Buddy Media CEO: 2012 is the Year of Tumblr At LeWeb we had the pleasure to meet Michael Lazerow, CEO and founder of Buddy Media, a social enterprise software company with an impressive list of clients, featuring some of the world’s largest brands. Michael talked to us about Buddy Media’s next steps, Google+, the rising forces of Tumblr and Instagram, social commerce and what he sees as the hottest trends in social media for 2012. TNW: Michael can you tell us a bit about how Buddy Media came to the success it has now and what are your next goals? Michael Lazerow: We started off in the United States and in two years to we went from 40 to now almost 250 people. We’ve seen our client base go from 0 to over 600 clients and agencies who license the platform, we went from working with just Facebook, to Twitter and LinkedIn and Google+ we were the only company who was a charter preferred developer partner for all four of those platforms. We’ve focused on how to combine great content and technology to distribute it. 1. 2.
The Beautiful Game kicktv: #Henrying is out of control The #Henrying craze has swept nations on both sides of the pond, here are some of the best from our friends at KICKTV, the minds behind the phenomenon. Borussia Dortmund supporters during an UEFA Champions League match between Borussia Dortmund and Napoli. Credit: Stefano Rellandini Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho during a UEFA Champions League match between Chelsea FC & FC Basel. Credit: Henry Brown/Action Images An Arsenal fan waits outside the Stadium of Light before a Premier League match between Sunderland and Arsenal. Photo credit: Michael Mayhew American Clint Dempsey celebrates after scoring for Tottenham against Panathinaikos. Credit: Tomoki Momozono Napoli forward Edison Cavani pictured during a UEFA Champions League match against Chelsea. Photographer: Tomoki Momozono Very cool new project from our friends over at A Football Report, check it out! afootballreport: The game is all around us.
Under Status Quo, Deficit Would Decline, Budget Office Says The deficit will be $1.1 trillion in the current fiscal year, about $200 billion less than in 2011, and will fall sharply in the next three years as a result of tax increases and spending cuts required by existing law, the agency said in its annual report on the budget and economic outlook. However, it said, that same combination of higher taxes and caps on spending will crimp economic growth. As a result, it said, the unemployment rate, which was 8.5 percent in December, will climb to 8.9 percent in the last quarter of this year, which includes Election Day, and will rise to 9.2 percent in the final quarter of 2013. “We have not had a period of such persistently high unemployment since the Depression,” said Douglas W. Mr. Assuming no change in current law, the budget office said, the economy — measured by the gross domestic product, adjusted for inflation — will grow 2 percent this year and just 1.1 percent in 2013. The report provided grist for both parties. Mr. Mr. In particular, Mr.
Tumblr Numbers: The Rapid Rise of Social Blogging [INFOGRAPHIC] The Social Media Infographics Series is supported by Vocus' Social Media Strategy Tool, a free, six-step online tool that lets you build a custom social media framework tailored to your organization’s goals. In four short years, Tumblr has grown from relative obscurity to start-up darling to international microblogging network. The platform has grown a staggering 900% in the past year and eclipsed platform competitor WordPress, largely due to its global reach and brand-building potential. Those under Tumblr’s influence are fiercely loyal — with 2% of users making up 43% of total visits — and they log in from all over the world. Take a look behind the scenes at Tumblr’s influence on the web, including top tags and fun facts, in this handy infographic. Infographic designed by Emily Caufield. Series supported by Vocus This series is supported by Vocus' Social Media Strategy Tool, a free online tool which lets you build your own custom social media framework in six easy steps.
