Icons are essential in any graphical user interface. They are effective visual cues for performing tasks or navigating to a certain location. There are many resources online that can help and inspire you in your own icon designs and in this post we have share some of the best Social bookmarking and
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Social Ad Summit One Day Discount
We’ve finalized our agenda for the upcoming Social Ad Summit in New York City being held on October 5th. For today only we are providing all interested attendees with a discount of 50 percent off. The event is bringing together marketers, publishers, ad networks, and industry executives. As this space is constantly evolving, we think it’s important to bring together the current leaders and other participants to discuss the trends and the future of marketing on the social web.
If you are interested in attending the event, you can use the discount code “onedayfifty” to get 50 percent off via…
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SocialHour Relaunches As Dizzy Networks (Updated)
It appears that Social Hour, one of the few ad networks to be completely banned from the Facebook platform, has now relaunched under a new name: Dizzy Networks. According to one source, Social Hour had been looking for a new face for the company and according to the company’s website, they hired Jeremy Olsson, who was previously the Director of Performance Marketing for RockYou. While the company is still focused on trying to convert IQ quizzes, it doesn’t appear as though Dizzy Networks is running as aggressive of advertisements this time around.
It was only a matter of time before…
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Why You Should Attend This Year’s Engage Expo!
As most readers know, I typically refrain from promoting conferences on this site (aside from my own Social Ad Summit confernece) but later this month I’ll be heading out to California to attend the Engage! Expo. The event has a large number of social web industry executives speaking and attending which is why I’ve decided to go to this one. September through November is a busy season for conferences, however I try to limit the number I attend as you can spend all year going to events and never get any work done!
With the sheer number of people attending…
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fbFund Startup Thread.com Gets $1.2 Million In Funding
Today at the fbFund REV demo day, Thread.com (formally “Frinto”) announced that they have received funding from a number of well known valley investors. Thread.com leverages Facebook Connect to create a site for social dating via friendly introductions. While Facebook has a number of large dating applications, none of them work quite as smoothly as this one.
Interestingly enough there are a number of dating applications that are attempting to do the same thing but none have relied solely on Facebook Connect. Honestly, I think it’s a great idea and given that users can instantly bring along their contacts when…
Finance
Building Confidence in Your Retirement Future
In the next 10 years, the first wave of America’s 76 million baby boomers will be retiring. Since today’s retirees are generally healthier and more active than their parents, they are looking forward to living longer and spending more time playing with grandchildren, pursuing hobbies or even trying new careers.
Investors enter retirement with more confidence if they have a thoughtful retirement strategy. Planning ahead helps those nearing retirement prepare for when company paychecks stop coming and the goal of accumulating assets gives way to generating income from those assets for retirement expenses.
While planning for and managing income in…
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Non-Profits Participate In Opening Of The Facebook Gift Shop
This morning at Mashable’s Social Good Conference in New York, Facebook marketing and outreach director Randi Zuckerberg spoke about Facebook’s plan to reach out to the world of nonprofit organizations via their Gift Shop. Caroline McCarthy covered the announcement on CNET.
At the conference, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook is going to be reopening their Gift Shop to charity gifts. She said, “We are exploring ways for developers to use the Gift Shop to offer… virtual, real and charity gifts.” Before this morning, Facebook had announced their plan to open the Gift Shop to third party developers looking to make a…
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Simple, low-tech attack on Credit Unions
The National Credit Union Administration is warning all Credit Unions about malicious hackers and a low tech attack by mailing branches CDs with malware on them.
Using a somewhat dated but still effective Social Engineering attack, a package designed to look as though it was mailed by the NCUA is sent to the branch. The package contains CDs with the attacker’s malware on it, and an accompanying letter (PDF) which informs the branches, ironically, about phishing scams. The letter directs the personnel to review the “training material” on the enclosed CD. Once branch employees proceed as directed, the malware…
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Submit Your Social Media Marketing Programs To The Social Times 25!
As the deadline for this year’s Social Times 25 came to a close last week, I received a lot of submissions. Many companies have also asked for an extra few days. Given that we’ve been busy rolling out other projects, I’ve decided to extend the deadline by one week (this Thursday, August 27th). Also, we’ve decided to allow nominations from those individuals who don’t work at any marketing firms but have seen social media marketing programs that illustrate excellence.
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Social Media Marketing Basics: Facebook Blog Promotion
Social Media Marketing Basics: Facebook Blog Promotion…
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How To Get Banned From Facebook: Sell Your Status Updates
Yesterday morning Facebook announced changes to their Site Governance documents which as a number of people pointed out removed the ability of users to profit from their status updates. More specifically Facebook states that “you will not use your personal profile for your own commercial gain”. While I’m assuming that this is supposed to be straight forward about selling things through your Facebook profile, part of me wonders why Facebook needed to make this explicit statement.
Haters Call It “Selling Out”
Excuse my slang but is there anything wrong with posting updates that generate revenue? While I believe the intention…
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Aaron Sorkin Interviewed About New Facebook Movie, “The Social Network”
Aaron Sorkin, the writer behind the West Wing, is apparently still in the process of developing the screenplay adaptation of Ben Mezrich’s recent book “Accidental Billionaires“. Sorkin, who was recently interviewed by the website, “MakingOf“, said that this was the fastest he ever said yes to a project. He also says “Umm” and “Uhh” about fifty times throughout the interview. It appears that the title of the movie will most definitely be “The Social Network”. Filming is expected to begin later this year.
