Today’s post comes from Jenni Izzo, a Drexel University graduate turned Central Florida PR professional with a social media obsession. Follow her at @jenniizzo. It appears that MTV’s attempt at reviving itself with a Twitter Jockey (an updated version of a VJ) has fallen short. After a month of Twitter-focused challenges to find the most [...]
It seems that Kanye West is doing a tour of the Silicon Valley’s nerd hubs. After freestyling over at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, California, the other day — and subsequently joining Twitter yesterday — he jammed on over to Twitter Central and treated Biz Stone and Co. to a performance as well. As we [...]
Maria Ogneva is the Director of Social Media at Attensity, a social media engagement and voice-of-customer platform that helps the social enterprise serve and collaborate with the social customer. You can follow her on Twitter at @themaria or @attensity360, or find her musings on her personal blog and her company’s blog. Whether you are actively [...]
Despite the fact that popular smartphones such as the iPhone and Android already have great web browsers, Opera’s Java ME-based mobile browser Opera Mini is constantly growing. According to Opera, on July 25th it served one billion page views. The mobile browser, which recently dropped the beta tag from the already quite polished version 5.0, [...]
Composing an e-mail is kind of like making out: Everyone assumes they know what they’re doing, but in reality plenty of people could use some pointers. We’re all pretty much constantly sending missives around the web. In 2009, worldwide e-mail traffic amounted to 247 billion messages per day, according to market research firm Radicati. But [...]
Hey, did you guys know that Cisco tried to replicate that super popular Old Spice video campaign yesterday? Neither did we. The other week, Old Spice launched a genius campaign in which Isaiah Mustafa, the Old Spice Guy, made personalized videos for bloggers, fans and random folk on the Internet. The undertaking was a mammoth [...]
Social recommendation service GetGlue has just announced a new partnership with HBO that will let fans of shows like True Blood, Entourage and Hung earn stickers and rewards when they check in to the programs using GetGlue’s new iPhone app. GetGlue launched its new iPhone app [iTunes link] last month as a way for users [...]
This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here. Everyone should know at least one woman who can code her way out of a wet paper bag. While women developers, computer programmers and hackers of all stripes are by far outnumbered by men in their [...]
Several new Facebook scams are making the rounds today, and although they follow the same pattern as many of the recent scams we’ve seen, some users are still falling for them. The scams work as follows: First, you’ll see an interesting link in other users’ status updates, but when you follow the link, you’ll be [...]
A new report suggests that LinkedIn’s value has surpassed the $2 billion mark, based on recent investments from outside investors. According to Bloomberg, hedge fund Tiger Global Management spent $20 million to acquire approximately a 1% stake in the business social network. The hedge fund specifically paid $21.50 per share. That’s where the math comes [...]
