Social Media Marketing News
Mobile And Social Network Advertising Predicted To Grow
30th April 2009
According to the results of recent studies conducted by Forrester Research, mobile advertising and social network advertising are set to grow at a phenomenal rate in the USA. More »
The Terminator On Twitter
24th April 2009
Soon to be launched movie, Terminator Salvation, has tapped into Twitter with a whole new concept for self promotion. More »
Ning Celebrates One Million Social Networks
21st April 2009
Around the same time that Ashton Kutcher managed to collect one million followers on Twitter, Ning has created its one millionth network. More »
Popular Brands Succumb To Sneaky Twitter Advertising
14th April 2009
A number of popular brands have been recently caught paying for undercover publicity on Twitter. These brands are paying Twitter users, via the Magpie ad network, to tweet about their products. More »
Potential Twitter Revenue Model
2nd April 2009
Twitter has gained immense popularity in the last year, and seems to have finally decided to try and generate some revenue. The popular micro-blogging service has publicly acknowledged the possibilities of two potential revenue generation models. More »
Did You Know That StumbleUpon Is Bigger Than Twitter?
9th February 2009
Social discovery site, StumbleUpon is not the most hyped or talked-about site in the social medium. Yet, it has reportedly accumulated over 7 million users, making it almost 50% larger than the much-hyped Twitter. More »
Social Features Introduced In iGoogle
20th January 2009
Google seems determined to compete with the popular social networks such as Facebook and MySpace. The search giant is now encouraging its users to utilise features added to iGoogle widgets via OpenSocial and share content from iGoogle with their contacts and friends. More »
Google Friend Connect Getting Ready For Launch
19th November 2008
The latest technology that Google is about to launch is known as ‘Friend Connect’. Although they have been talking about it since May, it now looks as though it is finally ready to be launched publicly. More »
LinkedIn Users Richer, More Influential
11th November 2008
In September 2008, Anderson Analytics conducted a study, on the profiles of LinkedIn users. The results reveal that on an average, users of LinkedIn are richer than the average users of other social sites such as Facebook and MySpace. More »
Twitter Launches Groups In Japan
5th November 2008
Twitter has launched “Groups” in Japan and this service has been named “Twicco”. The service is currently available only in Japanese, though other languages may be added later. More »
Is Twitter A Handy Tool For Terrorists?
29th October 2008
Along with all the advantages using the Internet, such as easy accessibility to information of all types and quick communication, come some disadvantages. If put in the wrong hands, all these technologies can easily be misused and become agents of destruction. More »
Yahoo! To Shut Down Mash
23rd September 2008
Hardly one year after it was launched, Yahoo! Mash will be shutting down. The experimental social network aspired to be a potential competitor to the hugely popular social sites such as Facebook and MySpace, but fell far short of this lofty target. More »
Facebook To Try Engagement Ads
1st September 2008
Facebook is planning to test a new ad format in U.K. and U.S.A., which would amalgamate well with the already existing features of the network. More »
U.S. Presidential Candidates Campaign Online
25th August 2008
The current U.S. Presidential hopefuls are certainly moving with the times, and in the process they are changing the way that election campaigns have been held over the years. More »
Twitter Stops SMS Updates In UK
14th August 2008
Twitter has just announced that they will no longer send SMS updates across the UK. Users in the UK need not panic, however, as they will be able to continue to receive updates from Twitter, on their mobile phones through other means. More »
Twitter Once Again Delivers Breaking News First
31st July 2008
Twitter has been slowly and surely making its way to becoming a personal news wire of sorts.
Time and again the site has been the first to report some world event or breaking news. The latest example of this quick reporting is the earthquake which occurred around Los Angeles on Tuesday morning. More »
Social Network Stats For June 2008
22nd July 2008
Nielsen online has released the latest rankings of social networks for the month of June 2008. Two social networks have out-shone the rest. More »
Facebook To Be Redesigned
14th July 2008
Last year, social network Facebook opened itself up to third party applications developers. Due to this move, they have been facing a problem – the user profile page, which used to be neat and clean is now very cluttered, and looks similar to that of their competitor, MySpace. More »
Facebook Races Ahead Of MySpace
27th June 2008
The results of a worldwide survey, conducted by comScore, are out, and they show that for the first time ever, Facebook has raced ahead of MySpace, in the number of unique visitors both sites had in the month of May. More »
Sugar Mama Now On Facebook
21st May 2008
Virgin Mobile U.S.A. has just extended their Sugar Mama program to the social sphere. The Fund My Phone application has been launched on Facebook, and allows Virgin Mobile USA subscribers to earn points through their friends. More »
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