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SparkScore was announced on Thursday as a Klout-like analytic for brands. The method is fairly simple, even if the devil is in the details. The measure asks if someone would recommend the brand. If a yes is the answer then that answer is scored as a 100. A no is scored as a -100. The [...]

Zoomerang has released its latest results from surveys of chief marketing officers around the world. It is no surprise that investments into digital marketing will be ramped up. 68% of respondents say they are going to use 2012 budgets to integrate social media spending into their email campaigns. While Social media is valuable, most executives [...]

There is a new service that can help make creative productions go viral. Pay With A Tweet is a service that allows producers — the company is targeting mainly creative professionals but it need not be limited to creative — to sell their products or portions of their products to others if the recipient tweets [...]

Twitvid was a video aggregating site that specialized in user-generated content. Think of it as Twitpic is, however, it is now recreating itself to be open to all kinds of video. What is happening is that users are now able to create feeds and even some channels all of which can be followed. Like a [...]

Lightspeed Research has revealed that more people receive their news from Facebook feeds than from Twitter feeds. The data is broken down into age groups and the type of media outlet consulted. TV still dominates across all age groups as the main source of news. For consumers over 34 radio comes in second. Consumers younger [...]

  Google recently changed Google Reader by removing the share functions and making the interface much more like a newspaper service. Over the past years there had developed a small social network of dedicated users sharing content and comments with one another. Google’s change has destroyed these abilities. Google would like to see them move [...]

Facebook has been available on mobile devices, but there were always some functions that did not work correctly on those mobile devices. On Tuesday Facebook released the Facebook Platform on Mobile that will allow apps and mobile browsers to fully use Facebook apps.     This will be lucrative for Facebook as they prepare for [...]

Of all the web destinations — social networks, games, email, etc… — social networks are the dominant destination. 23% of the time Americans are online is spent dealing with these networks. The top 5 of these networks are not a surprise, in descending order: Facebook, Blogger, Tumblr, Twitter and LinkedIn. Of the 10 most popular [...]

Klout is considered one of the industry leaders for measuring a Twitter user’s online presence. Last year, Klout added Facebook to its available service followed a few months ago by additions of LinkedIn, Foursquare and YouTube. Now Klout is offering its metrics for more: Last.fm, Blogger, Flickr, Instagram, and Tumblr. Klout plans to soon offer [...]

It’s been months since Twitter announced that it would offer up space in Twitter streams to advertisers. Now the twitter advertisements are here, and so far the reviews are favorable. Like advertisements, firms pay for the space. Those ads then appear in a format similar to tweets, but easily recognizable and dismissible. The ads will appear [...]