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Digital Marketing Specialist, Social Media Consultant, and Tech Geek at Heart

Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

Many tech geeks will often say that their first forays into cyberspace began with a 300 baud modem and a BBS. I’m a little younger than that (finally, I can say that!), but I was an early adopter of social networks from when I first opened my 3.5″ floppy of Promenade (later to be called AOL) and signed up to use the...

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Internet Marketing Best [Blog] Posts of 2006: The Year in Review

Given that I’ve only recently become involved in Internet Marketing, it still is something that I am learning more and more about, and there are a lot of blog posts and books that have helped me along the way. In light of my anti-Digg post, I wanted to take this moment to appreciate the best [blog] posts in the Internet...

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College Statistics 2006: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Google!

According to the 2006 GenX2Z Anderson Analytics survey (PDF link), the top five websites of choice by college students are: MySpace (13% of visits, a 258% increase from 2005) facebook.com (11.5%, a 41% increase from 2005) youtube.com (4.5%, with no data from 2005 recorded) collegehumor.com (3.7%, a 61% decrease from...

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Branding and People’s Desires to Avoid It

With yesterday being the Microsoft Zune official release and the fact that people are adamant about getting a Zune over all other such products out there, I’ve begun questioning how and why people choose to support certain brands. From recent Hitwise data, Google accounts for over 60% of search. Why doesn’t Google have...

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Yahoo! to Release Code of its E-mail System

In a bold move on Friday, Yahoo! announced that it will be providing the API code to Yahoo! Mail, an action that they hope will enable developers throughout the world to create new services and addons to its popular email software that is used by over 257 million individuals. Yahoo has already provided such access to the public in...

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