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What is Twitter?
Social networking and widgets have been called the root of Web 3.0. In the next few weeks I am going to explain and demystify the endless social networking sites and how they can be useful to your business. My descriptions will start out short and sweet but then they will evolve with [...]
Micro Blogging Explained: Twitter, Pownce and Jaiku
Micro-blogging is yet another invention that separates the echo-boomers from Gen X and the Baby Boomers. In micro-blogging you are connecting with your “friends” and colleagues and giving them frequent updates of what you are doing often many times a day. For those familiar with Facebook, micro-blogging is similar to “status update”.
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Blended Search is on the Rise
Blended search is the term used to define Google (or Yahoo) searches that return multi-media within the results. For example if you search for the Chicago Bears in a Google Search, you will find at least one video on page one of the search. It should be no surprise then that video, news and images [...]
Unethical practices of making a video viral
Youtube viral video marketing can get as seedy as spam mail, if not seedier.Dan Ackerman from techcrunch posted a blog and gave away a lot of the “dirty” secrets of how to get at least 100,000 youtube video views. Some of the methods are completely legitimate and ethical but some are just, plain wrong.I wrote [...]
Best Ingredients for Web Video
Distributing your video on the web is just about the most cost effective way to share your branding message with the masses. Not only will people be able to search out your video on all the popular sharing sites but you can also use the video to send in e-mail blasts and other [...]
