Category Archives: Social Media

Skype and Facebook together – why didn’t I think of that?

In Kara Swisher’s (http://kara.allthingsd.com) excellent Boomtown blog today she offered an ‘exclusive’ that Skype and Facebook are close to a deal. Kara started out with ‘You didn’t think Facebook would integrate with Google (GOOG) Voice, did you?’ I love that! … Continue reading

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Groupon had a very good week

Facebook launched its new location based service ‘Places’ last week. Like many things with new Facebook products invasion of privacy was an issue. In the case of Facebook places it allows your friends to broadcast where you are and they … Continue reading

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Why would Tumblr like to be Twitter’s rival?

Even before I read the article in today’s New York Times (http://nyti.ms/aQ9oKV) I had some knowledge of Tumblr – http://www.tumblr.com. Yes I signed up. No I’m not exactly sure why. A blogging service based in NYC, Tumblr claims to want … Continue reading

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Why does Activision/Blizzard want to pull the pants down of its members?

Activision/Blizzard’s online role playing game World of Warcraft (WOW) continues to amaze me. With more than 11.5 million monthly subscribers it is one of the most successful online gaming models ever created. This past Tuesday Blizzard announced a new feature … Continue reading

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Can I turn it off? Can you?

In case you are wondering the photo is of Ivan Pavlov. Like most of us email flows into my inbox and my PDA at all hours of the day and night. At times I feel I am drowning in a … Continue reading

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The NY ‘Digital Marketing Days’ show that weren’t

I just could not let it go. The DMA bought the trade show DMDays NY (DMDNY) several years ago. Not a bad move and it sort of made sense as a replacement for the now defunct DMA spring show. I’ve … Continue reading

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Foursquare, Loopt, Gowalla and Shopkick – they can be gamed

Having blogged about it a couple of times, I have also been ‘using’ Foursquare’s location based platform to ‘check-in’ over the past five months. I am dubiously proud of being able to claim that I am the ‘Mayor’ of the … Continue reading

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The laws of marketing attraction

According to the “State of Inbound Marketing Report” from Hubspot, as reported by Marketing Charts, inbound marketing is continuing to grow in importance at the expense of outbound marketing. This is good news and further validation that paid search, SEO, … Continue reading

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Guerrilla Marketing doesn’t mean clients don’t have to spend any money

Our agency being on the smaller side has the ability to be nimble while at the same time employing new marketing tools in real time for our own http://www.YourCover.com product as well as for our clients. Because budgets can be … Continue reading

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Social media and Internet censorship in the office will not make things better

I heard a radio spot yesterday from Barracuda Networks. Their offer is to help companies make their workers more productive by blocking/firewalling them from websites and social networks that (as the ad infers) detract from employee productivity and company profits. … Continue reading

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