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Beyond Groupon: Localized Deal Sites If you're like thousands of Americans, you've discovered the magic of Groupon-- when Groupon held a 50% in GAP stores last week nationwide, they sold hundreds of thousands of them, crashing the system...

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Have You Been To LikeButton.Me Yet? The recently-launched website LikeButton.Me is a quick look at what Facebook is trying to accomplish with their new OpenGraph platform. If you are already logged into Facebook in your browser, you and...

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How Sharing Links With UTM Tags Can Produce Incorrect... Many in-house and agency search marketers use UTM (Urchin Tracking Module) tags to sort and filter their Google Analytics results for their website traffic. UTM tags are added to the end of a link and...

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3 Easy Things To Rank Higher on GoogleBy Eric ReaGoogle prides itself on finding the most relevant websites to place at the top of its results based on several factors. While search engine optimization is a continuous process, there...

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10 Coolest Photo Sharing Websites

Posted by karen | Posted in Featured, social media | Posted on 19-08-2010

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Editor note: We also recommend Momentile, a website where you are encouraged to publish one photo every day, for 1 year.

Taking the picture is just part of the fun. After you have snapped that excellent shot, you might want to share it with your friends and worldwide family. Here is a list of great photo sharing sites.

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The Twitter Hack: How You Could Have Gotten Celebrity Followers

Posted by karen | Posted in social media | Posted on 17-05-2010

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By Eric Rea

Interested in getting celebrity followers? Thanks to the celebrity Twitter hack, that was an absolute possibility not too long ago. A glitch in the Twitter platform was discovered which allowed for any Twitter user to make it look like celebrities were their own fans who followed their feeds. This means that the average Twitter user could have thought up anyone on the social networking site and added them as their followers. This unconventional method stirred up a lot of frustration throughout the whole site – especially because celebrities who had been solicited as followers were really getting the Tweets from the hackers’ accounts.

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Socialnomics Revises Their Video on Social Media Statistics

Posted by karen | Posted in Extra, social media | Posted on 07-05-2010

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I’m a pretty big fan of Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business Socialnomics Revises Their Video on Social Media Statistics by Erik Qualman. The first video he released on YouTube that highlighted some statistics about social was used in some presentations of mine and now has been updated to relate more recent statistics.

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See Who Has Posted Links to Your Website on Twitter With BackTweets

Posted by karen | Posted in Extra, social media | Posted on 26-04-2010

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Here’s another great tool that can be used to find out who is tweeting links to your website, even if they haven’t mentioned your twitter username OR they’ve used a URL shortener.

With a short and simple homepage that closely resembles Google, BackTweets is a great service that gives you a list of every Twitter user who has tweeted a link to your site, including the entire tweet, their username, and when it was posted.

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NachoFoto, a Real-Time Image Search Engine, Has Been Released

Posted by karen | Posted in Search Engines | Posted on 14-04-2010

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Co-founders and siblings Vineet, Monica, and Anuj Agarwal has released his real-time image search engine to the public: NachoFoto. It was released yesterday and provides search results of images in real-time, similar to Google News articles and Twitter results. NachoFoto is a great resource, especially when it comes to image searches related to living persons or current events. NachoFoto searches for the terms “Masters” or “Paris Hilton” bring up images that have been uploaded online as little as a few hours previously.

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