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Social Marketing Strategies to Make Facebook A Contact Cash Machine

Want to know how to unlock Facebook??  Get clients and like minded individual’s friending you in the masses on Facebook. Social Media Marketing (SMM) to make Facebook a contact cash machine on the web to your niche.  The best way to attract clients and like-minded individuals on...Read More >>

Nexus One (Google Phone) Finally Caught on Video

Could the Google phone be the death of the newly released Android?? The HTC-built device called the Nexus One was handed out to Google employees last week in the "mobile lab". The rumor is that these phones would be sold unlocked directly to consumers. The million dollar question is: How would...Read More >>

Manage Successful Social Media Promotions

With holiday shopping in full swing, social shopping is already making a big impact. Data from Hitwise shows that downstream traffic to the Retail 500 coming from both Facebook and Twitter increased 36% and 15% respectively on Thanksgiving from the previous day. Downstream traffic to retailers grew...Read More >>

Facebook’s 2010 Revenue Estimated at $710 Million

Facebook recently passed 350 million users worldwide, but the lingering question about the social network (and social media in general) is if it’s making any money. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, the answer seems to be that at the least, revenue, if not profits, at social...Read More >>

Google Analytics Adds Goodies for Data Geeks

On the consumer side of things, Google has just released a bevy of new features like Google Goggles and real-time search. But the search giant hasn’t forgotten about its business users. For you they offer up a holiday present. Now Google Analytics users can add annotations to dates in...Read More >>

MySpace and Facebook Sitting in a Tree?

It’s been rumored that archenemies MySpace and Facebook have turned friendly in recent months, discussing the possibility that MySpace users might actually be able to sign into the social network using Facebook Connect. Now, a more detailed report from the blog Inside Facebook says that this...Read More >>

Start and Run a Successful Twitter Chat

If you spend enough time on Twitter, chances are you’ll come across an occasional chat being held on the platform. Twitter chats are scheduled gatherings of people on Twitter to discuss pretty much anything that interests them, using a #hashtag to keep track of the conversation. There are...Read More >>

Track Social Media Analytics

Social media is a relatively new phenomenon, but Delicious, Digg, StumbleUpon and other social media websites have become an increasingly important source of website traffic. This also creates a massive demand for data related to social media. Where are users coming from? What topics excite...Read More >>

Take-down notices going after Microsoft Cofee

by Nicholas Deleon on November 23, 2009 You’ll recall that CrunchGear broke the news regarding the leak of Microsoft Cofee, a suite of applications used by law enforcement officials for their own devices. The leak came from a popular BitTorrent site, and then spread to The Pirate Bay and all...Read More >>

Leaked Video: Swyping Versus iPhone Typing. (Swype For Android Is Next).

A year ago, Swype launched a new way to type on a touchscreen phone at TechCrunch50. Swype was created by the inventor of the T9 predictive typing system used on most phones today because he felt that new text input methods for small touchscreens are sorely needed. Today, the startup announced...Read More >>