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Facebook Will Allow Users to Share Location

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In lieu of the recent location sharing applications and sites that have been cropping up in the past few months, Facebook has decided to jump on the bandwagon. Next month, Facebook will be offering to users the option to share their locations with... Read More »

5 Ways to Weave LinkedIn Into Your Marketing Mix

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With the abundance of social networks, picking the best ones to leverage your brand and interact with customers. Most people lean toward Facebook, Twitter and YouTube; however, there is a lot to be said for LinkedIn. Read on to find out how you can... Read More »

Beyond Twitter Search: Semantic Analysis of the Real-Time Web

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Twitter recently partnered with Ellerdale, a company who aggregates Twitter's 50 million tweets per day. What this means for social media is that users will now have access more strategically analyzed content and links. In other words a true... Read More »

ExactTarget Buys CoTweet, Sets Up “Social Media Lab” In San Francisco

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ExactTarget has taken a step forward in its integrated strategy plan by absorbing CoTweet in its network. The joint venture will enable the email marketing software-company to integrate more streamlined and socialized processes for clients. Read More »

Facebook Drives 3X Traffic to Broadcast Than Google News

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There's been a lot of buzz on the web about Facebook being a top source for news and trending topics. Now, Hitwise has done some research indicating that Facebook drives more traffic to broadcast than Google News. Read More »

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The Many Jobs of Marketing Content

Posted by: Ardath Albee on March 9, 2010
Marketing content is like an emissary for your company. In the digital world, companies rely on content to produce a variety of results. The best result is, of course, sales. However, that’s only one job at the end of a long list of responsibilities. It’s up to marketers...

Facebook, Twitter Access Through Mobile Browser Sees Triple Digit Growth

Posted by: eweek blog on March 7, 2010
Some 25.1 million people accessing Facebook via a mobile Web browser, a growth of 112 percent from January 2009, according to new research from comScore. Twitter use via a mobile browser grew 347 percent to 4.7 million users. MySpace lured 11.4 million users. In total, some 30.8...

Shorty Awards Honor Twitter’s Finest Micro-Bloggers

Posted by: Mashable Blog on March 5, 2010
The second annual Shorty Awards ceremony went down this week in New York City, honoring the community-nominated and voted on best of the best from Twitter. Awards were given in 26 official categories as well as a huge selection of crowdsourced community categories. The Twitter...

10 Proven Steps to Snag a Guest Post on an A-List Blog

Posted by: Copyblogger Blog on March 5, 2010
Guest posting is the “in” thing. It’s the newest craze. All the kids are doing it! You’ve heard it time and time again — guest posting is the best way of promoting your work. So why haven’t you become part of the hip crowd yet? I know why. You’re scared of rejection....

Integrate and Personalize for Maximum ROI through the Marriage of On-Line and Off-Line Marketing Tactics

Reposted by: Sandra Zoratti on March 3, 2010
One of the most important things to remember when designing and implementing an on-line marketing approach… is your off-line marketing approach! By off-line, I mean the traditional marketing tactics of direct mail, advertising, collateral, etc. ROI (Return on Investment) is the...

WordPress Goes Real-Time With PubSubHubbub

Posted by: Mashable Blog on March 3, 2010
WordPress.com‘ 10.5 million blogs are about to get a whole lot more real-time, thanks to a new behind-the-scenes development. The WordPress team has announced in a blog post that the company has turned on support for PubSubHubbub (try saying that fast five times), a move that...

Google Expands Click-to-Call Mobile Ads to National Advertisers

Posted by: Mashable Blog on March 2, 2010
Google advertisers can now add click-to-call phone numbers to their mobile ads. The move expands the offering from just local advertisers to national advertisers. The setup is quite simple and means that all advertisers running mobile ads can add a phone number via the adwords phone...

Google Buzz Gets an Unofficial App Directory

Posted by: Mashable Blog on March 1, 2010
BuzzAware is a new GoogleBuzz-focused app directory that is focused on keeping all Buzz related add-ons, apps and plugins in one place. Google Buzz launched a few weeks ago, and even without a completed API, somef developers are still building their own tools and apps to take...

Google Buys Flickr Photo Editor Picnik

Posted by: Techcrunch Feed on March 1, 2010
Google has acquired online photo editing site Picnik, according to a blog post made by the photo editing startup today. Google also announced the acquisition on its blog. The entirety of Picnik’s blog post is embedded below.Terms of the deal were not disclosed in either...

Kevin Rose’s 10 Tips for Entrepreneurs

Posted by: Read Write Web Blog on February 19, 2010
Kevin Rose, Digg’s founder, spoke this week at Webstock in Wellington, New Zealand and covered 10 amazing tips for entrepreneurs. They were truly insightful digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/people/Kevin_Rose_s_10_Tips_for_Entrepreneurs’;digg_bgcolor =...