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Using Facebook as part of your marketing strategy to build your business can be a fairly daunting, if not overwhelming, undertaking. There is so much you can do on Facebook, and it would be EASY to waste hours every day on there just poking around, checking things out, replying to people, posting updates, and so on. So how do you make sure that you’re spending your time effectively on Facebook? What is the ONE key thing that you need to be doing and focusing on to improve your Facebook strategy?
Social networks have proven themselves as successful media tools both for recreational and professional networking use. Sites such as Facebook and Twitter have exploded into unprecedented popularity over the last years and have even influenced our lexicon by adding nouns such as “tweet” and allowing “friend” to be not only used as a noun but also as a verb.
However,… Read more
Blogging is a nice and informal method to notify interested readers about the developments going on in your company or in your life. According to Sysomos, the blog bloom started about seven years ago and currently, there are above 120 million blog posts on information technology. With such vast numbers going on about blogging, a well tended company blog can… Read more
President Obama has always been proactive about including social media and the latest technology into his initial campaign as well as his Presidency. Now he is prepping for a town meeting through Facebook.
April 20 is the broadcast day in which President Obama will head over to Facebook headquarters and participate in the live event alongside Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg… Read more
Leave it to Google to redefine search once again. And possibly keep us all safe from evil-doers with just a click of our cell phone camera.
As it happens, Google is on the verge of making human faces a searchable commodity. Oh, sure, the technology isn’t perfect yet, but it will be in the next year or so. Some folks… Read more
Every-one’s done it, every-one’s regretted doing it but very few of us have been glad we’ve done it and we’re certainly never proud of doing it. I know some-one who even did it to his boss and was surprised to find that they didn’t have a job the next day, they didn’t remember doing it at all.
Drunk Dialing is… Read more
Twitter search can be accessed in two ways:
From your profile (at twitter.com/#!/search)
From the subdomain at search.twitter.com (formerly known as Summize)
While being powered by the same engine, these two may provide slightly different results:
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twitter.com/search |
search.twitter.com |
| People Search Option |
Yes |
No |
| Promoted Tweets |
Yes |
No* |
| Top tweets |
Yes (called “Top Tweet”) |
Yes (signed as “XX+ Recent Tweets) |
| The |
…
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Bluefly, the online designer fashion retailer, has started a partnership with Badgeville to add gaming experiences to their website visitors that also offers social rewards.
Bluefly will start providing their online shopping customers with rewards and incentives based on how they shop. Each time users of the site watch videos, peruse blog posts or write a review, the site will … Read more
Co-foundedby Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom, Instagram is a relatively new photo service that allows iPhone users to post pics online, share them through social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, and allow people to comment on the pics.
The rise to popularity of this iPhone app has been due to its use by celebrities such as Snoop Dogg to… Read more
A 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg (portrayed by Jesse Eissenberg), getting his geeky heart broken by his girlfriend in the film, The Social Network.
If you:
don’t have the patience for eHarmony,
have a crush on somebody on your Facebook friend list but she’s already in a relationship, and
can wait for a while.
Then, here’s the solution for you: Breakup Notifier.…
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