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Interning at Google through the eyes of Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson
It may not have the award-winning scope that The Social Network had when it explored the early days of Facebook...
Clever LinkedIn promotes itself by congratulating others
We are vane creatures. LinkedIn has been on a roll, lately. They seem to have come to grips with their...
Trending on Twitter now costs $200k a day in the US
In 2008, Twitter introduced the ability for advertisers to buy promoted trends, a way of taking over a portion of...
How TED makes us all smarter
There was once a time when being a geek or a nerd wasn't cool until you bought your first Porsche....
Facebook hits the real world with innovative gift cards
Facebook is about to get real and make their push into the physical wallets that they've always coveted. It's not...
IBM delivers new software and cloud services to accelerate social business
Today IBM announced several new software and cloud-based services to advance the transformation of organizations into social businesses. From marketing...
Why did Facebook make Instagram evil?
If you're one of those who almost deleted your Instagram account but did not because you figured you'd give them...
Mark Zuckerberg on privacy
Facebook graph search has the potential to be a great thing for Facebook and its users. Perhaps more importantly, this...
Triberr increases exposure with the power of the like-minded
While learning incredible things and meeting equally incredible people at the New Media Expo in Vegas, I ran into Triberr...
Businesses should post fewer links and more interactions, text, and images on Twitter
The automation of Twitter for businesses continues to become the norm. As microblogging, interaction, and expression get replaced by RSS...
WaPo’s and The Guardian’s moves away from Facebook highlight the social network’s underlying problem
The announcement that the Washington Post Company was moving its Facebook app Social Reader off the social network and onto...
Pinterest is (finally) going after spam accounts with an axe
You may notice a drop in your Pinterest followers today. Don't worry - your popularity level hasn't fallen. It's just...
Vote for clarification and changes to Facebook’s data use policy
Facebook Ireland who is in charge of the interaction that happens between the U.S and Europe are making changes to...
The first truly scary rumor for Google about search: Facebook and Yahoo working together
Imagine a search engine that truly knew you. No, not in the way that Google or Bing personalize their search...
One advantage of dashboards like Hootsuite: stats
Purists will say that using apps and dashboards like Hootsuite or Buffer take away the fundamental interpersonal relationships that are...
Pin it to win it: the rise of Pinterest in the USA and UK
Pinterest has achieved a great deal of notice and success in a relatively short amount of time. Since its launch...
YouTube facts and figures
YouTube has been around since 2005 and its popularity has rapidly grown over the years. For many of us, YouTube...
Klout adjusts “+K” kudos to include reasons for influence
Klout, the social influence measure that is likely the most used and well-respected, rolled out a series of changes yesterday....
Zuckerberg exploring ways to let pre-teens on Facebook
Recently the co-chairmen of the Bi-Partisan Congressional Privacy Caucus, Edward Markley and Joe Barton, sent a letter requesting that Mark...
One thing that’s killing Google+ – user profile URLs
Quick, what's your Twitter handle? What's your Facebook profile URL? What's you Google+ address? You were probably able to answer...
TIL Twitter has a relatively-small number of employees
It only takes 140-characters or less to send a Tweet and it takes under 1,000 employees to operate the company...
Searching for social media’s John Hughes
This generation's filmmakers have not been able to accurately portray the ethos of the social media generation yet. When will...
Businesses can’t hide from social media wrath
There was a time when an unhappy customer was an unhappy customer. Best practices said to deal with their concerns,...
Timelines are a changin’: Facebook makes another improvement (again)
Facebook gives itself a facelift by improving the user experience yet again. Facebook’s Timeline, which was implemented back earlier in...
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