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Ever hear a new song on the radio or get a recommendation from a friend about some music you ‘must hear’ but by the time you get home to check it out, your memory fails? Well fail no longer, Twitter has stepped in to help you not only recall what you want to listen to, they will keep a running… Read more
Everyone knows YouTube is the place to get discovered and the site is using its star power to move forward with its Annual DoGooder Non-Profit Video Awards. This is their 5th year with the awards program and they have set up a new award to encourage online participation. There will be $10,000 grants give to the winners in the… Read more
The Winter X Games, which runs from January 27-30th, have made it possible for one charitable organization to gain both awareness and donations from extreme sports enthusiasts. Social media site Foursquare has teamed up with Sports Authority to help support breast cancer research and awareness. For every check in to ‘Sports Authority at Winter X Games’ through Foursquare,… Read more
If your business is on Facebook, adding a custom landing page can have a big impact on your presence there. A custom landing page can help drive web traffic, add value to your online marketing efforts and increase sales. If you’re considering the types of benefits a custom landing page can create, this post will help make up your mind.… Read more
For the last 2 years it appeared that the popularity of 3rd party applications for Twitter on smartphones overshadowed the popularity of the social media behemoth. However, the year 2010 saw aggressive moves from Twitter in making sure that it established itself as the main application developer of smartphones apps for Twitter. iPhone Twitter App Perhaps the boldest move was… Read more
Foursquare is releasing its retooled iPhone app just in time for Christmas. The popular location based social networking site has been working on the app and recent Twitter feeds such as “we just found an app approval in our stocking! New Foursquare early next week. Thanks #SantaJobs,” appeared in their Twitter feed. In addition to the usual the new iPhone… Read more
There is just nothing good on TV! If you’re anything like me, you must have found yourself zapping through several channels looking for a good show. Sometimes you would just wish that you would be able to hook up your Internet connection to your TV and browse the web on the same screen that is showing your favorite TV show.… Read more
If you hear “search”, you think “Google” – this is totally true. But sometimes you need some refresher and some alternative – this post will show you just that. Below please find 3 absolutely cool Twitter search tricks that will help you save money!
All of us now use URL shorteners to share links to our friends and followers in social media as well as social networking sites. The most popular URL shortner is http://bit.ly despite the fact that the website is sending your link through Libyan airspace. One of the major reasons for the popularity of Bit.ly URL shortener is that most of… Read more
The new ‘People’ tab added to Twitter is meant to make finding your friends that much easier. The feature is being tested. You can find the tab next to the Home and Profile tabs on the site’s home page. Twitter will now offer suggestions for you to locate friends. You can also browse other users by their interests or through… Read more
