Archive for January, 2012
Yahoo Co-Founder Jerry Yang Resigns
Yahoo has announced that Jerry Yang, one of the origional Co-Founders of Yahoo over 17 years ago has resigned from Yahoo’s board of directors. Yahoo recently appointed a new CEO, Scott Thompson who was previously President of Paypal. Jerry Yang co-founded Yahoo in 1994 with Stanford friend David Filo. According to Alexa.com Yahoo is the […]
Read More | ShareHow to Build a High Quality Blog Readership
Are you blogging for business? or personal reasons? Building a high quality readership is important whatever the case – you want your readers to be a valuable asset to your website. In fact many blogs have trouble sustaining a long term reader - so today we will discuss some tips to help build a high […]
Read More | ShareHow to Monitor your Online Reputation
Do you know what your customers are saying about your business and products? Fact is there may already be many people talking about your business on Social Networks and websites without your knowledge. Before you purchase a product or service, do you go online and look for peer reviews? I do. Therefore, it’s important to […]
Read More | ShareThe Christmas Slowdown – Alexa Rank
Is your business impacted by the Christmas slowdown? Mine is, and we are now starting to see things pick up. I noticed in December my Alexa Rank crashed. Considering I am overly obsessed with my Alexa Rank this did send alarm bells ringing. I was checking all my stats programs, yep Google Analytics down – […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media – Viral Expansion [VIDEO]
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This is a great video on how viral expansion of Social Media sites can generate huge money for the respective companies and shareholders. If you have a website these days, with lots of users coming back time and time again, just the user numbers alone (ie data) make this a valuable web property.
Read More | ShareFacebook changes Homepage to promote Timeline
Facebook has updated their homepage (and also logout page) with a new style to promote the Timeline profile layout. Specifically, Facebook has emedded the promotional Timeline video on the homepage, and also a link to information on the new profile design. This is a rather ‘personal’ video, Facebook knows there is a big 2012 ahead […]
Read More | ShareFacebook launches Listen With
Facebook has launched a new feature where you can listen to music (live) with your Facebook friends. This needs to be done by a Facebook music service application, eg Spotify, Rdio and plenty others. To listen to music with a friend, open up your Chat and look for the music symbol – this shows people […]
Read More | ShareFacebook to Reach 1 Billion Users in August
According to a study by iCrossing – Digital Marketing Agency in the UK, they have estimated the continued growth of Facebook user numbers. According to their study and the continued linear growth of Facebook users – it is expected Facebook will reach 1 Billion users/members by August 2012. Here is the chart they have put […]
Read More | SharePhony Facebooking: we’re all guilty
It scares me. As a journo, I find, the best place to source information is on Facebook. Even if I’m interviewing an Olympic athlete, first I’ll ‘Fresearch’. Where else will you find out how much they loathe Nickelback or think Shane Warne should be PM. These are some of the better admissions I’ve come across. Some things your 478 nearest and dearest FB buddies […]
Read More | ShareCES – Google – Samsung – Amazon – Ecosystem
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is in full swing in the US, and CNET have posted a great video on YouTube with comments from Google, Samsung and general tech developments. The video goes for over 1 hour but gives some great insights into future technology developments.
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