Social Marketing/Media
This is a tiny peek at the future
This is the future. I’ve been waiting for this for five years. We will become the media and Refer.ly is a tiny peek at what that will look like. Here’s a snippet from an article I was interviewed for back in 2010: “Advertisers aren’t really giving incentives to Facebook users — and they should,” Hilimire…
Read MorePoking (more) fun at Google+
Incredibly, this was sent to me by @gumboshowjoe, a real Google Fan Boy.
Read MoreQuora and credits
Over this past weekend I started messing with Quora again. I happened to search for a few things on Google and Quora answers kept popping up in the search results. So I decided to revisit the site and see what was up. I wrote about Quora on this blog over a year ago. At the…
Read MoreWhat will Facebook buy next?
Engauge’s own social leader, @teresacaro, gives her thoughts in yesterday’s USA Today: Instagram signifies a change in direction from Facebook’s previous strategy of buying, at bargain-basement prices, small-staffed companies that are on the “downslide” with smart founders, says Teresa Caro, vice president of social marketing at Engauge, a digital-marketing agency. After getting location-based service Gowalla…
Read MoreMy take on the Instagram Facebook acquisition
Yesterday Facebook bought Instagram for a billion dollars. Last week, Instagram received funding that valued the company at $500 million. So the question is, why did Zuck pay double the valuation for Instagram? Mobile and photos. Instagram, like Path, is a mobile-only network. And Zuck, like many of us, knows that mobile is everything. And…
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