You may have seen a crazy video making the rounds this week in which a crazy guy cutting a parking meter off with a saw to avoid getting a parking ticket.  The video’s description read, "caught this guy on my iPhone during a cab ride in Brooklyn: a cop was giving these two guys a ticket because their van was parked by an expired parking meter and one of them got really mad and cut off the meter with a saw!!! Gotta love Brooklyn!"  It’s true.  Crazy things do happen in Brooklyn.  But today Thinkm [...]

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Booz & Co. and Buddy Media just released a report titled “Campaigns to Capabilities: Social Media and Marketing” report where they surveyed managers from Fortune 100 companies and found that social media will become a higher percentage of total digital marketing budgets over  the next three years. The good news is that much of this spend will be focused on internal, social business activities.  According to the report, 65% of respondents said they have plans in place to improve and revamp so [...]

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Is Google + holding out on its features? A “code junkie” accidentally stumbles upon possibly unreleased Google + features.


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Just last week, Nielsen released their Social Media Report for third quarter.  Some interested statistics in the report include, 

Social Networks and blogs reach nearly 80% of active U.S. Internet usersAmericans spend more time on Facebook than any other U.S. websiteNearly 40% of social media users access social media content through their mobile phoneSocial networking apps are the third most-used among U.S. smartphone usersMen stream more videos through social networks and watch th [...]

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Just last week, Nielsen released their Social Media Report for third quarter.  Some interested statistics in the report include, 

Social Networks and blogs reach nearly 80% of active U.S. Internet usersAmericans spend more time on Facebook than any other U.S. websiteNearly 40% of social media users access social media content through their mobile phoneSocial networking apps are the third most-used among U.S. smartphone usersMen stream more videos through social networks and watch th [...]

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Social Media Week begins on September 19th in 12 host cities worldwide. Organizers released a list of the "Top 10 Social Media Events that Shook the World." As you look over the list, you may agree with them, be surprised or baffled by the organizers' choices.


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Just today, the Altimeter Group released a study titled “Social Business Readiness: How Advanced Companies Prepare Internally” that gives deep insight as to how advanced companies are preparing themselves internally to transform into a social business. While some organizations are being forced and literally “thrown into the fire”, the smart ones are being proactive and building out requirements that will help social business transformation. Baseline Governance: Established and reinforced a corpo [...]

Read More: [REPORT] Altimeter Group Reveals Social Business Readiness

Social mobile gaming network PapayaMobile announced an array of compelling stats today. It's most notable accomplishment is that it has hit the 25M user point, indicating 940% growth since January 2010. With Android controlling 52 percent of the market, can PapayaMobile maintain its lead against upcoming competitors' platforms like Mobage? More after the jump.

Read More: PapayaMobile Reaches 25M Users On Android; Reveals Weakness In Mobage’s Model

I took a look a the Where To? iPhone app (currently on sale for 99 cents – it is normally $2.99) and its 99 cent Augmented Reality add-on last week.Where To? for iPhone Can Help You Find & Share Places to Go. Optional AR View Adds to Discovery Fun"Where To?"‘s developer revealed his sales figures this week and the sales story is quite interesting. Where To? – Three exciting yearsFuturetap bought the app from taptaptap (best known for Camera+) in December 2008. The lifetime sales [...]

Read More: “Where To?” for iPhone Developer Reveals Sales Figures, Profits & Marketing Strategy

Developer and HackerNews contributor Jeremy Keeshin has stumbled across the scariest thing I've seen all day (I live in San Francisco, okay). In searching for ways to make his own site search auto-complete superfast, like Facebook's, Keeshin came across a file titled first_degree.php, which revealed that Facebook has a ranking for the people that you're probably searching for on Facebook. Keeshin guesses that the ranking algorithm is likely based on stuff like whose profile you look at, who you [...]

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Back in May, head-to-head political debate made its way to YouTube with the launch of YouTube Town Hall.  Over the last couple of months, via Town Hall, YouTubers have been able to ask questions of Congress members, listen to their responses and vote, without being told whether the representative answering is a Democrat or Republican.  Today, YouTube has released an infographic featuring some of the party and voting statistics that have been gleaned from YouTube Town Hall.


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