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As companies continue to expand/extend their social footprints, they are increasingly benefiting from both the resulting traffic they are receiving from people sharing content from their websites with others as well as traffic to areas of their website containing user-generated content (UGC) from search engines. I refer to these concepts as Social Referrals and Social [...]
I’m as excited as anyone about the social marketing potential of the ‘real-time’ web, particularly as it applies to the mobile/location-based space. As more and more people flock to apps such as Foursquare, Gowalla, and BriteKite to document their every movement, everyone from local businesses to global brands are taking notice and trying to put [...]
What is real? If you were to watch David Kaplan’s new short movie entitled, Play, reality could just be a game. If reality is simply what your five senses feed your brain, it is nothing but a series of electrical impulses. So there’s reality reality, as in the sensation of spring time when the barren [...]