In April of this year, we reported on Oyster.com, a commerce meets editorial travel site much like Jetsetter and the lesser known, but locally rich Jauntsetter. Oyster is full of curated information to provide inspiration...

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If you are an SEO pro looking for a job, you might like what you see in this infographic by Onward Search, which details the job market for people with SEO skills.  Of course, I recommend you visit the mediabistro jobs board for a quick glimpse at what jobs are available right now in all sectors, but take a look at the infographic to get some context about the market.


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Coming to the iTunes store on September 16th is a new free app – Jollyspot. It's a simple formula:  Google Maps + Your Favorite Places + FB Social Graph = A Social Yelp. With Jollyspot, you can remember, share and discover favorite places. Most people love to try a new restaurant or cafe, but we're much more ...

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The Facebook for iPhone app was update to version 3.5 this week. It brings a handful of much wanted features and improvements.


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The free Alfred for iPhone app is a personal robot according to its developers. You provide it with information about a few of your favorite places. It combines this with location, time and intent to offer personalized and situation specific suggestions of other places to go.Teaching Alfred about likes and dislikes continues as the app is used. The app also tracks places you go to and lets you rate new places. Places can also be rated while browsing through a suggestion list. Searching for place [...]

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There is nothing quite like spending time researching, organizing, and preparing a presentation for a client just to have the information become obsolete.  To add injury to insult, I had just finished the final touches for my clients online reviews presentation a few days before Google Places dropped all third party review content. A large part of [...]

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It was almost exactly one year ago that Facebook launched Places, their location-based offering. Reading the press at the time, you would have thought it was going to be the Foursquare-killer, the Gowalla-strangler, the Loopt-beheader, etc. Nevermind that Facebook partnered with all of them for the launch — those guys were done.

Fast forward to today: Foursquare recently raised a large round of funding valuing them at $600 million. And Facebook is killing off Places.

To be clear, Facebook is [...]

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I talk to clients everyday about content. Where is it coming from? Who will write it? Where should we post it? I used to think that public speaking was the average person's greatest fear. I am now convinced that they fear content! What's to fear? It's just words right? Well, yes and no. Content, especially [...]

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Welcome to Social Media Examiner TV with your host Mari Smith. In this episode, Mari examines Facebook marketing for local businesses. Mari explains how Facebook Places and Deals work, why you should pay attention to them and how you can use them to grow your local business. Share your feedback and see the show notes! [...]

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I have mixed feelings about check-in apps like Foursquare and Facebook Places. I some time like the idea of checking in at a location and sharing it with my social network as a way of sharing what I am doing. On the other hand, I don't always remember to check-in and the process can be cumbersome. Smart Places is an Android app that significantly improves the check-in process of Facebook Places.


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