The Groupon Daily Deal industry has taken the world by storm. As a result, it seems like everyone wants to be in the industry and leverage this relatively new business model.
Some people want a website up quickly and leverage pre-hosted SaaS (Software as a Service) solutions where the company takes a percentage of each sale. Normally the percentages taken from these “rental services” are 4%-10% per transaction, which can get fairly pricy after a while.
Also, while there might be many neat features with a pre-hosted solution, the provider “owns” your code and personalized data. There should always be reluctance and caution when divulging sensitive client information to a third party. Also, what happens if the software provider decides to “close up shop” the next day, at the expense of the clients being hosted? Do you as a client really want to be put into such a situation?
It’s official: Facebook is competing with Google Plus (+) by partnering with Skype, the video conferencing giant. In an announcement on July 6th, CNN Tech reported that Mark Zuckerberg announced in a Palo Alto, CA conference that Facebook will add a video chat feature powered by Skype.
On June 15, 201, Rocky Agrawal, a Social Media expert who writes for TechCrunch and is reviewing the Daily deal industry wrote an article on the legal challenges facing Groupon, Living Social and other Daily Deal sites. Agrawal states that Groupon and Living Social may be violating several key aspects of consumer protection law. Because this is a relatively new industry in some cases the specific legal handling is unclear, however in others the law is clear cut.
We recommend contacting Osler, a Canadian Law Firm with offices in New York, for more detailed legal advice on this topic.
Too many people have been burned out by so-called Social Media “experts,” where all they do are the most basic Facebook and Twitter activities, sign up onto many social media sites, once in a while update statuses and try to friend/follow everyone on the planet, and hope for the best. What’s worse is they command a truckload of money for providing a potentially revenue-generating service that they don’t “get.”
The big players of the social networking sites are bigger than they’ve ever been and continuing to grow.
Today LinkedIn went public, the first social networking site to do so. “LinkedIn opened at $83 on the New York Stock Exchange, up 84% from its initial public offering price of $45. It was recently changing hands at $85.99 a share, up 91%, valuing the company at more than 8 billion.”
In an effort to show the world how modern they are, an Israeli couple recently named their baby “Like,” after the popular Facebook feature, the Israeli newspaper Maariv reported on Monday.
“We named her Like because it’s modern and innovative,” father Lior Adler told the mass-circulation paper. “I checked that the name does not exist elsewhere in the country, that was the main condition for me,” he said.
Marissa Mayer, Google VP of Location and Local Services sat down with Jason Kincaid from TechCrunch after her keynote talk at Social Loco Conference in San Francisco to discuss The Two Pillars of Google’s Local Strategy.
What she announced at the conference is, Google Business Photos which are essentially “Street View” for business interiors. A few months ago Google partnered with a group of seventeen museums’ and had their professional photographers shoot the rooms to have a panoramic view of what it was like to be inside the museum.
The Facebook team does it again. They have started a major upgrade to their mobile version. There’s really no denying that Mark Zuckerberg , the CEO of Facebook is pretty good at what he does. Mobile usage will continue to boom over the next year so it’s important to make the Facebook user experience as engaging as ever. This is the kind of stuff that makes Facebook so successful. Zuckerberg has an uncanny ability to stay one step ahead of the game in the Social Networking world.
There is no greater blessing for a parent than to name a baby. Baby Facebook’s proud parents not only had this honor they made a political and social media statement while doing so. Social media changes lives.
As a side point emphasizing how powerful Social Media is, we recently wrote about a poor homeless guy, Ted Williams, who landed a job and basically was able to resurrect his life through Social Media in a similar manner that Social Media took down Mubarak’s 29 year reign as President of Egypt.”
The Egyptian couple named their first born daughter Facebook Jamal Ibrahim, reports TechCrunch, according to
Al-Ahram (one of the most popular newspapers in Egypt). This is in no small part due to their gratitude towards Facebook in that it was the key player in Hosni Mubarak’s abdication of his presidency after 29 years in power in Egypt.
A short while ago Google had accused Bing, rightfully so, about stealing click data from and piggybacking Google’s Search results. Google’s basis was that they had, as a test, given laptops to Google employees to use at home for testing purposes. These laptops contained Google search results with specific weird “test” keyword phrases which users were to click on. They also were to test these results on the Google toolbar on the Internet Explorer browser with “suggested sites” turned on. Needless to say, the results posted on Bing within a matter of days are pretty damning.
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