Last year, Foursquare was a breakout success from the SXSW Convention in Austin. This year Foursquare began to see how much the industry is willing to embrace geo location applications. In 10 days Foursquare has added over 100,000 users to their service. These new users will aid Foursquare as they continue to encounter fierce competition [...]
Category: Social Bookmarks and Networking
Facebook, Traffic, One Week at a Time
Mar.17, 2010
For those of you that are constantly trying to figure out where to invest your online dollars, you might want to think about the value of your social network. Last week was the first week in which Facebook traffic surpassed the traffic amassed by Google. So….What does this mean? At the end of every bit [...]
Facebook and Search: The Door is Opening
Mar.16, 2010
In an ongoing effort to open up Facebook to additional search functionalities, the popular social networking site released a new functionality that allows for stronger and easier search functionality. I am constantly notifiying my clients to grab ahold of social networks. If you are a small business owner, we advise you to begin to build [...]
Social Inclusion and the New Digg
Mar.14, 2010
As we approach the end of the first quarter of 2010, we are beginning to see that social networking and the inclusion of social information is growing in the social and non-social sectors. For those of you who are not familiar with Digg, we must first provide a brief background as to its history and [...]
Gowalla for Android
Mar.06, 2010
Gowalla has just recently released their Android geolocation app. While many are keenly aware of this feature from their iphones, this is the first major play into adding geolocation capabilities into Android powered devices. As small businesses wrestle to comprehend the ever evolving social networking targets, this helps add another layer of sophistication and confusion. [...]
Google Buzz vs. Orkut
Feb.09, 2010
As many of you already may know, Google released a new social networking application known as Google Buzz. While the marketplace seems eager to learn more about this “new” platform, we must first look to see how we can to this stage. Obviously the social networks are growing at alarming rates and Google (as is [...]
What is Socialommerce?
Feb.05, 2010
Socialnomics Impact, Part Two Socialnomics: How social media transforms the way we live and do business (Erik Qualman) Socialommerce is defined as the combination of social networking and the impact that it can have on commerce, not e-commerce….commerce. In todays environment, if you are making a purchasing decision, you will go to Google to seek [...]
Socialnomics Impact, Part One Socialnomics: How social media transforms the way we live and do business (Erik Qualman) Many clients continue to ask me why they need to create a strong and valuable presence on various social networking websites. For years I have struggled to come up with an answer that I believe is clear, [...]
Connected society, impact on small business?
Feb.01, 2010
On average American teens now send more texts each month than they spend minutes talking. There has been significant growth in the texting market, and as consumers are in a constant state of connectivity, are they seeing your phone book advertisements? Please see the interesting statistics below. In 2008 the average American sends roughly 360 [...]
Google Nexus One? Not for this Atlanta SEO Expert
Jan.16, 2010
After having waited for the highly anticipated release of the Nexus One phone from Google, I have decided to not purchase the Nexus One. While I was certainly eager to purchase this phone and had made even transfered my service to T-Mobile 13 days prior to the launch of the phone, my experience has been [...]