Social Media
Cyberscams Befriend Social Networks
Now those phony Nigerians may log on as your “friend.” How Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social networking sites are fighting a rise in scams
Remember the associate of that deposed dictator who needed your help transferring a few million dollars from a Swiss bank account? Well, he’s back. And he—or one of his ilk—may show [...]
Just What is Social Media, Exactly?
What is social media, and is social media actually media in the traditional sense of the word? This is the question Jeffrey and Brian Eisenberg take on and try to decisively answer at their marketing firm’s company blog.
They say it is disingenuous to call any of the various things we in the punditry business refer [...]
Mint SMS: Monitor Your Finances On the Go
Personal finance service Mint has added a new feature for those who simply have to know what their entire net worth is in every imaginable situation. Users can send a text message containing the words “Balance” or “Bal” to shortcode “MyMint” (696468) and they’ll receive info for savings, credit, and loans they’re tracking on Mint.
The [...]
Facebook Destroys Lucrative Birthday Reminder Industry
Facebook just added another extremely useful feature for users, and in doing so took out a slew of applications that do that same thing. You can now get a weekly email telling you, simply, which friends have birthdays coming up.
That’s good news for all of us who want more birthday information. It’s bad news for [...]
ONEsite Launches Proprietary Social Ad Platform
White label social networking software maker ONEsite is launching its very own advertising platform InteractAd today, essentially declaring traditional online advertising is past its prime and that it’s time for social advertising to take its place.
Twitterank Might Not Have Been a Phishing Scam, But It Was Fascinating
This week has seen an incredible amount of interest around Twitterank, a new tool that popped up that computes a numerical score of … something.
At first, no one was really too sure what Twitterank was computing, but, it related to Twitter, one’s perceived popularity, and had a quirky site, so, why not enter in your [...]
Online Video: Where’s The Money?
Here is the stark reality of online video: nobody is making much money and the enthusiastic projections for online video advertising going from $500 million in 2008 to more than $5 billion in five years will undoubtedly be pared back in the coming weeks as analysts revisit their numbers. (Those numbers are from August—eMarketer).
Twitter: One Billion Tweets. Wow.
Popacular, a site that measures popularity of websites according to the number of related tweets, has a huge counter that counts the overall number of tweets. I don’t know how accurate this thing can be, given that it’s third party, but if it is, then we’ve recently surpassed the billionth tweet mark.
This is just another [...]
Is Twitterank Ranking Your Popularity Or Stealing Your Password?
Something called “Twitterank” has been #1 on Twitter’s trending topics for much of the afternoon, and a flurry of tweets have been coming across along the lines of “my twitterank is 30.35!” with a link to an individual page for each user on a crudely designed website. While the site doesn’t give any real details [...]
It Was Only a Matter of Time: The Facebook Phone Cometh
No, Facebook isn’t building its own phone. But UK mobile service provider 3 is launching a mobile phone whose primary function, besides making phone calls, is social networking.
The phone is called INQ1. Its specifications? Fairly standard: a 2.2 inch QVGA screen, 3.2 megapixel camera, HSDPA, accelerometer, 50MB + 4 GB of memory. The platform that [...]
