Kansas City SEO and SEM

Many people will receive Hallmark Holiday cards with augmented reality treats inside this year. And this blog post will help you figure out the technology! What I love about augmented reality is the experience, especially when children are around. In my opinion the best gift for adults, trying to mingle with other adults, is a holiday card filled with hours of computer fun for the kids.

1. Download the software from the location on the back of the card. It’s generic, so you need to navigate the process and find your card. When you get to the site you will see the following image and click “GET STARTED”:

2. You will go to the next screen with an option to print the instructions, don’t do that keep it green and select “CONTINUE”:

3. On the next screen make sure to select “HOLIDAY” and then find your exact card.

4. The next display will give you an option to download for MAC or PC.

5. Now the rest get’s fuzzy. If you are on a PC, know you can’t have your camera running at the same time the Hallmark application is trying to access the camera. If you do this and receive errors, just close your camera and “Retry”. And if “Retry” doesn’t work, reboot your computer, use IE and download again.

6. At some point for PC users you should receive the following Setup message:

7. If the install is going well, you will receive a License Agreement, select the radio button “I accept the terms of the License Agreement” (or not).

8. Next screen will be “Completing the Setup”.

9. At this point your computer should detect your camera if it’s built in or connected via USB. If your computer is giving you issues, close all browsers and restart with your camera off.

10. Have the card it hand, don’t open it or try and use the back of the card like I did:

11. Just use the front of the card. And you should see something like this:

And This:

And This:

And This:

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!!!!

I’m helping a friend find an Information Technology position and a recruiter contacted me last night for a Business Systems Analyst position with SQL and MS Office requirements at the expert level. My friend is perfect, so I logged into Linkedin. To my amazement, when I found a position I couldn’t “Send to Friend” from the list view, see below image.

How is it, that Linkedin overlooked a key social usability feature, to send a job posting to a friend? It seems obvious to me and other job posting sites. In the Time Magazine, Person of the Year article, Mark Zuckerberg speaks of the information age paradigm shift from crowds to friends; page 5 paragraph 6.

In my opinion Linkedin is using apps to allow the code base to appear social. Fundamentally, the site hasn’t integrated important features; helping exceptional friends find exceptional business opportunities.

What are your thoughts?