Are you looking for fresh ideas to improve your Twitter marketing? We sought out hot Twitter tips from the pros. Keep reading for inspiration. Now’s not the time to let your Twitter marketing go stale. Twitter has already grown more in the last 9 months than in the last 5 years and this trend is … Continued
The New Relationship Marketing: Wisdom From Mari Smith
Recently I interviewed my very good friend Mari Smith, the “Queen of Facebook.” She’s coauthored the most popular book on Facebook called Facebook Marketing: An Hour a Day and has an exciting new book on relationship marketing. You’ve also seen her outstanding articles on Social Media Examiner pretty much since our inception, and she’s … Continued
Man embeds smartphone into prosthetic arm
(Credit: SWNS) Fifty-year-old Brit Trevor Prideaux is an ordinary man with an extraordinary idea that could make it easier for others who are missing limbs to use smartphones–embed a phone dock right into your prosthetic. It’s worked for him. The catering manager from Somerset, England, who was born without a left forearm, came up with … Continued
Introducing our dirtiest public objects
Poor mail carriers. Not only do they have to put up with threatening dogs and foul weather, but they spend their days touching what may be one of our dirtiest everyday objects: mailbox handles. The only worse offender? Gas pump handles. Experts say regular hand-washing goes a long way. (Credit: SCA Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget/Flickr) So … Continued
Firefox and Bing–together at last?
Mozilla wants to diversify its search revenue base from Google. Microsoft’s Bing wants more market share. Enter some integration that may move the needle for both parties. In a short blog post, Microsoft said it worked with Mozilla to launch Firefox with Bing. In a nutshell, this version of Firefox has the default settings for … Continued
Twitter on TV: The next microblogging deals frontier?
Twitter has gotten itself integrated everywhere from Internet-connected TVs to what could be considered the highest achievement so far: baked right into iOS 5. It’s just short of being an all-knowing presence at this point. Obviously, Twitter is aware of this, going so far as to boast that it has bumped the long-standing status of … Continued
Forget Wall Street: Private stock transactions rocked last quarter
by Regina Sinsky October 26, 2011 11:19 AM PDT Wall Street’s under attack. Riots are erupting. And in startup land, the good news keeps on coming. SecondMarket, a market for stocks in private companies, today reported its best third quarter to date, with $167 million in private stock transactions. Year-to-date, SecondMarket,has completed $435 million in … Continued
GE: Solar panels will be as easy to install as new roof
(Credit: GE) Cutting the cost of solar power isn’t all about a better solar cell. General Electric today announced two research projects to make installation of solar panels easier by standardizing the components, such as racking systems for solar panels. The $5.9 million in research are part of the Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative to … Continued









