Stats of the Day: 50 New Social Media Stats to Kickstart Your Slide Deck | Ad Age Stat. Am. Do You Hear What I Hear? Yes, It’s Paypal Stealing Money From Kids. It’s the holiday season, when a webmaster’s mind turns to thoughts of love and charity. Take Regretsy, for example. The site collected a bit of money and began buying and sending gifts to the kids in the Regretsy community whose parents were having financial problems. In this economy, that could be just about anybody and, the Internet being the Internet, there was an outpouring of affection and donations.
It warms, as they say, the cockles of the heart. Unfortunately, Regretsy used Paypal. As of yesterday, Paypal shut down the account and put a hold on Regretsy founder April Winchell’s account. They also forced her to refund the money she collected, less the fees Paypal took out – twice. I’ll let you read the post yourself. PAYPAL: Only a nonprofit can use the Donate button. A sick cat, eh? Now April is a repeat offender. What’s Paypal’s problem? Paypal is historically histrionic when it comes to fraud. UPDATE – A Paypal spokesperson wrote: US only. Justin Bieber: The Ultimate Story of Social Media Fame [SORRY] Justin Bieber is mindbogglingly famous. And while it certainly helps to have major labels, TV studios and marketing agencies in support, the germination of that stardom began on the web. As legend has it, the then 14-year-old Canadian poplet was discovered in homespun YouTube videos. In 2011, Bieber, Inc. certainly hasn't forgotten its viral roots. He is consistently among the most tweeted, shared and viewed celebrities on the social web.
When he talks to his fans, they reply and follow by the millions. In a recent visit to Mashable HQ, the folks at Crisp Social admitted they shared our fascination with the boy wonder, and created the infographic below — a breakdown of The Bieb's astounding digital reach. Social Media Curation. Mobile Security And Privacy Breaches 'Totally Unacceptable' To Customers: Survey Says. When it comes to mobile security and privacy, it seems consumers want to have it both ways. A recent survey by AdaptiveMobile found that 69 percent of smartphone users view privacy breaches as "totally unacceptable. " Yet, 75 percent of them agree to, but do not read the often-lengthy terms and conditions of the apps they download -- which usually state that the apps will access personal data. iPhone users are the most oblivious, with 65 percent completely unaware that downloading apps might put their privacy at risk.
By contrast, Windows Phone users are the most paranoid: Ninety-five percent say they are "quite" or "very" concerned about privacy breaches, and nearly 33 percent would not download an app if they had any concerns about the security of personal information. "Consumers are outraged that their data may not be secure, but are unwilling to protect themselves," says Ciaran Bradley, AdaptiveMobile's vice president of Handset Security.
Login. Domino's Pizza: Pizza Hero app - Interactive. With RNKD, Zappos Co-Founder Wants to Reinvent Social Shopping. Login. Login. Yahoo Ramps Up Global Study of Moms and Tech With Starcom | Digital. Why Digital Advertising's Hottest Formats Are Adaptations of Old Media. New York Times Launches Fashion App for iPad. Community Inspirer (Manager) (PR experience a must) at mcgarrybowen in Greater New York City Area - Job. Privacy is now No. 1 issue for Facebook | Technology for Social Media. Are Google+ tools all that they're hyped up to be? I guess these tools are still too new for me to have a firm grasp on their full capabilities so I won't get into any details about my experience using them - yet, but they sure are being discussed by a lot of social media marketing professionals around the Web. Some firms are adding them to their social media marketing packages, and from the looks of things - It is a pretty smart move.
I have been using the tools much more lately and I'm really starting to understand where Google is going with this. They are not quite there yet, but with just a few more features and improvements, I can envision Google taking the wheel to drive social media to an entirely new plane. Here are my thoughts so far... Google+ Usage for Businesses In expanding its campaign to allow you to “connect with all the things you care about,” Google announced its addition of Google+ to Google Apps. Its current applications allow businesses to communicate face-to-face with their potential consumers. Hang Outs Circles Badges. Dee @ Newhouse II.
What 11/11/11 Looked Like On Twitter. Nerd New Year, the alternate name for 11/11/11, has come and gone. And just like the regular New Year, when Twitter records have been broken, it was a popular day to tweet. This video, created by Twitter's in-house data visualization specialist Miguel Rios, puts a geographic spin on that fact. It shows a wall of tweets moving around the world — first at 11:11am local time, then at 11:11pm. The scale of the "1" represents the volume of tweets from that location. "Whether you were inclined to crack a joke about this rare binary occurrence, wax poetic about its meaning, or join in a global game to share photos at 11 a.m. and 11 p.m., numerology dominated the conversation," read a post about the visualization video on the official Twitter blog. As fascinating as it is, the video is incomplete — there's no clock to tell us exactly what time we're seeing at any given moment. TheLBMA.com | Location Based Marketing Association.
Tasker - Location Based Tasks on your iPhone. Bizzy. Advertising's Self-Regulatory Guidelines on Facebook Likes | Digital. The Ziggy Stardust Guide to Glamorous Space-Age Superstardom. Why 'Pages' on Google+ Isn't Just Another Facebook. Do You Need A Twitter Detox? [INFOGRAPHIC] Photos du mur. Social Media Theory and Practice #NewhouseSM6 "To Do" List - Things Due For Tues., Oct. 18.
Pearltrees. Pearltrees. The new social. Why Facebook fans are useless. The marketing community has an infatuation with fans -- that is, the kind of fan that simply clicks a button on Facebook. Some now believe the bloom is off the rose. I concur. Roughly 70 percent of Facebook users say that they do not want to be advertised to by businesses that they are fans of. So, why lust after something that won't pay? What's in a fan? Why fans are fansNot all fans are created equal.
The brand enthusiasts. Aside from the first reason, if someone "fans" your company for any of these reasons on Facebook but hasn't tried your product, what is that worth? Fan countOne of the original and most attractive things about fans was that they show a public number of support for a brand (number of fans). Real data for marketersFan count does come with interesting data for marketers. Dee Cater (Trying out PearlTrees) Classmates. #NewhouseSM6. What Not To Do When Designing Your Website. Who Freelances and How Do They Do It.