HitRECord Tumblr I’m starting a collaboration RE: The Number Two, which will be a potential theme for one of our Season 2 episodes - RECord your thoughts, write a story, draw a picture, or make a song regarding this theme. ALL ARTISTS: Write a story, draw a picture, or make a song regarding this theme. EVERYONE W/ A CAMERA: RECord a video testimonial regarding this theme, or specifically answer: "Have you ever had a unique experience where you won Second Place? What was it like?"" Contribute to the “RE: THE NUMBER TWO” collab HERE! Now that we’ve started production on Season 2 of HITRECORD ON TV, we’re gonna start collaborations for 16 Themes over the next few weeks. EVERYONE W/ A CAMERA: RECord a video testimonial regarding this theme, specifically answer: ”What makes you afraid of the dark?” Contribute to the “RE: THE DARK” collab HERE! "alphabetarian" Illustration by readmooses HERE on hitRECord MUSICIANS: Play along to THIS SONG & RECord video yourself in Nature performing your part. REmix by Tanya Mar
Progressives and the Ron Paul fallacies As I’ve written about before, America’s election season degrades mainstream political discourse even beyond its usual lowly state. The worst attributes of our political culture — obsession with trivialities, the dominance of horserace “reporting,” and mindless partisan loyalties — become more pronounced than ever. Meanwhile, the actually consequential acts of the U.S. Because most of those policies are fully bipartisan in nature, the election season — in which only issues that bestow partisan advantage receive attention — places them even further outside the realm of mainstream debate and scrutiny. This would all be bad enough if “election season” were confined to a few months the way it is in most civilized countries. Then there’s the full-scale sacrifice of intellectual honesty and political independence at the altar of tongue-wagging partisan loyalty. Then there’s the inability and/or refusal to recognize that a political discussion might exist independent of the Red v. Due Process
Tumblr Now Has More Blogs Than WordPress.com According to their respective websites, 4-year-old microblogging platform Tumblr now hosts more blogs than 8-year-old WordPress.com. In January, Tumblr had more than 7 million individual blogs. At the time of this writing, the total blog ticker on its site read about three times that at 20,873,182 — beating out WordPress.com's current count by about 85,000 blogs. WordPress.com's count doesn't include sites that people host themselves with the open source software via WordPress.org, but given that the hosted service had about a four-year headstart, surpassing it in number is still an impressive feat for Tumblr. Clearly a flood of individuals have been signing up for Tumblr lately.
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Ron Paul Profile - Ron Paul Quotes on Tea Party, President, 2012 Originally published in the May 2011 issue Now it's time to go backstage. Down the narrow space between the back wall and the high blue curtain, washed by the white noise of eleven thousand overcaffeinated believers waiting in a huge ballroom filled to standing room, plus two overflow ballrooms where the man's message will be received on giant screens. Here's the door to the small drab room where assorted politicians wait to audition to be the future of America. "You seem a little busy." "Yeah, we're just about to get ready here." On the other side of the cinder-block wall and high blue curtain, voices cry out one and two and then a sudden chorus, Ron Paul, Ron Paul, End the Fed, Ron Paul! Now he sits back down, pulling a padded office chair up to a round linoleum table. He smiles like that when he explains why he's never found it hard to be on the short end of a 1-to-434 vote. See, it's not about him. And the income tax should be cut to zero. Something strange is happening. More boos.
60 Brands Using Tumblr by Jason Keath on Apr 01, 2011 Tumblr is a blogging platform that doubles as a social network. The site offers a unique opportunity as a blogging platform, a built in audience. There are other large blog communities, but on Tumblr the follow, like, and reblog features are dialed in, creating larger opportunities for good content to spread. This sounds like a great opportunity for every brand right? Not Every Brand Works on Tumblr The caveat is that the standard blog post does not thrive on Tumblr. Photos, videos, quotes and questions are the currency in the Tumblr ecosystem. Fashion brands are built for Tumblr it seems, covering the site with their wears, sharing their highly visual cultures (see Bergdorf and J Crew) and even offering up links to sales (see Ann Taylor). Large websites and blogs use Tumblr as a channel for sharing company news (see Twitter), company culture (see Mashable) or to tease content (see College Humor and The Huffington Post) 60 Brands Using Tumblr 1. Publishing Brands
Noam Chomsky: America's Decline Is Real -- and Increasingly Self-Inflicted | World February 14, 2012 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here. Read Part 2 of Chomsky's "Decline of America" series here. Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated -- Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example. At the moment, we are failing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of President John F. The prime target was South Vietnam. When the invasion was launched 50 years ago, concern was so slight that there were few efforts at justification, hardly more than the president’s impassioned plea that “we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence” and if the conspiracy achieves its ends in Laos and Vietnam, “the gates will be opened wide.”
Pinterest vs. Tumblr: Which Is Better for Brands? Pinterest and Tumblr are among the hippest consumer social networks today, and you should consider dedicating some of your marketing resources to at least one or the other — but which one is most effective? As with all social media marketing tools, the best strategic plan for brand growth is to surround consumers with branded content, so they can self-select how they want to experience your brand and interact with it. That means in an ideal situation, your brand would have a presence on both Pinterest and Tumblr. However, it’s not always possible to be all places at once due to a lack of budget and resources. The Differences Between Tumblr and Pinterest Pinterest and Tumblr have some similarities — they’re both essentially media blogging platforms — but they’re actually very different. To simplify, think of Tumblr as a microblogging tool with which you can publish short text, image, video, or audio posts. Promoting With Creativity Many brands are already doing great things on Pinterest.