board
• Stop Poking Me, Mom! Is Facebook Losing the Teen Privacy Battle to Twitter?
• ShoeDazzle, Now 10M Members Strong, Expands To Offer Women’s Clothing
• Facebook IPO Set For May

TIPS, TOOLS and TRICKS
• Google Vault - Cloud based backup for Google Apps
• Bump Pay Launches for IOS devices

• Six-Year-Old Twitter Now Has 140M Active Users Sending 340M Tweets Per Day
• Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz And Khosla Back Big Data Startup ClearStory
• The Echo Nest CEO On What Big Data Means To The Music Industry
• BloomReach Crunches Big Data To Deliver The Future Of SEO and SEM
• Tracx Secures $4.4 Million To Bring Big Data To Social Media Management
• Sociocast Raises $1.5 Million For ‘Big Data’ Analytics Solutions

TIPS TRICKS and TOOLS

• www.un0momento.com – Video presentation App
• www.padmapper.com - Apartment rental classifieds aggregation app

• Podcamp Toronto - Check out Hessie’s Session Info

NEWS

• LinkedIn Adds An Embeddable Follow Button For Company Sites
• Washington Post Tests Personalized News Program
• Microsoft To Replace “Live” Branding With “Microsoft Account” In Windows 8
• 850K Daily Android Activations, 300M Total Devices, Says Andy Rubin
• Joustin’ Beaver App Maker Served A Cease & Desist Order From Justin Bieber

TIPS, TRICKS and TOOLS 

• Highlight – Social Discovery App
• Twilio Client iOS SDK Puts VoIP In Any App, Turning iPads Into Call Centers
• Snackr For iPhone Is A “Pandora For News”

• Flurry: Mobile Ads Still Get The Short Straw In Brand Spend; Women Driving eCPMs
• For The Young, Smartphones No Longer A Luxury Item
• Barnes & Noble Misses In Q3; NOOK Business Up 38 Percent To $542M
• It’s On: 8GB Nook Tablet Takes Aim At Kindle Fire With $199 Price Tag
• World’s Cheapest Tablet Launched
• Consumers Eager to Buy iPad3, Even Kindle Fire Owners
• Why Retailers are Shutting Down their Facebook Stores

TIPS, TOOLS and TRICKS

• Firefox – Password Use Visualizer (Firefox browser only)
• Tablet virtual keyboard for the visually impaired