Category: Social Media

Winklevoss Twins Lose Appeal to Facebook

winklevoss zuckerberg lawsuitThe Monday April 11, 2011 ruling from Judge Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, appears to put an end to the ongoing legal battle between  Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and a third Harvard classmate, Divya Narendra,  and  Mark Zuckerberg.

The trio of the the “Winklevii” (nickname given to the twins by Zuckerberg, according to The Social Network movie) and Narendra  filed suit in 2004 against Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The trio alleged that Zuckerberg had stolen the idea for Facebook from them.

Here’s a video showing the real-life Winklevii discussing the movie and showing a very different opinion than Facebook employees have expressed about the events.

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Baby Boomers Get Connected with Social Media

As social media networks have been assimilated by younger generations, it was only a matter of time until the older generations would catch up.

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From the table above, it can be clearly seen that there is little room for growth for social media in the Millenial and Generation X age groups. However, there is a lot of room for penetration in the Baby Boomer and Mature demographics.

What causes the adoption of social media networks by older generations? Here are 2 potential causes.

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How to Easily Remove Any Facebook Application

remove facebook appFacebook, center of the online universe. As the single most popular social networking website ever created, it has become a major hub for communication between friends, family, colleagues and even strangers from across the world. It has also become a major place for quizzes, gaming and other fun little activities that are easy to find anywhere on the site.

But what happens when you use an application and you don’t like it? Maybe it turns out to have spyware attached, or gives your personal details to third parties. Or you just don’t use something anymore, such as Farmville or Vampires or any other popular Facebook game. Whatever the reason, you aren’t stuck with it on your profile forever (thankfully). You can easily remove it, and get rid of all updates. You can even get rid of the requests from friends.

Here’s how to get rid of any Facebook Application.

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3 Social Media Lessons from Charlie Sheen

When talking about Charlie Sheen, you’re bound to have some supporters and some critics, but you will definitely not find somebody who is not quick to provide an opinion.  Between his”tiger blood”, “winning”, his “warlock brain” has uttered so many quotable catch-phrases that is hard to avoid his presence anywhere in the media. From Entertainment Weekly to TMZ.com to Twitter, everybody just can’t get enough of Charlie Sheen.

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While I don’t support his behavior, you can definitely take 3 important lessons from his social media strategy.

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Charlie Sheen Joins Twitter

Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seatbelts Charlie Sheen has joined Twitter!

Just a couple hours after opening his official Twitter account he has 204,819 followers and appears in 1,530 lists (2:21 p.m. HST).

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Media Reaction to Groupon Tibet Ads

Groupon’s controversial Tibet commercial during the Superbowl did not sit well with people who thought it exploitative. From CNN to  Conan, the media seems to agree that Groupon did a bad move.

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Here are some images and videos (Conan!) regarding this issue.

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How to Get Started with Social Media Advertising

social media advertisingSo many social media options, so little time.  The rapid rise of social media has allowed skillful individuals to reach thousands of others at little or no cost other than manpower and wit.

However, as more and more people join the social media movement, it no longer takes just manpower and wit to win the attention of social media users.  What’s a entrepreneur, blogger, or content developer to do?

The answer lies within a smart investment in social media advertising.  There are lots of ways to advertise on social media sites, but we are just going to cover 3 of the most popular: Facebook, Linkedin, and Twitter.

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User Interface Design: Some Simple Tips

podiumUI design can be a big hit or miss. Often times we try to go for form over function, without really thinking about what the user wants and need.

Sure, flashy flash websites are awesome, but what happens when the load time is 30 seconds? What happens when a user comes to your site and watches the flash intro, but loses interest and doesn’t proceed any further because they weren’t on an informational landing page?

What happens when you launch contests that have confusing and dizzying design where the user can’t understand what to do or where to go?

Let’s take apart a website that recently launched a user powered tournament. They have a very unique tournament system- not replicated at this moment by any other site- that allows users to vote on matchups through 6 rounds of voting- til they get to the final round.

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How to Remove LinkedIn Connections

Have a LinkedIn connection that messages you too much about “how to learn to create a Twitter account with 5,000 followers in one day”?

How about the one that invites you to every single one of the groups that he creates on a weekly basis?

Or maybe the one that has a daily poll that you must just answer!

Here’s how to remove those annoying LinkedIn connections.

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