Articles in Social Media
It’s been a year of chess moves between Google, Apple, Facebook and Twitter. For example, look at the last few weeks alone:
- Google+ launches as Google’s social effort (and its good)
- iOS5 is announced with …
As Facebook Places ramps (via mobile, deals, etc), Facebook has started promoting Favorite Places. It is a module that asks users which Place they prefer (this or that). The two choices seems to be either …
The Google+ launch has been well received and, for the most part, I have been very impressed by the product (it feels more complete, usable and social than other recent Google products). But they still …
Groupon, Rue La La, Gilt Group, etc have built big businesses atop big email lists and great email marketing.
Twitter has beefed up their email efforts by delivering notifications for retweets, mentions and favorites by your …
The more I play with Apple’s iOS5, the more impressed I am with the Twitter integration.
And the more aware I am of the potential impact it has on Twitter…
But why isn’t Facebook integrated instead or …
I have written a fair amount about Facebook Deals and why it is interesting & worth keeping an eye on…. and it’s timely as Groupon nears its IPO and Google & Amazon begin to enter …
Maybe I am too much of a geek, but I actually enjoy reading application version updates. I assume most people do not read them thoroughly (many do not regularly update their apps either), but it …
While it is a relatively minor update, I love the new UI / treatment being used on Facebook Deals.
Facebook is now overlaying your friend’s names / images atop deals they have either purchased or …
I am still unsure about Facebook Deals:
- just how fully baked the idea / effort is.
- how Deals are suggested to me and dispersed throughout the Facebook experience / flow.
- what Facebook Deals becomes? Is …
Facebook quietly released an important product update for marketers and page-owners: the ability to tag images with pages (in addition to people). It’s a simple update / change – but very meaningful and, in the …
Remember when Gilt Group and Rue La La first launched and you had to be “invited”? It was a genius marketing effort that established a brand of high-end exclusivity. It also was important in jump-starting …
