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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

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Myspace: “A place for friends” (2003) Friendster rival Myspace (originally styled as MySpace) quickly became the go-to site for millions of hip teens. 2005 marked the apex of Myspace. 2005 marked the apex of Myspace. Periscope became the go-to app for streaming and watching live events.

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What You Can Learn About Social Media Marketing from TLC

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Around that time, though, I noticed that TLC was promoting Foursquare as Facebook within their TV programs. On multiple occasions, I noticed an overlay during their episodes that encouraged users to follow them on Foursquare with a link to a Facebook.com address. The FourSquare/Facebook issue is at best a confusing promotion.

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Dear Facebook Friends, You're Doing it Wrong

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Still, it puts Facebook ahead of MySpace. Contributions on a Facebook event wall that come from a social media aficionado whose name clearly isn’t on his (her?) And he wants that kind of technology in a foursquare type of app. Truth be told, that may even be why Facebook has stopped canning abusive accounts. Answers Yahoo!

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

These posts are not in response to newsworthy events, nor are they displayed in any particular order. The Poetry of Social Networking to Court Customers and Invest in Relationships (Brian Solis): Brian Solis shares his foreword to Sean Percival’s book, MySpace Marketing. Every year, I can only read so many articles.

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Quantum Entanglements: The Social Media Scandals

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I like to think of this as “Schrodinger’s Blogger&# , referring to the famous thought experiment which explains to us the rather odd concept of the quantum state, in which an event exists only as a waveform of possibilities (1 or 0) until it is observed, and that the act of observation changes the outcome of the experiment.