Justin Nassiri is the founder and CEO of VideoGenie, a company that helps brands gather, moderate and track customer contributed video. Prior to founding VideoGenie, Justin served as an officer in the U.S. Navy, directing the operations and navigation of a nuclear-powered warship. He is a graduate of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Video is … Continued
Facebook Begins Testing Friend Filters in News Feed
Facebook has begun testing a slew of changes to News Feed, including friend list filters and smart lists that automatically categorizes your friends. The changes seem to be aimed at making the content within News Feed more relevant. These changes, as far as we can ascertain from screenshots sent to us, show that Facebook is … Continued
GetGlue Gets Slick New Dashboard for TV Marketers
Social checkin and recommendation service GetGlue launched a new business tool Thursday that’s dedicated to helping GetGlue partners and marketers get the most out of the service. Dubbed GetGlue Business, the company describes the new tool as a “one-stop self-service marketing dashboard.” Similar to Foursquare’s business dashboard, GetGlue Business will let marketers manage GetGlue accounts … Continued
Twitter’s Status Update: More Promoted Tweets, More Engagement
Give Twitter CEO Dick Costolo credit: He’s a smooth operator. In a chat with tech press Thursday morning, he offered a list of eye-popping engagement statistics — then, in the most casual way possible, slipped in this little piece of news: “You’ll start to see promoted tweets from companies you don’t follow.” Twitter started putting … Continued
Twitter Has 100 Million Active Users
Twitter has 100 million active users logging in at least once a month and 50 million active users every day, CEO Dick Costolo revealed Thursday. The microblogging service has a total of 200 million registered users, but how many of those are actually regulars has been open to debate for some time. Costolo, in an … Continued
Fashion’s Night Out: A Digital Field Guide
Macala Wright is the publisher of FashionablyMarketing.Me, one of the leading fashion and retail industry business websites. She is a retail consultant and business strategist who specializes in marketing consulting for fashion, luxury and lifestyle brands. You can follower her on Twitter at @InsideFMM or @Macala. Digital media has become an integral … Continued
Free Music on Facebook: How Can It Fail?
Facebook will launch a music service later this month, we reported last week. Facebook is partnering with top music services Spotify, MOG and Rdio to let users stream music on Facebook.com. For the uninitiated: Spotify is a service that lets you listen to virtually any song for free on your desktop, with an occasional (but … Continued







