Social Media Updates: Page 425

  • Sarah Palin: Using Social Media to Control the Message?

    Let's say you just quit your day job to run for president of the United States in 2012. You already have enormous brand recognition with millions of fans and millions of detractors. You want to stay in the public eye and speak out on "issues" in order promote your brand and differentiate your...

    Aug. 14, 2009

  • Vcast: Tweensa.com, la copie tunisienne de Facebook

    Après la copie chinoise, la copie tunisienne de Facebook. Ci-dessous les captures d'écrans.Mehdi Lamloum Vcast: Tweensa.com, la copie Tunisienne de Facebook from Mehdi Lamloum on Vimeo. Link to original post

    By • Aug. 14, 2009

  • Are Facebook and Twitter on a Collision Course?

    Image creditFor years, Facebook and Twitter have maintained a friendly coopetition of sorts, with neither one taking a firm stance against the other. However, if you believe that Mark Zuckerberg does not actively contemplate strategies for either acquiring Twitter or rendering it obsolete, plea...

    By • Aug. 14, 2009

  • Is this thing on?

    Social Media is a wonderful for interacting, increasing your brand and staying on top of the latest and greatest info... but it can also be hazardous. Today's post serves as a reminder that you may need to be careful what you Tweet!ABC's Ki Mae Heussner recaps the Top 10 Social Media Gaffes, on...

    By • Aug. 14, 2009

  • 3 Steps to Attract Fans to Your Facebook Page

    Note: I don't refer to profiles nor groups. See the breakdown here.Scenario: You followed the official steps and created a Facebook page for yourself or your business. If you scan through popular pages with tens of thousands (or more) fans, ranging from glamorous Victoria Secret's Pink to glitzy...

    By • Aug. 13, 2009

  • Libel in 140 Characters or Less

    Since I've had a side gig teaching marketing at various universities for a number of years, I consider myself fairly well versed in the nuances of both plagiarism and copyright infringement. It goes with the territory. Writing on the web for both my personal blogs, as well as several, real life ...

    By • Aug. 13, 2009

  • Five Communications Implications As Twitter Enters The Trough Of Disillusionment

    Earlier this week, Gartner released its latest Hype Cycle report showing the state of various technology trends. Some of the trends on the rise at various stages of the cycle include augmented reality, Internet TV, Web 2.0 and corporate blogging. One noticeable point, however: microblogging is a...

    By • Aug. 13, 2009

  • John Quincy Adams Didn't Tweet

    The Massachusetts Historical Society is publishing the one-liner diary entries that President John Qunicy Adams made in late August, 1809; his posts were all 140 characters or less, so it's doing it via Twitter. You can read them as if he's tweeting each day, 200 years later.He has 4,200+ follow...

    By • Aug. 12, 2009

  • Facebook, une nouvelle cause de rupture ?

    Une récente étude menée par des chercheurs de la section psychologie à l'université de Guelph (Canada) auprès de 308 couples révèle que le réseau social comptant plus de 250 millions de personnes nuit gravement au couple. Après le téléphone portable, Facebook représente un moyen très simple d...

    By • Aug. 12, 2009

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    By • Aug. 12, 2009

  • Facebook, Friendfeed and getting back to basics

    I'm reading lots of blog posts about Facebook's acquisition of Friendfeed and a number of bloggers are saying the same thing -- it's time to rethink our approach to social media. Here are three examples:"There's a lesson in Friendfeed's sale for all of us who spend time with social media, intera...

    By • Aug. 12, 2009

  • XIANONEI, la copie chinoise de Facebook, change de nom!

    En Mai 2008, on avait déjà parlé de Xianonei, une réplique chinoise de Facebook qui avait presque tout copié et surtout le design.Aujourd'hui, et d'après Cwrblog.net, Xianonei, qui entre-temps s'est positionné parmi les réseaux sociaux les plus populaires en Chine, a changé de nom pour RenRen.c...

