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Angstro Buy, Shopping, Gaming Investments Point To Multi-Pronged Google Social Strategy

Last week Google acquired Angstro. The site has been described as a way to discover and organize information about individuals across various professional networks. Here’s how Angstro describes itself:
Ångströ represents the ability to hone in …

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Paul Allen Sues Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Others Over Patents

Paul Allen, the Microsoft co-founder and one of the richest men on earth, has filed a patent infringement suit today against several Internet titans, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The lawsuit centers on technology developed a decade ago by Interval…

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Survey: Older Americans Flocking To Social Media

Teenagers have been grappling with a tough question lately: What do I do when mom tries to friend me on Facebook?
Well, you ain’t seen nothing yet, whippersnappers. There’s a new dilemma you better start thinking about: What do you do when …

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Making Sense of Facebook Places

One of the questions that came up after the formal launch of Facebook Places last night was: how will this affect Google Places (among others)? As an aside, I have to say it’s really strange that these products have nearly the identical name. It&…

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Marin Software Announces Applications for Managing Facebook Ads

Marin Software today announced advanced applications for Facebook Advertising at SES San Francisco. Marin Search Marketer now offers advertisers and agencies the ability to manage Facebook Ads alongside paid search programs on Google, Yahoo!, and Bing…

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Optimizing Facebook Status Updates For Local Marketing

Many small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) are awakening to the marketing potential found in Facebook’s massive audience, and have begun developing their Facebook pages to promote their companies. While posting status updates is a great way to engage…

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Yahoo’s Social Search Answer to Google’s Aardvark?

In February of 2010, Google purchased a social Q&A site, Aardvark. It seems like a great match, for a couple of reasons. One is that a paper from Aardvark that attracted a lot of attention, The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Social Search Engine (pdf), …

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Incisive Media Wins Award for Best Use of Social Media at Conference Awards 2010

When it comes to social media, SES walks the walk as well as talks the talk. This morning, Incisive Media announced it’s SES team has won the Best Use of Social Media award at the first Conference Awards 2010.Click to read the rest of this post…

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Promising Numbers From Facebook Video Advertising

At OMMA Video, Brett Wilson, co-founder and CEO of TubeMogul, presented some new research on the tradeoffs between video ad types on Facebook. On Friday, I visited TubeMogul’s offices in Emeryville, CA, and got a full report — at the company’s employ…

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UK Election 2010: Personal Democracy Forum (#pdfge2010) Action Replay

Mark Hanson, Labour’s new media strategist and former associate editor of LabourHome.org, wangled me an invitation to a formal review of how digital media innovations had changed UK Election 2010. The invitation-only event was hosted by the Personal Democracy Forum (PdF) on the evening of May 13 and held in London at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).

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