The rumors were true. Today, Facebook steps into the location-based services (or LBS) arena with Facebook Places. Now everyone is watching Foursquare, the current king of LBS. Not to mention Google acknowledged receiving 100 million Google Map users every month. The mobile space is clearly heating up and here’s what you should know about it.
Read moreOnline Identity Privacy Tips For Students and Parents
Guest Post by: Lillian Solomon, a full-time educator at work and at home. Many students around the globe are using social networks such as Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter to share their lives in a way that was unheard of prior too. While communicating online is nothing new, doing so in a highly public manner with […]
Read morePromoted Trends: More Clever Twitter Ads
There have been many rumors about how Twitter would monetize itself and all roads led to advertisements. Simple enough, but when you throw ads in a Twitter conversation you tend to get mixed reactions from the public. Twitter serves as a conversation platform first and foremost. Some think that ads will disrupt real engagement, the […]
Read moreWhat Are Twitter Annotations And What They Mean For Twitter Users
A lot of blogs have reported on the news about Twitter Annotations and make no mistake, it’s not just “metadata” as some will be quick to point out. Metadata doesn’t really mean anything to the average user who doesn’t see this word very often (which is the rest of the world). Simply put for those […]
Read moreWhich Is More Valuable: Facebook Or Your Website?
I came across Dan Schawbel’s post RI.P Facebook as a Marketing Platform. Dan makes an interesting point when he says: I’m not sure why advertisers are promoting their Facebook and Twitter pages instead of their websites. It would be much wiser to invest in a blog as a landing page instead of using a platform, […]
Read moreDid Twitter Just Reset Your Business?
Update: Looks like everything’s back to normal. I advise going through your most recent followers to be sure. For more tips on sustaining your business when things go wrong on the web, continue reading. First I’d like to let you know that you can be calm if you see that you’re not following anyone on […]
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