Groupon As The Emperors Tailor?
You remember the story … The Emperors New Clothes a short tale by Hans Christian Andersen about two weavers who promise an Emperor a new suit of clothes that are invisible to those either unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent. When the Emperor parades before his subjects in his new clothes, a child cries out, “But he isn’t wearing anything at all!” The tale has a modern twist. Restaurant owners are being told by Groupon that their online couponing model...
Read MoreFacebook’s Fab Upgrade For Pages and Their Admins
If you are an administrator for a Facebook page, you have received or will be receiving shortly, an email from Facebook announcing new changes for pages, allowing increase interactions and monitoring of fans interacting with pages. As an administrator of a large number of pages, I think these features have been a long time coming, and I am excited that Facebook has finally rolled these out. You will receive an email from Facebook similar to the one below indicating the new features. Initially,...
Read MoreDid You Observe or Engage for Super Bowl XLV?
This year for the super bowl, not too many ads aired without a link displayed to their corresponding website, their twitter or facebook pages, and in Audi’s case, their ad took a twitter hashtag mainstream. We spent Super Bowl XLV engaged online, devouring Buffalo Wild Wings at our local Buffalo Wild Wings location. Some may think this is sensory overload, but we feel like we’ve uncovered the best way to watch big events like the super bowl. We drove to our local Buffalo Wild...
Read MoreDaily Digest of Tweets For 2010-12-16
RT @mashable Career Services Startup RiseSmart Announces $3M in Funding http://ht.ly/1atwjE # #mediapost #online Online Media Daily: Congress Limits Online Data Pass Marketing http://ow.ly/1atwjF # RT @mashable Google Fiber Coming to One Lucky Community in 2011 http://ht.ly/1atsaw # RT @mashable Eclectic Method Mashes Up the Mashable Awards [VIDEO] http://ht.ly/1atq4z # #dmnews Marketing services deal-making heats up – Senior marketing executives expect to see an increase in mergers...
Read MoreWhat Do 10 Million Facebook Friendships Look Like?
Recently, an intern working on Facebook’s data infrastructure engineering team took a sample of nearly 10 million pairs of friends from Facebook’s data warehouse and plotted out their relationships. The result? This intriguingly beautiful image and an accurate map of the world. Here are the thoughts that Paul shared about the image and its creation: After a few minutes of rendering, the new plot appeared, and I was a bit taken aback by what I saw. The blob had turned into a...
Read MoreYear In Review 2010 Trends on Twitter
The numbers are in. Over 25 billion tweets were sent in 2010, and Twitter has analyzed these tweets and organized them into the top categories as the overall top 10 Twitter trends. Twitter has broken out the top trending topics into eight categories: News Events, People, Movies, Television, Technology, World Cup, Sports, and Hashtags. Twitter’s list indicates what we were interested in during the course of the year and what the buzz was online. It should be noted that this is a...
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