Having analyzed the top retail brands (with online storefronts) who are actively engaging their customers via such social media channels as Facebook and Twitter, I have come up with my list of the top 10 for the year 2010. There’s a lot we can learn just by observing them. So here is my list: Top [...]

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Geno on October 26th, 2010

I personally hate it — can’t help but recall how just recently I was explaining to my daughter that “hate” is a very strong verb (and she should be careful how she uses it), but here I mean it — when “affiliate marketing” is used in conjunction with words like “spam” or “spammer”. However, this happens, [...]

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Geno on October 17th, 2010

Not sure if you’ve noticed, but little over a week ago, I started a Facebook “fan” page for AM Navigator, and with it a “like” button/function appeared in the right-hand sidebar of my blog: There is still work to be done on that page, but come check it out at http://facebook.com/AMNavigator and feel free “like” [...]

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Not too long ago Twitter has introduced a “Who to follow” feature. Here’s how the suggestion box looks in my Twitter account today: When I first saw it, I thought I had seen it somewhere before. Of course! Facebook’s “People You May Know” function — which they’ve been running for over two years already — [...]

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…and it is now available for a free download! Scary, isn’t it? 100 million Facebook users essentially means every fifth account. A couple hours after the publishing of this database, BBC picked up the news writing: Ron Bowes used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, collecting data not hidden by the user’s privacy [...]

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First of all, my sincere apologies to all my Facebook friends who got “my” invite into a “Check who has blocked you on Facebook” app earlier this morning. I received a similar Facebook message from a someone I trust and regard highly, and clicked the link. Apparently, this circulated the spam around my own friends, [...]

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Yesterday Sophos reported the newest scam scheme on Facebook — the Target Week SHOP for FREE, which thousands of Facebook users have already fallen for. The way it works is basically like this: You’re told you need a special gift card to participate in this promo. To obtain the card you are “required to perform [...]

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Geno on May 27th, 2010

It looks like something is definitely cooking… I’ve logged into my Facebook account earlier this morning to find this notification: Facebook is certainly broadening the scope of their interests, and no wonder why the area of questions and answers got their attention. First of all there is a huge demand for this service. Remember Aardvark [...]

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Geno on March 3rd, 2010

I love statistics, and I was certainly happy to find the below “The State of the Internet” video by JESS3 (Jesse Thomas) on Vimeo today: Only one criticism: being so jam-packed with numbers, a video that’s close to 4 minutes long is frankly a bit hard to digest. I am sure everyone will find something [...]

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Geno on December 11th, 2009

Search Engine Strategies Chicago 2009 keynote speaker, Dan Siroker, a lead analyst for the 2008 Obama presidential campaign, has announced a product the essence of which is based on the lessons learned from the use of Social Media for that presidential campaign. Siroker explains: The product is called Spreadly… and the product is the way [...]

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