    By • Aug. 11, 2009

  • fb+ff=facefeed?

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    By • Aug. 11, 2009

  • How Social Media Is Like Sharecropping

    In a world where the real social media players count their subscribers in the tens or hundreds of millions, Friendfeed hardly moves the needle. Mired at a million or so unique visitors a month and facing the likelihood of being crushed to a fine powder when Google Wave hits the streets, ...

    By • Aug. 11, 2009

  • I like to think of Friendbook not Facefeed

    Surprise news last night was Facebook's acquisition of Friendfeed.Facebook - a giant among social networks - has grabbed the comparatively-tiny Friendfeed content-sharing service (which has just 12 employees) as the means to accelerate Facebook's product development plans, according to some op...

    By • Aug. 11, 2009

  • Facebook consolidates with acquisition of FriendFeed

    One loss making company acquired another on Monday when Facebook shelled out $50m in cash and stock for the sharing service and social network, FriendFeed. Facebook is valued at $6.5bn. Facebook announcement. FriendFeed has made little impact on the mainstream but it does appeal to the geek aud...

    By • Aug. 11, 2009

  • Twitter will not Survive - A Management Model Explanation

    When consumers have little choice or when a product, technology or service is at the very beginning of the Product Lifecycle (also termed the Product Life Cycle), quality is not as an important differentiator as in mature products or markets. Quality becomes increasingly important as the product...

    By • Aug. 11, 2009

  • Barack Obama: ASSEZ des Flash Mob !

    La guerre des images fait toujours rage entre Barack Obama et ses adversaires conservateurs. Depuis quelques semaines, le parti républicain organise des flash mob négatifs pour déstabiliser les conférences sur la réforme des soins de santé.Téhéran n'est pas le seul endroit où la politique utili...

    By • Aug. 11, 2009

  • FriendFeed is Facebook's Summize. It's All About Search.

    Image via CrunchBase No one listens to me. You snooze you lose. I obviously have no idea why FriendFeed took the Facebook deal. I'm willing to bet that many of the smart people below are right. What I do know: Facebook has been stealing FriendFeed features for the past year. Facebook will nee...

    By • Aug. 11, 2009

  • Facebook versus Google dans le contexte de l'achat de Friendfeed

    Via de nombreuses sources, dont Techcrunch, nous venons d'apprendre que Facebook fera l'acquisition de Friendfeed. C'est une information qui peut paraître anodine aux non-initiés. Pour ceux qui connaissent Friendfeed et qui ont lu un récent article de Wired Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Ne...

    By • Aug. 10, 2009

  • Twitter Scam continue...et fait sa pub

    On avait rapporté un Twitter Scam qui s'est révélé derrière le site High-profits.org.Si les Tweets comportant ce lien ont disparut des Trending Topics de Twitter, la campagne continue ... sur des bannières.Ces bannière sont même été répertoriées par le sérieux adverlicio.us.Ces bannières au des...

    By • Aug. 10, 2009

  • Social Network Quality vs. Quantity: What's More Important?

    When I peruse the different Twitter followers and followees I often get Twitter envy when I stumble across some users with a large follower base. Now of course I'm not referring to the Ashton Kutchers of the world, but the common users with marketing or community backgrounds, specifically mid r...

    By • Aug. 10, 2009

  • 5 Tips For Getting More from Facebook

    This content from: Duct Tape Marketing 5 Tips For Getting More from Facebook In continuing with my series of quick social media tips (check out 5 tips for LinkedIn) I'm covering some tips for business use of Facebook here. I've actually written about some of these tips in great detail before, b...

    By • Aug. 10, 2009

  • Are we too dependent on social media?

    Remember where you were on August 6th when Twitter went down and Facebook sputtered along for a couple of hours? Me neither. But it was fascinating to watch the blogs light up with the topic. Fascinating. It was almost a panic. People didn't know what to do with themselves. But they still found...

    By • Aug. 10, 2009

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    By • Aug. 9, 2009