Twitter: don’t believe the hype?
From Ashton Kutcher versus CNN, to the Hudson Plane crash to the Iranian elections: Twitter certainly has been a “buzz” word. It’s interesting to note that a new study by RJMetrics found that by year-end Twitter had just over 75 million user accounts. New user growth peaked last July at 7.8 million new users per…
Read MoreFacebook Is Fertile Ground for Moms (by MediaPost.com)
A very cool article by MediaPost.com’s Kevin Burke: Facebook Is Fertile Ground: Facebook has become the whipping boy of privacy wonks and business analysts. For the rest of us, it has become the dominant place to keep in touch with friends. But it also offers a valuable opportunity for businesses — once businesses recognize…
Read MoreConnecting Facebook for Non-Internet Users (via Springwise.com)
Interesting snippet from Springwise.com newsletter: Facebook may have 350 million or so users, but there are still plenty of friends and loved ones out there who can’t connect online. We’ve already covered UK-based Peggy Mail, which lets Facebook users sent printed postcards to their offline friends, and now there’s News from YOUs, which goes a…
Read MoreHere comes the mobile bride: US Wedding mag launches barcode technology.
On the heels of three major bridal magazines closing last year (Conde Nast’s Modern Bride and Elegant Bride, and InStyle Weddings), Get Married Media is the first wedding magazine to use Microsoft Tag. A free application that brides can download in their mobile phones uses Microsoft’s barcode technology (gettag.mobi) allows users to snap a picture…
Read MoreSmall Business Owners Are Passive In Social Media
Very interesting to read Media Post.com’s article that small business owners “show a strong preference for “passive” social media sources of business instead of actively engaging online. In the article Ben Hanna notes that, according to the Business.com study of over 1,700 small business owners/managers, they “currently use one or more social media resources to…
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