March 8, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
American small businesses have tapped into that entrepreneur spirit during the downturn and are looking to new and creative ways to keep their bottom line from sinking too far, too fast. One popular tactic: social networking.
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Tags: adoption, Robert H. Smith School of Business, small business, social networking, University of Maryland, Web sites
February 9, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
A few weeks back, I suggested to a colleague that Twitter wasn’t the Internet phenomenon many folks think it is. Why? Because my kids could care less about it.
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Tags: Pew Research Center, study, teenagers, Twitter, use
December 28, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Want to see how it looks when a social network takes over the world? A very cool map created by Italian blogger Vincenzo Cosenza will show you.
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Tags: Facebook, Hi5, map, QQ, social networking, Vincenzo Consenza
December 15, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
In a previous post, we wrote about the privacy expectations that aren’t exactly being met by social networking sites like Facebook. Now, there’s speculation that social networking sites may be providing info on users to their financial institutions.
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Tags: bank, blog, credit card, Facebook, information, Roger Thompson, security researcher
December 11, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Okay, so Facebook’s got new privacy features that actually makes your profile info less private than it was in the past. And Rupert Murdoch’s whining that free content on the Internet’s gonna slurp up his billions made selling faux news on TV. Does anybody get what they want online anymore?
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Tags: controls, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Facebook, information, privacy, Rupert Murdoch
October 1, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posting a video can be a cheap and easy way to promote your business, but as you can see from the recent Microsoft “launch party” clips, it can be a tough thing to do well.
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Tags: promo, promotional video, viewership, viral, YouTube
September 21, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Now here’s a scam that’s unlikely to get reported by its victims.
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Tags: Facebook, hack, hacking, Pandalabs
September 16, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Facebook’s become wildly popular with folks of all ages, but until today the company’s cash flow languished in the negative zone. All that’s changed, along with the number of users who frequent its site.
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