On Wednesday, August 18, Facebook launched Places, their location-based social media application – which is gradually rolling out to all U.S. users in the next few days. Like other popular location-based social media networks, you can check in from your mobile device to immediately share where you are. Facebook Places also allows you to share [...]
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Facebook Places: The Newest Location-Based Social Media App
Friday, August 20th, 2010Tags: facebook, Facebook application for iPhone, facebook marketing, Facebook Places, Interactive Marketing, location-based app, Location-Based Social Media App, location-based social networks, social media application, social media marketing, social media networks
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YouTube’s “Life in a Day” Experiment Gets 80,000 Entries
Friday, August 6th, 2010Producer Ridley Scott of Gladiator and Black Hawk Down and Academy award-winning director Kevin Macdonald of The Last King of Scotland invited the world to share their Life in a Day on July 24, 2010. The historic global experiment’s goal is to create a user-generated film shot in a single day. On July 24, people [...]
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Facebook Reaches 500 Million Users…and Some Interesting Facebook Facts!
Friday, July 23rd, 2010This week, Facebook reached its 500 million members milestone. CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who is the youngest self-made billionaire CEO, appeared in an interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC World News. A full-length feature film about the rise of Facebook called The Social Network is set to hit theaters in October. Mark Zuckerberg has already recorded [...]
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Social Media Marketing by LeBron James
Friday, July 9th, 2010Last night, after weeks of media frenzy and round-the-clock speculation, two time NBA Most Valuable Player LeBron James announced his decision to sign with the Miami Heat, joining Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, during an hour-long prime time special on ESPN. The announcement was the culmination of weeks of cleverly and effectively conducted social media [...]
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Zynga Expands its Social Media Marketing
Friday, July 2nd, 2010Anyone that enjoys the games and applications on Facebook knows the enormous popularity of Zynga’s games Farmville, YoVille and Mafia Wars. Nearly 64 million people play Farmville each month, which is how parent company Zynga brought in $490 million in revenue last year, according to CNET News.
Taking the Facebook games’ popularity and bankability one step [...]
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‘Follow’ Companies on LinkedIn!
Friday, June 25th, 2010With over 70 million professionals on LinkedIn, the social media networking platform features a tool that gives members the ability to ‘follow’ companies. The feature works like a Facebook fan page, so by following a company on LinkedIn, you will get access to status updates such as recent hires and promotions, new job opportunities and [...]
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Follow the World Cup on Smartphones, Search Engines and Twitter!
Friday, June 11th, 2010The 2010 FIFA World Cup is upon us, and you can enjoy the games while getting up-to-date information and interaction on social media networks! You can follow the World Cup on TV and on your Smartphone as well as on all the major search engines and Twitter.
In search news, Yahoo has introduced search shortcuts for [...]
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