On Digital Media

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Craig Calder (twitter: @ccalder), Ken Gellman (twitter: @kengellman) and Steve Hatch (twitter:@shatch) opine about: Craig was featured in articles on Forbes.com and AdAge.com representing TravelZoo Craig’s team at TravelZoo won the SAMMY Award (MediaPost’s Social Media Award) for The Top Branded Twitter Campaign beating out MadMen and M&M Mars. Congratulations to Craign and the TravelZoo team! Audible.com is still hiring developers. You get to work with Steve Hatch! (Trust me, that’s a good thing. – jf.) Breaking News! Twitter has new avatars! Twitter will add geo-location as a built-in feature. Don’t worry, it will be opt-in. John is using a combination of BrightKite, FourSquare and GoWalla for location-based status updates. Twitter doesn’t want to have to deal with subpeonas - after 14 days, the location metadata associated with your tweets is expunged. “Project Retweet” is an effort to redesign the user experience of retweets - this time,