Jul8

It's been an EXTREMELY long time since I've made a post here on my blog. Sorry folks. I've been inundated with life. All good stuff though :) I'll try to post more frequently and on a regular basis. So anyways... On to the subject at hand.
Why do so many businesses fail at social media? Having managed social media ...
Aug4

Randi Zuckerberg, who is director of marketing at Facebook and also the sister of CEO and Co-founder Mark Zuckerberg — is leaving Facebook after six years to start a new media firm to help companies become more social.
- Source: Huffingtonpost.com
Hmm interesting. I wonder if she'll work with some competitors of Facebook like... Twitter or Google ...
Aug4

“On average, 7.9% of Facebook fans see fan page updates on a daily basis. When you look specifically at Facebook pages with over a million fans, the number drops to 2.79%.”
- Source: Marketingpilgrim.com
This is why I hate Facebook and look forward to the next dot com bust to take them under. They’re more concerned with ...
Jul28

Google's social-networking foray saw fewer U.S. visitors last week, and those who did visit spent less time on the site on average, according to new data released today by market researcher Experian Hitwise.
Google+ had 1.79 million visits for the week ending July 23, a decrease of 3 percent compared with the previous week when the ...
Jul12

StumbleUpon has just launched an entirely redesigned and rebuilt iPad app to finally bring the experience iPad users deserve. “I feel like stumbling is perfect for the iPad — for sitting on the couch. It never took off like we wanted,” founder Garrett Camp says, talking about the first iteration of their app for the ...
Jul7

Yesterday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the new "awesome" Facebook feature he mentioned to the media last week. It's Skype video calling enabled with Facebook.
A lot of people may disagree with me, but I think this is a bad idea. Every Facebook user I know uses Facebook periodically throughout the day to quickly see what ...
Jul7

We initially reported that Facebook had reached 750 million users, but today, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that the social network had reached the milestone. Zuck added that sharing is growing at an “exponential rate.”
Zuckerberg said Facebook didn’t report the milestone because they don’t thing that’s the metric they should be using to determine ...
Jul5

Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the social network has plans to “launch something awesome” next week. There’s no official word on what will be announced, but we suspect it’s going to be the new iPhone photo-sharing service that we saw just last week. The service — which looked amazing ...
Jul5

On Thursday, Business Insider reported that China is trying to buy “a huge chunk” of Facebook.
According to the business news website, Beijing approached a fund that buys stock from former Facebook employees to see if it could assemble a stake large enough “to matter.” Moreover, Citibank is rumored to be trying to acquire as ...
Jun30

Google +1 is Google's attempt at trying to develop a social button; which is different than building a full fledged social media site. I think this could be a BIG IDEA! But it depends on content creators like me adopting the button. But before we do, we must get a good feel that it will ...