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The Billion Dollar Branding Play

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What is Yahoo going to do with Tumblr? What is Tumblr going to become with Yahoo? After it was announced that Yahoo would be acquiring Tumblr for a little over a billion dollars, the online channels (and traditional media outlets) went crazy in an " Instagram just got bought by Facebook for a billion dollars" kind of way.

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Free Culture and Attention as Currency

Waxing UnLyrical

Most web assets from the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Google, Tumblr, Foursquare and a gazillion others appear to be free, opening floodgates of content, ranging from the genius of Wikipedia/ Ushahidi to the apparently innocuous LOLcats. When not building startups, he loves bickering on Design and Typography here.

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It’s All About.SOCIAL

The Realtime Report

A good example of this aggregation is the Italian car brand Lamborghini. The New York Post offers a similar function to their customer base at www.nypost.social by offering a page that links to their Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, Vimeo, and YouTube. – Tumblr. – Google Plus.

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This Week in Social Media – 4/24/2013

Social Media Marketing

Target has a "show don''t sell" content strategy Digiday goes inside IBM''s social content strategy The fledgling content site Medium has acquired the journalism startup Matter , which has concentrated on long form journalism. Platforms Resource for discovering which brands are on social platforms - Vine, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr.

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The New Dilemma: Social Media Exposes Us to Too Much, Too Often

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

One of the best examples of how this overabundance has done harm is with daily deal sites. Popular blogging platforms like WordPress, Blogger and Tumblr have make it possible for anyone to publish content on the Internet in a matter of minutes. Two of the most successful companies in this space are StumbleUpon and Flipboard.

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Facebook Live Will Dominate Video Streaming

The Social Media Hat

Startups like Meerkat and Blab popped up. Tumblr and YouTube integrated live streaming options, and even Microsoft may be getting into the game now that they've purchased LinkedIn and could marry it with their previous acquisition, Skype. And boy, have we seen alternatives. Twitter developed Periscope.

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28 of the Best Marketing Campaigns and Experiments of 2016 (and the People Behind Them)

Buffer Social

Su’s Distro Snack , from 500 Startups, is one such delight, a beyond-quick read that consists of a daily startup growth tip and a “delightful GIF alongside.” Startups 101 on Snapchat. On the day I wrote this, snaps focused on creating a doodle self-portrait and featured tons of community examples.