YouTube Joins Pinterest: Here's What It's Pinning. YouTube is getting in on the Pinterest action — by launching an account of its own, the online video company announced Thursday. Videos will be posted to one of several Pinterest YouTube boards themed around topics including crafts, lifestyle tips, beauty, food and fitness. YouTube says it will also have numerous additional boards categorizing the videos it posts.
In Thursday's post on YouTube's blog, the company points out that it already has accounts on other major social networking sites including Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. Pinterest made video pinning available in August 2011; its users have been pinning videos from YouTube since that time. It makes sense that the video sharing site — which gets 72 hours of video uploaded every minute — would want to leverage Pinterest's large and growing following of reportedly up to 21 million unique visitors per month. Pinterest was one of the fastest growing social networks ever this spring. Was YouTube smart to start a Pinterest account?
Why should you care? Social Media and Restaurants. How do You Use LinkedIn? [INFOGRAPHIC] LinkedIn is the poor second cousin of the social networking fraternity with its glamorous siblings Facebook and Twitter hogging the limelight. Facebook wins the popularity contest with nearly 8 times more friends than LinkedIn and Twitter just keeps getting mentions in the newspaper’s society pages.
If LinkedIn had a personality, you would maybe say that it was quiet, professional and quite private. How you use social media is dependent on what you are trying to achieve (goals) and who you want to meet (target audience) and if you want to make serious professional contacts for B2B then LinkedIn is the place to hang out.
LinkedIn is the Cocktail Party LinkedIn with more than 100 million members and an average income of more than $100,000, is the social networkings equivalent of the cocktail party while Facebook is the backyard barbecue. If you want to network with serious decision makers then LinkedIn provides the appropriate channel. 1. 2. 3. 4. So How do other Executives use LinkedIn? 6 Key Digital Trends Affecting Marketers in 2013, New Research. Are you looking for the latest marketing trends? Wondering how the wide choice of devices and platforms are impacting marketers and consumers?
According to the 2013 Infinite Dial Report by Edison Research, media usage is not a zero-sum game. Consumers want to use all channels simultaneously, and as a marketer, you have to keep up by tracking them down wherever they go. To do that, you’ll need to understand these 6 emerging trends that will have a significant impact on your marketing strategies. #1: Media Fragmentation Consumers are everywhere, all at the same time. Media multitasking is the new normal. In this age of multimedia consumption, consumers are using more devices across a common set of platforms to do more things than ever.
Your goal as a marketer should be to distribute content across as many types of media and platforms as your budget can allow. Keep in mind that capturing your customers’ attention will become harder as media multitasking becomes the new normal. Quick Wrap Up. 8 Reasons to Consider Marketing with Google+ When Google+ was launched there were mixed reactions. The responses ranged from people with social media fatigue who thought “not another social network! “. There were also those curious personalities who said “I wonder if Google will offer a true competitor for Facebook?” As Google watched the rapid rise of Facebook, Twitter and the social web, it realised that it couldn’t ignore this important internet evolution any longer.
It invested over $550 million in the platform and its supporting technology and offered incentives for its executive management to make Google+ a success. On June 28, 2011 Google+ was launched and proceeded to make an impact and inroads into the social media world. The Google+ advantages Google plus had several advantages over Facebook that had commenced six years earlier. Facebook had to respond and it quickly launched a range of upgrades and acquisitions (Instagram) that met the competitive challenge. So what are the numbers? 8 reasons to consider marketing with Google+ The Lulu Chronicles. The Lulu Company. Explaining Social Media, with Bacon! Want to Share It? Are you Feeling the JOY of FOOD?!?! Then Scan this QR Code Download the FREE APPThen get to sharing, You Foodie Expert! Www.DinnerWire.com. The Lulu Company. Using Social Media to Maximize Your Restaurant. Using Social Media to Maximize Your Restaurant by Paul Katsch From the viewpoint of the Marketing industry, social media has changed everything.
According to the 2013 Social Media Industry Report released by Social Media Examiner, 97% of marketers participate in social media. If you haven't noticed, technology has revolutionized the way consumers search and engage with products and services. Rather than a “push” industry, where corporations research what they think consumers will want and then make it available, technology shifts the paradigm. In today's “pull” industry consumers tell corporations what they want via social media, and those who react first get the business.
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We set out to uncover the “who, what, where, when and why” of social media marketing with this report. A significant 3000+ marketers provided valuable insight you won’t find elsewhere. In this free report, you’ll discover: If you’re responsible for marketing your business, you’ll want to closely analyze the pages of this free 43-page report and use it to persuade others. Download Now What do you think about these findings? The Lulu Company. Lulufemmefatale : :) You've never seen a resume...
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Twitter back online (mostly) after unexplained outage. High performance access to file storage Updated Twitter users have been outraged after services failed for a few hours on Thursday, but there are still reports of the Fail Whale surfacing on occasion. The problems started around 9am Pacific Time (5pm UT) and, after service resumption, it failed again around 90 minutes later. As we post this piece just before 2pm Pacific Time, the problems are still unresolved, according to the Twitter Status page. "The issue is on-going and engineers are working to resolve it," it says. Thar she blows According to the BBC, Twitter has reported that the problems stemmed from "a cascaded bug in one of our infrastructure components," and the outage appears to have hit all services, desktop and mobile, and there are sporadic reports of further problems. Update Twitter has confirmed that the problems were caused by a bug and says the knock-on effects of the outage have been considerable.
