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DEMO: Glam Media’s Tinker.com connects advertisers to real-time conversations

VentureBeat  Sep 23 09

Advertising company Glam Media is launching Tinker.com, an application that helps advertisers engage with the real-time conversations on social services like Facebook and Twitter. It showed off the new application at the DEMOfall 09 conference today.

Not only does Tinker.com help advertisers search and browse conversations on those sites, it lets them create their own topics and events. The goal is to give them a broader picture of the conversation, rather than getting mired in individual comments.

Samir Arora, chief executive of Glam, showed off the app on stage today in his fifth appearance at the conference. Full story...

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