Affinitive’s Social Media Playground

HTML5 has been around for a while. Yes, it is still in draft form and the formal specification hasn’t been published yet, but that didn’t stop all major modern browsers from implementing a decent set of HTML5 features. By now, the web is chock full of HTML5 examples showing off everything from latest JavaScript to [...]

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To say the developers here at Affinitive (and around the world) are happy to see Microsoft’s decade old web browser finally go away is a big understatement. Over the last several years there have been many people advocating for “death to Internet Explorer 6.” But in the last couple of months, several things have come around to finally give IE6 the push out the door.

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Anyone who has developed Facebook apps, or any kind of Facebook integration, knows that Facebook development can be a less than pleasant experience. How often does an API need a live status? Even though we all know the way Facebook has opened up their platform has been revolutionary, an already amazing source of revenue and [...]

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With hundreds of tweets hitting popular users (retailers, celebrities, etc) daily how does the savvy marketer keep up or track on tweets and the elusive Twitter mentions? In our experience, many of the Twitter trackers currently on the market do not have the capacity to accurately monitor the exact number, nature and content of Twitter [...]

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There’s a lot of buzz over the “Teens Don’t Tweet” report published by the Nielsen Company today, including articles from Mashable and Business Insider. While I have no evidence to argue against this other than the myriad personal anecdotes from teens in the comments of the media coverage (I tweet therefore we tweet!) and the [...]

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This week Marketing Sherpa asks the question “How Knowledgeable are Marketers [about Social Media] who have no Social Media experience?” Quite an interesting question indeed. With Social Media being a super hyped little pair of buzz words, every agency, self-promoting fameball, or major brand who follows trendy little buzz words has jumped on the tweeting, [...]

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