
Study: Fake Twitter Follower Market Is Still Thriving Thanks To New Spam Tactics
The fake follower economy is still flourishing and is still the scourge of social media. The study showed that not only is the fake...

Topsy: Instagram Shares Easily Beat Vine On Twitter, Unless You’re Talking About “Influe
Instagram has regained supremacy over Vine on Twitter, thanks to its new video feature? That seemed to be the story, based on stats from...

This Week On Vine: NBA, NHL, MLB, #StandWithWendy, “Scrubs” Duet & More
This week Vine saw a lot of dunking, batting, scrumming and serving – as sports Vines collectively dominated the leaderboards. But...

Google Reader & The Coming FeedBurner Subscriber Count Apocalypse
Google Reader is closing next Monday, July 1. Yeah, you knew that. But did you also know that when it closes, anyone using FeedBurner is...

#ItsAHit: Study Shows Facebook Hashtags Have Been Adopted By Big Brands
It’s now been two full weeks since Facebook jumped into the hashtag market. A recent survey from SimplyMeasured found that so far,...

Why Do Consumers Become Facebook Fans? Study Says It Depends On The Brand
According to a new study from Syncapse, there’s not a single dominant reason that consumers choose to become a brand’s Facebook fan....

The Big Comparison Of Google Reader RSS Feed Alternatives
Google Reader is turning off their feed on July 1st and by now many of you have already switched to a new RSS reader – but, for those of...

Instagram Video: What About Vine, Monetization And Porn?
the stats, the announcement and offered an initial “hands on” impression of the new video-recording feature on Instagram. My initial...

14 Things Google Glass Needs
Matt McGee demo’ing Google Glass for fellow Marketing Land Special Projects Correspondent AJ Kohn at SMX Advanced, June 2013. (Photo by...

Why The New Facebook Hashtags Are #Awkward & #Unnecessary
Today to the delight of many marketers Facebook announced the release of hashtags. The new clickable links will pop open a new stream...

Google Glass Diary: Glass Goes To A Rock Concert
I was taking Google Glass to its first rock concert, and I was going to shoot some photos and videos with it. I knew the photos would be...

As Early As 2000 NSA Set Out To “Live On The Network”
already been written about the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) “domestic spying” since The Guardian’s initial revelations about the...

Vine Passes Instagram In Total Twitter Shares
According to Topsy Analytics, there were about 2.37 million links to vine.co shared on Twitter over a 24-hour period as of about 11:30 pm...

PRISM, The Tech Companies & Monitoring Versus Requests
The PRISM Monitoring System Around this time Thursday, the Washington Post and the Guardian had made the case that major tech companies...

Did Tech Companies Have Checkout & Delivery System For Gov’t Access To Their Data?
Tech companies named in reports to be part of the NSA’s “PRISM” data gathering program have strongly denied participating in programs...

“CMOs Are The New CIOs” & Other Things The Industry Is Saying About Salesforce̵
announcement that Salesforce.com will be acquiring ExactTarget for nearly $2.5 billion. Commentaries were offered on everything from the...

Mad Men’s Joan Harris: The New Face Of Google Now?
If Google’s predictive search service Google Now needed a catchier name similar to Apple’s “Siri,” how about “Joan?” As in Joan Harris,...

Google Glass Diary, Part 6: Using Facebook, Twitter & Google+ In Glass
local search and navigation or do basic informational searches, I believe that Google Glass needs to have a strong social integration if...

Google In Secret Legal Battle With Feds Over Consumer Data
to resist. Whether the Bush Administration anti-child porn search subpoenas were a pretext for other types of inquiries we’ll never know....
























