Social Media
Learn the latest news and trends on the most popular social networks and how to reach and engage your audience with social media marketing best practices.
Yahoo to Serve Ads on Bebo
Yahoo and Bebo, UK’s number one social networking site, reached an advertising agreement that would let Yahoo serve advertisements on Bebo’s sites in both UK...
AOL Says Goodbye to Netscape Social News
Netscape has announced that it plans to revert back to its old self with AOL powered news stories and send the Netscape Social News Community...
StumbleUpon Phenomenon : An In Depth Look At A Social Networking Giant
With more than two million registered users, StumbleUpon has rapidly become a major player in the social networking craze that has swept through the computers...
PliggSites.com : Directory of Pligg Powered Sites
The effect of Digg style sites on link building, SEO, and driving traffic has helped fuel the social media marketing movement. But did you know...
SEO Bashing : First Pasternack then Calacanis and Now Scoble
You can just sit there and wait and you can be sure that every now and then somebody will come along who has the urge...
NYT Opens My Times to the Public
Finally, after more than a year of being in beta stage, NY Times opens the doors of its start page personalization portal, My Times to...
Facebook Draws Advertising Strategy
Despite establishing itself as a contender into the social networking arena, Facebook up to know is still uncertain on how to put in more revenues...
New Stumbleupon Interface
Stumbleupon.com launched a new beta interface tonight. I just noticed the change when I stumbled a few pages. I was playing around with the new...
Mobile Social Networking Peaking in US and Western Europe
Data from a recently concluded study of the mobile media authority, M:Metrics shows that there are around 12.3 million American and European mobile users who...
Fox News Caught Sabotaging Wikipedia Entries
Arthur Bergman at O’Reilly Radar has the lowdown on some changes Fox News has been making to the Wikipedia entries of their critics and competition...
Yahoo Pipes Part 4: Analyzing Sphinn
Sphinn is a brand new player in the social media space that many of you are already familiar. It’s still young, but the calling of...
Measuring Social Media Marketing: It’s Easier than you Think!
We all remember from Marketing 101, that the ability to measure the effectiveness of marketing activities and calculating ROI is imperative to a company’s go-to-market...
YouTube Democratic Debate Correlates with Online Trends Strategies
Watching the YouTube democratic debate last night I started wondering, “wow”, what a great idea… but why did they do it? Just like anything else...
Old Scams Come In New Disguises. Link-Ponzi Web 2.0
A fellow affiliate marketer and blogger with the name Andrew Wee from WhoIsAndrewWee.com was writing an interesting post while I was heading to Affiliate Summit...
Social Media & User Generated Content In The Spanish Space
At a panel yesterday at Ad:Tech Miami, Social Media and UGC were discussed. The panel consisted of Emily Riley from Jupiter Research as the moderator,...
LinkedIn API Announced
The major business networking sites LinkedIn and Xing are quick in providing one feature after another to out-do each other in the struggle for increasing...
Plaxo 3 Beta Review
Robert Scoble broke the news on Sunday night first as far as I can tell. The address book, calendar and task management and synchronization platform...
SEO, Meet SMM Session at SMX Advanced
Social Media Marketing in 60 seconds: Social media is here to stay. Google and Ask recently embraced social sites with massive updates. If you want...
Yahoo Answers : Brand & Link Building via Social Media
One of the main things I do to run successful campaigns online is always look offline. As I was watching television tonight, a Yahoo! Answers...
Social Networks Growing Globally Along with Search Engines
While the search engine is the single most used tool on the Internet (Google, Yahoo, Baidu, etc.), social networking sites are next in line. The...
The Difference Between Marketing, PR, Advertising, and Branding
Ads of the World is an online archive of the best and most interesting advertisements from across the world. Today I came across an advertisement...
Sex Sells, Especially on Digg!
The old saying “Sex Sells” never gets old, even in the world of social media marketing and Digg.com. Recently I’ve been noticing a trend on...
Facebook Classifieds Launched – Everything You Need To Know
Facebook Classifieds – in partnership with Oodle – is now live, and just in time. As the end of the year approaches and students get...
Redesign Your Website To Become Web 2.0 : Quick Tips
The term “Web 2.0” can be defined in two different ways. First, the new emergence of the web since the last boom of the .com’s...
Spoken Word Versus Written Word
People often underestimate how much is actually lost when spoken word appears in print. A statement can be interpreted several different ways depending on your...
Google Acquires Internet (Parody)
Phillipp Lenssen over at Google Blogoscoped published a fake press release that is dated a bit over 10 year in the future titled: “Google Acquires...
CBS Scores Viral Hit with “Robin Sparkles”
The CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother has scored big wins on MySpace and YouTube by weaving storylines from the show online. Their first...
The 10 Largest Social Driven Sites
For many people, Digg is the definitive source for driving traffic to their content or services. And if they don’t have success with Digg, life...
Pay For Diggs : Subvert & Profit
Another ‘black market’ Pay Per Digg operation has opened up which claims that its users will not get banned from Digg. Subvert and Profit claims...
Reddit Adding Interactive Advertising & Ad Voting
Steve from Reddit announced Wednesday on the Reddit Blog that Wired & Reddit will be adding advertising to the Reddit interface. Part of the reason...