Social Media Updates: Page 449


  • Viacom to YouTube: You've lost that loving feeling

    According to Viacom, all the promotional and marketing benefits of viral video on YouTube are "illusory." The company demanded today that YouTube, a division of Google, remove more than 100,000 clips that include Viacom content. "People are waking up to the fact that there is no marketing advan...

    By Feb. 3, 2007
  • Use LinkedIn To Drive Social Media Adoption

    Ive seen a lot more activity on LinkedIn lately. I think some of it has to do with the end-user spike that a new feature can bring, in this case LinkedIn Answers. It also might have something to do with my personal widget marketing strategy. (Translation: I have my LinkedIn profile plaste...

    By Feb. 2, 2007
  • YouTube's Hot Air From Davos

    I got pretty excited by Chad Hurleys announcement at the annual Rich International Assholes Hot Air Fest at Davos that YouTube would soon start paying users for content until my fellow Social Media Collective member Jeff Nolan reminded me that it still isnt clear if YouTube itself is makin...

    Jan. 27, 2007
  • Early Evangelism, and on Writing a Book

    Early EvangelismThis is interesting, I received this email today. To protect her identity, Ive removed any personal info:Hi Jeremiah,If I remember correctly you were the one who first invited me to joinLinkedIn, some time in early 2005. Is that correct? I just want to mentionthat I reaped a ben...

    By Jan. 27, 2007