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I don’t know if you have noticed this, but throughout 2010 there was a steady rise in location based applications appearing in social circles. The first time I heard about FourSquare was through a friend who had checked-in to a cafe near her work place and it appeared in my news feed on Facebook. Not [...]

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Have you ever walked along the street and come across a crowd of people standing in a circle facing the centre? What is causing all this commotion? Who or what are they watching? Why are there more and more people joining this circle? If you answered yes to 2 of the above questions then you [...]

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As predicted by many speculators all over the internet – Facebook e-mail has been launched this morning with a blog article posted by Facebook at 6:15 am EST. You can now integrate your Facebook account with your chat and messages on Facebook – no you never have to leave! It also uses the “one conversation [...]

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Recently Google have announced that they will be changing the way they allow other sites to access their Contacts API to download contact data. Currently Google allows other sites to access their data, which then allows you to import your contacts’ email addresses to the new service. This enables you to find your contacts in [...]

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SEO + Social Media = ROI

by Wendy Huang on November 3, 2010

in SEO

As they say, opposites attract and this is one marriage that will result in increased ROI for your business.

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Imagine playing games like Madden NFL, FIFA 10, Grand Theft Auto and Rock Band on your Playstation 3 and incorporating customisations from your Facebook social network data. What would this look like? Personalised team-players that look like your friends in Madden NFL and FIFA 10 Billboards and logos in Grand Theft Auto that reflect the [...]

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Social network giant Facebook and Microsoft’s search engine Bing have joined forces to socialise search engine results. The concept, currently available to 2% of US Facebook subscribers in the US but soon to be a universal feature, is this: if a user of Facebook is logged in while they enter a search query in Bing, [...]

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Earlier this month, Facebook announced the release of “Places”, an interactive feature that allows users to share the places that they visit with friends and other users. You may be familiar with the mobile application Foursquare already, which is very similar to what the latest offering from Facebook. The main features offered for users of [...]

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I have been reading a bit lately on how to track the progress of social media activities. There are a variety of different approaches that exist and different methods might be required for different campaigns. However, I have attempted to put together a simplified breakdown that the social media beginner will be able to understand [...]

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Beta testing has begun for a new Facebook feature, Facebook Questions, which allows users to ask and answer questions via the social media network. The Questions product is strongly reminiscent of Yahoo! Answers, whererin users exchange questions and answers by posting to message boards. Currently only 1% of Facebook users are able to access the [...]

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