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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

It started in 2002. I arrived here in 2002, as the debris from the dot com crash was still being cleared away. My first podcast, audio interviews/explorations of Singapore combined with music, appeared on a music site run by Cosa Nostra. Foursquare? The answer is @BookMerah. I am ready to do the Tumblr thing. 2012: Today.

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7 Mobile Marketing Stats That Will Blow Your Mind

Convince & Convert

While the majority of time spent on mobile devices is checking email, browsing social media sites or playing games – this leaves a crap load (see what I did there?) This same stat was less than 10% in 2002. of time to reach your potential customers. That’s mind-boggling growth in just over 10 years.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

The 33 most important moments in the history of social media The first social media site was born (1997) On one of the first true social media sites, SixDegrees.com , you could set up a profile page, create lists of connections, and send messages within networks. Hot or Not (2000) Who can forget AmIHotorNot.com ?

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History Repeats – Facebook is the new AOL

Convince & Convert

In 2002, AOL had 25 million subscribers. In 2002, AOL’s market cap was $150 billion, enough to swallow Time-Warner. Facebook Places (foursquare). All those “like&# buttons spread across millions of sites give Facebook unprecedented data about our preferences and behaviors. History Repeats. Facebook Mobile.

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Paywall for News.com and Online Community Social Media

Laurel Papworth

As tomorrow is an historic day – The Australian and other news.com sites move behind the paywall – what WILL we pay for, what SHOULD we pay for and what OTHER revenues streams are being missed by News.com refusal to build online communities around their content? a week for a digital-only pass to the site and apps.

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Social Pros 20 – Katie Morse, Billboard

Convince & Convert

We use the hashtags, we’ll reach out to fan sites. Jill : Yeah, I’ve been a fan since 2002. When we work with Foursquare, we do work with them, but it’s not in the same way or as intensive as companies like them. We’ll reach out to Facebook fanpages. Jay : Nice.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Location, Location, Location The biggest story of the event was the widespread usage of presence services foursquare and Gowalla. foursquare has a very interesting new dashboard that shows business owners data about how and when people have checked-in. link] Meryl K Evans I'm glad I went in 2002 and 2003 before it got so big.