Posts from ‘December, 2008’

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December 24, 2008 - 9:04 am PDT - by Dan Schawbel>
Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog.
Brand monitoring has become an essential task for any individual or corporation. Years ago, when people talked about our brands, [...]

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By GREGORY SCHMIDT
Published: December 25, 2008
THE bright lights of Broadway draw millions of people to New York’s theater district every year, but having a celebrity’s name on a marquee does not always guarantee a full house. So to fill more seats, theater producers are turning to MySpace to make a few [...]

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by Erick Schonfeld on December 28, 2008
If you could search your friends’ thoughts, interests, and activities, would that be a better search experience? In many cases, it would be. Searching for restaurants, books, or movies, would turn up recommendations from people you actually know. If you are researching a trip to [...]

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By Brian Solis
As online conversations continue to gain in prominence and relevance to any customer and market-focused business, it becomes critically important for marketing and service professionals to listen. It’s the listening that serves as the foundation for identifying, guiding, and establishing meaningful engagement.
Twitter is one of the more active and influential communities [...]

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By John Timmer | Published: December 28, 2008 - 09:10PM CT
People who have followed the development of the Internet are probably well aware of the Pew Charitable Trust, which has tracked the growth of the web through its Internet & American Life Project. But a separate arm of the Pew, the Research [...]

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by Michael Arrington on December 28, 2008
If you are the kind of person who can’t help but look when you drive by an accident scene, DMFail is for you. The site, which has been all the rage on Twitter for the last few days, shows direct (private) messages that were sent [...]

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December 18, 2008 - 9:15 am PDT - by Jennifer Van Grove 15 Comments

When baby needs to blog, and in this day and age it seem almost a life necessity with babies twittering from the cradle, where does mommy turn for a child and parent-friendly site for micro and [...]

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by Erick Schonfeld on December 18, 2008
Facebook long ago passed MySpace in global visitors and time spent on the site, but now it appears to be gaining ground on Google.
A couple days ago, Facebook released some new statistics on user growth and engagement on the site. It now has more than [...]

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December 18, 2008 - 1:48 pm PDT - by Anu Shukla

Anu Shukla is the Founder and CEO of Offerpal Media, the leading monetization solution for social applications and online communities.
The word on the street is that social networks, as popular as they are, can’t make any real money. After all, who’s going [...]

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by Erick Schonfeld on December 18, 2008

Newspapers are still lurching their way around the Web, a new study finds, but at least they are making some progress. The Bivings Group released a study today that quantifies the Website features of the top 100 newspapers in the U.S. Among the findings: Nearly [...]