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Yahoo! Wants to Get More Personal

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March 17th 2010
Author
Peter Koeppel

Recently, Yahoo!’s CEO Carol Bartz spoke about the importance of creating a more personal experience for Yahoo! users, one that would tailor the search experience to their interests. She hopes they’ll access their social media through the Yahoo! site as well, with tweets and Facebook postings being viewed on users’ Yahoo! [...] more...

Twitter Knows Where I Am; Gulp

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March 12th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – I log in to Twitter to share with the whopping 44 followers of @libeltheband the hottest rock shows in Brooklyn this fine Friday night and right below the status update on Twitter sits an icon and the option in bright blue to “Add [My] Location.” After months of speculation, [...] more...

A Custom Postcard Thanks to Your Favorite Brand

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March 11th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Handwritten letters may have been trounced in the age of email, but postcards are still a booming market with nearly 2 billion sent a year. Hippopost blends a postcard service with social media to engage brands and consumers in a way that marries traditional advertising, modern technology and [...] more...

Fuze Box Launches Tweetshare for Twitter Fan Pages

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March 10th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – A user’s Twitter homepage is limited to a link and 140 characters. It’s nothing like a fan page on Facebook, which offer a world of engagement options for brands via polls and the sharing of content. Many brands on Twitter will link back to their Facebook fan pages, [...] more...

EXCLUSIVE: ‘There Is No Ad’ — StumbleUpon Revamps Ad System

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March 9th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Don’t call it a social networking site, CEO and co-founder Garrett Camp says about categorizing StumbleUpon in the social mediascape. He prefers either “social or content discovery” network. Marc Leibowitz, VP of business development and marketing and a Google AdWords vet, chimes in: “We consider StumbleUpon more complementary to [...] more...

Facebook and Twitter Mobile Access Explodes

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March 5th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – I logged onto Facebook today to see a friend apologize (in third person, as appropriate for the site) because her “mobile uploads for roughly the next two weeks will all look distinctly Japanese-photobooth (there IS an app for that). She apologizes. She cannot help herself.” Japanese-photobooth? Her smartphone app [...] more...

Got Funds? ShopIgniter and Arkayne

Written on
March 5th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Social media and ecommerce integration is an idea venture capitalist are opening their checkbooks to: ShopIgnite garnered $3 million from a Series A round of funding led by Madrona Venture Group In addition, Madrona partner and former Yahoo! VP Matt Compton is grabbing the reigns as CEO of the [...] more...

Shortys Recognize the Tweets That Matter

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March 4th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Oh boy — it’s the Academy Awards on Sunday night. Sorry, being a film snob I can’t get interested in all that Hollywood back-patting (Who cares about “Avatar” or “Hurt Locker” — did you see Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist”?). But I’m always willing to give some love to [...] more...

140 Proof Partners With HootSuite for Mobile Twitter Ads

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March 2nd 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Last month 140 Proof made waves on the Twitterscape by introducing an ad network that allows third-party Twitter users to sell space to advertisers — effectively bypassing the Twitter site itself. Now the company is integrating its targeted ads for mobile with the recently released version of the Hootsuite [...] more...

Marketing Translation: Don’t Drink the Sweat

Written on
March 2nd 2010
Author
Dina Pagila

ADOTAS – It’s doubtful that the makers of the popular Japanese sport drink Pocari Sweat ever meant for their product to go completely global. What native English speaker would relish consuming a drink labeled “sweat”? Launching a marketing campaign in a new language market can be tricky. What colors, images or [...] more...



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