Category Archives: Social Networks

MySpace Buys imeem and What It Means…If Anything

MySpace purchased imeem yesterday for $1 million in cash, about 5% of what it recently paid for another leading name in ad-supported streaming music, iLike. If you told anyone inside the industry a year or two ago if this was going to be the fate of imeem, not many would have cosigned the prediction.  There was [...]
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You Can Tag Status Updates on Facebook. So Now What?

Facebook forged ahead today in its continued adoption of the features social networking users have come to know and love within the walls of its rival Twitter. Although “within the walls” is likely not a good choice of words, as it’s the openness and ability to conversate outside the confines of one-to-one communication that once [...]
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Twitter’s Not For Everyone

Trent Reznor has always done his own thing.  We spoke about it around the time of his Digg Dialogg appearance here on the blog, and it’s something I’ve always admired about the man. He’s marched to his own beat for years - musically, business-wise, and in the world of social media. After weeks of flirting with [...]
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Social Networking and Pro Sports

For months, we (bigMETHOD) have been talking as a company and externally with some relevant parties about social media in regards to professional sports teams and players. Beginning with players like Shaq, the sports world and geeks like us see our universes colliding. My mom sent this article about the St. Paul Saints (minor league baseball [...]
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The Cause and Effect of Social Media

If you aren’t thinking… no, if you don’t know that social media is changing the world, well, you probably aren’t reading this anyway. But, this past week I was sent a video by a few different people (you probably got the same one) that is a perfect example of how social media is really changing [...]
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