Articles in the RaxList Category
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These are my links for March 8th through March 27th:
Four Potential Crashers of the Social Media Party – People are building businesses around Facebook, Twitter and, most recently, Pinterest. Wall Street is getting ready to be on Facebook's initial public offering. Everyone is seemingly in love with the potential to profit from social media.
Embracing Change: Why Timeline for Facebook Pages is good for your business! – By now you’ve seen the notifications on your page management, and you may have already started switching your Facebook Page over to the new …
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These are my links for February 29th from 11:00 to 23:34:
Web Ink Now: How to create and edit articles for Wikipedia – Sure, Wikipedia is an open platform and anybody can create or edit an article. But it's more complicated than that. A lot more complicated.
Company Reactions to Facebook Timeline for Brands – This morning Facebook launched Timeline For Brands, which will give brand pages the same look, feel and functionality as the personal page Timelines the social network has been rolling out since September.
Online clothes-shopping: is an avatar the …
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These are my links for February 26th through February 29th:
We Watch Our Phones More Than We Watch TV, But The PC Wins The Day | TechCrunch – Earlier today we saw a significant move from MTV to launch a social mobile TV service and some research out from InMobi today underscores just why these kinds of moves are so important right now for TV companies:
Need More YouTube Views? Try Pinterest – Independent film and entertainment studio Lionsgate holds the majority (30%) of the market share of fitness DVDs. Naturally, the …
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These are my links for February 11th through February 26th:
From Ryan Giggs to Ryanair… Censorship, bans and ‘money can’t buy’ publicity – The Media Blog – It seems it has always been the case that attempts to stop the public seeing something only ever increases the publicity generated. Just ask Ryan Giggs – named this week as the fooballer behind a high court injunction, to the surprise of absolutely nobody.
Spotify launches gapless playback programme for budding DJs – So you fancy yourself as a superstar DJ – but can’t deal with those awkward …
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These are my links for February 8th through February 11th:
How Nonprofits Can Get the Most Out of Foursquare – Location-based social platforms like Foursquare are making good use of the oportunities the social and mobile web offer. Foursquare is continually adding more features to make the world easier to use and explore. Many nonprofits are using these features on Foursquare to amplifying their messaging to new and old audiences alike. Here are some tactics for making the most of what you have to offer on Foursquare and some of the …
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These are my links for February 4th through February 8th:
Top 5 Social Sites for Film Fans – If you ranted and raved about the recent Oscar nominations on Facebook, but none of your friends seemed to care, it’s time to either A) find new friends or B) find a social network that caters to your cinematic needs.
Teenagers ‘prefer social media to TV’ – Telegraph – Teenagers now list using social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter as their number one pastime, overtaking watching television, according to a new report.
Skoda …
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These are my links for February 1st through February 3rd:
100+ Brands on Pinterest – Pinterest is emerging to be one of the hottest social networks of 2012. A recent report found that Pinterest drives more referral traffic than Google+, YouTube and LinkedIn (some analyisis by Brian Solis here).
How To Pimp Your LinkedIn Profile –
8 Things You Should Know Before Building a Mobile App – App appeal is obvious. The barrier to entry? So low! The upshot of producing the next Angry Birds or beer-chug simulator? So high! Heck, with …
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These are my links for January 26th through January 29th:
LikeBelt concept encourages a very physical kind of Facebook liking (video) — Engadget – This is the LikeBelt: a concept device that inserts an NFC chip into a belt-buckle. Instead of tapping your mobile device on a "check-in" tag, you get the belt buckle close enough to do the same. There are only two downsides: how close you have to get and where most people's belts are situated.
FBI to use Twitter to predict crimes – Telegraph – The FBI is trying …
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These are my links for January 25th through January 26th:
H&M sparks internet fury with its latest design | PR Examples – H&M have sparked a flurry of angry complaints online, following the release of its latest homeware collection.
Schweppes App Scans Facebook To Reveal Your Future @PSFK – Beverage company Schweppes has launched the Unexpected Future app that predicts how the year would pan out for the user through snippets of posts in the Facebook Timeline format. By analyzing your Facebook data, the app reveals your potential larger-than-life achievements with grand …
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These are my links for January 15th through January 24th:
5 Trends Behind the Growing Shift to Video Explanations | Common Craft – With YouTube came the potential for video to be more democratized, more experimental. Suddenly there became room for new uses of video, new audiences, new genres. In 2006, anyone with a video camera and an Internet connection could make videos and share them on a worldwide scale for free.
Facebook to offer free advertising – News – Gadgets & Tech – The Independent – Facebook announced plans today to …


