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Archive: January, 2012

Facebook launches Timeline Movie Maker

timeline_movie_makeFacebook today launched a new app called Timeline Movie Maker, which creates a movie highlighting moments from your Timeline (you’ll thus need to get the new profile if you don’t have it yet, in order to use this app). Marketing agency Definition6 built the app with Facebook, more…

AdPerfect Partners With Pre1 Software to Offer Seamless Integration of Their Classified Systems

AdPerfect, industry-leading advertising platform for media publishers, announced its partnership with Pre1 Software, a full-service front-end classified system. The Pre1 and AdPerfect partnership offers their mutual customers free and sophisticated integration of Pre1′s SmartPublisher with AdPerfect’s Classified Advertising Solution. more…

Twitter Bots Create Surprising New Social Connections

You might have encountered a “Twitter bot” before: an automated program that perhaps retweeted something you wrote because it had particular keywords. Or maybe you received a message from an unfamiliar, seemingly human-controlled account, only to click on an accompanying link and realize you’d been fooled by a spambot.

Now a group of freelance Web researchers has created more sophisticated Twitter bots, dubbed “socialbots,” that can not only fool people into thinking they are real people, more…

New Mobile AdWords Targeting Options: WiFi & OS Version

If you are an advertiser using Google AdWords you need to pay attention to the latest Google update. Advertisers can now target mobile devices that are using WiFi, as well as target what type of OS the mobile phone has. more…

Search & Mobile Marketing Trends: SEO Apocalypse 2012

seo-four-horsemenThis has been a year where search marketing truly matured. Mobile became one of the largest growth components, with its share of the overall search market now reaching 20 percent.

Looking ahead, expect 2012 to be the year when we push further into the more…

Proxibid Launches “Proxibid Classifieds” Listing Service

proxibidclassifiedsOMAHA, Neb.–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Proxibid (www.proxibid.com), the world’s largest real auction marketplace, today launched Proxibid Classifieds, www.ProxibidClassifieds.com, the Company’s new listing service. Proxibid Classifieds enables auction companies and business sellers the ability to sell items directly to buyers more…

Twitter Dumps on Google for Pushing Google+ in Search

twitter_googleplusTwitter is now officially speaking out against Google’s new search features that give prominent placement to content from its own social network, Google+.

In a statement, Twitter complained that “people, publishers, news organizations and Twitter users” would suffer from not being more…

BitTorrent takes on Dropbox with personal file sharing

ShareBitTorrent Inc. launched a personal file sharing application called Share Thursday that aims to give users an alternative to paid cloud storage companies and media sharing over social networks. Share makes it possible to transfer files without any size limits to an unlimited number of personal contacts. Files are cached in the cloud, so users don’t have to be more…