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How Apps Are Taking Over Computing And Content
Mobile apps are innumerable and integrated into almost all aspects of our daily lives. They have already changed computing in staggering ways, but there’s room for more innovation on a similar scale. A Short History Of App Domination It’s hard to imagine now, but in the beginning there was the candybar phone. On it, the [...]
Traditional vs. Online Marketing – The Bigger Picture
In the Social Media landscape, marketers have been abuzz about what the future holds for Marketing. Marketers have questioned whether online marketing has replaced traditional marketing and whether Social Networks are here to stay. At the speed at which technology is advancing and the ways in which consumer behavior is shifting it’s not about the [...]
Social Media And Your Company
People now more than ever are connected with each other: from the minute we wake up until the minute we shut our eyes for sleep, we have some way of interacting with other people. Be it Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, or even rising players like Google+, social networks are used by “one in every second Internet [...]
New Product Aims To Unlock Facebook’s CRM Data For Marketers
A new product suite allows marketers to tap into the world’s biggest CRM database, find potential customers and offer them exactly what they want to buy. MicroStrategy’s new tools claims to allow brands to unlock information from Facebook’s 800 million-strong user base, slice and dice relevant market information, and connect directly with customers. And all [...]
5 Social Media Ideas For The New Year
You know what social media is, but do you know how to maximize its potential in your life? Any entrepreneur worth his or her salt should be actively leveraging social media in order to harvest new ideas, monetize old ones, and send your financial endeavor on an arc of meteoric growth. Whether you’re in the [...]
Why The Secrecy Bill Is Such A Stupid Idea
The proposed Protection of Information Bill is an exercise in purest futility. The Information Express left the station years ago and simply cannot be stopped. Just ask the Chinese or the American intelligence community. In the past few days I’ve overheard, read and engaged in conversations about the new bill that’s currently before Parliament. Some [...]
Local Group Buying Company CityMob Introduces In-Facebook Deals
CityMob is one of a plethora of group buying startups that have flooded the market. In a highly competitive market, CityMob has distinguished itself by focusing on building a strong community using social networking platforms like Facebook. Yesterday CityMob launched ‘CityMob Fan Deals’, which is a first for a group buying company in South Africa. [...]
Why Should You Care About Google Plus (video)
There’s been a LOT of buzz about Google’s new social network lately and feedback has been mixed. I’ve been checking it out specifically because of criticism over the past few years of Google not being able to compete in the social space. Terms like ‘one trick pony’ have been levelled at the search giant, and [...]
Social Medial: It’s impact on PR tactics
Social media platforms have forever disrupted traditional PR works in its processes, values, strategies and campaigns. These methods of communications have moved from being the social domain of individuals to a rapidly growing and vastly changing landscape which the PR industry ignores at its peril. Social media has the benefits of being a way to [...]
Facebook’s New Social Widget, the ‘Send’ Button
What does it mean for your website? Similar to the Facebook ‘Like’ button, the new ‘Send’ button will allow users the opportunity to share your website content, but with selected contacts. In mid November last year, Mark Zuckerberg released a figure that roughly 4 billion private messages are sent daily on Facebook. More than 350 [...]
