Users have been hitting the Like button for interesting updates on Facebook, and now they have the option to share those updates with individuals privately, with the social media platform’s new Send feature. Facebook rolled out the Send button a few weeks ago to replace the old “Email to a Friend” feature. By clicking on [...]
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Facebook Rolls Out the Send Button
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011Tags: facebook, facebook send button, Social Media, social media network, social media platform
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What is the Google Panda Update?
Monday, April 18th, 2011In late February 2011 Google announced a major update of its search engine ranking algorithm that would affect 12% of its search results and decrease some website visits by 50%. As of Monday, April 11, Google rolled out the update globally to all English-language users. Called the Panda or the Farmer Update, the latest announcement [...]
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How Much Do You Know About Facebook Photo Sharing?
Friday, February 18th, 2011There are over 500 million active Facebook users, 50 percent of whom log on in any given day, spending over 700 billion minutes per month on the social networking site. With these kinds of statistics, it’s no wonder social photo discovery engine Pixable and Harvard Professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski teamed up to study user behavior [...]
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2011 Social Media Week Celebrates Fourth Year
Friday, February 4th, 2011Sponsored by Nokia, Social Media Week 2011 begins next Monday, February 7th through the 11th. The event is being hosted in New York, San Francisco, Rome, Paris, Toronto, São Paulo, London, Hong Kong and Istanbul. Social Media Week (SMW) is described on their website as, “a global platform that connects people, content, and conversation around [...]
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Facebook Rolls Out User-Defined Sponsored Stories Ads
Friday, January 28th, 2011Not surprisingly, Facebook has discovered another new way for businesses to advertise, this time in the form of Sponsored Stories. This new Facebook marketing format allows some posts by your friends to be promoted content for companies, currently including likes, check-ins and actions within custom applications and Page posts. Companies can now pay to have [...]
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How to Build and Design an Effective Website
Friday, January 21st, 2011These days, most business owners have acknowledged the importance of having a website, realizing how legitimate online marketing has become and not wishing to miss out on any potential new business. However, many still don’t fully understand how essential it is to respect the significance of how the site is designed and built. Investing in [...]
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New Media Predictions for 2011
Wednesday, December 22nd, 20102010 saw many innovations in social media, search and technology with Yahoo and Bing merging search engines, Facebook reaching 500 million users and rolling out a new interface, Google launching the left hand navigation tool and Apple introducing the iPad and iPhone 4, among others. All of us are looking forward to the New Year, [...]
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