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Never Plan on Hiring a Social Media Expert? Good Luck with That
It’s funny to see some of the same people who have praised Web 2.0 and social media for years and highly depend on social media themselves, pointing the finger at “social media experts.” These myopic blog posts get views and buzz, but they are so generic that it shows that they don’t really see the ...
Empire Avenue CEO “Dups” Discusses The Game Layer, Influence, Network Value and More
The “Social Media Exchange” Empire Avenue has been getting a lot of buzz. While I heard about the site last year, people like Jeremiah Owyang, Peter Kim, Scott Monty, Robert Scoble, Caleb Storkey and David Armano have written very interesting thoughts in the past week or so, and the community seems to be thriving like never ...
Steve Rosenbaum talks about Human, Accidental and Social Curation at SXSWi 2011
As you might have noticed by now, curation is one of those topics that I get excited about. That’s why I was very glad to meet and chat with Steve Rosenbaum, CEO of Magnify and author of the book Curation Nation, in the Samsung Blogger Lounge at SXSW Interactive 2011. We talked about the difference between ...
Storify Co-Founder Burt Herman talks about Stories, Curation and Facebook
Burt Herman is a co-founder of real-time curation service Storify. I first heard about Storify on this Scobleizer post, and I’ve tested it for Samsung USA at SXSW and for myself at M2C (you can see an embeded example at the bottom of this post). I met with Burt at the Samsung Blogger Lounge at SXSWi ...
Co-Founder of RockMelt Eric Vishria shares about Social Browsing and Hints at Mobile
Eric Vishria is the co-founder and CEO of RockMelt, a social media web browser based on Google’s Chromium. RockMelt is backed by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen and was introduced to the world about 3 months ago. 1. RockMelt has been called a “social browser” because it has unique features around sharing and connecting. What differentiates ...
Buddy Media’s Michael Jaindl Lists the Top 5 Things Brands Should Do on Facebook
Michael Jaindl is the VP of Client Services for Buddy Media, a Facebook management system that has been making a news lately. The Buddy Media Platform allows brands, including Samsung (check out our Samsung USA page), to create engaging Facebook tabs, monitor the wall, schedule posts, and more. 1. What are the top 5 things ...
Pop17′s Sarah Austin speaks about Brands on Social Media, Facebook Places, Foursquare, and Lifecasting
Sarah Austin was one of the first live streaming, life-casters popularized on Justin.TV and she is the founder of Pop17, “a collaborative blogging platform and web show that covers and tracks emerging web trends and tells the stories behind what’s going in social media.” Sarah and I have submitted a SXSWi 2011 Panel Proposal with ...
The Galaxy Tab is Real
The Galaxy Tab is very real. I’ve personally played with this amazing device and it blew me away. Yes, I work for Samsung so I’m a bit biased, but as a geek and Android fan I can tell you that I’m extremely excited. And based on today’s hundreds of awesome tweets to @SamsungTweets, it is ...
Avinash Kaushik on Real Time Analytics and Powerful Blogging
Web analytics are cool. If you agree with that statement, there’s a good change you’ve spent some time reading Occam’s Razor, the fascinating blog about web analytics by Avinash Kaushik (author of Web Analytics 2.0 and Web Analytics: An Hour A Day). If you don’t know who Avinash is then just Google “Web Analytics” and ...
The Brilliance of Facebook’s Move to Make the Web Social
Social Media is really all about this: integrating life and technology. Facebook is the most widely used, widely known, and perhaps widely trusted social network in the world. As someone who got on Facebook when it first launched for universities (I was part of the SMU network before most people knew what Facebook was), I’ve ...