Social Networking
To say social networking sites are all the rage would be something of an understatement. Privacy issues withstanding, they feature some of the highest traffic on the Internet. So get in on the game! Adorn your website or blog with some of the best and creative social bookmark icon sets around. Here are 30 simply ...
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Social media sites can mean big business for your, um, business. After all Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and those crafty blogs have all become a part of the daily machinations of the business world. So how do you keep track of all of your accounts while on the go? With an iPhone of course! Apple’s megapopular ...
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You want your Twitter page to look good, right? You want your precious lil Tweets to get a fair shake in the universe, and the best way to do that is with a clean and cool looking main page. Now, there are many tutorials out there to help you achieve Twitter Feng Shui. The one ...
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Calling it “an offer we can’t refuse,” the founders of a photo-sharing service called Divvyshot announced Friday that they have been acquired by social network giant Facebook. Financial details and other minutiae were not discussed, but it was assumed that the design team would remain on board.
Divvyshot allows for group photo sharing: multiple users can ...
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Private e-mail addresses that many Facebook users obviously wanted to keep hidden were revealed publicly last night on a multitude of Facebook profiles, Gawker reports. The glitch lasted about 30 minutes before Facebook went ahead and sealed the gap.
An anonymous tipster let Gawker know of the breach in a message riddled with expletives: “6:46PM: I ...
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The Los Angeles Times has reported this week that contrary t o the point of origin for the website, most Tweets originate from overseas.
Semiocast, which recently analyzed 13.5 million tweets, found that 30% of messages on Twitter come from the U.S. The remaining 70% originate in countries around the world.
According to Semiocast, the number of ...
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Hitwise, an internet research company, has announced that as of 13th of March 2010, Facebook achieved 7.07% of all internet traffic to their homepage, compared to Google’s 7.03%.
But what does it all mean exactly? How accurate are these stats? Do they take things like toolbars and phone usage into account? Social media in SEO is ...
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Justin Bieber is some young singer your 12 year old daughter, or creepy friend, probably loves. His identity is unimportant. What is important, however, is his manager was recently arrested because of an incident with…Twitter.
Scott “Scooter” Braun, manager for the tween heartthrob, was arrested on Long Island today on charges of reckless endangerment and criminal ...
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For a while there, the amount of Spam was getting a bit out of hand. How many times had you gotten follow requests only to find out they weren’t a real person, rather an ad for erectile dysfunction or pornography? Well, the folks at Twitter got on that and are now reporting their successes.
Twitter boasted ...
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Teneros, an online communication services company, introduced a service this week. What does it do? Makes it much easier for companies to keep track of the Internet exploits of their employees.
The software, called Social Sentry, will automatically monitor both Facebook and Twitter of employees for the modest fee of $2-$8 per employee per day depending ...
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