Marta Kagan, US Managing Director at Espresso gave a keynote last year titled "What the F**k is Social Media." This keynote is comprised of a nice overview of the space along with nice statistics that the last year has afforded.
Some key takeaway points:
Visiting social sites is now the 4th most ...
Once again, Mark Zuckerberg is rolling out another Facebook redesign.... and shockingly enough, it seems to mimmick Twitter even further!
Announced today through the Facebook Blog, the new changes are quite extensive and are definitely the largest we've seen since the creation of the news feed. The first update is the creation ...
eMarketer posted a study today focusing on online marketing budget allocation of small businesses and not surprisingly, social networking has the highest budget increase over all other methods. 25% of small businesses say that they plan on spending "More" money on social networking while only 5% plan on spending "Less."
All ...
Following his killer campaign, our new President Elect has decided to continue his efforts at involving his followers and engaging them through the use of "new" media at Change.gov
Featured on the site is...
The complete agenda on everything from civil rights to rural policy
Infomation on the transition
Blog
Newsroom updates
"An American Moment: Share ...
On an interesting note...as some of you may know, today is national Talk Like a Pirate Day. To tell you the truth, I had no idea until I hopped onto Google this morning and was delighted to see that they had tastefully edited their "Directory" to a "Direct'ry."
It turns out ...
At 6:32 pm on July 21st, Facebook released the highly awaited Facebook redesign. As written on the official Facebook profile previews page, the goal of the effort is to create, “a redesigned profile aimed at making things simpler, cleaner, and more relevant, while still giving you control over your own ...
The Olympics never fail to be an exciting time for not only the world of sports, but also for the world of marketing and branding. The Olympic athlete is viewed as patriotic, heroic and even superhuman, so when brands get the chance to be associated with these people, they take ...
This Tuesday, Myspace released initiatives with Flixster and Eventful which will allow Myspace users to register and sign into the sites through their Myspace ID. This movement is the first data availability move that we see Myspace taking towards open-social networking, which is the idea of vertically aligning multiple social ...
Debuting its alpha product late June, Sense Networks has begun to implement their City Sense network throughout San Francisco and other smaller test grounds including Cambridge, MA. The idea behind City Sense is to utilize mobile tracking capabilities in order to process and display the movement of the people in ...
Released June 8th, Lively by Google is one of the more exciting virtual worlds to hit the market this year. Realizing the limiting factors that desktop programs similar to SecondLife pose, Lively has alternatively been created as a web-based program which appeals to casual users over heavy creators. The concept ...
