Archive for February, 2012

Facebook Marketing: Why News Feed Still Trumps Timeline Pages

Reggie Bradford is the founder and CEO of Vitrue, the leading provider of social marketing software, offering SaaS solutions to help brands and agencies harness the marketing-communications potential of social media on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other social communities. Follow Reggie on Twitter @ReggieBradford and Vitrue @Vitrue. Facebook unveiled its much-anticipated new Timeline Pages Wednesday, […]

Ahead of the Bell: Facebook holds marketing event

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook may unveil new, potentially lucrative advertising opportunities Wednesday as a prelude to its initial public offering. Facebook has invited marketers and journalists to an event at the Natural History Museum in New York. It’s a rare East Coast appearance for the Silicon Valley social site operator. Though the company has […]

Chinese relish crack in Great Firewall, log on to Facebook

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Some Chinese Internet users have this week been able to access blocked websites such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, relishing the newfound freedom although the reason for the breach in China‘s Great Firewall of censorship was a mystery. China blocks most foreign social networking sites (SNS) out of fear that unfettered access […]

Justin Bieber fans go for social media record

Millions of years ago, there lived penguins so huge they may have been able to parry the attacks of dolphins with their humongous, fish-catching beaks. The bones of some of these prehistoric flightless birds were discovered in 1977, and scientists have … Continue reading → Views: 0

Foursquare CEO plans to take on Yelp with new social recommendations

Dennis Crowley wants you to know that Foursquare is about more than just check-ins. In a keynote at Mobile World Congress today, the co-founder and CEO hinted that he hopes to make the world’s most popular location-based social network into the world’s most powerful recommendation engine for places. While Foursquare was founded on check-ins and […]

Manchester Utd Facebook page gives fans history lesson

Insisting he meant no harm, Dwyane Wade revealed Tuesday that he has apologized to Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant multiple times for a blood-drawing, nose-breaking foul during the All-Star game. Views: 0

The New York Times Facebook Timeline Goes to 1851

“We publish today the first issue of the New-York Daily Times, and we intend to issue it every morning (Sundays excepted) for an indefinite number of years to come,” wrote The Times’s founders, Henry Jarvis Raymond, speaker of the New York State Assembly, and George Jones, an Albany banker, in the inaugural edition. It cost […]

Facebook revamps pages for businesses

Millions of years ago, there lived penguins so huge they may have been able to parry the attacks of dolphins with their humongous, fish-catching beaks. The bones of some of these prehistoric flightless birds were discovered in 1977, and scientists have … Continue reading → Views: 0

Facebook to unveil new ad offerings

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is set to unveil new, potentially lucrative advertising opportunities as a prelude to its initial public offering of stock. The idea is to lure big brands with the promise of effective, precisely targeted ads that reach the social network’s nearly 850 million users. Facebook has invited marketers and journalists to […]

BlueSunProperties.com Offers Panama City Beach Condo Discounts To Families Seeking Relief From Rising Gas Prices

Lumber, boats and other debris ripped from Japanese coastal towns by tsunamis last year have spread across some 3,000 miles (4,828 kilometers) of the northern Pacific, where they could wash ashore on the U.S. west coast as early as a year from now. Views: 0

Home Energy Audit and Retrofit Program ‘Clean Energy Works Oregon’ Helps Make Historic Portland Cottage Cozy and Safe.

Portland home energy audit by Clean Energy Works Oregon contractor Hammer Hand uncovers carbon monoxide back-drafting and large insulation in 1912 home. A home performance retrofit leaves homeowner Jody Naff happy – a warmer house, lower utility bills and healthier indoor air quality. Portland, Oregon (PRWEB) February 29, 2012 Portland homeowner Jody Naff’s 1912 cottage […]

ConocoPhillips and USA Swimming Foundation Bring Olympic Gold Medalist Cullen Jones to Houston to Kick Off Water Safety Tour, Educate Kids About Learning to Swim

To: CITY, FAMILY AND SPORTS EDITORS HOUSTON, Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Just in time for spring break, ConocoPhillips and the USA Swimming Foundation will bring Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer, Cullen Jones, to Houston to raise awareness about the importance of learning to swim. The event, scheduled for March 7, marks the kickoff of the […]

Asteroids Smacked Moon Harder & Faster 4 Billion Years Ago

The moon, which has been pummeled by a barrage of asteroids and debris throughout its lifetime, experienced a strong uptick in the energy and speed of incoming rocks around 4 billion years ago, new research suggests. A team of researchers from the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) at the Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, […]

Alien Planets Would Likely Have Leap Years, Too

Today is a leap day, a calendar oddity that helps align our timekeeping with the orbit of the Earth around the sun. But leap day may not be restricted to the Earth — it could occur on planets around other stars as well, as long as there are beings living there to mark the days, […]

Winds Have Southwest Watching for Wildfires

The U.S. Southwest is keeping a close watch today on the strong winds blowing through the region. The weather is just right for sparking dangerous wildfires. The nation’s Storm Prediction Center (SPC) in Norman, Okla., has issued critical fire weather alerts for many areas in the Southwest due to astrong storm system moving out of […]

‘Leap Year’ Marriage Proposals Bad for Women, Research Suggests

Leap year marriage proposals — where, by custom, women are granted the once-in-four-years privilege of proposing to their beaus — hold the promise of giving women real power in their relationships, but ultimately, they actually undermine women and reinforce long-standing stereotypes about traditional roles, a new paper concludes.    And after examining a century’s worth […]

Tsunami debris floating across Pacific toward US

HONOLULU (AP) — Refrigerators, TVs and other debris dragged into sea when a massive earthquake hit Japan last March, causing tsunamis as high as 130 feet to crash ashore, could show up in remote atolls north of Hawaii as soon as this winter, with other pieces reaching parts of the West Coast in 2013 and […]

Smithsonian plans festival to welcome Discovery

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Smithsonian Institution plans a four-day festival with NASA to welcome space shuttle Discovery into its collection in April. The National Air and Space Museum announced plans Tuesday for more than 25 special exhibits, programs and activities to highlight the history of the 30-year space shuttle program and the future of space […]

Scientists reconstruct long-extinct giant penguin

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — It was a slender bird, with long wings and a spear-like bill to catch swift ocean prey. And scientists say the first glimpse of the extinct giant penguin species was worth the 26 million-year wait. Experts from New Zealand and the United States reconstructed a fossil skeleton of one of […]

Dainippon to buy U.S. bio-venture in cancer-drug push

The number of women dying from breast cancer in the European Union is expected to drop by nine percent this year thanks to advances in treatments, researchers said on Wednesday. Views: 0

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