Mashable!:
On November 10th, hip hop artist Chamillionaire [@Chamillionaire] went against the wishes of his record label, Universal Records, and livestreamed the premiere of his Good Morning music video to fans on Facebook and Ustream.By all accounts, fans responded positively to the artist’s social media initiative. The Ustream/Faceb (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
I was at PubCon last week in Las Vegas. It was a tremendous show with an excellent turnout. I had quite a few conversations about Search Engine Watch, ClickZ and Search Engine Strategies for 2010 and had a lot of great feedback from PubCon attendees. But it seemed that quite a few people hadn't noticed one of the new events (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
Video solution provider Fliqz has announced the launch of a new online video search engine optimization (SEO) tool. The tool is dubbed SearchSuccess and Fliqz says that companies who tested the product are experiencing early success.A whopping two-thirds of the videos submitted by these early customers have reached first pa (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish a media partnership.Ma (Read More)
Search Engine Watch Blog:
During the past nine weeks, I've shared nine significant reasons for going to either Search Engine Strategies Berlin or SES Chicago 2009. For those of you who want to join in the chorus, they are: "nine trainers training, eight days a-learning, seven tracks amazing, six booths astounding, five brand new things, four keynot (Read More)
TechCrunch:
It’s been about a year since Brightcove released the last upgrade to its professional online video platform with Brightcove 3. On Monday, it’s going to release Brightcove 4, and it’s a massive upgrade. Brightcove 4 now supports a native video player on the iPhone, in Facebook, and live video streaming on the Web. It’s go (Read More)
TechCrunch:
This guest post was written by Steve Poland, a former TechCrunch writer working on his soon-to-launch start-up InSeconds that allows sites to easily customize each visitor’s experience, resulting in optimized revenue for each visit.Affiliate marketing is 15 years old this month—CyberErotica is said to have launched the firs (Read More)
Mashable!:
J.R. Johnson is founder and CEO of Lunch.com, a user generated content platform focused on finding common ground, and host of the Lunch for Good event series.There’s been a rising interest in the concept of “social media for social good.” In large part, that discussion has been focused on cause-related social good. I have (Read More)
Mashable!:
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.There are 25 billion videos watched each month in the US alone. That’s billion, with a “B.” So it should be no surprise that web video offers an impor (Read More)
Mashable!:
Web-based doctor appointment-setting service ZocDoc has noticed an amazing increase of 6250% in Swine Flu-related appointments over flu-related appointments last year (the numbers have been normalized against time for the increased volume). There has been an almost 14x increase in swine flu activity since September. Becaus (Read More)
Mashable!:
Steve Cunningham is the CEO of Polar Unlimited, a digital marketing agency. To win a signed and personalized copy of each of the books mentioned here, visit Read It For Me.So you want to get up to speed fast on the latest social media thinking. Maybe give your colleague, boss or friend a dose of new social strategies. But (Read More)
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Jessica Faye Carter is an award-winning author and columnist. Her company, Nette Media develops social media technologies for women and multicultural communities, and she blogs at Technicultr.The expression of community has changed considerably since the emergence of social media technologies, but its basic foundation — the (Read More)
Mashable!:
Since we launched Mashable’s 3rd Annual Open Web Awards this past October, you’ve cast over 349,000 votes for your favorite nominees. Over the past few weeks we’ve continued to track the leaders in each category, and now, with just two days left in the nominations period we thought it would be appropriate to take a look at (Read More)
TechCrunch:
This was inevitable, particularly after this video surfaced. Sacramento based law firm Kershaw, Cutter & Ratinoff, LLP is investigating complaints about unauthorized charges imposed social network users who were mislead into accepting offers of dubious quality. Among those being investigated: Facebook, MySpace, Zynga, RockY (Read More)
Mashable!:
As social media becomes more pervasive, it’s becoming a frequently common practice for movie studios to use sites like Facebook and Twitter to connect with plans.Tim Burton’s 3D epic “Alice in Wonderland” doesn’t hit theaters until March 2010, but Walt Disney Pictures is already utilizing social media to spread the word abo (Read More)