Towards the end of 2010 it was determined that Justin Bieber and his 6 million+ followers made up 3% of all Twitter conversations (based on statistics at the time) by mentioning the pop stars name and retweeting his thoughts, today Justin Bieber has reached over 10 million visitors. The pop star is only the second…Continue Reading ›
Stampede.it Brings Social Buying To Digital Products
Online gaming, digital books (e-books) and other online services have grown exponentially over the last several years, creating a virtual goods market that is estimated to bring in $318 million by 2015 and company Stampede.it plans to capitalize on that market by offering discounts on virtual goods, much in the same way Groupon offers real…Continue Reading ›
Next Tech Bubble Disaster? Social Media Valuations Are Out Of Control [Infographic]
LinkedIn rakes in revenue of $200 million per year, yet the company was recently valued at $9 billion when their IPO was made available to investors. On the private market SharePost has recently reported Twitter to have a $7.7 billion valuation on just $150 million per year (50x valuation), while Facebook is valued at an…Continue Reading ›
FeedKite Facebook App: Discover Places Your Friends Have Traveled
FeedKite is a Facebook app for people who love to travel and anyone who wants to see what their friends did on their travels. The premise of the application is simple, it finds locations your friends have taken photos from and plots those trips on a map which can be used to discover new sights.…Continue Reading ›
MorningPics: Receive An Instagram Everyday, Keep Your Memories Fresh
MorningPics is an ingeniously simple idea, the program allows users to connect to their Instagram account and then it sends them one of their photos everyday. The program is intended to allow users to relive their memories by not only sharing photos with users, but also displaying all of the comments their photos have received…Continue Reading ›
Patchlife: Turn Your Social Media Experiences Into A Journal
Patchlife is an aggregator of sorts, the website grabs your digital postings and weaves them into a searchable online journal that you can access whenever you wish. The program currently connects with the following social networks: Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Flickr, Tumblr, Prosperous and even your RSS feeds and connects the information you post into daily…Continue Reading ›
Social Media Distractions Are Costing Some Businesses Millions Annually [Study]
Even the best of employees in this changing times have the tendency to become distracted by instant messages, emails and social media networks (Twitter, Facebook, etc) and it turns out that may be a bigger problem for businesses than originally expected. Social email software provider harmon.ie recently conducted a survey and found that online distractions…Continue Reading ›
Contapps For Android: A More Robust Social Contact List
If you’re using the included Android Contacts app with your Smartphone you may have already integrated your Facebook status updates with your contact information, unfortunately the program doesn’t currently allow for Twitter access or integration with other third party social networks and that’s where Contapps comes into play. Using this new social integration program users…Continue Reading ›
Facebook Shares Temporarily Soar On Secondary Market Thanks To LinkedIn IPO
Did the LinkedIn IPO cause Facebook’s valuation to surge for a short period of time? That appears to be the case on secondary market sites SecondMarket and SharePost where the company’s shares jumped up for a brief period in May to $34, a site valuation of $85 billion before eventually falling back into place at…Continue Reading ›