Remove 2006 Remove Content Remove Digg Remove Mobile
article thumbnail

Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

One night in 2006, over Tiger beer and carrot cake at a hawker center , my designer friend Little Ong told me about Multiply. A story I posted on Digg in 2005 crashed the “interesting” get-paid-for content site I was briefly testing. Another friend, Dinnertube , started posting videos on Youtube in 2006. Got a question?

MySpace 187
article thumbnail

Teens & Young Adults Prefer Facebook Over Blogs

Firebelly

Blogging by teens (ages 12-17) has been cut in half - from 28 percent in 2006 to 14 percent in 2009. Where did they go? Social networking sites (SNS). 73 percent of teens and 72 percent of Gen Y are now active on at least one SNS. 71 percent of young adults prefer Facebook while 66 percent of younger teens prefer Myspace.

Facebook 103
article thumbnail

Why You Should Fix Your House Before Inviting People Over

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

And the more intricate your external efforts become, the more social, mobile, and interactive your website must become. Here are three examples of brands that appear to be taking this message to heart: Fandango.com Best-known as a portal for buying movie tickets online, the site is actually quite diverse in terms of its content offerings.

article thumbnail

The information processing view of humanity

Buzz Marketing for Technology

« Keynote: building the networked professional firm | Main | Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application » The information processing view of humanity. Share this: Digg this | Reddit | StumbleUpon | Del.icio.us |. December 2006 (6).

Process 100
article thumbnail

7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It’s why T-Mobile succeeded with a flash mob. Humans can relate to emotional content, and laughable content is always golden. If you’re in need of viral content , you don’t have to look much farther than videos that teach users how to do something. It’s why she is now famous.

Video 236
article thumbnail

Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

by Tamar Weinberg on February 22, 2008 Share This is a guest post from Pierre Far, who recently launched a very cool program called Social Alerter which notifies you as soon as your website has a solid chance of hitting the Digg or del.icio.us It doesn’t do us any good if the content being passed around is garbage. If so, how?

article thumbnail

Tamar Weinberg is a Media Snacker » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The internet and technology ownership has changed everything: digital TV, mobile phones, iPods, weblogs, instant messaging, [and] social networking. Previously, to have a mobile phone, you needed a large bank account. As the landscape changes, so does the content. His focus on various contents can multiplex at an amazing rate.

Meme 100