64% of small businesses don’t think social media is necessary.
According to a new study, small businesses don’t seem to be swept up in the social media revolution.
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LinkedIn now adding two new members every second
Some big numbers coming up here!
In LinkedIn’s first earnings call as a public company, CEO Jeff Weiner revealed that LinkedIn is adding two new members every second, which is up from one member per second in November 2010. In Q2 alone, LinkedIn added 14 million members, after passing the 100 million mark earlier this year…
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Social media draws more viewers to live tv
Live-tweeting supports live tv viewing.
Social media is bringing dramatic changes to nearly every aspect of the TV business. Viewers are using Facebook and Twitter to comment about shows before, during and after they air. Television networks, grappling with the fragmentation of their audience, are experimenting with mobile apps, Twitter promotions and branded social networks in an effort to bring viewers back together. And a variety of other stakeholders are getting in on the social action as well.
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FTC approves controversial firm to dig up your dirt on social networking sites
This is a frightening prospect that any social media posting, even years old, can be used in background checks.
A controversial firm which scours social media sites to check on job applicants has bee approved by the Federal Trade Commission. The approval means anything you’ve ever said in public on sites including Facebook, Twitter and even Craigslist could be seen by your would-be employer.
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Twitter Usage Increases But It is Still a Niche Activity
Can twitter go from niche to mainstream in the US?
Twitter usage had risen from 8% of US internet users in fall 2010 to 13% in May 2011, a 62.5% increase in penetration according to an annoucement by the Pew Internet & American Life Project this month. Twitter usage does seem to be growing, but is a bump like that sizeable enough to take it from niche to mainstream?
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Matt Drudge – Most Powerful Man on the Web
Matt Drudge
The No. 1 source of referral traffic to major news sites in the United States is Google. Google provides approximately 30% of the traffic to these sites.
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People Blaming Facebook for Divorces
Facebook is a source of evidence in divorce cases.
Divorces can get really ugly and social media can paly a large part in that. More and more of divorce cases include incriminating evidence captured on social media sites, at least for one Florida lawyer who says she sees “some type of Facebook involvement” in 90 percent of her divorce cases.
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Eric Whitacre’s Powerful Virtual Choir – ‘Lux Aurumque’
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Via YouTube
Composer Eric Whitacre has put together the Virtual Choir. He combined 185 seperate singers from 12 different countries recorded independently and combined them into a single performance. All were conducted by the composer through a prerecorded conductor track on YouTube.
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Employers Want You to Control Your Cybermouth
John Galliano, the famed Dior fashion designer, lost his job after a drunken anti-Semitic tirade he made was captured on video and ended up on YouTube.
Once upon a time you could make a drunken rant at a bar, write about your secret passions at home, or complain about your manager to friends after work, and your boss would never know about it. But today, thanks to social media, all bets are off.
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Study: New TV and Social Media Trend Among Young People
The Social TV trend exposed by the study could change the landscape for broadcasters and advertisers.
Young Britons have taken to a new television and social media trend which could have far-reaching consequences for the worlds of broadcasting and advertising, according to a new study.
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The Internet in Numbers 2010
What happened with the Internet in 2010?
How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many, many more. If it’s stats you want, you’ve come to the right place.
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Mitsubishi Breaks 5 Guinness World Records in 24 Hours
A true award winner.
Mitsubishi is taking a unique approach to draw attention to its all-wheel drive vehicles: The automaker broke five Guinness World Records relating to driving in winter conditions.
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