After the tsunami hit northeast Japan last year, Google launched its Person Finder service, to help people reconnect with friends and loved ones in the aftermath of natural and humanitarian disasters. Not long ago, Google launched a Memories for the Future (“Mirai e no kioku”) site, to showcase Japan before and after the March 11, …
Once, Twitter and Instagram were good pals, but the fairy tale ended, when Facebook acquired the photo sharing service, for approximately $1 billion in cash and stock, in April 2012. Today, the friends are frenemies… as Instagram disabled the ability for Twitter to properly display its photos this Wednesday. Kevin Systrom, Instagram’s CEO, said in …
If you scour the pages of marketing sites around the web there’s one recurrent theme, strategy that is, that seems to never loose traction, Email marketing just works. Of course, most savvy marketing types already know this. What is lesser known though is just how crucial email newsletters and eMarketing fodder is to the overall plan of …
Twitter’s rocky relationship with third party developers makes headlines again, this time in a case of data access. The microblogging company was sued by PeopleBrowsr, a social networking data analysis company, and appeared in the San Francisco Superior Court on Wednesday, where the judge granted PeopleBrowsr a restraining order compelling Twitter to provide full Firehose …
Is that time of the year, when we look at our industries in retrospect. Today, however, instead of telling you what was, we bring you something that could be… All these SEO/SEM startups launched in 2012, and aim to become stronger, better and more popular in 2013. PlagSpotter: duplicate content checking A must have tool …
It’s on again: the eternal rivals fight dirty. At least one is: Bing. Google’s most powerful search competitor, a Microsoft product, is now populating the web with a questionable anti Google Shopping campaign [complete with URL - scroogled.com - and YouTube (!) videos]: From Google to Scroogle. If the term Scroogle sounds familiar, this used …
You have been working for months, putting a ton of time and energy into your project, and it is finally done. You have successfully created an app, one that you are sure people are going to love and enjoy, in fact you are so eager to get it out there that you don’t even bother …
The day after Thanksgiving is the day we all try to lose those excess calories consumed. Through running, jumping, and parkouring inside our favorite malls and department stores. It’s Black Friday everyone! People say it is also the day we stop being humans and start becoming elephants with shopping carts. We still hope that is not true …
Retailers are no longer using just traditional advertising to get the word out to customers about in-store offers and deals, they are also using online vehicles such as Facebook and Twitter, and are employing mobile strategies as well. One of the main vehicles to show these promotions is Facebook, and Socialbakers has just revealed key …
Today, we continue our Black Friday daily deal series with a special offer from Online PR Media, which just announced the dates of its second annual pre-Black Friday “buy 2 get 1 free” sale on $79 online publicity packages. The press release distribution sale begun Monday, November 19, 2012 and will run throughout the entire …
