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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-14

Saturday, March 14, 2009 23:59 No Comments

Twitter: so many apps, so little time. Ping.fm also especially good for broadcasting to all of your favorite social networking sites. #
TweetDeck: an awesome supplement for Twitter users. #
Going to the gym now. #

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CBS’ TV.com Upgrades high-def video

Friday, March 13, 2009 14:16 No Comments

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TV.com, a unit of CBS Corp., said Thursday that it has begun beta testing a high-definition video gallery that allows users to watch ad-supported repurposed network programming online in 1080p resolution.
Supported by Adobe System’s Flash platform, the 1080p video gallery (www.tv.com/1080p) will augment the site’s current HD gallery, photos, news, interactive forum [...]

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Facebook, Twitter And The Battle For The Real-Time Web

Friday, March 6, 2009 8:57 No Comments

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Facebook launched several new features that many say take a direct shot at Twitter, the microblogging site that Facebook tried to acquire late last year. Twitter is all about real-time communication, while Facebook has been focused on fueling communication through interactivity. With the launch of these new features, however, Facebook is now [...]

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TV.Com Attracts More Viewers

Monday, February 16, 2009 10:20 No Comments

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Giving rival Web TV portals a run for their money, TV.com posted a 263% increase in unique viewers in January, according to new data from Nielsen VideoCensus.To boot, during that month, the CBS-owned destination for full-length video recorded a 1,261% increase in streams, and a 4,435% increase in minutes viewed.
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Study: Social Networkers Prefer Opt-In Vs. Random Ads

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:54 No Comments

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What ad models most effectively reach social networkers, today? According to the social networkers themselves, opt-in advertising works best, while behavior-based campaigns and randomly generated ads are far less successful.
About 40% of social networkers condone the practice of opt-in advertising, according to data being released today by market research firm InsightExpress.
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Semantic Sense for the Desktop

Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:43 No Comments

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A project brings Semantic Web technology to personal documents.

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People naturally group information by topic and remember relationships between important things, like a person and the company where she works. But enabling computers to grasp these same concepts has been the subject of long-standing research. Recently, this has focused on the [...]

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The Six Effects of Social Media For Companies

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 11:20 No Comments

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Today, I stumbled upon a posting at The Strategy Web Blog. Among others, Martin is mentioning in his article the six effects for companies, who are participating in digital conversations using social media. Those effects are:
social media social networking social networks e-commerce

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Cirque du Soleil Jessica Berlin on Social Media Marketing

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 10:58 No Comments

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One of the opportunities from speaking at the Pubcon conference in Las Vegas recently was meeting many client side social media marketing practitioners. Jessica Berlin, one of my co-panelists and social media manager from Cirque du Soleil, offered excellent insights into online reputation management and social media. I’ve invited her to take [...]

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Finding Time For Social Media

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 13:08 No Comments

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B.L. Ochman also writes the popular What’s Next Blog.

Keeping up with social media is a daunting task. The No. 1 question I’m asked when I speak at corporate seminars and mention that I recently wrote my 7,000th Twitter entry is “How in the world do you have the time for [...]

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Social networking sites “good for businesses”

Monday, November 3, 2008 13:33 No Comments

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Good news for workers addicted to Facebook, Bebo and MySpace — a British think-tank says bosses should not stop their staff using social networking sites because they could actually benefit their firms.
The report by Demos said encouraging employees to use networking technologies to build relationships and closer links with colleagues and customers [...]

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