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San Francisco based social network game developer, Zynga is known for some pretty out of the ordinary antics such as letting Snoop Dogg blow up an armored truck in the middle of a dessert or hiring scantly-clad mobster ladies to promote Mafia Wars in Las Vegas. However, Zynga also did an innovative, yet less publicized, marketing stunt through social media… Read more
One of the first rules we teach our children is never to talk with strangers. This is just as important making on line friends while on social networking sites. These days you never know who is lurking or viewing your profile. Take the latest news that Al Qaeda may want to ‘friend’ you on Facebook. Terrorist organizations are using social… Read more
Mark Zuckerberg has decided to loosen his purse strings and donate a portion of his fortune to charity. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder, has a conscience and is giving back. He says,
” people wait until late in their career to give back. But why wait when there is so much to be done?”As a result Mark has given his… Read more
Google Trends indicates that the gap between the number of searches of ‘cyber monday deals’ and ‘black friday deals’ on Google is closing in as every year passes by. The numbers you see on the vertical axis of the Search Volume Index (graph above) aren’t absolute search traffic numbers. Instead, Google Trends scales the first term you’ve entered so that… Read more
Mark Zuckerburg and the Facebook team are on the fast track to getting a trademark on the word ‘face’. The word ‘book’ however, is proving to be a bit more of a challenge. The word ‘book’ has already been claimed by an online company called myeworkbook.com. Their claim on the word is as a result of their business which is… Read more
Tiger Woods Twitter account, @TigerWoods, has been dormant for quite sometime. Recently his almost 120,000 followers have been graced with one of his five tweets and Tiger has decided to dust off his Twitter account as he “Finally decided to try out twitter!” His Twitter account was opened in 2009 but has been inactive most of the past year while… Read more
Everyone likes to have a good time but some individuals go over the edge and leave inappropriate messages on social media sites while in a drunken stupor. Text messages, Facebook status and Twitter updates should not be done while fueled with tequila chasers. To avoid making what seemed at the time to be a clever response, welcome the Social Media… Read more
Coming soon to a computer near you is a new tool from the social media gurus at Twitter. Twitter Places will allow its users to “claim” public places. Geo-locator tools like Twitter Places is not new and is the foundation of the highly successful FourSquare that offers Mayoralships and badges for frequently visiting different locations. The introduction of Twitter Places… Read more
Last week, the almost-forgotten social media site MySpace got a makeover. The once profile-driven site has changed formats, perhaps for the better. The new look now features more content with a focus on entertainment for the 100 million users currently still using the space. Users can still create and maintain personal profiles but the majority of the information and updates… Read more
And I don’t mean through the peep hole. The Department of Homeland Security’s US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) even has a report on it! With its catchy title “Social Networking Sites and Their Importance to FDNS” (Office of the Fraud Detection and National Security) security agents with the FDNS are instructed how to use social media networks for surveillance… Read more
