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On September 2nd, Sony Electronics launched an inventive U.S. social media campaign that both engaged its following in creative new ways while putting its products directly into the hands of the consumers most excited to test them out. In a 2-week long period, Sony fans across the country raced to meet the Sony Electronics...
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Image: Luca Volpi, Wikimedia Commons Gary Sharma This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (a.k.a. “The Guy with the Red Tie”), Founder CEO of GarysGuide, Mentor at ER Accelerator and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over forty red ties. You can reach him...
Fan “relationship management” service FanBridge is launching a new feature today, called the “Social Digest,” which gives influencers and brands a way to stay in touch with their fans and followers. The Social Digest automatically curates the most popular social content in an email digest distributed to fans on a weekly basis. FanBridge, which...
The PC era is here to stay as long as the Internet lives. That is not to say however that it won’t go through some physical changes along the way, in much the same way the QWERTY keyboard has been made more ergonomic, virtualized on touchscreens, and tucked away in tiny cellphone trays, but...
Facebook is offering up to $10 million in free advertising to small businesses in the middle of slight changes to how the social networking site allows brands and consumers to interact on its Pages. The social networking site will give at least $50 to up to 200,000 small business in a partnership with the...
How do you sell the Facebook phone in a Facebook-free environment? Luckily for HTC, China isn’t short on homegrown social networks, one of the largest being the instant messaging service QQ. So as the HTC Status (once known as the ChaCha) migrates toward China, where our favorite social network has been banned, Facebook will...
Blink182 has a new album available via pre-sale called “Neighborhoods” and has a pretty interesting and unique way to listen to it early. Thanks to a SoundCloud and SimpleGeo mashup, you can listen to the new album in your own “Neighborhood”, which is the name of the feature. Using SimpleGeo‘s GPS technology, it will...
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