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June 20th, 2011 by SEM Contributor
Nowadays everyone has a Facebook account, from celebrities to politicians to probably even your grandmother. Social media sites are becoming more and more popular as people continue to look for new ways to connect, interact and share pictures with each other. Although Facebook might seem harmless, this is not always the case.
Among the 350 million plus users on Facebook…
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June 16th, 2011 by SEM Contributor
It is no secret. Facebook is everywhere. You can’t pull up a newspaper (or an RSS feed, depending on your fancy) without finding something new about Facebook. Many use Facebook for fun, and many use it for money. What most people don’t know is that there are clear rules in play that make Facebook effective for a business vs. ineffective…
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June 16th, 2011 by SEM Contributor
The backyard brawl that is the tech industry just got a little dirtier. On Tuesday it was confirmed that Facebook engineered a behind-the-scenes smear campaign against its competitor Google. The Daily Beast reports that Facebook hired public-relations firm Burson-Marsteller to spread anti-Google stories to news outlets. The goal of the stories was to raise concerns claiming that Google was invading…
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June 15th, 2011 by SEM Contributor
Social networking websites are gaining much popularity in recent days for their outstanding features that are beneficial to the bloggers, especially. For those who want to update blogs for their business, social networking websites functions as an excellent marketing tool. But to get benefited majorly from the social networks, it is not only important that you sign up for an…
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June 14th, 2011 by SEM Contributor
If you’re involved in any kind of online marketing, or if you just happen to be aged 14, then the chances are you will have active Facebook profiles, Gmail accounts and you are constantly Tweeting your thoughts to the world. It’s only natural for those whose lives are absorbed by climbing the Google rankings and getting their latest website a…
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June 13th, 2011 by SEM Contributor
If you’re in the market to find a new job in the current financial wake – it might be worth taking a peek at Facebook to help you successfully get a new job? Social media is getting more and more popular and many of my friends have actually used websites like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook to help themselves find interviews…
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June 10th, 2011 by Ann Smarty
Facebook recently expanded its facial recognition abilities to include users throughout the world, where it previously (as of December 2010) was only available in the United States. There’s been a bit of an uproar for two main reasons:
Facebook failed to properly prepare users by not explaining exactly what the facial recognition software did or how it was used.
Instead…
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June 9th, 2011 by Damian Davila
Given the recent performance from the LinkedIn IPO, there is now an ever-growing concern on whether the social media industry is not the newest market bubble (anybody remember the dot-com bust?). While Facebook is the leader in the ad-centric tech that focuses on pouring through volumes of data to learn about people relationships, turning these findings in key insights for…
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June 7th, 2011 by SEM Contributor
Since Google announced that they had been using social signals from sites like Twitter and Facebook as a ranking factor, there has been a lot of buzz involving using social media to improve ranking positions. Some blogs even tested this and proved that social signals (tweets in this case) can influence rank.
It’s pretty clear then that despite the fact…
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