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Baby Names Facebook Style

  • December 14th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
Have you ever wondered what you should name your new baby? Well now you don’t have to decide. Let Facebook decide for you. The latest trend posted on Facebook includes brainchild of FabFind to offer to submit a baby name and collect votes to name a baby from Toronto Ontario, Canada. The front runners are “Aria” and “… Read more

Facebook’s Founder Mark Zuckerberg to Donate to Charity

  • December 13th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
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

Social Media Since Early Days: Baby Boomers have Used Social Media for 30 Years

  • December 13th, 2010 by Roberta Budvietas
Computers have been around for a very long time. One could start with the abacus, which dates back to around 500 BC, or even further back, with the Sumerians and their recording of planetary data, and calculations of where planets (and the sun) would be on a particular date. Or jump forward to “Napier’s Bones” and slide rules, based on… Read more

Social Search Beyond Limits – Discover Social Content with Yahoo! KPost

  • December 8th, 2010 by Cijo Abraham Mani
Yahoo has launched its latest product idea “Yahoo! KPost” in Hong Kong and Korea. From now on Yahoo users in Hong Kong and Korea can use KPost to share and find up-to-date information through KPost. Yahoo KPost combines both search and social media results and give users a better way to find the latest updates as they search for relevant… Read more

HOW TO: Delete Social Networking Account on Facebook, Twitter, Google, Myspace and Wikipedia

  • December 7th, 2010 by Ann Smarty
Have you ever tried to delete your social networking account? In some cases, it is a simple process. You click a few buttons, confirm and a day or so later you are wiped from the database. But with the creation of more intensive websites, it is becoming increasingly harder to delete your account. In some cases it may seem next… Read more

Baby Boomers’ Love / Hate with Social Media

  • December 6th, 2010 by Roberta Budvietas
Who is BB? BB stands for the Baby Boomers. Wikipedia says” A baby boomer is a person who was born during the demographic Post-World War II baby boom. The term “baby boomer” is sometimes used in a cultural context, and sometimes used to describe someone who was born during the post-WWII baby boom” What this means is that Baby Boomers… Read more

Rapid Growth at RunKeeper Community

  • December 3rd, 2010 by Damian Davila
Available for both Android and the iPhone, the RunKeeper fitness app employs your smartphone’s GPS radio to track the distance, time, pace, route, and elevation of your jogs. If you haven’t heard from them, then it’s about time because PCWorld selected RunKeeper as the ‘Run Smarter’ app among best apps available for multiple phone platforms. There has been explosive growth… Read more

Social Media Marketing Isn’t Rocket Science, or . . . So I Thought

  • December 1st, 2010 by SEM Contributor
Utilizing social media as a marketing tool for your business or website isn’t that difficult, or so I thought. Once I was shown some basic SEO techniques, applying them as a marketing tool on Facebook, Twitter or other sundry social platforms didn’t seem to be all that difficult.  I thought it was very intuitive. You want to connect with clients… Read more

Blog Comments: Trust, Reciprocity, and Spam

  • November 30th, 2010 by Adam Schechter
A quick note about commenting on other people’s blogs. I am a novice blogger. I haven’t been writing publicly for more than three months or so now, so it (hopefully) makes sense that I am not always up on the various tricks of the trade, as it were. But one thing I am certain about is the shared level of… Read more

Cyber Monday Catching Up to Black Friday

  • November 30th, 2010 by Damian Davila
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