The Behind the Social Media Campaign Series is supported by Oneupweb, a relentless digital marketing agency focused on search, social, and design for mid-to-enterprise level brands. Download Oneupweb’s free paper, Social Media: The Guide to Creating a Kick-A$$ Company Policy. How do you promote a movie that attempts to give a voice to the voiceless? … Continued
Get Paid for Sharing Ads on Your Social Networks
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Wingsplay Quick Pitch: Earn money to share ads with your social network Genius Idea: Wingsplay gives average people incentive to … Continued
Wolfram Alpha now does literary analysis, breaks down the Bard’s work
Literary geeks rejoice! Wolfram Alpha has given you the tools to examine the works of William Shakespeare in ways you’ve never cared to imagined. Ever wondered how many words are in the second act of Othello? Or what the longest word is in A Midsummer Night’s Dream? The answers to such (largely unasked) queries are … Continued
Apple publishes support page for Flashback malware, is working on a fix
After the Flashback / Flashfake Mac trojan was exposed by Russian site Dr. Web, Apple has finally responded by publishing a support page about the issue and promising a fix. If you haven’t heard by now, the malware exploits a flaw in the Java Virtual Machine, which Oracle pushed a fix for back in February, … Continued
5 Ways to Market Your Brand With Location-Based Networks
Brian Honigman is the digital marketing manager at Marc Ecko Enterprises. He is a part of Ecko’s marketing and ecommerce team, ensuring a polished brand experience across all channels. Follow him on Twitter @Brian_Honigman. Between the rise in location-based social networks, like Foursquare, and the mobile market’s meteoric growth, a new marketing avenue has opened … Continued
On Twitter, Facebook’s Instagram Acquisition Has a 12% Approval Rating
There may have been champagne and celebration at Instagram and Facebook early Monday when their $1 billion acquisition deal was announced. But there was little joy in Twitterville. Twitter sentiment analysis firm Crimson Hexagon looked at 200,000 tweets that mentioned the deal — and found that just 12% of them registered any sort of approval. … Continued
YouTube gives live video streamers better production tools, ways to make money
It’s been about a year since YouTube took the beta tag off of its live video streams and to celebrate it’s flipping the switch on a few new features. One major way to pull in better content is to allow its publishers to profit from it, and now they can either by charging viewers pay-per-view-style … Continued
Nokia makes Lumia 900 free to all AT&T customers, now through April 21st
Now through April 21st, any AT&T customer who purchases a Lumia 900 will receive a $100 rebate from Nokia — effectively making the device free. Ostensibly a gesture of goodwill from the Finnish manufacturer, which confirmed that a small number of early handsets shipped with faulty software that caused memory management issues and eventually data … Continued









