Emailvision Acquires Social Media Marketing Company ObjectiveMarketer
I’m always giddy to report on people I know whose companies have been acquired. Amita Paul’s ObjectiveMarketer announced today it has been acquired by Emailvision, a leading Software as a Service Email marketing company providing solutions to enable marketers to communicate more effectively. No details were disclosed as to the amount of the transaction. ObjectiveMarketer […]
Read more...Twitter Misleads. Bloggers Take the Bait. About that Facebook vs. Twitter Infographic…
Back in April I shared how Twitter was misleading the media and its users into thinking the numbers it was reporting were comparable to Facebook’s. The deception stems from a report by Biz Stone at Twitter’s Chirp conference that Twitter has 105 million users. It appears that in the last day or two many of […]
Read more...How do I get People to Interact and Build Lasting Relationships?
Today I received 2 similar requests, so I thought I’d share the answer here so others could learn as well. The question was, “How do I get people to interact and build lasting relationships?” Other forms of the question previously have been, “how do I build my followers?” or, “how do I create traffic?” There’s […]
Read more...Now You Can Check in on Twitter Through Facebook Places
This post is syndicated from the SocialToo Blog – please check it out! I think this feature’s pretty cool: Recently Facebook launched the ability for users to checkin to any place with their mobile phone, sharing with their Facebook friends where they are and what they’re doing, but what about their Twitter friends? Services like […]
Read more...Facebook Kills Custom Publishers – Kills 15,000 of My Users Too
What’s a lot for one site may be miniscule for another. Recently, Facebook announced they were removing the ability for developers to write custom Publisher boxes “due to low usage” of the feature on the site. The feature, which enabled any application to customize the publishing experience for users, was a little-known, and little-advertised feature known […]
Read more...Twitter Announces Live Social Graph Streams
In a Keynote at Chirp by Ryan Sarver, Project Manager over the Twitter API, he announced a new, full API around live content streaming that just saved me thousands. The new API enables a real-time layer around not just Tweets and search that they’ve enabled in the past, but now direct messages, follows, favorites, and […]
Read more...SocialToo is Proud to Launch With OneForty’s New App Store
In an unprecedented move, Laura Fitton’s OneForty.com launched their own app store for Twitter today, enabling Twitter developers to finally have a platform to sell and promote their apps in a single location, to a large audience. The company, with apps that you can purchase for Twitter, will become like iTunes or even Amazon, in […]
Read more...Come Learn About SocialToo At LaunchUp
I’m opening the books tonight on my company, SocialToo. I’ll be presenting tonight at Launchup, an event compared to be a “community barn raising for entrepreneurs”. The event happens every couple months and has featured such Utah companies as TodaysMama (whom I am an Advisor) and Entice Labs. The idea is to allow each company […]
Read more...Services Need to Stop With the Twitter Kool-Aid
Tonight for about a full hour many Rackspace sites, including their own Slicehost service, inquisitr.com, Laughing Squid-hosted sites, Posterous, Tr.im, and even my own SocialToo.com. Ben Parr of Mashable even noticed, asking if a bunch of websites has all just crashed. I was reminded to check the status of my own site by a few […]
Read more...Come Follow Me on Facebook
Starting tonight, any Facebook Public Profile Page (that’s Page with a capital “P”) with over 100 subscribers has the opportunity to select its own vanity URL. While it hasn’t had the hype from the blogosphere that we saw from the previous private Profile vanity URLs, it does seem to be having a large effect, as […]
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