There are few online to offline success stories. Often they are limited to large brands who are either part of the technology industry or whose consumer base are early adopters to technology trends. Which is why when Media Trust, ranked…

These days, any discussion of social media usually refers to the “big three” – Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. MySpace, the social network that started it all, is conspicuously absent from the list.

The decline of MySpace resembles the first-to-market stumbles of…

Television advertising is often seen as a measure of mainstream acceptance online technology. It is clear that location based mobile applications have arrived after Foursquare’s  20 second commercial run on the Bravo network. Foursquare, an app where users share their location…

A world in which customers walk through the door of a business and get a coupon especially crafted for them is much closer, thanks to Foursquare.

The application, which has become the dominant player in the world of mobile, geo-specific check-ins,…

Reports are flying around cyberspace that Twitter will soon be introducing ads. Just recently, Twitter’s head of monetization, Anamitra Banerji, said the company would launch at least a beta test of ads, possibly within a month.

The word on the street is that…

Last week, Facebook was granted a patent for its news feed. Although it’s not yet clear how Facebook plans to use this patent, what is clear is that social media is growing up to be a real industry with real business…

Unless they are prefaced by dollar signs, numbers are not sexy, which is why social media experts have spent years avoiding them. Like the cool kids, they often seem more interested in being invited to the party than delving into…

Affiliate marketing is receiving some not so great publicity…again. This time it comes from Rik Ferguson over at TrendMicro blog as he reveals a Facebook Account Upgrade Scam, where fan pages promote a Gold Facebook account upgrade. Of course, there…

The return-on-investment question always dogs proponents of social media marketing. Businesses want to, no, need to know the ROI of campaigns.  Will time spent on social networks mean more customers through the door and more money in the bank?

Researchers at…

The Winter Olympics kicked off just days ago in Vancouver, Canada. As always, the primary media coverage is traditional television, but there’s a new and essential spin this year – social media.

As Alexandra Samuel points out in her blog for Harvard…