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The Social Network: The IPO
Six possible lessons of the Facebook IPO? Investors in an IPO should be wary if: “They trust me…dumb f–ks” is a corporate slogan. (Zuck in early days…) All the insiders are selling as much as they...
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Can One Billion Facebook Users be wrong?
According to Wikipedia (note: don’t cite in my classes!) as of early summer the social platforms had the following number of users: Facebook 955 million (certainly 1 B by now) Twitter...
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Would you trust your daughter’s beach pics to Zuck?
We heard the resounding answer yesterday: NO!! Instagram and Facebook have “clarified” the new privacy settings for Instagram after a furor caused by the original announcement of the new rules. The...
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Does Facebook CAUSE narcissism?
… or are narcissists just drawn to social media? I started asking this question on Twitter a couple weeks ago, in order to gather some ideas and thoughts from my online friends for this post. Most of...
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Is Facebook about to be DISRUPTED?
The Wall Street Journal had an article about the growth of messaging apps and how their use threatened both Facebook and the mobile providers. Users spending hours a day messaging with friends are not...
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Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber: Google Trends tells a Story
Did you know the careers of Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga were linked? Take a look at Google Trends for clear empirical evidence: If you look closely you will see that the Google search pattern for...
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Are you living on #Facebook?
Yesterday (August 26) at 6:45 Alison Parker, a young newspaper reporter at WDBJ, and Adam Ward, a camera person, for the Virginia TV station were tragically murdered by a former employee of the...
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#Cluetrain Derailed!
The Cluetrain is derailed. Last Spring Adage pronounced that “There is no more social media marketing: just advertising.” The article announced a new era of #NotReallySocialMediaMarketing and went on...
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