According to InsideFacebook.com , a popular Facebook blog, the favored social media platform is in the black to the tune of $700 million and on track toward a whopping $1.1 billion revenue for 2010. Continue Reading…
If you haven’t already seen it, your Facebook posts might be showing up in Google search results around the web. The search engine honcho has indeed begun to index Facebook content and has already been indexing information from MySpace and Twitter. Continue Reading…
Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes the 2010 Internet Dating Conference to be held in Miami, Florida from January 27th-29th. The iDate 2010 conference is the largest gathering of internet dating service providers, social networking executives, mobile telecommunications executives, media executives, vendors and other leaders in the social media industry. Exhibitors will also be on hand to showcase the latest in online dating technology. Continue Reading…
Facebook and other social media sites are easy ways for old friends to reconnect and long-lost relatives to get caught up on family happenings. But they’re also being used in another way, particularly Facebook. Divorce attorneys have started looking at the activity of suspected philandering spouses to determine if any shared information could be used as evidence in court. Continue Reading…
We are used to seeing the host of volunteers this time of year. They are usually standing in shopping malls and street corners ringing bells and looking for donations. They are one of the dwindling populations of helpers that assist families in need during the winter and especially at the Holiday time of year.
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Effective December 1, 2009 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requires bloggers who post product or services reviews to disclose the connection they may have with the manufacturer of the product or the service provider. Social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, blog sites, YouTube, review sites such as Epinions, and others would be affected by these new rules. Continue Reading…
The 1960’s are well known as a time of social change. The picket signs, the handing out of flyers in local communities, the soap box speeches and the radical leaders announcing a call to action around public policies and for social reform are all ways that messages and information calling citizens to action were the way organized change and perceived injustices were communicated to the larger community. These days have been replaced by social media. Continue Reading…
Do you like to Tweet? You may be in luck as companies are searching for social butterflies as part of their business strategy. Companies that used to crack down on staff that used office time to publicize their latest adventures at the water cooler are now embracing their socialites to give a leg up to their on-line presence.
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA, the VP of Google announced that a new Google Labs experiment will be starting soon. The latest experiment will help searches find information from their social network contacts with every Google search.
The project will be launching in the next few weeks. In order to use the service effectively, you have to have a Google account and complete a Google profile that will require you to fill in information about the social networks on which you are active. The search results you request through the website will also then bring up any information relevant to your search as well as information related to content from your social network circle of friends.
Michael Jackson’s death not only affected millions of fans worldwide this week, but he nearly brought half the Internet down with him. Within minutes of TMZ breaking the story, traffic on Twitter spontaneously doubled, while Facebook updates tripled. Widespread slowdowns and outages plagued entire networks, with a mass effect not seen since the Google Failure earlier this year. Continue Reading…
