Is Twitter threatening the success of online dating services? “No,” according to Mark Brooks, an analyst and consultant for the online dating industry. Brooks presented a panel late last month at the iDate2010 conference in Miami Beach. He recapped the past year’s successes and failures in the online dating industry…
Feb’s Social Media Club meeting took place on Tuesday at Citrix headquarters in Fort Lauderdale. The theme was “Social Media Predictions for 2010.” Predictions started long before when the club crowdsourced by asking others to post their predictions online by among other things, tweeting with the hashtag #sm2010.A panel, moderated…
The Super Bowl has come and gone, but one local tradition is still going strong. The 69th annual Miami International Boat Show and Strictly Sail Miami will have boating, fishing, and water sports enthusiasts in a frenzy this weekend. The National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA), which organizes the show, expects about…
Ah, the Super Bowl — that one time of the year when even football widows pay homage to pigskin. Silicon Beach caught the Saints-beat-the-crap-out-of-the-Colts game at Brickell Irish Pub, where a dozen screens afforded great views of men’s scrotums covered in tight pants. The Celtic chips were also delicious.But it…
If you’re wondering what the new construction is just behind Lincoln Road near the corner of Washington Avenue in South Beach, it’s not just a new fancy building by Frank Gehry, but a cutting edge facility that will put Miami Beach on the map for music and technology.It all started…
Gus Moore, founder and owner of Miami Beach 411, a decade-old website with one of the city’s oldest and most active online community forums, has a hefty bone to pick with the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau.It all began last week when Moore was surfing GMCVB’s website and logged…
Geeks aren’t exactly known for having the most seductive of charms, but then again, no one was ever born with a manual on how to properly express feelings of love … or lust. So whether you are a geek in love or love someone who is a geek, here are…
The year kicked off with a Refresh Miami meetup at the University of Miami’s University Center student lounge. The presenter was Miami techie Peter Martinez (@orical), who is cofounder of Pikchur, a photo-sharing service. Martinez enlightened the audience about the “cloud,” which is basically geek speak for doing stuff online…
Crisis Camp Haiti in Miami, which Silicon Beach previewed in a post here, took place last Saturday at the Miami Herald building. Nearly 100 techies, journalists, and other volunteers showed up, split into groups, and brainstormed ways technology can help Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake.Among the ideas set in…
Last week was buzzing with two great tweetups. On Wednesday, Sushi Samba held its first nationwide one, which Silicon Beach announced earlier in the month. Tweetup guests in Vegas, Chicago, New York City and of course Miami locations connected over the twittersphere simultaneously with the hashtag #sstwtup. The conversations were…
Silicon Beach reported on Crisis Camp in this week’s Wednesday installment. Just two days later, geeks from D.C. launched a mobile phone application called Tradui that facilitates Kreyol to English and English to Kreyol translations. The application is free and available for iPhone and Android.In Tradui, you can translate words…
Haiti is in sheer survival mode right now and technology is helping in ways that will not only benefit earthquake survivors in the coming weeks, but also in the years to come.Geeks have been pondering since last weekend — the first series of Crisis Camps for Haiti took place in…
Miamian Sef Gonzalez, AKA Burger Beast, might not be the burger “king,” but he has definitely turned his love of burgers into a growing social media empire. In a span of 15 months, thanks to his clever use of social media networks, the humble beef patty has become the focus…
Tripatini, founded last year in March by Miamians Jose Balido and Dave Appell, is a unique social networking site for travelers. The website launched in late August and was dubbed “Facebook for travelers” by the New York Post. Silicon Beach spent some time on the phone with Balido discussing the…
Twitter proved a powerful communication tool when a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit the island nation of Haiti yesterday afternoon, followed by a series of additional earthquakes well past midnight. Tweets began immediately after the first quake.Trending topics on Twitter this morning about the earthquake are, thankfully, beating out American…
Record low temperatures, plummeting today into the low 30s, seems to have stunned Miamians more than the iguanas that are falling out of trees. Activity has been warm online, with a few brave souls publishing status updates while braving the cold. The freezing temperatures prompted Miami Beach 411 contributor Carlos…
Beautifulpeople.com is so exclusive, it recently gave the boot to 5,000 members who popped a few buttons after indulging too much over the holidays, according to sources buzzing all over the web — from Techcrunch to the New York Daily News.The skinny ones on the site weren’t happy with the…
Sushi Samba (@sushisamba), the popular restaurant and bar on the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Lincoln Road, is throwing its first tweetup on January 20 at 8 p.m. The party takes place simultaneously with other locations in Vegas, Chicago and New York City.The nationwide “meet&TWEET” hopes to gather Sushi Samba…
Two thousand nine is history, so it’s time to look forward to a busy year of conferences and events. Here are a few to consider:Social Media Conference, a business event for the social media industry, comes to the Miami Beach Convention Center January 27-29.BarCamp Miami, a gathering of geeks to…
Rising up from a rather sleepy 2008, 2009 was a banner year for social media in Miami. Heck, social media became so important, the Miami New Times decided to hire a local freelance writer to dish on the scene! Here’s an overview:1. ClubsSocial Media Club South Florida covered the gamut…
Yours truly recently dealt with an American Airlines screw up that caused her to miss a trip to Hawaii. So after writing a blog post, starting a thread on a local travel community forum and filling out an official contact form to airline customer relations, all that was left was…
Ah, New Year’s Eve in South Beach — pocketbook gouging at its finest! Club buzz says Lady Gaga is the hottest sold-out party in the nation this New Year’s Eve. LIV at the Fontainebleau Hotel is charging $800 general admission — drinks, food, and party favors not included — quite…
