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July 12th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
According to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Amazon has been awarded a patent for a ‘social networking system’. Based on the description of the patent, Amazon is developing a network that is similar to the other systems popular today including the popular Facebook.
Amazon has previously owned a social networking site called PlanetAll which they bought in 1998.…
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July 1st, 2010 by Ann Smarty
Although the concept is incredibly popular, and gaining more and more followers every day, social media web activity differs drastically from one country to the next. How much it differs, however, is about more than just the obvious…
For starters, there is the difference in access to Internet. In many countries, owning a computer is merely a dream for most…
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June 16th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
Foursquare, the location based social networking platform, has hooked up with CNN and the 2010 FIFA World Cup to connect there fans from around the world. More than 100 venues will be available for FourSquare followers and fans of World Cup and CNN (
www.foursquare.com/cnn). “Checking in” at one of the CNN venues will unlock a special CNN Badge.…
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June 15th, 2010 by Bethany North
It seems that Twitter is on a hiring spree, projecting that they will double their current 200 employees within the next year. The cofounder of Twitter, Biz Stone, confirmed this at the 2010 Mirrors Awards.
Twitter is unfortunately not yet making serious money as an online micro-blogging platform, although it has a projected value of $100 billion. Still, it is…
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June 14th, 2010 by SEM Contributor
Twitter is the new phenomenon in social networking and the celebrities are definitely enjoying their direct dose of public adornment. Twitter has become a force to be reckoned with in our society because of the immediate response systems and the access to millions just 140 characters away. People are using Twitter more and more to mobilize people for their cause,…
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June 9th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
Advertisers can now introduce Google users directly to their Twitter page right from their Google ads. Last year, Google struck a $15 million deal with Twitter that would incorporate ‘tweets’ into the search engine’s results. Google is finally ready to unleash a new type of display ad that will allow Twitter users to follow advertisers directly.
The new ads will…
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June 8th, 2010 by Bethany North
There are quite a few things that should not be done through social media, no matter how appropriate you may think that they are at the time.
Since everyone and their grandmother is literally on Facebook, and celebrities are using Twitter to have public fights, it is about time that social media gets reined in by avoiding these fatal mistakes.…
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June 7th, 2010 by Ann Smarty
Determining the most promising social media ventures is very subjective. True, it is possible to deduce the potential (to an extent) based on the track record of the production and marketing team.
However, any “dark horse” can receive an unexpected cash injection along the way, or simply take off among the public. After all, how many people would have believed…
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June 3rd, 2010 by Ann Smarty
So you’ve got a blog and you’ve also got Facebook profile. You realize that you’ve got lots of friends and fans in Facebook who don’t know about your blog. This gets you thinking. You add in the fact that there are 100 million people signed up with Facebook around the world and suddenly you realize – I should somehow connect…
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June 2nd, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
BP is finding out the hard way that maybe they should have had all their bases covered when it came to recent developments. Not only is there a major environmental disaster but the recent storm over some not so popular tweets surfacing from major social networks have left BP holding the bag.
With tweets such as:
‘The good news: Mermaids
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