It’s hard to believe that in 2009, Facebook was insignificant compared to the rest of social media. Even harder to fathom is that one year later, Facebook asserted its dominance and became the undeniable leader of the social landscape, representing more than 50 percent of all time spent on social websites. It wasn’t certain whether [...]
Goodbye 2011, welcome, 2012. Why not make 2012 the year you learn how to make LinkedIn really work for you and your business? For professionals who have engaged with LinkedIn to grow their professional network and their business, there is often a dual feeling of both enthusiasm and uncertainty. This lack of knowledge of how [...]
How will social media impact businesses in 2012? We sought expert opinions from a wide range of pros you’re likely familiar with. To give you a glimpse of what we can expect in the next 12 months, we decided to tap their knowledge and expertise. Here are their predictions of where social media is headed in [...]
Technology exploded in 2011. With the increased number of smartphones, iPhones becoming available in Verizon Stores, and iPads, Nooks, ebooks & Tablets becoming more known and popular, social media also increased.As we say good-bye to 2011, we look forward to what’s to come in 2012. 1. Social media will be incorporated [...]
Having surpassed one billion unique visitors this past May,Google has become a part of our daily online lives. Yet Google’s impact is expanding even further. Google+ has now grown to more than 40 million users. Recently, the company introduced Google+ pages for businesses, designed to help brands connect with customers. While Google+ pages is in its infancy, the social network’s user [...]
Steve Jobs logged off too soon. He was a serial innovator whose illness cost the world a bright talent who was also a great company leader. I hope that the music from the hymns of praise sung to him in his waning days is playing on his iPod as he ascends into the firmament of [...]
Twitter is revamping the service with personal Twitter profile pages, a new timeline that includes rich media and other related information embedded into tweets, and easier search for information based on @ symbols (usernames) and hash tags. Talking at Twitter’s unfinished new headquarters building in San Francisco, founder Jack Dorsey and CEO Dick Costolo explained [...]
Google‘s proliferation of the +1 button continued Wednesday as the company added the feature to image searches. The button, which was introduced in March as an answer to Facebook’s “Like,” is equivalent to a stamp of approval from Google users. Over the past few months, +1s have appeared next to news articles, on websites and even in ads. [...]
In the annals of Facebook, this will hardly be remembered as the social network’s finest hour. On Monday, world-famous author Salman Rushdie, who won the “Booker of Booker” prize for his novel Midnight’s Children, revealed that Facebook had deleted his account at the weekend — and then, when he sent the company a copy of his [...]
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