Tag Archives: spy

HP keeping up on their social media “Buzz” powered by spy.appspot.com!

February 12, 2009 – 11:52 am

I just received word from Pam Dearen at HP of some great launch news partially powered by spy.appspot.com!
Our new internal Digital Marketing Community Portal launched as planned on January 15. One of its top features is our “HP Buzz” — our custom version of your Spy app.
It’s truly exciting to see big business gravitating toward [...]

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I’m a “Web Development Elf” cool?… Yes cool!

January 17, 2009 – 2:11 pm

Didn’t want to let this pass in the night, blogger and strategist at Undercurrent Mike Arauz picked up on the apps I have been exercising my brain on lately (retweetradar.com and spy.appspot.com) out of the blue and wrote a couple great posts… I mean the titles alone are classic, but they have some prefect [...]

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’spy’ makes “15 Useful Google App Engine Applications” on LouisGray.com!

December 4, 2008 – 8:35 pm

My little Social Media ’spy’ application http://spy.appspot.com makes “15 Useful Google App Engine Applications” on LouisGray.com written by Mike Fruchter! I just slid in there at 15… hoping to keep plugging along adding useful features and using ’spy’ to expose more and more folks to the value of Social Media.
Google App Engine really [...]

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’spy’ing on Mumbai? Floored that my little app can help…

November 27, 2008 – 9:33 pm

As Pete Cashmore of Mashable, Dan Farber of CNet and many others have reported Twitter and social media in general are playing a huge part in receiving accurate and timely information from the crisis in Mumbai.
While not in those leagues, in the last twenty four hours I’ve received notice of a number of posts [...]

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Best Buy: I Spy Twitter – Social Media Efforts at Best Buy and My App ’spy’ Featured in the Pioneer Press!

November 23, 2008 – 2:08 pm

Julio Ojeda-Zapata technology writer and columnist at the St. Paul Pioneer Press and author of twitter means business: how microblogging can help or hurt your company wrote a nice piece today in the Sunday Pioneer Press titled “To twit or not?” [Update: PDFs here] about three Minnesota companies finding some success on Twitter excited to [...]

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Can Making Social Media a Spectator Sport Move it to the Mainstream? – Why I Created spy.appspot.com.

August 5, 2008 – 9:23 am

There is much conversation among bloggers lately about targeting early adopters versus the mainstream, as Scoble would say the passionates versus the non-passionates, should we be excited when the early adopters love our product or service but the masses don’t understand it?
No, we shouldn’t we need to find ways that show the value of what [...]

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