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facebook / retail / social / Social Media / social network / store

Facebook Gifts… For That Occasion When You Have NO Other Option

Remember that kid who got you a stapler for your 8th birthday? It’s the thought that counts…but a stapler? Facebook is trying to bring bad gift giving like this into the mainstream with their new gifts feature. For the day I’m just going to ignore tech talk so that we can get into the thick of this from a real person’s perspective. Read on...

advertising / business / finance / social / Social Media / social network / twitter

Have Snooki Tweet Your Business- For only $6000

Are you a big Jersey shore fan? Do you want to get your business in front of over five million young people? Guess what crazy folks who are actually considering this? You can. For the low low price of  $6,250 (wink). Here’s how. It’s all done through a site called Buysellads.com (click to see Snooki’s profile) which sells sponsored tweets in addition to standard sponsor, CPC, CPM, and...

innovation / photo / photography / social / Social Media / social network / Video

Snapchat Founder, “SnapChat is About Transparency, Not Privacy” (video)

A few months ago I shared this gem from Mark Zuckerberg talking about why Facebook wasn’t a social network. Now, I’m sharing a video from the founder of the company he tried to rip off, Snapchat. In it, Liz Gannes of AllThingsD does a spontaneous interview with Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel in which Spiegel talks about why Snapchat is about transparency, and not privacy. As a...

facebook / how to / social / Social Media / social network / tutorial

How To Post Blank Statuses and Comments on Facebook (With Code

Speechless? Tell your friends on Facebook by pasting blanks statuses. Using this simple code, you can show your friends how blank your mind is (smiley face). Instructions Paste one instance of the code “@[0:0: ]” on every line you want blank in your status. Hit submit, and your blank statuses are all set. @[0:0: ] @[0:0: ] @[0:0: ] @[0:0: ] @[0:0: ] @[0:0:...

music / myspace / social / Social Media / social network

I’m on Myspace (Again)

Deja vu. I logged into Myspace yesterday for the first time in seven years. But this isn’t standard myspace. This is the invite-only closed beta of “new myspace”. And it’s radically different. The new myspace is more of a music discovery and sharing service than a social network. Whereas the old Myspace was comparable to facebook, the new myspace is based on the same...