In New York, anyone can get involved in the tech scene. There's just one requirement: You have to passionately love the Internet and its seemingly infinite possibilities. In the last...

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Jason Rockwood, Director of Social Strategy, Tribal DDBIt's impossible for participants at Advertising Week 8 to attend all the sessiona relevant to their jobs and their clients. The agenda is just overwhelming. In a good way.I was fortunate to pick several sessions with fresh perspectives on the evolving space where advertising meets social media. One, The Holy Grail of Marketing, included Karl-Heinz Land and Roland Fiege of presenting company MicroStrategy, Martha Rogers of Peppers & Roger [...]

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In case you haven't yet heard of Facebook's epic Timeline feature that's turning your social network into a living, breathing autobiography, click here. Yesterday, Facebook introduced Lifestyle apps, which can...

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It seems like just yesterday that I received my Pool Party invitation from Google's Slide subsidiary. And, in fact, it was less than two months ago that I wrote this (Aug. 5, 2011):


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facebook_widget.jpg In a report earlier this month by EdgeRank Checker, found using 3rd party API's on Facebook substantially decreases the likeliness of fan engagement, some up to 80%. 

We ran our analysis on 1,000,000+ Updates on 50,000+ Pages that influence over 1,000,000,000+ Fans. We took each individual post and analyzed the engagement (comment & likes) along with how many fans the Page had at the moment of updati [...]

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Foursquare released real-time APIs (User push API and Venue push API) to give developers real-time access to a subset of Foursquare check-ins. This means that other apps can make use of Foursquare's large user and venue information store (assuming the user opts-in).


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Social media truly is taking over. From communicating with friends, staying updated with family members, and even to networking opportunities with potential employers or business contacts — if you haven't gone social, you're living in the past.Even the world of fashion seems to be caught up in the trend. Popular fashion retailer Saks 5th Avenue just launched their massive interactive Apple storefront that sources tweets hashtagged with #StylelistatSaks, streaming them over several displays [...]

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We have all been there, trying to organize a social or business event and coordinating where and when to meet up. Would real-time location-based event planning make it easier to schedule business meetings, coordinate road trips with friends, or find parents at soccer games and swim meets? If you answered yes, then you might want to look at the release of Syncuz, the first map-based messaging app for iPhone and Android.


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Last week Google released an update to the Gmail app for Android that added new functions to control how much data synchronizes with Android phones. Unfortunately, it appears that the update removes some API functions that third party apps relied upon, causing those apps to no longer work.


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