Oct 25, 2009

Submitted by Markdykeman from Google Reader: Social Media – the new battleground of inane buzzwords and incessant hyping of how important it is for businesses to hop on the bandwagon … usually with a couple of high paid consultants hired to whisper sweet nothings in the ear of some CEO.It is all about ROI of conversation based on consumer involvement as well as creat (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

Submitted by Mvndrvrt from Google Reader: This is part of a multi-article series on employer branding through social media.Photo by Mike EppOver the next several weeks, I’m going to talk to you about how to develop and implement an employer brand through social media.In order to get the details, I think it’s important you understand how they fit into the bigger pic (Read More)

Aug 25, 2009

clipotech So, I've been studying Facebook, FriendFeed, Twitter, and Google's Wave and other things for some time.Last week I also visited Yelp, which is growing at a million new users PER MONTH.Twitter is growing at about 4 times that rate. Facebook is growing about 2x that rate.So, these are the big players. It's clear that they ar (Read More)

Aug 22, 2009

Mashable! From its very inception, Twitter faced complaints from the peanut gallery about its 140 character posting “limitation.” Over time new services sprung up to address the perceived “short-coming” of the microblogging service, from TwitLonger to Maxitweet to Glide Engage: essentially Twitter with 1,400 characters.Some folks wil (Read More)

Jun 04, 2009

Threeminds In mid-April 2009, two Domino's pizza employees decided it would be funny to pull a little YouTube prank. One employee prepared sandwiches for delivery while putting cheese up his nose and blowing nasal mucus on the sandwiches - all while his co-worker provided up-close camera work and a play-by-play narrative. Within 24 ho (Read More)

May 12, 2009

VentureBeat Developers may be making tens of millions of dollars through games and virtual goods on Facebook’s platform, but the social network itself hasn’t had a way to get a share of that money. This may be about to change, as it plans to begin testing a payments system with developers in several weeks, according to industry sources (Read More)

May 09, 2009

Mashable! It’s clear that the Web has altered how we as a society consume information. Not only has Internet communication made information more accessible, but social media has made it easier to organize, filter, and most of all, create. Yet with innovations like Twitter and microblogging, we’re reaching a point where the flow of i (Read More)

May 08, 2009

Submitted by Robdiana from Google Reader: Photo by Sidi Guariach.If you’ve ever thought about freelancing part-time but never done it, this post may help you. Most people never follow through on those thoughts because they are overwhelmed and confused by the process of starting a freelance business. The aim of this post is to provide a step-by-step guide to launchi (Read More)

May 06, 2009

Internetnews Blog A new online storefront for social networking sites from ToldYa.com debuts today and claims to outshine other widgets designed to cash in on the social media craze by keeping the transactions at the original site and by not requiring merchant accounts. (Read More)

May 06, 2009

TechCrunch Twitter has just rolled out a small, but somewhat meaningful update to the way it sends email notifications. This includes both direct message notifications and new follower notifications. Both now carry the Twitter logo and turquoise background in each update, rather than just plain text. But more importantly, the new noti (Read More)

May 06, 2009

digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular Your local cable company might like to talk about looming internet brownouts in order to convince you to pay for all those internet videos endangering its television revenues, but research shows again that the tubes just keep getting wider and wider. (Read More)

Apr 28, 2009

Digg Innovative use of a Flickr photostream. (Read More)

Apr 21, 2009

USATODAY.com - Technology Live Oprah Winfrey’s effect on book sales when she supports a new title is legendary. She may have even contributed to the election of the nation’s first black president with her endorsement of Barack Obama. So what happened in Twitterland after... . (Read More)

Apr 21, 2009

TechCrunch Last week I sat down with Digg founder Kevin Rose to get the Digg “State of the Union.” The company, now more than four years old, has continued to grow incredibly since launching in late 2004 and regularly innovates with new products. They are rumored to be approaching profitability after making headcount cuts earlier this (Read More)

Apr 16, 2009

www.tmesolutions.co.uk - Ecommerce News An influential alliance of state tax collectors and large retailers are hoping to end what they view as a "loophole" allowing tax-free Internet and mail order purchases. (Read More)

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