Qik is service to allow users to upload video straight from their phone to social sites like Twitter, Mogulus, Pownce & others. What is exciting is they just release the alpha yesterday for Blackberry. You can see the video above. I am testing on a Blackberry Pearl & will let you know how it goes on a later post.

I know many of you are looking forward for it on the iPhone. I know they are testing it now and am sure it will release soon.

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I am writing this post via my iPhone. While this post is taking me a little longer to write, it just shows you how social mobile is going to be the next wave. More when I have a real keyboard.

Ping.fm is back up as of about 1ish Eastern Time. Here is the thread  from Ping.fm Official rep @ getsatisfaction.com

Sean, Official Rep, replied 8 hours ago

BACK UP!

I’m UP

Sean, Official Rep, replied 1 day ago

Just to set everyone at ease, we are simply waiting on GoDaddy to update their end so that this mess becomes history. I’ve been in direct contact with them. Actually, the office of the President of GoDaddy called me personally ensuring that they are working on this with a high priority.

Everyone can do us a favor by just spreading the word that everything in power is being done to correct this. And be known that we aren’t going anywhere. This isn’t us leaving, nor shutting down. This is a problem that has come between service provider and client. It’s unfortunate, but it happens.

This should all go away any time now.

Thanks for your continued support through some wrenches in the system. Keep on pingin! (Bots still work.)

I’m not a bot

The company and 9 other people say this solves the problem

The site ping.fm is down. This site allows you to update many social networks such as Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr, Pownce, Facebook, hi5, LinkedIn, Plaxo, MySpace, Bebo, LiveJournal and Blogger is down today. IT was fine last night.

Buyout? Merger?

Don’t know. But it was set up by 2 guys doing this part-time out of Tulsa, Oklahoma. So, if it was me, and anyone throwing any money my way… you can guess you what I would do. They even had iPhone & mobile apps. Hope it will still be around whether it stays the way it is or enhanced by a buy out from one of the big boys. Maybe the server is just down who knows. Will update as I get news from my connections.
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I had a chance to interview Will Turner & Laura Posey, owners of Dancing Elephants, in regards to their unique tradeshow promo at the Richmond Chamber’s Spin event. Find out how they got me to put on a tutu and dance like an elephant.

You can check out the winning dance by clicking the following link. http://www.byoaudio.com/playv/W6y5PBDs

Will & Laura are also authors of Six Secrets of Sales Magnets
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Here is my follow up to last week’s experiment. after 4 days… I was able to bump up my video to 1st page Google search for GittyGalye McMoon. Susie Galvez, Smokie Sizemore & Keith Kreuer has done a pretty good job of dominating their names, so I have not been able to crack the 1st page just yet.

Nhat Pham Wireless Warrior Social Media Web 2.0 Richmond, VA

I was terribly upset today when I called to discontinue my Comcast Internet service. They cannot disconnect till I return my modem yet they can disconnect when I was out of town and had a delayed payment! I could have a store bought modem and they could disconnect then they said. What??? Utterly rediculous. More in my video.
I am keeping my cable tv with Comcast for now depending on how long I have to wait @ their office to return this modem.

Nhat Pham

Wireless Warrior Social Media Web 2.0 Richmond, VA

In the last year, I have been working heavily on social media particularly when it comes to video (which is part of the reason why I came up with SUCCESSWERKS) . I was fascinated to see my video on Marci De Vries last month pulled up 3rd on a Google search for Marci De Vries.

So I decided to do a test of four folks going through my WERKShop to see if I could do the same with their names since they actually dominate their name search. Meaning, if you searched for their names it would be these individuals and not other folks with the same names that pull up. So… Susie Galvez, KittyGayle McMoon, Smokie Sizemore, Keith Kreuer; Here is your free publicity and we will see if this will outrank any of your other pages.

Nhat Pham Web 2.0, Social Media, Richmond, VA, Virginia, Susie Galvez, KittyGayle McMoon, Smokie Sizemore, Keith Kreuer, Wireless WarriorWireless Warrior Social Media Web 2.0 Richmond, VA

Google is a day late & a dollar short with their G1 Google Phone releasing almost a year and a half after the iPhone. Other factors which will hurt the G1 penetration is the current competition of iPhone, the very entrenched Blackberry “email-centric” secure device, and a plethora of touchscreen phones coming out.With that being said, it is very slick phone.

While it has a ways to go with business application like tying it in to Microsoft Exchange Server, it does has the ability to sync to a single PC.

What I do like about the G1 Google Phone:

- It has tons of preloaded apps

- Supports Word, Excel, Acrobat

- It has a slide out tactile QWERTY keyboard (iPhone take note)

- Compass mode lets you pan 360 while you walk!

- Touchscreen & keyboard engagement

- It supports 3G (dual band UMTS); quad band GSM
- Price $179 (w/2yr T-Mobile agreement) in line w/ entry point & features

- Battery life (5 hrs talk time; 130 hrs standby)

What I don’t like:

- NO Exchange support at present time

- No Itunes encoded media support

- T-Mobile only

- They haven’t given me one to test drive

Bottom line:

Great for the prosumer, student or single business owner. Not great for corporate user or folks who needs to have real time connection with a server.

Nhat Pham 

Wireless Warrior Social Media Web 2.0 Richmond, VA