Jack Dorsey is famous for founding Twitter and for being its current chairman, but the developer extraordinaire is also the founder of Square, of which he is CEO. Clearly, this is a man who’s committed to the tech scene. But judging by a recent conversation the techy chieftain had with the Los Angeles Times, he’s […]
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Google’s New Disavow Links Tool announced at Pubcon
Article by Pierre Zarokian, CEO of SubmitExpress.com Matt Cutts & Pierre Zarokian Last week I attended Pubcon Las Vegas 2012, one of the biggest webmaster trade shows of the year. I came back with thought-provoking and entertaining stories to share. One of these involved Google’s new link removal tool, Disavow Links. Here’s what happened. The […]
Facebook Celebrates 1 Billion Users With González Iñárritu Clip
As this summer was winding down, Facebook took precise note of the moment its network reached 1 billion users (Sept. 14, 2012 at 12:45pm PST), but didn’t share news of the event until today. Accompanying that big announcement is a “brand video” directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu. The fact that González Iñárritu hails […]
Send or Receive Real-Life Presents Through Facebook
Did you hear about Facebook Gifts? The beleaguered — at least within the stock market — champion social network is now going to give its not quite one billion users the opportunity to send and receive real presents — we’re talking non-virtual items here. It’s kind of a big deal. If you can’t get enough […]
It’s On! Photo Contest at Wiki Commons
This September, watch out for the Wiki Loves Monuments USA photo contest. Admit it, you love the Wiki project. It’s given us Wikipedia, whose beyond-impressive compilation of facts, popular knowledge, images, and links (in more languages than you even knew existed!) has gotten so many of us through difficult school/work/life assignments. Little wonder it took […]
LinkedIn Looking Less Sedate and Boring
A little over a year after its glitch-free IPO, LinkedIn is receiving kudos from its investors. The company is growing and making money and the value of its shares hasn’t suffered an embarrassingly pronounced decline à la Facebook. The year that’s gone by has seen LinkedIn’s earnings grow by 89 percent and the release of […]
Ads to Connect Social, Television, and Hand-Helds
Advertisers are envisioning a new future for advertising, and B. Bonin Bough is hoping to be one of the shapers of what lies ahead for the industry. Bough is the current vice president of Global Media and Consumer Engagement at Kraft Foods. He’s also thirty-five, and comes from a social media background; he co-authored a […]
Anti-Canadian Facebook Page Taken Down
One would think that with the sluggish U.S. economy, Americans would be happy that a national retailer was pulling people in for heavy-duty shopping, even from across the border, but that is not the case in Bellingham, Washington. The town, whose population is close to 81,000, has caused an international stir because some of its […]
Wall Street Unhappy With $62 Million Nasdaq Offers, Wants More Dinero
Nasdaq may wish that its clients had a more conciliatory nature, but for better or worse, they are of a stripe that is highly unlikely to let bygones be bygones. In May, the American stock exchange that until recently was the most favored by tech companies of good repute did the unthinkable: it royally messed […]
Global Festival 2012 Takes New Angle on Charity and Social Media
Organizers for a charity concert against extreme world poverty have come up with a novel way of harnessing social media. That charity concert is the Global Festival 2012, which will be held in New York City’s Central Park come September 29th, but aside from the big names that will be performing — Neil Young and […]