3 Companies pwned by Facebook PageRank

November 23, 2010
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3 Companies pwned by Facebook PageRank

What do Silly Bandz, Dunkin Donuts and Skittles have in common? Their main websites have lower PageRanks than do their Facebook company pages. Facebook has a PageRank 10 and passes that pagerank goodness to other pages on its site, specifically in this case, company pages setup on Facebook. PageRank is a link analysis algorithm,...

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3 Social Media Marketing Tips from Howard Stern

October 25, 2010
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3 Social Media Marketing Tips from Howard Stern

Howard Stern anointed himself as the “King of All Media” for his successes outside radio. His television career includes several late night shows, pay-per-views and home video releases. Stern is the author of several books and made a movie from his book Private Parts, a self deprecating comedy starring Stern and his radio show...

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2 Digital Velvet Rope Strategies

October 14, 2010
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2 Digital Velvet Rope Strategies

Are you a mover and a shaker? Legendary in your own mind? Or, like the Kardashian sisters, have your legions of friends, fans and followers willing, able and ready to act upon your every brand recommendation in a social post. Does your VIP card get you everything you want at the airport lounge or...

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Yahoo and Facebook Integrate so Users Can Share Data

June 7, 2010
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Yahoo and Facebook Integrate so Users Can Share Data

Yahoo announced users can now view their Facebook News Feed via their Yahoo home page, Yahoo Mail, and other Yahoo sites. User generated content on Yahoo photo site Flickr can be shared on Facebook now as can Yahoo News, Sports and Movies too. Titled New Ways to Increase Your Social IQ on Yahoo! With over...

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To LIKE or not to LIKE, that is NOT the Question

April 30, 2010
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To LIKE or not to LIKE, that is NOT the Question

Face it, we all want to be liked, loved, admired and recognized. Does it really matter whether you are my Friend or we Like each other? In the end this interweaving of semantics and metaphors is leaving me a bit, well, not interested in using Facebook. While most folks are focusing on the whole Like...

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Facebook takes a crack at Evil as a color scheme

April 28, 2010
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Facebook takes a crack at Evil as a color scheme

Google = “Do No Evil” Facebook = “Evil” What are your color choices for the new like button? light, dark, and… evil I for one really like and appreciate a sense of humor. Sometimes humor from a major corporation that stands to change the game significantly with the stroke of a brush can backfire...

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Facebook

April 14, 2010
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Facebook is a social networking that was originally designed for college students, but is now open to anyone 13 years of age or older. Facebook users can create and customize their own profiles with photos, videos, and information about themselves. Friends can browse the profiles of other friends and write messages on their pages....

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Facebook releases conversion tracking and reporting

March 26, 2010
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Facebook releases conversion tracking and reporting

Facebook has announced you will now be able to track conversions with their new beta release program to advertisers. Whats neat about this is Facebook not only is tracking clickable events but view through activity as well, very similar to Googles. You can read more about this under the “Post-Impression Data” heading in Facebook’s PDF...

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Status of Micro-Blogging in the Blogosphere, alternate geeky universe

September 28, 2008
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Status of Micro-Blogging in the Blogosphere, alternate geeky universe

March 1 2006 Facebook launces status update July 10 Jaiku micro-blogging July 13 2006 Twitter The first major micro-blogging service launches Twitterers use mobile phones, instant-messaging software, or Twitter’s own website to send and receive 140-character messages, called twitters or tweets. Tweets–which mostly answer Twitter’s prompt “What are you doing?”–are routed to individual friends,...

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Social media by the numbers: increase in users

June 5, 2008
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Summary Numbers The greatest overlap between OpenSocial container sites exists between MySpace and Hi5, in which 43% of Hi5 users also use MySpace. Facebook users are 63% female and 36% male whereas the sites integrated with the OpenSocial platform are 61% female and 38% male 52% of Facebook users are 18-25, whereas 40% of...

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