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BlahGirls.com: ‘South Park’ Meets Perez Hilton

Reviews are in for entertainer-turned-Silicon Valley figurehead Ashton Kutcher’s latest pet project, BlahGirls.com, the new social-networking site targeting teen girls. David Hauslaib’s Jossip said, “Further proving the theory that most people successful in traditional media are like monkeys faced with calculus when it comes to the Internet, Ashton Kutcher, actor and reality show producer, and [...]

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Barak Obama Wants You to Vote… and Blog

Some polls show that Barak Obama is doing better than John McCain when it comes to younger voters for the 2008 presidential election. According to Newsweek: Overall, voters see Obama as the preferred agent of “change” by a margin of 51 percent to 27 percent. Younger voters, in particular, are more likely to see Obama [...]

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Firefox 3.0 Got the "Colbert Bump"

Back in June, Firefox 3.0 got some free publicity on its release date because Jonathan Zittrain mentioned it during his interview on the show, The Colbert Report. Zittrain is a professor and a researcher of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, which investigates Internet policies. His new book, The Future [...]

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Stop Poking Me: Spamming on Networking Sites

Sometimes, so-called “controversies” are overblown by the media. The topic of online privacy on social networks, however, is not one of those cases. Here’s a personal vignette to share: just this week, I found a friend request from someone I have already friended. It was a curious thing, and then I scrolled down to see [...]

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Baby Boomers and Social Networking

Social networking has been well documented for the younger sets of online users. But what about those aged 40 or over? The baby boomer generation has the most discretionary income, which would make them the most attractive demographic for online marketing. The only problem is… we may be getting ahead of ourselves.

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Primer on Social Media Marketing (Part 1)

Part 1 of our Two-Part Primer on Social Media Marketing Facebook. Flickr. YouTube. Wikipedia. MySpace. Last.fm. Yahoo! Groups. Second Life. Twitter. Message boards. Wikis. Forums. Blogs! So much Internet usage nowadays revolves around these various applications, technologies, and formats. What do they have in common? They’re all a part of the Social Media phenomenon, which [...]

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One Stumbling Block of Social Networking: Privacy Issues

Last week, Facebook announced new measures to ensure privacy for users. The first measure is a privacy interface for each part of a Facebook element, such as a photo album or contact information. You may choose by category who is able to see this element. Then, there is a “Friends of Friends” option that allows [...]

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Email Marketing Reigns Supreme

Here’s some great info on email from our friends over at Emma: email : Webview: If you’re talking with prospective clients about your email marketing efforts, let the numbers speak for you. In their 2007 report, eROI found that agency clients’ emails perform better than in-house efforts across the board, with half the bounces, more [...]

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