Kevin Allocca is YouTube’s trends manager, and he has deep thoughts about silly web video. In this talk from TEDYouth, he shares the 4 reasons a video goes viral. Related articles Pinterest for Video? Chill Completes its Latest Makeover (mashable.com) The Cutest, ‘Deadliest’ Fight in All of History [VIDEO] (mashable.com) YouTube’s 4 Examples of Great [...]
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A great quote from a Fast Company article.. Despite recession, currency crises, and tremors of financial instability, the pace of disruption is roaring ahead. The frictionless spread of information and the expansion of personal, corporate, and global networks have plenty of room to run. And here’s the conundrum: When businesspeople search for the right forecast–the [...]
In an article on Mashable, Credit Karma’s Lin outlines some of the things financial institutions might be looking for on consumers’ social media profiles. Anything indicative of changes in your financial circumstances.These may include phrases or keywords that you use on social media platforms, such as walkaway, laid off, fired, broke, moving to your parents house, etc. Banks will [...]
We know PayPal has been investing in a comprehensive solution for in-store merchants to integrate the payments service into the point of sale payments experience. Today, on eBay’s earnings call, eBay CEO John Donahoe said that the launch of the new technology will take place in the fourth quarter. He said that the in-store PayPal technology will be [...]
Today the USA television network has announced a partnership with Yap.TV to power its mobile social application. Yap.TV is one of the hottest social TV apps on the App Store, offering users the chance to chat up television shows in real time. It’s basically a souped-up Twitter client for TV, and now all the same cool functionality will [...]
It’s Friday, so it’s infographic time. To celebrate their 5th birthday, the popular link sharing service ‘Add this‘ (1.2bn monthly users) from clearspring has published an infographic revealing the day and time people are most likely to share. Wednesday and 9.30AM. via Wednesday 9.30AM is When Humans Share Most [Infographic] | Social Commerce Today. Related [...]
Dexter: Slice of Life - Unlike many of the TV tie-in games on Facebook, Ecko Code’s Dexter: Slice of Life stands apart from the field, thanks to its stealthy gameplay and close ties to the TV show. Each Monday the Facebook game updates with new content based on the episodes that aired on Sunday night, allowing players not [...]
Part 4 in a series introducing my new book, The End of Business as Usual… It seems that adding the word “social” to any category escalates its importance. From the Social Customer to Social Commerce and from Social Business to Social CRM, the common thread that weaves everything together is people. It is people after [...]
