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It has been a busy week for Twitter, not to mention a controversial one. First on Wednesday of last week Evan Williams, the chairman of Twitter announced that they had purchased Albeit the company that owns Tweetie. Tweetie is one of the most popular twitter clients on the Iphone. Then just a few days later, Twitter announced that they were
The lawsuits, indicate that businesses who do not agree to pay Yelp to advertise on their websites have had favorable reviews removed from Yelp. If this was just one report, I would toss it off as sour grapes. However there have been a smattering of similar complaints across the country. The story is basically the same, the company in question was getting mostly good reviews on Yelp. They then get a call from Yelp offering them the opportunity to buy monthly advertisement when they decline the offer, their favorable reviews were removed or dropped off greatly.
If you are retailer and want to build your brand, social networks are where you need to be, says IDC in a new report. According to it, Web 2.0 is creating opportunities for competitive advantage with the top 10 social networks having over 1.3 billion members. Yes, there's plenty of people who live on more than one network but that's
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The folks over at Ars Technica of which I am a personal fan, put out a post today titled "Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love". There is no way I could have expressed as elegantly as they did what I have felt for a very long time. I am not sure I would have done the
I'll be honest it was very difficult to walk away from two separate Twitter advertising deals that would have netted me over $10,000 over the Thanksgiving holiday. I am sure many people will tell me that I am nuts to have walked away from that kind of money. The companies involved were both great companies, and the products I would
Word comes today that Apple has applied for a patent for an "enforcement routine" that will force viewers to see commercials on various devices. And when I say force, I truly mean force. The patent application indicates that the forced-advertisement will freeze a device until you indicate that you've actually read/responded to the ad (through the use of clicking a