20 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed
Big changes in the social media landscape this week mean there’s a lot to discuss. These posts highlight all the latest and greatest tools, tips, trends, and strategies for navigating the ever-changing social waters. Included in this week’s edition is some cautionary advice about Facebook and dating, some great mobile app lists for spring, and […]
Explore Space with Buzz Aldrin on Your iPhone
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin [iTunes link] has his own iPhone app, and it’s packed full of information, news, images and videos related to space exploration. It’s currently the one of the most popular apps in the Apple App Store’s Education category. “Buzz Aldrin Portal to Science and Space Exploration” is divided into five sections: Space Buzz, […]
How Companies Should Approach the New Twitter Advertising Model
Dallas Lawrence is Chair of the Social and Digital Media Practice at Levick Strategic Communications. Connect with him on Twitter @dallaslawrence. By now, everyone has heard about Twitter’s move into the paid advertising world. This week’s announcement that companies will be allowed to pay to have their posts lead search results on the popular social […]
Monetize HTML5 Video with mDialog’s Ad Platform
Today mDialog debuts a new video service platform designed to support HTML5, live streaming and dynamic ad-insertion in video streams. Publishers and content providers can now not only encode and serve live stream or Video On Demand content in HTML5, but they can also insert ads or b-roll into those videos factors like geolocation, dayspotting […]
Top 10 Funny Dog Videos on YouTube
There are plenty of funny videos on YouTube but the ones that get us spitting our tea all over our monitors and give us the best giggles are animal-themed affairs. Man’s best friend doubles as a clown on notable occasions, many of which this selection of YouTube favorites captures to great comedic effect. Keep reading […]
How SXSW Bands are Using Online Music Videos
As we’ve seen in the past, a music video can launch a band into the indie stratosphere when shared in the online space — YouTube even got hip to the trend with its Musician’s Wanted program. This state of affairs got us wondering: How do some of today’s up-and-coming indie acts use online music videos […]
Flickr Co-founder’s Startup Hunch Raises $10 Million
Hunch, a New York City-based startup founded by Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake and SiteAdvisor founder/angel investor Chris Dixon, has raised $10 million in funding for its questions and recommendations site. Nearly a year ago, Ms. Fake revealed her new startup to the world. Her goal: to create a service that would help people make decisions […]
Keyboard Cat: The Next Generation [VIDEO]
For years now we have all found solace and joy in Charlie Schmidt’s “Keyboard Cat,” a musically inclined feline with Beethoven-sick skills and a mischievous mien. Now, a new kitty is on the scene: Bento. And believe you me, this Cat’s got synth-drenched magic coming out of his claws. By now we all know the […]
4 Fun and Crazy Chatroulette Videos
Random video chat site Chatroulette is a pop culture smash right now, and while it’s easy to assume its days are numbered, it’s a lot of fun to immerse yourself in the little subculture building around it. Despite the increasing negative press, there’s almost as much heart on the service as there is genitalia. Well, […]
Rock Out with PixieTea and Her Amazing iPhone Band [VIDEO]
Remember the Stanford iPhone Orchestra and their kick-ass musical stylings? Well, there’s a new smartphone virtuoso on the scene by the name of PixieTea who could become more synonymous with the word “telephone” than Lady Gaga herself. The Chinese artist created a video and song — mostly on an iPhone 3GS — that has been […]
Is it better for SEO to embed a video into your website personally or do it via YouTube html?
I am updating one of my websites and wondered from an SEO perspective whether it would be better to upload my videos onto youtube and then onto my website OR just upload them normally onto my website without youtube? Would it make much difference? Upload them to youtube and just embed them to your website. […]
Any new ways to drive traffic to a website besides PPC, blogging, and social bookmarking.?
I blog and social bookmark everyday along with submitting to as many directories as possible. I don’t have the budget for a good PPC campaign, so I was wondering if there was a new or better way to drive traffic to my site. Something other than bought traffic too. Video marketing with YouTube and other […]
Part 18 — Internet Marketing With, SEO, youtube, Myspace, Facebook, RSS Feeds and More.
In early 2008 I spoke at the Secret Society of Traffic and Conversion Seminar for my friends Buck Rizvi and Brock Felt. The attendees paid thousands to be there but I’m sharing my 3 hour presentation from the seminar with you for free. I outlined the social networking and web 2.0 strategies that I personally […]
Social Media on Weekend Edition
NPR Soapbox vlogger Jacob Soboroff reports. Do you have “technophobic” parents or grandparents? Click below to check out some of the tools we have been using to communicate AND some of Weekend Edition’s social media tools. Duration : 0:3:50
Part 12 — Internet Marketing With, SEO, youtube, Myspace, Facebook, RSS Feeds and More.
In early 2008 I spoke at the Secret Society of Traffic and Conversion Seminar for my friends Buck Rizvi and Brock Felt. The attendees paid thousands to be there but I'm sharing my 3 hour presentation from the seminar with you for free. I outlined the social networking and web 2.0 strategies that I personally […]