Being social at 50

I’m a daily user of Facebook, and Twitter. I’m fairly religious about my checkins on Foursquare. And lately I’ve been initiating connections to every suggested connection I might have through LinkedIn. Google+ gets my attention at very random times....

7 things to know about video for social media

A lot of our clients these days consider video to be the most valuable content for their social media channels. It’s a smart strategy; research overwhelmingly points to video as the most-viewed and most-shared content on the web. Creating “social...

Do you really need a mobile website?

“Do I really need to have a mobile website?” That’s a question we’ve been hearing from clients a lot lately. And the answer may not always be yes. Let’s take a look at some stats from last year. First, consider  the overall percent of...

How On-demand video is driving consumer choices

It used to be people bought stuff that they thought would endure. Then manufacturers came up with something called “planned obsolescence”. Manufacturers don’t want people to replace products because they’re broken, that would decrease the likelihood of any return...

Cloud Services: Are they Secure?

In my last post I talked about the reliability of cloud services and that I believed it was the right choice for Allied Pixel.  But what about security? Several days ago, Amazon.com’s homepage was unavailable for 49 minutes. Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s cloud...