In other words this may take some time to resolve. Why Context Is King in the Future of Digital Marketing. Jonathan Gardner is director of communications at ad company Vibrant Media. He has spent his career as an innovator at the nexus of media and technology, having worked in communications leadership roles and as a journalist around the world. An avalanche of devices, platforms, channels, and information is crushing consumers as they go about their daily lives.
I’m crying “uncle” too, wishing a corporate entity (Apple?) Would take the firehose of content and channel it into a trickle of relevant info on one simple device. Since that’s not likely to happen, and since data, devices, and content just keep multiplying, how can we marketers help consumers make sense of the world? By going back to basics, and returning to context. Behavioral targeting is certainly valuable. “Multiple” is the key word here. Here are a few questions you can ask yourself to make it part of yours. What Are You Doing? Planning a social media campaign? Where Are You? Local creates amazing opportunities to examine context. 10 Weird iPhone Games You've Got to Try. Are you looking for iPhone games that have strayed very, very far off the beaten path? If you're looking for some of the strangest stuff available in the iTunes Store, we've picked out 10 titles are just plain weird.
Some are have bizarre main characters, like zombie Chopin in Frederic - Resurrection of Music or a giant, rolling pizza in Pizza Vs. Skeletons. SEE ALSO: 15 Vintage Video Games You Can Play on Your iPhone Others are unique because of their weird animation or strange twists on gameplay, like one title where you swipe at a mutant face growing out of a hand. Have you played any strange iPhone games lately?
Let us know what you think of our list in the comments. Facebook facial recognition: How to opt out. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images If you’re the sort of person who wants your friendly social media company to get to know you as well as possible, I have good news: You don’t have to do anything at all. Facebook signs you up for facial recognition by default, so all you have to do is sit back and let your friends teach the company’s algorithms exactly how to identify your face in their photos. In fact, there's a good chance this is already happening, since Facebook was using some of Face.com's technology even before the acquisition.
If, on the other hand, you still cling to quaint notions about privacy and anonymity, the news is mixed. There’s no way to stop Facebook from learning what you look like based on the photos in which you’re tagged, and if you haven't already opted out, it may know your mug pretty well already. But you can easily opt out of the feature in which Facebook uses that information to make your name pop up whenever your friends upload a photo of you. Could Facebook's Newly Wealthy Employees Help California's Economy? Facebook's slew of newly wealthy employees could "significantly impact" California's economy during the next few years, said H.D. Palmer, deputy director of external affairs for the California Department of Finance. "The closest analogue is the 2004 Google IPO," he said. "Its benefit to the state's general fund was in the neighborhood hundreds of millions— at least $400 million.
" Facebook, based in Menlo Park, Calif., afforded generous pre-IPO stock options to as many as 1,000 of its employees. They now stand to make a fortune when the stock goes public. One of the ways the state will make money is when employees cash out their shares and then have to pay taxes. "If it's as big as it's advertised, it certainly has the potential to eclipse the Google IPO — but it won't happen over night," Palmer said. There's nothing currently built into the state budget, finalized in December, 2011, that reflects any increase in funds related to Facebook's IPO.
Senate panel to launch review of Facebook IPO. Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, center, rings the opening bell of the Nasdaq stock market.AP A Senate committee is reviewing Facebook’s problematic stock offering amid questions about whether the bank handling the initial public offering, or IPO, gave select clients a negative assessment of the company. Sen. Tim Johnson, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said Wednesday he has instructed his staff to coordinate and conduct bipartisan staff briefings with Facebook, regulators and other stakeholders. "Once these briefings have concluded and the staff reports back to me, I will determine if a ... hearing is necessary,” said Johnson, D-S.D. Regulators are examining whether lead IPO underwriter Morgan Stanley selectively informed clients of an analyst's negative view of Facebook's prospects before the high-profile stock offering last week.
“Our staff is receiving briefings,” he said. The top securities regulator for Massachusetts, William Galvin, said he had subpoenaed Morgan Stanley. Twitter taken down by nasty 'cascaded' bug | Internet & Media. LinkedIn, eHarmony suffer data breaches. Facebook Engagement Dips: 34% Spend Less Time on Site [STUDY] The Future of Advertising. Infographic Animation. 12 Useful, Well-Designed, Worth-Downloading iPhone Apps Created by Nonprofits. Cory Booker Creates Social Video Site To Give Milennials A Voice. Newark's social-media-savvy mayor is diving into the digital game. Cory Booker tells Fast Company he's teaming up with Silicon Valley veterans to create a video site that will energize and engage Millennials around news and information that they care about, but in ways that traditional forms of media are not currently tapping into. #waywire, backed by Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors, Josh Kopelman's First Round Capital, and Lady Gaga manager Troy Carter, will feature both professional video (aggregated from media partners and produced by #waywire) as well as content created by users themselves.
Millennials "want to see news and information coming not only from trusted news sources," says Booker (pictured, right). They also want to see "opinions, ideas, and values that other people have about [that news and information]. " "We created a platform--a new social stream--for consuming information and ideas," Booker says. #waywire launches later this summer. NBA Social Media Awards a Pro Sports First [EXCLUSIVE] Tony Nicklinson, Paralyzed Man With Locked-In Syndrome, Sends First Tweet Using His Eyes. Why traditional media should be afraid of Twitter. Is Facebook about to buy Opera to create own Facebook browser?
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