The Social Media Guru Bubble
I’ve come to loathe most “Social Media Experts”. Not all of them, of course, there are good ones out there, but they can be hard to find in an endless sea of “10 Ironclad Str...
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Crowdsourcing ‘Justice’ in the Boston Bombing Case
In the hunt for the Boston Marathon suspects social media played a large part. Live footage, Tweeted news and crowdsourced leads became all the rage. As even Boston Police used Twitter to communicate...
Buzzfeed Is Unlike Other Sites
The founder of Buzzfeed Jonah Peretti is often asked what sets him apart from other social media sites. He is also asked why he has so many animals on the site. People actually complaining that there...
Twitter Celebrates its 7th Birthday
March 22, 2013- Tweet and re-tweet, two words which literally didn’t exist a little more than seven years ago, are now part of the global lexicon, used by people everywhere. The origin of the website...
Netflix (NFLX) Adds Social Options for U.S. Users
March 15, 2013- Netflix(NFLX), the online video service, is offering its United States subscribers the ability to look into the digital movie libraries of other subscribers, primarily their friends a...
LinkedIn (LNKD) Shares Continue to Soar
February 12, 2013- LinkedIn (LNKD) is a social networking website that exists to help business professionals connect with one another. It is also a site which continuously outperforms estimates for i...
