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Twitter’s Ad Platform Shows Some Savvy
So why the quotation marks around the word ads in the title? It’s like that age old question of if a tree…
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Black Hat SEO Lucrative For Cybercrooks
Obviously, cyber crooks wouldn’t do what they do if there wasn’t any money in it. Thanks to some black-hat search engine optimization and a little rogueware (a.k.a. scareware), some are making almost $11,000 a day, according to FinJan’s first Cybercrime Intelligence Report for 2009.
Facebook’s New Strategy: Ignore Your Customers
Remember all that talk about Facebook becoming more democratic? Despite the highly publicized rhetoric, all appearances point to a Mark Zuckerberg dictatorship, relatively deaf to user complaints. While business owners have the right and responsibility to run their business as they see fit, the young CEO might want to reconsider saying one thing and doing another. It’ll just come back to bite him.
LinkedIn Does Some Redesigning of Its Own
Facebook is not the only social network doing some redesigning. LinkedIn has made some changes to users' inboxes on the homepage. These changes are certainly not as drastic as Facebook's which have the community in an uproar. I might be wrong, but I don't expect much of a backlash here. The inbox now only appears on your home page when you have unread messages (though…
Tweeting for Customer Relationship Management
Salesforce.com has added Twitter support to its Service Cloud offering, which was released earlier in the year. Salesforce breaks down what companies can expect to get out of the service:
Twitter Measured Against Google, Facebook Yardsticks
Twitter turned three years old this weekend, and to hear some people tell it, the service is on a path that'll have it taking over the world in no time. But comparisons to a sort of kinder, less articulate Stewie Griffin may be a little premature, since it turns out Twitter hasn't measured up to two other companies.
