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Social Media News Ticker: Facebook Tests ‘Buy’ Button, Twitter Acquires CardSpring

The Realtime Report

You can’t use Facebook’s new iPhone app — unless you’re famous – a new iPhone app, Mentions, is now available for download by everyone, but only for use by “verified public figures” on Facebook; celebrities who’ve been testing the app have posted twice as much as before (re/code).

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This weeks #SocialMedia Tweetchat Topic: Destruction of the Media Industry: Will We Be Better Off In the Long Run?

Direct Marketing Observations

Last year, people spent six billion minutes on Facebook , downloaded one billion YouTube videos and logged over 1.4 The iPhone became the first mobile phone to be used more for data than for voice. No one had heard of blogs. People used mobile phones to talk. Fast forward to 2009. million blog entries every day.

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How To Organize A Brand Hackathon (And Why) – Interview With Betabrand’s Chris Lindland

The Realtime Report

The result was Sightings by Betabrand , an iTunes app that lets you add Jesus, the Virgin Mary, or Bigfoot into any iPhone photo you take — the perfect companion to help launch the brand’s new Sasquatch sweater , knitted from “100% pure Bigfoot fur.” Here’s a best of collection on the brand’s Facebook page.

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Donations as Revenue: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

The Age of Stupid – you can delve into their crowdsource fundraising here on their site. You can also subscribe/download Social Media Business from iTunes (launches iTunes) to your iPhone or iPod as a video. . Still it’s a no-brainer that Fundable or similar will have or already have a Twitter addon service.

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The Truth About the iPad | Blogging and Content Creation | Social.

Convince & Convert

I use my iPad instead of my iPhone, not instead of my MacBook. In truth, the touch mechanics of the iPad are virtually identical to the iPhone. Little iPhone games like solitaire become substantially more engaging on the iPad. The virtual keyboard is barely better than the iPhone, and you still cannot touch type.

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What to Post on Instagram: 15 Creative and Engaging Ideas

Hootsuite

Bonus: Download a free checklist that reveals the exact steps a lifestyle photographer used to grow from 0 to 600,000 followers on Instagram with no budget and no expensive gear. Directly crowdsourcing posts and engaging with your followers is a fantastic and easy way to create content for your brand’s Instagram feed. katerentz.

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Books Take Time to Write Last week, a Twitter user asked a really blunt but surprising question about how to download my book (legally) for free. Some of my books come with a CD containing the code, and are later offered at the Safari Books site as a download. All of this doesn’t come for free for me either.

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