Tag Archives: Facebook

When Social Media Becomes Work

By Adam Gorley | Published: January 29, 2010
Talking with my friend Mike Kennedy recently, I realized that social media have invaded my job. My personal and professional lives are colliding! Blogging and reading blogs have become part of my job description, and there are small Twitter and Facebook communities among my co-workers (including me) and higher-ups. I talk to my boss on Twitter—weird. [...]
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Must Love Death: German Social Media Lessons

By Jens | Published: July 15, 2009
The preface: The claim resurfaces regularly. I’ve written about it; others have written about it: in terms of internet and social media, Germany lags behind. ReadWriteWeb just published an interview with Marcel Weiß, the editor of Netzwertig.com—one of Germany’s most popular blogs—in which he explains that Germany is at least five years behind the U.S. when it comes [...]
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Like CNW Group? Show your love on Facebook.

By Parker Mason | Published: January 28, 2009
That’s right, folks. CNW Group now has a Facebook page where you can show your love for Canada’s number one newswire or sign up to hear about upcoming events, like our Breakfast with the Media series. I didn’t have much to do with this, but I know that CNW Group’s all-star Communications Coordinators Jessica Sine and [...]
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When Two Billion Dollar Industries Unexpectedly Meet: Ads for Fake Watches Pop Up on Facebook

By Jens | Published: November 17, 2008
The whole world uses Facebook, yet the social network still hasn’t found a way to properly monetize on that potential (or just hasn’t revealed these plans yet). Sure, they’ve got the ads but while Darren Barefoot was successfully guided to a cool band they were trying to sell me a fake Rolex the other day. [...]
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Using the Web to Discover Talent

By Jens | Published: September 18, 2008
A friend of mine who’s a prospective movie producer asked me to act as music supervisor for his (yet to be finished) diploma project. He needed some authentic country and 50s old school rock’n'roll for the soundtrack. Unfortunately there wouldn’t be a budget – and he would need the worldwide rights for an indefinite amount [...]
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Facebook sues German Facebook Clone

By Jens | Published: July 23, 2008
Writes Techcrunch: Facebook is starting to pursue social networks that have copied their design or features by suing German site StudiVZ. The Financial Times has reported that Facebook filed a suit in California against the German company for what it claims is an infringement of Facebook’s “look, feel, features and services”. StudiVZ claims to have 10 million [...]
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More on Communities and Casual Gaming

By Jens | Published: May 8, 2008
Some more news from the social gaming world: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has invested $3 million into user-generated casual gaming site Kongregate. Says Kongregate founder Jim Greer: He looked at it the way he looks at the Amazon seller business. Amazon is a better place to sell your stuff than on your own site, and Kongregate is [...]
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Social Media and Social Paranoia

By Espen | Published: January 14, 2008
Parker’s last post raised a question I have been toiling with for some time: what do I do with my Facebook page? I joined Facebook in my last year at McGill  in 2004. At that time, only students from certain post-secondary schools were able to join; I mostly interacted with friends from US because of the [...]
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