Any company that won’t just roll over before Google’s goals of grandeur must be as sure of themselves as a mouse on a cheesy moon. We’re referring to when Groupon turned down Google‘s 2010 six billion dollar offer to purchase. Fast forward to 2011–Articles like Mashable’s Google to Launch Groupon Competitor, rang in the news
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Is Google's New Mobile "Wallet" Payment App a Sitting Duck?
With over 5 billion mobile phone connections worldwide, mobile transaction capability is at the vanguard of the internet commerce evolution. Mobile payment processing was innovated in 1997 in Finland via SMS, but has since then become more sophisticated with the development and mass-distribution of mobile smart phones. With the advent of smart phone technology came
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Twitter Follow & Google Plus One Buttons Hatch
On May 31, 2011, Twitter’s Blog displayed this very newsworthy announcement: “Introducing the Follow Button.” The button allows site visitors to “follow” a designated account without having to leave the page their on. This announcement was somewhat expected, but isn’t really earth shattering to the world of social media. However, it should create a new
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Ecommerce Shoppers Game System, Shed Consumer Impulse Image
Since the advent of behavioral economics, merchants have grown to assume that shoppers, or at least a hefty percentage of them will buy product on impulse, instead of using a more rational approach, as classical economics once suggested they did. New evidence, as featured in this May 27, 2011 Media Post article, is prompting the
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Twitter Owns TweetDeck, Now What?
The big TweetDeck sale was announced in recent news like this CNN Money article: Twitter Aquires TweetDeck, but what is not clear is how this move will affect users, if at all. Twitter has been known to growl and rush at third-party clients with the force of a pit bull. According to articles like Twitter
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Social Media Fallacy: No One Really Keeping Up With 150 Plus Friends, evidence suggests
While all the social media experts are chanting “engage, engage, engage” with more and more friends, social scientist anthropologist types, like Robin Dunbar (study circa 1992) might say: that’s fine, as long as the magic number (150) isn’t exceeded. Why? Because the neo-cortex apparently limits humans to being able to keep up with only as
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Hack Protection Tips For WordPress Beginners
First, to the hackers who love to read articles on how to thwart hacker attacks and then subsequently teach everyone the lesson that ANYTHING can be hacked: We aren’t challenging anyone to break WordPress. Just as there are tips on protecting your email or social media accounts, there are also certain practices which should be
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Yahoo! Store Platform, a Safe Choice for Ecommerce Merchants?
Internet security is on everyone’s minds these days. Nearly all entities (personal, business, NGO, and government) are affected when the criminal element penetrates system security. Some, like the Government of China, have gone to great lengths to freeze out any questionable, unapproved, or malicious content. Of course the reaction to such radical online fortification has
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The Successful 100 Mile Social Media Path
When the AP released the Youtube, Obama’s Limo Gets Stuck, the world got a shocking glimpse at how one of the globe’s most heavily protected and invested-in men became helplessly pinned over a menacing concrete angle, barely larger than a speed bump. The allusion here is to those companies who have poured 10-20-30-maybe 60 thousand
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How Using 3rd Party Social Tools May Burst Hard Earned Melons
Yahoo! News reported last week that “Fields of Watermelon Burst in China Farm Fiasco” , but they didn’t just explode as a result of some naturally occurring phenomenon…they were being souped up with growth accelerator injections. Imagine anyone trying to take short cuts in the business world, huh?! This is a good reminder to social
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