Ruzwana Bashir, Founder of Peek: Things I Can't Live Without + MORE 01/26/2013
Check out this travel maven's trip essentials.In January 2012, former private equity executive Ruzwana Bashir co-founded Peek, a website dedicated to helping travelers find and book high-quality activities (think helicopter tours of Hawaii). The San Francisco start-up, which counts Twitter co-founde.... More »
A Test, Not A Bug: Bing Deep Links To Facebook, eBay, Craigslist Under Google’s Search Result + MORE 01/03/2013
It looked like a screwup. If you searched for [google] on Bing, you saw Deep Links to Facebook, eBay and Craigslist underneath the main search result for Google. So, in my article earlier today, I called it a “strange bug” in Bing’s search results. I was wrong. It wasn’t a....... More »
Stock Markets Closed — Currencies Going Nowhere + MORE 03/29/2013
In the world of markets, there's virtually nothing notable to say about anything. It was a very quiet night in Asia. And now all equities and futures are closed for Good Friday. Currency trading is going on still, but there's nothing really happening. It's all pretty much a snooze. Please follow Mon.... More »
Facebook formalizes reciprocity policy and clearly prohibits replicating core features + MORE 01/25/2013
Facebook today amended its platform policy to formalize its stance toward which types of apps can use its data and when. The company clarified two key points: developers may not use its platform if they replicate core functionality of Facebook or if they offer social experiences but do not enable pe.... More »
How Pinterest Has Changed the Way Brands Create Content + MORE 02/13/2013
Your prospects and customers aren’t just searching for blogs when they want to learn more about your company. They’re hunting for your presence on social media, looking to see if you turn up on Twitter, Facebook, and especially Pinterest. According to the Pew Research Center, Pinterest’s influ.... More »
Why Are People More Scared of Facebook Violating Their Privacy Than Washington?
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Everyone’s Talking About The Scott Brown Bottom
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Big thanks to MSNBC’s Hardball for drawing attention to our chart analysis from Thursday, when a Facebook posting from Scott Brown set the floor for the Dow that day. Unfortunately, the market crashed through that low yesterday, so from a purely technical point of view…. watch out. (Thanks to @ivanthek for the image). Please follow Politics on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story »
Facebook Poke for Mobile: This Week in Social Media
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Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news.To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.What’s New This Week?Facebook Introduces Poke For Mobile: Facebook Poke is “an iPhone app that makes it fun and easy to say hello to friends wherever you are.”The poke feature, part of Facebook since 2004, is now available on mobile.Google+ Capabilities Come To Blogger: “Now you can add a link to a Google+ profile or page when you want to mention someone in a post” on the blogging platform Blogger…