Monthly Archives: August 2011

What Social Media Says About Americans

Posted on August 12, 2011 by joshb

The reason Social Media Marketing Services are becoming so popular is because almost half of all Americans are now using at least one social media tool. The even more staggering part of this statistic is that that number has doubled…

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Hackers Strike Again

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Brittany

What do the CIA, Sony, the U.S. Senate, Nintendo, and the Syrian Ministry of Defense all have in common? Well, their websites have all been hacked in the past few months. The group responsible for the majority of the attacks,…

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Google’s City Pages

Posted on August 10, 2011 by DavidM

Google has begun rolling out city pages in metro areas around the U.S. It looks like an attempt to combine Google Places pages, and the new Google version of Groupon, Google Offers.  So far they have pages for Portland, San…

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Social Media and Culture Clash

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Brittany

As social media marketing services are more or less taking over the world these days, this is not to say that these companies don’t still face challenges in various countries. Here we’ll expand on several examples of large technology companies…

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Top 5 Trends on Twitter Last Month

Posted on August 3, 2011 by joshb

Twitter continues to increase in popularity as a social media tool as more athletes, movie stars, politicians, business owners and average joes begin to use its services. With such a wide variety of individuals the question arises, what do people…

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What is HTML5?

Posted on August 2, 2011 by DavidM

HTML5 is the latest greatest version of the web programming language, HTML. Its a big deal for web designers and programmers because it includes several new features that make interactivity easier. It has huge implications for the future of the…

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Twitter in Government – How Twitter Helped Settle the Debt Ceiling Issue

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Jameson

If you still think that Twitter is a useless venture and that people that Tweet are really just twits, you need to sit up and look around, because the world has passed you by. Not only is Twitter here to…

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