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Erick Schonfeld is a technology journalist and the former Editor in Chief of TechCrunch. At TechCrunch, he oversaw the editorial content of the site, helped to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produced TCTV shows, and wrote daily for the blog. He joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular blog to a thriving... → Learn More Social ads on Facebook are supposed to be cheap. In fact, they are one of the cheapest ads on the Web in terms of cost per thousand impressions. So imagine Facebook advertiser Joshua Niamehr’s surprise when he logged into his Facebook ad campaign and saw the following notice:

Oops, Facebook Advertiser Gets A Mysterious Bill For $8.8 Million

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/facebook-advertiser-8-8-million/
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/21/stalkbook/ “Zuckerberg sometimes amused himself by conducting experiments. For instance, he concluded that by examining friend relationships and communications patterns he could determine with about 33 percent accuracy who a user was going to be in a relationship with a week from now. To deduce this he studied who was looking which profiles, who your friends were friends with, and who was newly single, among other indicators.” – David Kirkpatrick’s The Facebook Effect Dan Loewenherz was sitting up one night with fiance and his mom, trying to conjure up a guy to set up with his fiance’s sister. They finally came up with the perfect guy, enthusiastically checked the guy’s Facebook profile and to much disappointment, saw that he was in a relationship.

Breakup Notifier Emails You When People You’re Stalking On Facebook Change Their Relationships

http://www.funnyscreenshots.com/ I love Google maps and the fact all the info they provide is free, but sometimes their instructions are so funny that you have to think it’s one of the hidden pranks (like those with Google Translate)

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The Joy of Tech comic... The twelve people you’ll meet on twitter

The Joy of Tech is a comic about technology and pop culture, created by Nitrozac and Snaggy, and updated three times a week. We like to feature the people and events that are making today's tech news. We've been making comics on the web since early 1999, and The Joy of Tech just celebrated its 10th anniversary. We're very proud to be featured regularily on places like AllThingsD (from the people who publish The Wall Street Journal), Macworld UK magazine , PC Live magazine , and many others, both on the web and in print. http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1442.html

http://www.jeffbullas.com/2010/08/10/20-reasons-why-you-shouldnt-use-social-media/

Social media marketing for business is new and not for everyone. It is being implemented by the innovators and the early adopters that love to lead the pack. It is also a very different way of communicating your brands message and with that comes challenges, opportunities and threats. http://www.jeffbullas.com/2010/08/10/20-reasons-why-you-shouldnt-use-social-media/
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Stages of a photographer - Holy Kaw!

Check out this cool graph that investigates the stages a photographer goes through during their lifetime. For Robert Benson, it starts with a seven gigapixel phone camera.
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IS Parade

IS Paradeとは、Twitterアカウントで楽しめるジェネレーター。TwitterのIDを登録するとフォロワーがキャラクターになってパレードする。auスマートフォンのプロモーションとして2010年4月30日に公開され、11月15日までに1350万回のパレードを行った。Twitter共同創業者のビズ・ストー ンなど、国内外の著名人にもツイートされ、世界中で大行進が広がっている。 auのISシリーズのプロモーションサイトとしてつくられた『IS Parade』は、Twitterの特性をとらえた手法が大きな話題となった。「つぶやき」の連鎖でゆるいコミュニケーション方法を確立した Twitterは2006年7月にスタート。
Unfortunately, the young lady there wasn’t really a DUP supporter. She is a model for a stock photo agency. A designer for the Ulster Conservatives and Unionists party recognized the stock photo and wasted no time in setting up a response with another image from the same set: D’oh! Just on a lark, I zipped over to iStockPhoto and searched for “woman.” There were more than 837,000 hits. http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2010/05/why-you-dont-use-stock-art-in-political-advertising/

Charles Apple » Blog Archive » Why you don’t use stock art in political advertising

SEO Bullshit - myths busted, crap called out and healthy discussions

http://seobullshit.com/ I knew it was going to be rough. I knew it was going to be bad. I had no idea how bad. It’s a total and complete SERP disaster. So, last quarter, I wrote about how I declared Google the winner of the “you better go white hat or else” stalemate.

Twittercism

http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/ Enterprise companies have to deal with the balance between happy employees who get to update their statuses on their lunch breaks, and enhancing productivity by blocking Facebook and Twitter altogether. And according to a recent report, companies are targeting Facebook while silently accepting that their employees are going to tweet. Read more Launch a marketing campaign across social media platforms in our next Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7.
Christmas isn’t Christmas without someone butchering a much-loved song to make a marketing point and this year it’s our turn. Brace yourselves for the SEOptimise Twelve Days of Christmas Special… Kevin Gibbons is Founder/Director of Strategy at SEOptimise. Kevin is well known within the search industry as a blogger for sites such as Search Engine Land , Econsultancy and Search Engine Watch . Kevin is also a frequent SEO speaker at a number of conferences including Search Marketing Expo (SMX), Search Engine Strategies (SES), a4uexpo, SAScon and BrightonSEO.

The 12 Days of Christmas – SEO Agency Edition | SEOptimise

The client started yelling at me for not checking what I was posting (I’m a tech, not a proofreader), making sloppy mistakes, and not doublechecking issues. After starting and stopping development once already on a complex educational website, our client finally gave us the go-ahead to develop the site completely. A month after work had begun, we received the following email: Client: We have been reviewing our user situation and are unsure whether many of them will have internet access.

Clients From Hell

By Cory Doctorow at 5:47 pm Tuesday, Apr 3 • 12 Comments • Share On IO9, Ron Miller has published a selection from his collection of photos of 1970s cosplayers, dating from a costuming epoch where nudity was a lot more common than it is today. Among the clothed pictures (not reproduced here) is one shot of Elfquest co-creator Wendy Pini as one of her own elves. One thing I noticed in going through the slides — mostly taken at Worldcon masquerades and a few other cons — is the great sense of whimsy that permeated SF costuming decades ago. This is something that seems to be missing, now that costuming is taken so much more seriously.

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