Category Archives: Social Media

Promoted Tweets to Appear for Brands Users Aren’t Following

Posted on March 20, 2012 in Social Media

Sounds great. Wait, is that the right word?

University of Memphis Launches ‘Social Commerce’ Minor

Posted on March 6, 2012 in Memphis, Social Media

Dr. Marla Stafford: This fall the University of Memphis will launch a degree minor in social commerce through the Department of Marketing & Supply Chain Management in the Fogelman College of Business & Economics. Using core and emerging social technologies built on established marketing and communications principles, students will learn how to engage consumers effectively [...]

Facebook, Ads and Lube

Posted on February 27, 2012 in Social Media

Yikes.

Leaving Flickr

Posted on February 15, 2012 in Photography, Social Media

This morning, I said goodbye to Flickr. It’s sad, really. For years, I spent tons of time on Flickr. I added photos, wrote comments, joined groups and made friends. No one I used to interact with is there anymore. I don’t upload large photo sets anymore. I don’t visit groups anymore, or read comments or [...]

Tweetbot for iPad Released

Posted on February 8, 2012 in Apple, Social Media

Holy moly, this app is awesome. Be sure to check out Federico’s review. There’s a certain Memphis-based blog featured in a ton of the screenshots.

Facebook: Deleting is Hard

Posted on February 6, 2012 in Social Media

Jacqui Cheng for Ars Technica: Facebook is still working on deleting photos from its servers in a timely manner nearly three years after Ars first brought attention to the topic. The company admitted on Friday that its older systems for storing uploaded content “did not always delete images from content delivery networks in a reasonable [...]

A $5 Billion IPO

Posted on February 1, 2012 in Social Media

Holy Facebook, Batman!

Facebook to Launch New Creepy Features Wednesday

Posted on January 17, 2012 in Social Media

Liz Gannes at All Things D: Facebook will on Wednesday launch the Open Graph applications it first debuted last September, sources told AllThingsD. These are the apps, made by outside developers, that “frictionlessly” and continuously share users’ actions back to Facebook after a user has given permission once. The new apps behave similarly to the [...]

Long Live Birdfeed

Posted on December 17, 2011 in Apple, Social Media

I’m totally behind this. As much as I like Tweetbot, Birdfeed was probably the best Twitter app I ever used on an iPhone.

Facebook to Help Prevent Suicides

Posted on December 13, 2011 in Social Media

Brooke Donald for the AP: A program launching Tuesday enables users to instantly connect with a crisis counselor from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline through Facebook’s “chat” messaging system. If a friend spots a suicidal thought on someone’s page, he can report it to Facebook by clicking a link next to the comment. Facebook then [...]