You have heard of Team Jolie and Team Aniston. You have picked sides with Team Edward or Team Jacob. Now it is time to make your own team. Today, gather up everyone you know and get them on Twitter. Get as many people as you can to be on your team. Have them tweet your team name, twitter name, and the hashtag #ssss. We will count the total number of tweets that you get...
Bill Gates just added me on Twitter.No, but in all seriousness, the Microsoft co-founder just joined Twitter and made a splash with a big "Hello World" as his first official Tweet. Check out his page for yourself. He's only following a select 40 Twitterers (as of Wednesday morning), comprised of charitable foundations, Microsoft employees, and a sprinkling of celebs. But that's not stopping the couple hundred thousand Twitterers that are already following him,...
These days, it's sink or swim in the publishing industry. As advertisers pull out dollars, magazines are forced to think of ways to pull in additional revenue and one way to do this is to sell, sell, sell. But we're not talking about selling magazine subscriptions. We're talking about selling product.Ladies and gentlemen, our example of the day is Time Inc. (the big guys who publish InStyle, People, and other glossies). The magazine group has...
Everyone's Tweeting these days. Name a celeb and we bank they have a Twitter account. Last month, the NY Post reported that Kim Kardashian makes 10K for endorsed tweets. And a quick visit to Twitter's search directory, WeFollow, this morning confirmed the number one Twitterer as Ashton Kutcher, with over four million followers. But if you're a Twitter nerd (meaning: you "follow" but no one "follows" you...
If you're an avid Yahoo! user, you probably love the functionality of the homepage. Click any one of their tabs, like 'shopping', and you've got a world of products at your fingertips. Well yesterday, Yahoo announced that as of March 11, 2010, Yahoo! Shopping is partnering with PriceGrabber. Moving forward, Yahoo! shoppers will be asked to sign up with PriceGrabber in order to take advantage of product searches and do...
The Iranian Cyber Army has done it again. Their clever team of hackers has taken hostage of Baidu.com, China’s largest search engine. Baidu, pronounced “Bidu” is to China what Google is to the rest of the English-speaking world. Sources say those in China trying to log onto Baidu.com are currently being redirected to the Iranian cyber Army’s splash page, while people in other countries are still able to log onto Baidu. Some are...
Black Friday just isn’t what it used to be (not that we're complaining). Gone are the days of lining up outside of Macy’s in your pajamas at 6 am with grandma. Thanks to the Internet and online Black Friday ads, you can map out a plan for the biggest shopping day of the year at the click of a mouse from the comfort of your home. To give you a head start, here...
Loren Baker
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Alan Bleiweiss
David Harry
