Hootsuite Entering The Social Ads Business

Hootsuite has recently raised a significant $165 million round from Insight Venture Partners, Accel Partners, and OMERS Ventures. Hootsuite is a company focused creating software for social media monitoring and management.  Founded in 2008, the company has grown to have 7 million users and carry big clients like Pepsi, Virgin, Sony, Esurance and more. The […]

Tablets, tablets EVERYWHERE

Wearable and Scannable Computing: Where are they now?

It’s a geek dream from many, many years back. Wearing your computer! It doesn’t get much geekier. With the popularity of smartphones and the way they’ve invaded our lives it seems hard to imagine that we’d be able to say good-bye. The next logical step is to physically attach ourselves I guess? How do we […]

Glimpse: Social Discovery

Glimpse Social Discovery Conference

Last weeks was the 2nd annual Glimpse Social Discovery conference. Wow! We were totally blown away by the quality of the content as well as the speakers. There were some hilarious moments as well as serious ones. All in all we are glad to have attended. Here were a few of the key takeaways: Mobile […]

SF AppShow

CircleClick attended the annual Appshow here in San Francisco last week. Hosted by Seth Socolow and presented by Gina Smith, SF Appshow featured this years newest mobile applications for iPhone, iPad and Android devices. Ten apps in all, each app was presented and voted on by the audience and also, viewers watching via live stream. […]

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Google IO 2013: What Were the Takeaways?

The Google IO 2013 event took place on May 15 though 17th and brought together 5500 people to see Google’s latest updates and innovations.  These IO conferences are focused on the future of web, mobile, and social technologies, and are looked to as prophetic for the year to come. Let’s cut to the chase and […]

Universal Analytics: are you ready?

Being a private invite only service, it has finally released to the public.  At the end on March Google released Universal Analytics to the public as an open beta.  This long awaited update has added several new features and data collecting methods for your analytic arsenal. The move to Universal Analytics will not be a […]

Facebook home for android

Facebook home page for mobile: success or disaster?

Many of you out there may or may not be aware that Facebook home for mobile has been released. I was actually pretty excited for this since android doesn’t always get the love it should. (Yes, I’m still upset about Twitter not releasing the Vine app for android!) Now that Facebook has shown support for […]

Matthew Inman Delivers Last Keynote at SXSW 2013

Matthew Inman, creator of The Oatmeal, delivers a heartfelt and humorous keynote at SXSW 2013. Mathew delivered the last Keynote for SXSW Interactive this year following Elon Musk, Tina Roth Eisenberg, and Julie Uhrman. From his success with his web comics, and delivery of his keynote. It is clear that Inman was someone who understands […]

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SXSW 2013 Interactive highlights: 7 takeaways

Each year of SXSW just gets better and better! It’s a gathering of truly fascinating people. Thousands show up in droves to attend the festival every single year. It’s funny to watch the newbies vs. veterans at SXSW, because their experiences are so very different. Having attended 10+ years of  interactive I can safely say […]