Live Webcast from Times Square

Times Square Update from my daughter Sarah
Hi!
I thought you might be interested in this recent article from NYTimes.com about how people around the world this New Year’s Eve will be able watch a live, 6 ½ hour Webcast of the ball drop from New York’s Times Square. The article also mentions how the Times Square [...]

Stephanie Frasco: The FTC vs. The Facebook Fan Page

The latest posting from my dear friend Stephanie Frasco in her blog “Musings on Social Media Marketing”
Social Media Marketing :: The Value Lies Within Those Involved
In the game of Marketing, especially word-of-mouth and peer-to-peer marketing, testimonials and endorsements have always stood as the most valuable type of messaging out there. There is no doubt [...]

Could Microsoft Exit the Media Business?

Interesting story from Adage.com via themediaminute.com
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Microsoft is, without a doubt, a giant in the world of online advertising, but lately it’s been about assembling the platforms that power advertising — both display and search — rather than building the media properties that attract eyeballs in the first place.
Which begs the question: [...]

e-Feed your friends?

I received the following from my buddy Hessie Jones up in Canada and wanted to share it with you.
e-Feed your Friends with Yum! Brands’ Food for Food Campaign
Send a virtual KFC Bucket of Chicken, Pizza Hut P’Zone, or Taco Bell Fries Supreme to a Facebook friend and help fight World Hunger!
If you’re one of the [...]

Games2Win will launch “Apollo 11: Mission to the Moon”

As the next installment of our 40th Anniversary Salute to the flight of Apollo 11, I wanted to let you know about a free, commemorative online game from the folks at Games2Win

Social Media and The White House

May 2 (Bloomberg) — The White House began using services from Facebook Inc., News Corp.’s MySpace and Twitter Inc. to connect directly with the millions of Americans on social- networking sites.
President Barack Obama’s administration has created pages on Facebook and MySpace, the most popular social-networking sites, along with Twitter, where users post short text messages, [...]

Opening up Facebook to 3rd party developers?

Facebook Inc. is expected to announce significant plans to open up core parts of its site — namely the information that appears in the stream of updates on users’ homepages and profiles — to third-party developers so that they can build new services on top of it, people familiar with the matter say.

Using Facebook to Change College Drinking Culture

I had the pleasure of meeting Sarah Veltser about a year ago and I was impressed both her intellectual curiosity as well as her interest in important social causes…and her most recent is especially important as I have a daughter starting college in less than 6 months.
Students use Facebook to Change College Drinking Culture
NEW YORK, [...]

Should CEOs take Social Media Seriously?

great article from Forbes.com
Leadership
Yes, CEOs Should Facebook And Twitter
Matthew Fraser and Soumitra Dutta
Web 2.0 is no longer just for teenagers.
Social networking has clearly reached a tipping point. Sites like MySpace and Facebook boast hundreds of millions of members. Barack Obama’s presidential victory demonstrated that platforms like YouTube and Twitter could transform electoral politics. Yet in [...]

Is Google’s Latitude a Twitter killer?

Interesting article from Mashable

When Google announced Latitude, the company’s new geo-location tool, all the talk was about the technology opening the doors for location-based advertisements in the years ahead. While we probably can be certain those location-based ads will come to pass, the big question for those following social media is whether Latitude might be [...]