Viral Marketing
The debate over the potential value of linkbait rages on! Throughout the last few years, the argument over linkbait/viral content strategies and whether or not the use of these tactics will result in rewards from search engines has been on the tip of everyone’s tongues. I believe this methodology will remain profitable in the long ...
Meme marketing is a phrase you probably don’t even need explained. It sits there in our brains like it’s always been there. It just seems, right. Anyways, if you need a primer: A meme is born, defined in its traditional sense here, and then pushed to market something. This push is not always done ...
Seattle-based wiki website Wetpaint has always marched to the beat of it’s own drummer. Compared to most wiki providers, their user-interface is mega-friendly. This is why Wetpaint is so great for users new to the world of people-created websites. The sites, which are of course all wikis, can either be hosted at Wetpaint or on ...
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 ...
Corporations. They need a strong brand identity. They just can’t hang around all hully gully and hope consumers notice them. That won’t do at all. How to amp up the brand, though? One way is a snappy logo or design. You know, get the heads turning. Below are 20 usable examples of corporate graphic design ...
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 ...
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 ...
The FBI in cooperation with the French Police this week arrested the alleged Twitter hacker known only as “Hacker Croll. The 25 year old suspect allegedly stole corporate documents from the social networking giant in 2009. He also hacked into several notable Twitter accounts, including Britney Spears and Ashton Kutcher.
Little is known about Hacker Croll’s ...
Last year, there was something of a minor uprising when it seemed as though location tagging had wormed it’s way into the Facebook community. Protests were staged. Facebook President Mark Zuckerman even issued a public apology. Well you know what they say: The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Location tagging has reared ...
File this under “Holy crap. People can be that evil?!”
Reports are flooding in that a variety of hucksters and unsavory individuals have taken it upon themselves to fatten their wallets by offering up Haiti relief Facebook pages. The catch? They are fake. No Haiti relief organizations see this money. Some horrible d-bag gets to buy ...
