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The End of Social Media

From the Joy of Tech on Geek Culture. Made my day.

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[Report] It’s a Social World: Top 10 Need-to-Knows About Social Networking and Where It’s Headed

By comScore With the widespread adoption of the Internet around the world came the rise of social networking as a global phenomenon. In March 2007, Social Networking as a category had a global audience of less than 500 million users, representing just 56 percent of the world’s online population. In those days, as Thomas Friedman put it, “‘Twitter’ was a
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Instagram uses a stylized version of the Brownie in it's app icon. Maybe the two circles in Flickr's logo were inspired by the Brownie as well.

Settle Down: Instagram Not to Use User Photos in Ads

  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Instagram, the popular mobile photo-sharing service now owned by Facebook, said Tuesday that it will remove language from its new terms of service suggesting that users’ photos could appear in advertisements. The language in question had appeared in updated policies announced Monday and scheduled to take effect Jan. 16. After an outcry on social media
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Spreading Your Message with YouTube

Having reached a point where her business and personal life is in disarray because of business dealings with Loblaws, Amanda House took to YouTube to appeal directly to company president Galen Weston about past dealings and failures about her company YoPro and Loblaws. I first saw this when a friend on Facebook posted this. His comments ring true with regard
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The Good and Bad of Milk

Recently a friend on Facebook shared a photo. Turns out the photo is part of a larger contest from Farmers Dairy. I am one of those brand loyalists with my milk and Farmers is not my dairy brand, having been raised on Scotsburn. Turning to Facebook to see how the two stack up I noticed a big difference. I should
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Edit Page Status Update [Video]

Edit Status Updates in Facebook – by @todmaffin Please take a moment to subscribe to Tod Maffin’s YouTube Channel  

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What’s Yer Number?

Facebook will periodically ask you to review your phone number. Entering your number into Facebook does not give it to the world it you prefer not to. Just adjust your settings. On the other hand, it is a great way to ensure that you can log back into your account if you loose your password.

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Facebook: The 1. 2. 3. of It.

Facebook is unique from a website. It is not a website, but part of a destination. Facebook is a social utility for connecting people with those around them – friends, family, coworkers, or simply others with similar interests. Facebook started in 2004 as a closed community for college students (requiring users to sign up with a valid university email address)
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Moving Fans from Pages to Stores

In my newsfeed today, someone shared this with his friends (including me) because it allowed more points in this game. Samsung Televisions has launched a contest with Angry Birds. The app allows you to play to win a Samsung Smart TV  with their  Angry Birds Check-in Challenge. This may work, or not. Part of the idea is that by using
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Real World Share Code

Straight from www.toyota.com/tundraendeavour, Here is some share code. Why did I ‘share’ this with you? Look at the first link – the one for facebook. That will show you how to not only share, but prescribe the link image and the copy rather than having Facebook randomly select incomplete copy or text. Especially important if your page is all video
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