Acquired By Amazon? Have Your Monkey Rap About It [VIDEO]
Earlier today, Amazon acquired Woot, the popular website network that helped pioneer the deal-a-day shopping model (one dominated by Groupon). The acquisition announcement was made via a humorous blog post and even more hilarious letter… Share and Enjoy: Technorati Tags: Acquisition, amazon, blog, Hilarious Letter, Monkey Video, Pioneer, Rap Video, shopping
Twitter Launches Its Official Android App
Just weeks after launching an official BlackBerry app and acquiring Tweetie (which will become Twitter for iPhone), Twitter is out with another mobile application built in-house, this time for Google Android. The app is available immediately in the Android Market. Twitter’s Leland Rechis describes it on the company’s official blog, writing, “Reading tweets is easy [...]
See What Your Facebook Friends “Like” On Any Site
A new website called Likebutton.me uses Facebook’s just-launched Social Plugins features to show you a list of all the items your Facebook friends “Liked” across several websites like YouTube, Pandora, Hulu, Flickr, The Wall Street Journal, IMDB and numerous others. It basically just splashes the Activity Feed Social Plugins for each website all up onto [...]
Blippy User’s Credit Card Number Found in Google Again [WARNING]
We posted news yesterday that Blippy, the site for sharing your credit card transactions with friends, had inadvertently made full credit card numbers of some users visible in Google searches. Blippy responded that the situation was “a lot less bad than it looks”, since only 127 transactions and 4 credit cards were affected. (We’d argue [...]
SEO for Charity
Search Engines use links to determine a websites relevance to that community. http://www.shutternick.com/SEO-for-charity/ Duration : 592621 hrs 29 min 46 sec Share and Enjoy: Technorati Tags: blog
History of SEO
As site owners started to recognize the value of having their sites highly ranked and visible in search engine results webmasters began to try ways to influence the Search Engines. This was the birth of SEO, Search Engine Optimization. http://www.hcisat.com/history-of-SEO/ Duration : 592621 hrs 29 min 46 sec Share and Enjoy: Technorati Tags: blog
Tumblr Starts Offering Premium Themes
Remember that little payment widget on Tumblr we talked about a couple of weeks ago? One of the things it’s used for are premium themes, which are (besides the fee for getting your blog featured in Tumblr’s blog directory) Tumblr’s first revenue generator. Although monetization on blogging and microblogging networks is often mystified to the [...]
New Twitter Phishing Attack: “You’re On Here?” [WARNING]
Twitter users are reporting a new attempt to extract their usernames and passwords — a Direct Message attack that asks “You’re on here?” with a link. Others report DMs linking to a site called “mhansenhome” with the message “’someone posted on their blog about you”. The advice is straightforward: if you get such a message [...]
Blog Marketing
http://www.BlogmarketingRules.com – 2nd video highlighting Part Two of this recently released product. Blog marketing made easy with your wordpress blog as explained by Todd Watson. Duration : 1 min 14 sec Share and Enjoy: Technorati Tags: blog
Tumblr Gets a BlackBerry App
Until recently, blogging clients for the BlackBerry have been pretty limited. But WordPress for BlackBerry was released last month, and today Tumblr released its official BlackBerry app, which lets you post photos, videos, audio, links and text directly from the BlackBerry to your microblog. Mobelux, the guys behind the stellar Tumblr iPhone app are also [...]
Firefox Account Manager Aims to Make Your Social Life Easier
What do you do when you first fire up your browser? Most probably, you log into various sites that require a username and password – Facebook, Gmail, Twitter and the like. For me, personally, it’s quite a chore, as I need to log into over 10 different services before I start doing anything. Now, Mozilla [...]
Tumblr Hits Major Milestones, Plans to Start Generating Revenue
Tumblr, one of the simplest blogging platforms around, is doing really well. Situated between WordPress, which requires a bit more effort to create and organize content, and Twitter, which requires almost no effort but also doesn’t offer many features, Tumblr is the perfect tool for users who want to have a blog with photos, videos, [...]
Hundreds of Twitter Accounts Hacked [WARNING]
It seems hundreds of Twitter accounts have started to Tweet out “weight loss” product spam today. Specifically, users who have had their accounts hijacked are Tweeting the message “I lost 20 lbs in 2 weeks!” and links to diet sites. Our source counts over 200 rogue tweets so far tonight. It’s not just new users [...]
Any new ways to drive traffic to a website besides PPC, blogging, and social bookmarking.?
I blog and social bookmark everyday along with submitting to as many directories as possible. I don’t have the budget for a good PPC campaign, so I was wondering if there was a new or better way to drive traffic to my site. Something other than bought traffic too. Video marketing with YouTube and other [...]
Socialnomics Podcast
The book is Socialnomics-How social media transforms the way we live and do business. I had the pleasure of speaking with Erik Qualman, the author of Socialnomics. It’s a testament to social media the fact that I could not only find Erik, but that he was willing to do this podcast with me. 







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