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What’s New In Social Networking? Advertiser Dollars.

A new study by Nielsen shows that ad dollars are now flowing into social networking platforms like Twitter and Facebook. The contraction between 2008-2009 appears to have been an artifact of the recession than any summary judgment against the effectiveness of social media marketing: growth is poised to grow over 13% in 2010 and 8.2% [...]

October 5th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: advertising, social media | Leave a comment

Google Takes On Twitter With Hot Trends Integration

Google continues to launch skirmishes against anyone who would carve-out a piece of the Interwebs for itself. The latest target: Twitter.

September 29th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: e-commerce, search, social media, startups | Leave a comment

MySpace Now Lets You Update Your Twitter, Vicey-Versey

Not content to sit on the microblogging sidelines, MySpace recently launched the ability to update your Twitter status from your MySpace profile, as well as update your MySpace status from Twitter.

Yawn.

Why did it take MySpace so long to add what amounts to a basic feature? Third-party apps have existed for a year which will update [...]

September 19th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: social media | Leave a comment

Twitter Unveils New Terms of Service: Hello, Advertising!

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone announced new terms of service for the wildly-popular social media site today. The update makes it clear that Twitter is getting serious about monetizing, and will open the door to advertisers on the one hand while cracking down on spammer profiles on the other:

With these revisions, we expect some [...]

September 15th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: advertising, content, social media | Leave a comment

Facebook Determined To Beat The Twit Out Of You

A new post by Facebook engineer Tom Occhino today announces Facebook’s adoption of the @-symbol callout most commonly associated with Twitter users:

Now, when you are writing a status update and want to add a friend’s name to something you are posting, just include the “@” symbol beforehand. As you type the name of [...]

September 10th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: social media | Leave a comment
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