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Thursday, June 30th, 2011Today we acknowledge and celebrate the revolution of media becoming social. A day that honors the technological and societal advancements that have allowed us to have a dialogue, to connect and to engage not only the creators of media, but perhaps more importantly, one another. It’s a day to celebrate the changes in media that [...]
Social Media Sinks Stocks via tweet
Thursday, June 16th, 2011Blockbuster stock plummet 77% to 22 cents a share…why?Frigging Tweeters: STORY:n the spring of 2009, Blockbuster Video retained the services of Kirkland & Ellis, a law firm with a reputation for helping companies with bankruptcy filings. Rumors that the video rental chain was going to file for bankruptcy spread rapidly across social media. In the [...]
It’s official: Search and Social Have Merged
Monday, May 30th, 2011Bing social search named : “Friend Effect” “Bing and Facebook are making a bet – one that will marry the logic of search, with the recommendations and opinions of your social network and the masses – to extend search beyond just fact-based decision making, to decisions that are made with the power of people AND [...]
Google Plus 1 : Another attempt at G doing social
Friday, April 8th, 2011+1 coming to search results, but why in the results? Shouldn’t they just offer a similar facebook “like” button to add to your page? I would first need to see the page/website before I would even consider saying “Hey, I think this is cool and has value!” They don’t have that button yet, but we [...]
Google + Bing Confirm that Twitter/Facebook Influence SEO
Friday, February 25th, 2011[As of December 1st, 2010] both Bing and Google have confirmed (via an excellent interview by Danny Sullivan) that links shared through Twitter and Facebook have a direct impact on rankings (in addition to the positive second-order effects they may have on the link graph). This has long been suspected by SEOs (in fact, many of [...]
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