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Asia Pacific Digital Brand Index (DBI) – One Year On

Over the past year, Edelman Digital APAC and our partners at Brandtology have mined and analyzed 12 months of online conversation about major technology brands covering:

8 million posts,

representing the perspectives of millions of netizens,

talking about 350 technology brands,

housed in 4,000 regional online channels,

across eight Asian markets.

So what? Well apart from improving the insights; targeting and relevance to our client’s digital programs; and helping us…

Health Digital Check-Up: Health Hits The iPad

For a variety of reasons, innovation around mobile communication in the United States seems to revolve around how applications are leveraged on smart devices like BlackBerrys (client), iPhones, and other types of feature-rich phones.

The progression of mobile technology has led right to something in between phones and computers: tablet devices that have mobile connectivity and other interactive features. It’s hard to miss the hype around the Apple iPad – and the applications that are available for that device.

The iPad may offer some significant avenues for…

The Swiss Cheese Web Ain't The Web

Seemingly overnight the Information Superhighway (does anyone call it that anymore?) became littered with potholes. In the last week Apple sold nearly 500,000 iPads, none of which support key technologies that we have come to rely on, including Adobe Flash, Windows Media and others. (Adobe and Microsoft are Edelman clients.)

For the last week I have been using my iPad as my primary device. I enjoy the slate format and think it’s the next big thing for computing – one that will see lots of winners….

Quick Hits: March 13

As SXSW begins, the ‘big news’ in social media will feature the latest and greatest developments for location based tools like Foursquare, Gowalla and Plancast. Twitter ‘exploded’ at SXSW a few years ago and Foursquare began to bubble in 2009. We calmly await to see who the next “darling” will be this year! Translation: checking our Twitter streams like mad to see what SXSW people are talking about.

Facebook…