Why the Blog Post Is the New Ad Unit

  I noticed this post and had to curate it. I actually think even curation is the new ad unit, which incidentally has many of the same benefits as a blog post. The author of this post lists 13 great reasons to think about. Back at the turn of the century, blogging was in a [...]

Is Foursquare a viable marketing tool?

Is Foursquare for stalkers or real marketers? I think it can be a great marketing tool if used right – here’s how to use it, and 6 fool proof ways to capitalise your business on the popular social network. With over 9 million people on Foursquare, and an estimated 250,000 businesses since it first launched [...]

foursquare – for stalkers or real marketers?

With over 9 million people on Foursquare, and an estimated 250,000 businesses since it first launched in 2009, this just goes to show Foursquare’s versatility as both adomain for the nosey and inquisitive among us, but also how it can be utilized as a growth mechanism for small businesses. Although I was relatively late to jump [...]

Rewind.me is ‘Klout for the real world

  SAN FRANCISCO — Rewind.me hopes to do for social media what the DVR did for TV viewing. The permission-based app collects data from Foursquare, Facebook, Instagram and others and organizes it to illustrate a consumer’s personal timeline, down to the minute. Version 1.3 went live on iPhone last week. In short, it is a [...]

Facebook’s Graph Search: A Foursquare-Killer?

Okay, so unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past two weeks, you have probably heard of Facebook’s big announcement last January 15th: Graph Search. More than a new “search tool,” Facebook will now tap into its huge database of users interactions to power a search tool that will not simply provide you [...]

Facebook Lops Twitter’s Vine From API Use

Facebook has evidently cut Vine off its API less than 24 hours after the Twitter product launched. Twitter launched the video-sharing service earlier today, after acquiring the company in October. Users are prompted to find their Facebook friends — but a Facebook error reveals that Facebook has lopped Facebook off its API. Many apps, including [...]

What the last 500,000,000 check-ins look like! (And what they show about the future of Foursquare) | Foursquare Blog

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It’s particularly neat when you start zooming in, because it really shows the life of cities across the world – you can see city centers (Moscow looks like a spider!), perfectly outlined islands like Oahu, the thin line of the Golden Gate Bridge, the walking paths of Central Park, and even the airport runways at [...]

WomenWeb Is the Newest Female-Only Social Hub

  If you want access to a females-only club where you can make friends and share stories, a new website called WomenWeb.com may be your new favorite place.Launched on Monday, WomenWeb.com connects all your social networks onto one dashboard, including Twitter, Instagram, Pintrest, Google+, YouTube and Facebook accounts.With this information, you can see notifications and [...]

Social Media Marketing: What’s The Point?

See on Scoop.it – Social Media, Curation, Content Today Advertisers lost control of the media years ago when the Internet gave all the target audiences the power to run their own message delivery systems.I’m not sure we’d fully recovered from that peaceful revolution when another gigantic wave hit us, then another and another: Facebook, Myspace, [...]

Discover The World Through Your Friends’ Travel Visual Stories With Tripl

See on Scoop.it – internetbillboards Giuseppe Mauriello: Social travel startup Tripl has built a personalized filtering service that turns your friends’ Facebook and Foursquare feeds and organizes their travels data into stories on a timeline.   From article on The Next Web: “When you return from a trip, wouldn’t it be nice to compile a [...]

Curate Your Social Timeline with Timekiwi

See on Scoop.it – Content Curation World Robin Good: Timewiki is a free web app that alows you to automatically create a cool-looking timeline of your social activity across the networks you choose (Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Tumblr, Foursquare, Instagram, Overblog – but more are being added).   In horizontal view (click Rotate on the bottom [...]

Vizify Turns Your Social Network Into An Infographic About Your Life

With digital data doubling every two years, you probably can’t keep track of all the sites where you share your personal info now, much less the data itself. Vizify aims to do that for you. Starting Thursday, the startup will automatically compile the your daily social network activity into a one-stop visual summary of your [...]