Get Advice from Facebook Friends via Trip Advisor

Facebook and Trip Advisor

While it may seem like Facebook is out to conquer the online landscape and sustain a rep as the only game in town – they still believe in collaboration. Yesterday, it was announced that Facebook and Trip Advisor – the web’s most popular travel review site – had joined forces to launch a new connectivity [...]

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Consumers Love Brands on Facebook – but Not for Research

Product Research

There’s no question that consumers are using social networks as a form of information gathering when it comes to making purchases or trying new products/services. However, according to some interesting new data reported by eMarketer, social networks are NOT primarily being used to seek out data about products.  Yes, people are connecting with brands through [...]

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Working for the Weekend?

Staying Connected

It’s a Tuesday morning following a long weekend – which means workers across the US are getting back into the grind.
In an interesting new study reported by e-Marketer, data shows that more and more of the American workforce feels the need to stay connected, even during off hours.

Here at JB Inc., although we’re mega fans [...]

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Facebook Rolls Out Changes to Privacy Settings

Another day, another change to the Facebook platform. This time, the social networking behemouth has rolled out changes to privacy settings in an effort to make them simpler for users. This comes as a response to major backlash in recent weeks about the corporation’s lack of privacy concerns. So do the new changes really make [...]

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Social Networking Never Sleeps

Business hours

The worldwide web never sleeps. A full-on insomniac, our favorite technological wonder is always awake, always buzzing, always selling something to someone.
So what does this mean for marketers? Well, it means we can’t live by a Monday through Friday, 9-5 schedule anymore, at least not when it comes to our web efforts. Weekends, holidays and [...]

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Facebook to Introduce Location-Based Check-Ins

Facebook

Location-based social networking via sites like Foursquare and Gowalla  is one of the most explosive trends to hit the web in the past couple years. These platforms have shown rapid growth, and have been utilized by major agencies and marketing organizations. With everyone jumping on the location-based bandwagon, it’s only natural that Mr. Zuckerberg would [...]

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YouTube on the Tube?

Will FiOS TV be the first TV provider to offer both YouTube and Internet Radio on the TV screen? According the FiOS TV, that’s exactly right.
In a release dated April 27, 2010, FiOS TV has signed new deals that will allow subscribers to watch YouTube and access hundreds of radio stations, allowing those subscribers to [...]

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Happy First Upload Day, YouTube! Has It Only Been 5 Years?

YouTube

Just 5 years ago today, the first video was uploaded to the brand-spankin’ new site known as YouTube, according to Mashable.com. While the site actually launched in February, the first upload happened on April 23, and it was the beginning of a new world order when it comes to video sharing.
Isn’t it astonishing, it’s only [...]

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Facebook Brings ‘Like’ Button to 75 Third-Party Sites

Log into your Yelp account yesterday, and you may have noticed some unexpected changes – one of which includes the ability to connect with your Facebook friends. Facebook and Yelp, joining forces? Say what?
And Yelp isn’t the only site seeing this new feature – Facebook has also chosen Pandora.com and MicrosoftDocs.com as their “select partner [...]

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Influencing the Influencers

“The days of relying on one source for information are over,” said Jodi Kahn, executive vice president of iVillage, in a statement. “Online peer-to-peer advice on message boards has increasingly become one of the most valuable sources for product recommendations. Marketers cannot afford to overlook this captive audience.”
In a study released by Blogher and iVillage [...]

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