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Save Lives? There’s an App for that
HAZARDhunters.com is a breakthrough community, created to increase the safety of everyone around you. Using the website and currently an iPhone App, you now have the power to report, inform, and be informed in return of every potential risk to your safety, as well as others around the world. HAZARDhunters will create a more safety-conscious [...]
Commercial Social Media: Question and Answer
1- Do you think ‘traditional’ methods of marketing are dead? Is social media taking over, or just a step towards the future of marketing? Tradition always dies hard, so I think it’ll be a while until we see newspapers, billboards and media advertising wiped from our marketing arsenal, however what social has taught us, is that [...]
Google Value Soars
Google is no stranger to breaking records, but not even Wall Street estimated the substantial growth that Google is continuing to have. The search giant made $9.03 billion in Q2 2011, which is a 32% increase over this time last year. The figure is nearly half-a-billion more than Google made in Q1 2011. So where [...]
Google+ Nearing 10 Million Users
Google+ is gaining momentum, and fast. Although not quite nipping at Facebook’s 700 million usership base, Google+ has within weeks achieved a monumental milestone. At the time of writing, the numbers stood at around 9.5 million worldwide, with around 2.2 million people joining every 48 hours. The most interesting thing about Google+, is that although [...]
Facebook Releases Video Chat
After much hype, Facebook has integrated video into its Facebook Chat feature. It was only a matter of time before this would happen, as Facebook has always had close ties with Skype, and since Microsoft now owns Skype, it sealed the deal when it came to Facebook. Only time will tell just how many people [...]
Why Google+ Will Change Everything
The king of search is coming for the king of Social. Facebook, the unmistakeable champion of Social Networking and its 700 million users are about to get a real shake up. Here’s why. Google’s previous attempts at social have been a little underwhelming, but learning from its mistakes brings to this world something that will [...]
Zuckerberg’s Dog Has A Facebook Page
Beast. That’s Mark Zuckerberg’s new puppy’s name and now has his own Page on his owner’s social network. The fluffy white Puli breed’s Page features images of his famous Facebook CEO owner, and Priscilla Chan, Mark’s girlfriend. At the time of writing, the Page had 130,000 likes, but authenticity of the page has not been [...]
Lady Gaga and Social Media
Lady Gaga is no stranger to Social. Her music videos are created for YouTube before they are ever considered for television. In a strange and uncharacteristic twist, Lady Gaga has joined Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt in a $1 million investment into a Social Media startup. Just as Ashton Kutcher put his money into startup [...]
LinkedIn First Social Network To IPO – Now Worth $8.9 Billion
LinkedIn ended its first day as a publicly traded company 108% higher in value than when each share was initially priced. A share in LinkedIn will now cost you $94 each, as opposed to just a few days ago when it was estimated to be $45 each. The shares climbed all the way to $122.70 [...]
It’s Official: Amazon Kindle Books Outselling Real Books
“We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly” – Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder and CEO. It has only been around four years since Kindle electronic books were brought to market – and already Amazon.com is selling more of them than the paper option. Amazon, which [...]
