Get free food Chipotle for viewing NBC'S promo on Facebook

NBC Today begins a promotion offering free Chipotle meals for those watching 90 second promo on Facebook for upcoming show America's next great restaurant.

The network uses the application on show at the Facebook page, where, in exchange for watching promo, visitors get a buy one, get one free coupon for Chipotle. Founder and CEO, Global Steve, the chain is one of four investors in the show.

Customers who print the coupon you can get free meals, including Chipotle Burrito, tacos or a bowl with the purchase of another meal. Promotion ends March 6.

Meanwhile, Chipotle is working in a shop texting promotion offering a chance to get a burrito catered party. Anyone who texts "CIU" (for America's next great restaurant) anywhere Chipotle will have a chance to win.

NBC rep said, this is the first time the network used to get users to watch the show promo food. Nevertheless, the network tried other means give viewer loyalty. For example, last year, NBC has called his fan loyalty program that rewards users that contribute, interact and discuss NBC shows.

America's next great Restaurant, which premieres March, 21 6 pits contestants against each other as the Board of judges decide whose concept restaurant is best. Winner-"fully savor his/her great American dream of starting their own restaurant chain," according to NBC Rep.

For Chipotle, which does little in the way traditional advertising efforts is the latest innovative use of social media. Chains are similarly unusual effort last year to encourage consumers to send their spam e-mail messages in order to charity, offering a healthy school lunches for kids.

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Preview Mac OS X Leo includes iPad such opportunities developers

Apple today introduced Mac OS X developer preview of lion that brings many features iPad — including multi-touch gestures-Wikipedia, the VKP. It is planned that the final version of the Lion to be available to customers this summer.

The eighth major release of Mac OS also includes mission control that provides new view all running on the computer, combining Expose, dashboard, and spaces; Launchpad, "a new home for all your Mac apps," which displays the Mac apps in your whole screen with a single click; and Mac App Store.

RIP MyBlogLog

MyBlogLog, service that allows bloggers to see who their readers will be closed at Yahoo come may, the company announced this morning in an e-mail message to users.

This move was expected, as MyBlogLog was part of Yahoo's now infamous presentation in December, to include a slide on the services the company will

Why Internet marketing does not have to keep track of children [opinion]

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Disney acquires social network for children

Togetherville is a social network for children under the age of 10, has confirmed that it was acquired by Disney.

Site terms of use now to read, "Welcome to the Internet sites of the Walt Disney Internet Group.

Togetherville started in May and set itself apart from other social networks to children by helping parents-child interactions. In addition to viewing their children social network activity on the sites, parents can also send messages to their walls, select

Box.NET raises $ 48 million to take on the giants of enterprise software

Cloud collaboration and managing company Box.net announced Thursday that it has closed a $ 48 million investment series d round.

Meritech Capital Partners led the round, which included prior investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, scale venture partners and partners venture United States. New investors included Andreessen Horowitz and emergence Capital Partners.

We talked with co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie box .net's new round and what the company plans to do with the money. In short the aim is to use the additional funding to make the real competitor in the enterprise software space.

Investing in infrastructure

Box.NET makes no secret of their plans to take on IBM, Microsoft and Oracle space management and document collaboration. Two years ago the company sent me a t-shirt that featured the logo of Microsoft SharePoint and drawing Dodo bird.

To send to SharePoint and other Box.net competitors in extinction, companies must create its infrastructure so that the product can be easily serviced companies that store hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of documents online.

Box.NET still rents it data center space, but owns and operates its own equipment and will continue to expand and look into deploying data expenditures in areas closer to specific customers.

While focusing on expanding its engineering team is the key, Levie told us that the company also plans to grow its sales staff, so she can better compete with the big enterprise companies to bid for new and existing companies.

Box.NET corporate clients include Cisco, Dell and DreamWorks. Taking on these types of clients and keeping those customers happy is what will help transform the following Salesforce.com Box.net.

From consumers to enterprise powerhouse tool

Box.NET began its life as a storage cloud, consumer-oriented. In an era before Dropbox free cloud storage facilities were general commodities in early era Web 2.0.

Box.NET recognised that there is a real need for suitable cloud software, especially in the areas of document management and collaboration in the sphere of small business and entrepreneurship — and we think this is one of the main reasons why the company has continued to succeed, mobilize financial resources and to enter into a wide-ranging partnership.

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