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Zuckerberg for President? Should the Face of Facebook Stay Out of Politics?
If Facebook hasn’t taken on enough already, Mr. Zuckerberg is on his way to becoming a political organizer.Wall Street Journal announced that Zuckerberg and fellow tech industry leaders are organizing a political group (unnamed until is formal...
Google Gamers: Will World Wide Maze Change the Gaming Industry? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Xbox 720? PS4? Google?With the gaming industry ever evolving, creating sequel after sequel, device after device, it was only a matter of time before Google got its hands into video games.Behold! The World Wide Maze!By installing Google Chrome onto...
Will Pinterest Analytics Make Pinning Worthwhile?
Images seem to be all the rage these days with Instagram growing like wild fire and YouTube serving as the second largest search engine to date. Pinterest however always seems to lack in any type of social media ‘street cred.'Lucky for social media...
Google Shopping Express: Will Google Ever Stop Dominating?
Does anyone else feel that Google appears in the news way too often? From Google + Hangouts, to SEO updates, to technological dominance, Google is slowly moving its game pieces across the Digital-Risk game board. So what has Google dominated this...
Need to Generate Leads? Network on LinkedIn and Present on SlideShare
We survived our impending Mayan doomsday until the next rapture (Look out for us Macho Man!) which means it is time to generate business contacts for the 2013 business year.For 2013, most companies are looking to keep a tighter band around their...
Oliver Twist Social Media: Does Your Brand Really Need More Fans?
Like Oliver Twist, we want more please. More?! Yeah, more fans. Brands are always on the hunt for more fans to pile onto their brand page and bellow out a devious Jabba the Hut chuckle with the number of fans that liked their page. In the grand...
Social Media Music Television: What Music Parodies Can Teach Us About Social Media Strategy
Recreating music videos and crating hip fads are all the rage lately. From Gangnam style to Somebody I Used to Know, fans are looking for their own fifteen minutes of fame by riding the coat tails of popular musicians. Google search Gotye’s hit...
Thought Leaders of LinkedIn? Or Digital Golf Club Membership?
Recently on TechCrunch, an announcement from LinkedIn declared that the social business site is designing a circle of key influential thought leaders that LinkedIn account users can follow. Similar to Twitter, LinkedIn will allow users to follow the...
Do You Fake-Like Me? How the Facebook Fake Likes May be Hurting Your Client
Does your company have thousands of likes? Did you earn those likes? Is your company one of the few that Facebook is cracking down on? In recent reports, Facebook announced to TechCrunch that they were cracking the proverbial whip on Facebook brand...
A Google Storm is Coming. Are you Prepared?
At the recent SES Conference in San Francisco, Matt Cutts had announced some MAJOR changes that will throw everyone in the Web Traffic Optimization game for a loop. It appears that if you have gotten comfy after the Penguin and Panda updates and you...
3D Fetal Photography Printer: Some Brands are Hard to Market with Social Media
Today I am going to the photographer at Target to get baby photos of my daughter Harlie. Plenty of people have told me that she is the most adorable baby on the face of the planet and I truly believe it. The child has been photogenic since before...
Will Zuckerberg’s Decline as a Billionaire Impact Facebook?
Recently reported on Bloomberg News, Mark Zuckerberg has been brought down a few notches on the Billionaire social ladder. While his fortune is still an impressive $10.2 billion, Zuckerberg has fallen behind James Goodnight, the co-founder of SAS...
Friggatriskaidekaphobia: 13 Things You Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Doing While Blogging
It’s Friday the 13th. Ooooh, spooky. With all of the lore that follows such a superstitious day, (Friggatriskaidekaphobia means a great fear of Friday the 13th) there is little to fret about. If anyone knows their history about Friday the 13th, it...
Google U: Will Google's online school teach us about SEO?
Recently on Mashable there was an article on Google talking about how the search engine giant plans to educate the masses: Online schooling for search engines. What an amazing idea! Google, after releasing its Penguin and Panda updates and...
Is a Facebook "Want" button the axe that kills Amazon?
Recently on Mashable I read an article about a ‘Want’ button that is currently under production. The ‘Want’ button sat on Facebook’s back burner for some time and it looks like the feature will available sooner rather than later. With such an...
God Bless American Social Media: How you can celebrate America’s Birthday on Facebook
This is America’s birthday and what better way to celebrate our nation’s birth than by ripping your chest hair off and screaming out our country’s name? No takers? Not a fan of America? You should be ashamed of yourself.Well, I guess there are...
Alec Baldwin Quits Twitter with Style, I Guess?
This morning 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin has tweeted for the final time. Baldwin tweeted “It’s been fun” and his handle @AlecBaldwin displays an error message confirming the deletion. In December of last year, Baldwin was kicked off of a flight...
I’d Like a Retraction: Should Google Be Censored by the Government?
In a report released by Google, the United States government asked Google to remove 6,192 individual pieces of content from its search results, blog posts or archives of online videos. Overall, Google received 187 requests from United States law...
The Swap-O-Matic: Recycling with Social Media
Everybody likes to have something new even if it really isn’t new. The Swap-O-Matic vending machine created by Lina Fenequito contains several items of sentimental value (handwritten poetry or artwork) to the hilarious (a jar of Miracle Whip). The...
Facebook Camera: The Love Child of Facebook and Instagram
The transformation is complete. Not even two months after the purchase of Instagram Facebook has released its own photo app to the public. Facebook Camera, a separate app from the Facebook mobile app, can be considered a complete clone to Instagram....
