Archive for October 19th, 2009
If you’re one of the about 10% of Twitter users that protect your tweets, watch out, because anybody can read them with a simple Google search. [ READ MORE ]
This rumor simply has to be taken with a grain of salt, but word has it that Verizon and Apple are testing a version of the iPhone on Verizon’s upcoming 4G LTE network. [ READ MORE ]
With practically unlimited ways for users to access Twitter for sending and receiving tweets, we wondered how long it would take before it became an active participant in courtrooms. [ READ MORE ]
Twitter passed the one billion tweet mark back in November of last year. It took them less than a year to quintuple that figure: according to Gigatweet, Twitter has now passed the 5 billion tweet mark. Wow. [ READ MORE ]
When asked about increased competition to the iPhone, like the new Android offerings, Apple COO Tim Cook was characteristically confident: “We think people are trying to catch up with the first iPhone released two years ago,” he said. [ READ MORE ]
Oneupweb released a new study to determine if social media affects how people shop online. The new report called “The 2009 Holiday Special Report: E-Commerce Jingles All The Way to the Bank,” found that social sites are creating much more online traffic to e-commerce sites reinforcing the need for e-commerce merchants to get on the… [[ [ READ MORE ]
Last Click News [ READ MORE ]
Last week, we shared with you a few tips to reach your audience on the go. This week we’ve launched a new site, Go Mobile! to help you be even more effective with mobile advertising. [ READ MORE ]
Earlier this year we posted on how to advertise your business on YouTube through Promoted Videos, and now you can advertise with Promoted Videos directly through AdWords. If you have a video about your business, Promoted Videos allow you to drive viewership of your videos by targeting the hundreds of millions of searches that happen on [ READ MORE ]
On Friday we reported about the #BeatCancer campaign to leverage social media for cancer charities. Their goal was to set a Guinness World Record for the most social mentions in 24 hours, which by Saturday had already topped 200,000 on Twitter, Facebook and blog posts. [ READ MORE ]
Finally, some signs of life from Yahoo Search! Yahoo announced it has updated its Site Explorer to include new data (for page-level and site-level) including key terms, delicious.com activities, top delicious tags and Search Monkey Objects. These additions come about one month after Yahoo added top queries and URLs to the tool. At the page… [[ [ READ MORE ]
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) [ READ MORE ]
Apple has just released its earnings report for Q4 2009. You can listen to the entire earnings call at 5PM EDT/2PM PDT, but the big take-away is that Apple beat estimates and moved more iPhones and Macs than they did during the same period last year. [ READ MORE ]
There might be yet another Facebook homepage redesign in the works, but another Facebook feature is about to receive an overhaul as well: Groups. [ READ MORE ]
A few weeks ago, we caught wind that Facebook was testing a new homepage design. Screenshots revealed a few interesting changes, such as a decrease in size for the Facebook Publisher box and a new, Friendfeed-like “Top News” filter for the news feed. [ READ MORE ]
This week, the FCC is expected to reveal the details of its Net Neutrality plan, which Chairman Julius Genachowski has discussed numerous times over the past month. [ READ MORE ]
Geolocation is one of the big current trends in social networks and mobile applications. And why not? Being able to find out what’s going on around you and what your friends are doing nearby is pretty awesome. It’s one of the reason apps and services like Foursquare are gaining traction. [ READ MORE ]
As an artist John Mayer has been on the forefront of emerging technologies, embracing the art of blogging and tweeting before it was trendy to do so. Today, however, Mayer has been able to make music and technology history as the first recording artist to release an augmented reality music video. [ READ MORE ]