BET.com ditches BET On Blast, Takes note from Hulu
Though the BET On Blast video player was nice when it launched a little over 2 years ago video on the web has certainly moved in another direction. Specifically if you happen to be a television network. BET.com recently ditched the BET on Blast player, which many thought was hard to navigate, and leveled the [...]
Read More#BeatCancer Breaks Twitter Trends and Sets Guinness World Record
EVERYWHERE, a Social Media Marketing and Content Development firm based in Atlanta, GA set a record October 16-17th for the most widespread social network message in 24 hours. According to Radian6, the official online monitoring company, the phrase #BeatCancer set the record with 209,771 mentions on Twitter, Facebook and blog posts. This translates into an [...]
Read MoreFord adds Gwen Peake to Social Media Division
Ford is already pretty well known for it’s social media strategy, led by Scott Monty, and was ranked the #1 Social Automotive Brand by Virtue.com. They not only use social media to engage with current customers (and potential customers) for Ford products, they also use it for Customer Service and to combat “haters” when those [...]
Read MoreHuffington Post Launches Technology and Innovations Section
Last Monday The Huffington Post announced it would launch a Technology and Innovations section on September 21st. The section will be lead by Jose Antonio Vargas. In the blog post last week titled Technology is Anthropology Vargas goes into detail on how this Technology blog will be a bit different than what we are use to.
Read MoreProposed Cybersecurity Bill Raises Privacy and Executive Abuse of Power Concerns
Currently there is proposed legislation that would give the President power to seize control of private networks during a national cybersecurity threat. Proponents of the legislation believe this bill is necessary to protect:
* vital private networks containing personal banking information;
* networks of power and water systems; and
* private citizens’ health records.
Read MoreOneRiot Snatches Up $7 Million
OneRiot has just closed their Series C round of $7 million led by Appian Ventures, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, and Spark Capital. You may recall us mentioning this real-time search engine in a recent post about the new Digsby.
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