الجمعة، 9 مارس 2012

Coca-Cola's Latest Facebook Gambit: URL Riddles

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Coca-Cola's Latest Facebook Gambit: URL Riddles
3:28:26 AM
Coca-Cola has figured out a new way to engage its 40 million or so Facebook fans: URL riddles. The brand recently began running fill-in-the-blanks riddles like "Even if they pop I smile. It's no secret why.The soapy rainbow swirls are magic to my...



Apple's 2012 Fiscal Year Rides on New iPad
12:20:26 AM
Apple has a lot riding on the success of the new iPad. It's the company's only big launch this year until the iPhone 5 is expected to launch in October. Apple's quarters are different from most companies -- its fourth quarter ends in September,...



Tweet-A-Beer Lets You Buy Drinks for Twitter Pals
Thursday, March 08, 2012 10:49 PM
Buying someone a drink in person is a nice gesture, but buying someone a drink via Twitter is, well, not something you do often. Online networking app Tweet-A-Beer hopes to change that and make paying for other Twitter users' drinks more of a...



4 Ways Restaurants Should Use QR Codes
Thursday, March 08, 2012 10:33 PM
Despite criticism, the QR code continues to be a major player in the evolution of mobile commerce. But while many Fortune 500 advertisers may have embraced the QR code in their marketing efforts, the restaurant industry has proven a relatively...



Why Bands Need Better Mobile Websites Now [INFOGRAPHIC]
Thursday, March 08, 2012 9:28 PM
This year, about 2,000 bands will arrive in Austin to play SXSW, hoping to grab the attention of label execs, A&R reps, and most importantly, new fans. Typically, bands play around four shows during the music portion of the festival, which is...



How NFL Legend Warren Sapp Tackles Social Media
Thursday, March 08, 2012 8:04 PM
Warren Sapp spent 13 years as one of the NFL's most talented, verbose and entertaining players. The intimidating mountain of a defensive tackle played in nearly 200 career games, registered nearly 100 regular season sacks and made seven Pro Bowls...



Why Some Musicians May Not Own Their Social Media Followers
Thursday, March 08, 2012 7:15 PM
When fans communicate with their favorite musicians on Twitter or Facebook, they rarely ask, "Who owns the social relationship?" But for artists and labels, this conversation happens daily -- and it may drastically change in the near future. Take...



GE Wants You to Play With Power Tools at SXSW
Thursday, March 08, 2012 5:37 PM
Ever used a laser cutter? How about a cold saw, ironworker, injection molder or 3D printer? If not, do you want to? No matter your power-tool qualifications (or lack thereof), GE wants to give you a chance to get some hands-on time with them. The...



LinkedIn Announces Women-Only 'DevelopHer' Hackday
Thursday, March 08, 2012 4:26 PM
Thursday is International Women's Day, and LinkedIn is celebrating by announcing the DevelopHer Hackday, a competition encouraging female engineers to collaborate on software projects. Scheduled for June 30 and July 1 in Mountain View, Calif.,...



New Site Helps You Control Google Search Results for Your Name
Thursday, March 08, 2012 3:21 PM
Potential employers, clients and dates are all Googling your name. BrandYourself, a new website launching Thursday, helps make sure they find what you want them to. The website guides you in search optimizing the links you want to push up in...



Watch a NASA Astronaut Play Real-Life Angry Birds in Zero Gravity [VIDEO]
Thursday, March 08, 2012 1:36 PM
If you're an Angry Birds fan and a space geek, this may be the best video you've seen all year. Angry Birds creators Rovio announced the first real details about Angry Birds Space -- with a little help from an astronaut aboard the space station....



Facebook Interest Lists Turn Your Feed Into a Personalized Newspaper
Thursday, March 08, 2012 1:22 PM
Facebook introduced a new tool Thursday that allows you to organize your newsfeed into a personalized newspaper. The feature, which will be rolled out to users in the coming weeks, lets you create and subscribe to topical feeds such as "Recipes"...



IBM's Terabit Optical Chip Can Download 'Fight Club' 500 Times a Second
Thursday, March 08, 2012 12:35 PM
Need to transfer a file quickly? How about 10 billion files? IBM has a new technology that's capable of moving data at 1 trillion bits per second -- or 1 Terabit per second -- enough to transfer the entire Library of Congress in an hour, the...



Twitter to Tweak Brand Pages [REPORT]
Thursday, March 08, 2012 12:12 PM
Twitter's brand pages will be enhanced this year to let marketers offer "e-commerce contests and sweepstakes," according to a report. The new pages will let app developers "build experiences on Twitter, much the way they do on Facebook,"...



Pinterest Drives More Traffic to Blogs Than Twitter [STUDY]
Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:43 AM
Pinterest drove more traffic to online publishers in February than Twitter, according to third-party measurement data. That's an impressive figure, given that the two-year-old site has an estimated 11.7 million active registered users compared to...



 
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