Marketers Learning Value of Social Networks
Fox Interactive Media - and about half a dozen other companies - conducted a study to determine the value of social media…
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Fox Interactive Media - and about half a dozen other companies - conducted a study to determine the value of social media…
The Google bomb is back, and Stephen Colbert is, figuratively speaking, riding atop it, cowboy hat in hand. That's right - according to the top Google search results, Colbert is the "greatest living American," and, as it so happens, also possesses some "giant brass balls."
Fox Interactive Media has released findings from a study that looked at the growth and marketing power of online social networks. Over 70 percent of Americans ages 15-34 are using social networking sites on a regular basis. The sites see a spike in traffic during primetime hours, which improves communication with family and friends along with building brand connections.
We've said it before: It's not a good idea to eff with the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). Now that Viacom has admitted it effed up by ordering the take down of a parody on YouTube, the EFF and Stanford Law's Fair Use Project (FUP, or as they collectively should be known, EFF-FUP) have dismissed their lawsuit. Yes, that was a long way to go for…
Government censorship rarely makes people happy, and in Boston, residents got the chance to prove this when Boing Boing, the “directory of wonderful things,” appeared to be banned from the New England city’s free WiFi network. Yet new evidence indicates that the city of Boston had little, if anything, to do with the ban.
I was invited to moderate a panel at the Web 2.0 Expo entitled, "PR 2.0: Dead as a Doornail, or Still Alive?