The recent creation of Facebook Open Graph opened a whole new can of worms regarding privacy on social networks. Now more than ever, the world is all a-buzz about privacy. But what about privacy for criminal suspects? Faisal Shahzad, the suspect who admitted to attempting to explode a bomb in Times Square on May 1st, has…
Last summer, my friend, Daniel McCoy, and I entered the Pentel Recycology Student Campaign of the Year contest, hosted by Alloy Media + Marketing. Our entry to the contest was called “Spin the Pen. Save the Planet.” Among our many campaign strategies, we utilized a Facebook group, YouTube page, Twitter page and website. We featured…
Cool! I just discovered Friend.ly, a Facebook application that analyzes yours friends’ demographic information and outputs basic statistics. Thought I’d post my friend stats here so that you could all psychoanalyze me! Out of Erica’s 1,035 Facebook friends: Most common name: Kevin (11 friends) Most common zodiac sign: Libra (83 friends) Longest name: Maximillian-Conroy Hencke…
I stepped out of the office for a little bit today and when I returned I found a 40-paged article on my desk, freshly printed and bound with a binder clip. The article, from TechCrunch, was entitled Twitter’s Internal Strategy Laid Bare: To Be “The Pulse of the Planet”. Apparently, on Tuesday evening, more than…
In celebration of their 70th Birthday, Glamour Magazine is dishing out subscriptions for $1.50 for one year! How did they choose $1.50? That was their price in their founding year of 1939. Take advantage of this one! Sign up for a subscription here! You might be wondering how I heard about this… Facebook! I’m really…
Abrams Research just came out with their social media survey today. Check it out here. Here’s an abridged version: Most people would recommend businesses use Twitter over any other social media site: 40% to just 15% for Facebook But – they’d pay for Facebook over any other site for their own use LinkedIn came in…
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