Infographic: What's Social Media Marketing Worth?
750 million Facebook users.10 000 YouTube brand partners.12 million views for the iPad episode of "Will It Blend?"381 576 305 Foursquare checkins in 2010 alone.There's no question that social media is...
View ArticleApe Social Networks Envisioned as Orangutans Take to iPads
It must be kind of boring to be an orangutan in a zoo: hanging out with the same other orangutans every day pining for the jungle relegated to an object of amusement for kids and tourists. Soon though...
View ArticlePunish Online Pals with Social Media Citations
As our daily relationships have become chiefly virtual the same egregious social behavior that drove us to online correspondence has reared its ugly head on the web. The friend who wouldn't stop...
View ArticleNetflix-Offshoot Qwikster Already Has a Problem
Once CEO Reed Hastings announced Netflix's plans to spin off DVD rentals to a separate company and website customers began mentally preparing for their movie viewing options. "Stick with streaming? Add...
View ArticleHow Do Airlines Use Social Media?
While we learned today that Netflix needs to work on its social media awareness airlines seem to have the scene figured out. Granted with having to defend itself for constantly introducing arbitrary...
View ArticleFormer Google Exec Slams Company's Redesign
Google Reader users are an impassioned lot. Small in number but boisterous in support these "J-clicking" few depend on the RSS feed aggregator as the simplest quickest and only way to digest the flood...
View ArticleA Dutch Airline Is Now Letting You Choose Your Seat Based on Fellow...
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has come up with an interesting way to let you pick your seat on board its flights. USA Today reports that the carrier will allow passengers to see the social media profiles of...
View ArticleFacebook to Incorporate Ads into Your News Feed Come 2012
Chances are that if you’re a Facebook user you’ve had to endure more than a few inane status updates by your Facebook friends such as updates that reveal too much information (“I need a poo again!”)...
View ArticleFacebook Campaigns a Waste of Money for Telecoms
You hate to kick someone when they’re down. Plagued by a botched IPO and an incredibly shrinking stock price Facebook (FB) has seen every media outlet hitch its wagon to the Schadenfreude train. One...
View ArticleCreative, Social Media-Based Punishments For Children
Pretty much since it first appeared the Internet has been a good source for a couple of things. Chief among them -- and no not the one you’re thinking of -- is parental worry. Earlier this week we...
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