Posts Tagged ‘facebook’
How Goldman Sachs Investing in Facebook is Good For You
The announcement that Goldman Sachs invested $500 million in Facebook, giving it a market valuation of $50 billion sent ripples across the media. With this deal including Goldman helping Facebook to raise an additional $1.5 billion, and noting that Facebook has raised $800 million over five rounds of funding, it is official that social networking ...Read more.
Why Your Business Should Care That Email is 38% Bigger Than Twitter
Add This, the social sharing widget, recently released the trends in social sharing they documented for 2010. It’s not surprising that Google had more growth than Facebook, but did you expect Stumble Upon to have more growth than Facebook? The statistic worth noting is that Email is 38% bigger than Twitter. This doesn’t make Twitter ...Read more.
How the Google / Facebook War Affects You
Do you remember life before fax machines, email and searching online? Do you remember making an appointment to see your doctor to get an opinion without being able to Google professional and everyday opinions on your computer first? It’s like a movie you watched years ago with a plot that’s vaguely familiar but has no ...Read more.
How to Build a Kick Ass Social Media Presence in Three Simple Steps
This article was originally posted at Oxstein Labs. Even as more and more companies hire Community Managers to give them a social media presence, the general attitude towards social media is, “Everyone’s doing it, so we need to do it too.” If this is where you’re coming from, you’re most likely to cover the tactics ...Read more.
Boulder Fire Stokes Community Through Social Media
This article was originally published in Huffington Post. Labor Day 2010 will forever be remembered in Boulder as the day the Four Mile Canyon fire began to burn. Today, two days later, over 7,000 acres and 140 structures (including 9 homes owned by fire fighters) have been consumed by the fire that is still burning. ...Read more.
Facebook Places: To Check In or Not to Check In
This article was originally published at Oxstein Labs. Facebook Places has been live for almost two weeks now. Have you tried it out? Do you plan to? Do you care? Only 19% of the worldwide cell phone market is smart phones and the word on the street is that Foursquare users are happy with Foursquare. ...Read more.
Where will Google Take Social Media After the Demise of Google Wave?
In 2009 Google Wave was heralded as a giant evolutionary step in how we would communicate and collaborate online. I admit to being one of the disciples of buzz who ate the hype and imagined a paradigm shift in how online communities would interact. We were all wrong, but who knows what bricks Google Wave laid down for innovation towards the evolving road of how people use the Internet.
