October 2008
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socialmedian Aggregates User-Generated Election...
socialmedian launched an election news portal in partnership with The Washington Post on the news streaming site today, http://election.socialmedian.com. The destination is intended to be a hub for tweets, photos, videos, blog posts — all things election ‘08. socialmedian has also created a blog widget (Election Talk) wonks can add to their websites. The Washington Post and The...
Oct 29th
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New Media Influence (Part 3) JupiterResearch,...
Brian Solis over at Bub.blicio.us had a good post today on a new study that found some consumers are more influenced by blogs than web search. Solis writes, “BuzzLogic partnered with Jupiter Research to spotlight evolving consumer behavior and decision making processes and how blogs influence and factor into consumer purchases.” Read more of Solis’ take on Bub.blicio.us. The...
Oct 29th
Small Brands Teach Big Lessons →
NEW YORK Big company efforts in social media have mostly failed to this point. Facebook’s application platform has become a graveyard of failed attempts to harness the platform, while other brands have suffered embarrassments at their ham-handed attempts to influence the blog world. Yet for some small companies, social media has proven to be a godsend of low-cost, effective brand building....
Oct 27th
TwitThis is the New “Share This” for Twitter →
briansolis: by Brian Solis TwitThis is a potentially powerful and game-changing service, assuming it gets significant traction. If you’ve ever visited a site or blog and have seen or used any number…
Oct 27th
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FanSnap Launches Ticket Search Engine
Live event tickets is a $25+ billion industry. Much of the innovation in the space over the last 5-10 years has been in the secondary market ($5 - $10 billion), building “marketplaces” of buyers and sellers and then efficiently monetizing the transactions. Companies like eBay, StubHub, TicketExchange and others have been tremendously successful at this — so much so that the...
Oct 15th
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socialmedian Gains Momentum
Since socialmedian’s public launch in July of this year, the social news site has very rapidly improved on its initial offering. socialmedian continues to offer powerful news filtering tools, but over the summer, CEO Jason Goldberg and his team have added major new features on nearly a weekly basis. Most recently, socialmedian announced a Facebook application that allows Facebook users to...
Oct 10th