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A Pre-Game Roundup Of 10 Awesome 2012 Super Bowl Commercials
Fri, 02/03/2012 - 17:57Super Bowl commercial premieres used to be reserved for game day, but thanks to the growing popularity of online video more brands than ever have released their big day commercials early on YouTube to get the pre-game viral buzz going. We’ve put together a list of ten of the most popular 2012 Super Bowl commercials to be released so far. Which is your favorite?
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Are Social Media Jobs Only for the Young?
Fri, 02/03/2012 - 17:38When newspapers started moving online, the technological gap between those who had grown up with computers and those who had not led to a lot of opportunities for younger professionals to jump in and bring the news into the 21st century. Now that it’s 2012, those same young people may be wondering what they were thinking.
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Ken Burns, Arthur & Other PBS Shows Come To Hulu Plus
Fri, 02/03/2012 - 16:27Hulu Plus members, I hope you’ve got some free time this weekend because approximately two hundred PBS episodes have now been added to the service. Hulu Plus members can now watch dozens of episodes from Ken Burns Library, plus shows like Masterpiece: Downtown Abbey, episodes of PBS Kids series including Arthur, Dinosaur Train and Wild Kratts, and additional episodes of NOVA, American Experience, and Masterpiece.
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Pinterest Continues to Explode — Now Produces More Referral Traffic Than Google+, LinkedIn and YouTube Combined
Fri, 02/03/2012 - 15:28Pinterest, that growing phenomenon is sweeping across the web and ushering in a new era of social networking. Only a few years ago there was the concept that no new social network could appear because everyone would flock back to Facebook. Twitter was first dismissed as such, but then became the sole exception. Pinterest signifies the fact that the web is in the infancy of a complete metamorphosis, where smart use of social technology will allow people to connect in completely unique ways than they ever have. What proof do I have? The soaring traffic.
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HuffPost Streaming Video, Super Bowl, and a Spotify Playlist [Podcast]
Fri, 02/03/2012 - 15:14On today’s Morning Media Menu (MP3 link), Social Times joined Jason Boog, the editor of our sister blog, GalleyCat for a chat about some of our top stories in social media this week, from the Huffington Post’s new streaming network to themed playlists on Spotify.
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This Week on the mediabistro.com Job Board: Yahoo! Make Up For Ever, Dwell Studio
Fri, 02/03/2012 - 14:42This week, Yahoo! Commerce is hiring a social editor, while Make Up For Ever is looking for a director of e-commerce and online marketing. Dwell Studio is in need of a community manager, and Amalgamated Bank is seeking a social media manager. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional just-posted gigs on mediabistro.com.
- Social Editor Yahoo! Commerce (Sunnyvale, CA)
- Community Manager Dwell Studio (New York, NY)
- Social Media Manager Amalgamated Bank (New York, NY)
- Monetization Analyst – Mobile/Social Games Atari (Los Angeles, CA)
- Director, E-Commerce & Online Marketing Make Up For Ever (New York, NY)
For more job listings, go to the Mediabistro job board, and to post a job, visit our employer page. For real-time openings and employment news, follow @MBJobPost.
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Yammer Triples Sales Growth in 2011 [Infographic]
Fri, 02/03/2012 - 13:32Yammer, a favorite social productivity tool here at Social Times, has just announced their fantastic 2011 results with a large infographic. We can see that they have 85% of the Fortune 500 as clients, and they’ve tripled their sales growth since the beginning of 2011. Pretty crazy stuff, but not unbelievable considering the strength of Yammer’s product.
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A World Without Google [Infographic]
Fri, 02/03/2012 - 13:07The privacy issues surrounding Google+ are making people long for simpler times when the Internet was more about finding than being found. But, as this infographic shows, things could be a lot worse.
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AOL To Launch Huffington Post Streaming Network
Fri, 02/03/2012 - 12:33Arianna Huffington, president and editor-in-chief of Huffington Post Media Group
At a press conference in New York Thursday afternoon AOL’s Huffington Post Media Group gave a preview of a new streaming network that will launch later this year.
Founding editor Roy Sekoff, who will be leading the network, described the programming as a series of live and interactive clips covering everything from entertainment to politics.
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Friday Morning Laughs – Girl Can Say Any Word Backwards Within 3 Seconds
Fri, 02/03/2012 - 11:51Happy Friday, folks! It’s the first Friday of February and some of you might be a little bummed out since yesterday Punxsatawney Phil let us know we still have 6 more weeks of winter. Luckily, our Friday Morning Laughs is here to get you through the cold with a smile on your face. This week’s funny video roundup includes an unusual talent, a five-year old’s impression of some popular brands, a receipt-giving dog, a human jukebox and more. So grab a cup o’ joe, take a seat and get ready for some serious lolz.
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YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar On Why YouTube Is “Channelizing”
Thu, 02/02/2012 - 17:13YouTube is taking things in an entirely new direction in 2012, as you’ve probably heard. They’ve spent somewhere in the vicinity of $100 million to launch 100 new professional content channels over the course of this year, with channels ranging from the Wall Street Journal to action sports, education and entertainment being among the first to launch. Why has they decided to “channelize”? CEO Salar Kamangar explained in an interview earlier this week at All Things Digital’s D: Dive Into Media conference.
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Jun Group On Earned Media: Brands Receive 30% More Value Than They Spend On Viral Video
Thu, 02/02/2012 - 16:51There’s been a lot of controversy around the practice of buying views for viral video campaigns. Molly Sugarman of Horizon Media said in a Beet.TV interview last year, “Something that marketers don’t talk about too much…is that many of the top viral videos that are on the Ad Age video chart…are paid for. You can pay for social action online.” Opponents of paying for views have brought up the question of whether paying for views is really worth it—after all, when you reward viewers to watch your ads are they truly engaging with your brand or are they just in it for the reward?
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Electronic Arts Beats Analyst Expectations With Help from Star Wars
Thu, 02/02/2012 - 15:01Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) has an illustrious past. A great metaphor, considering EA’s own NBA series of games, is someone like Michael Jordan, who after taking some time off from being a champion with the Chicago Bulls, returned back to the game after an absence. But the game had changed. He played for the Washington Wizards, a new franchise team, had a rocky start, but once he’d got his footing, he surprised critics and naysayers by eventually leading the team in points. Is EA on the same path with their digital revolution?
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Science & Numbers Galore: YouTube Rolls Out 6 New Educational Channels
Thu, 02/02/2012 - 13:42YouTube’s new channel lineup isn’t just about entertainment—the video site is also striving to be one of the top online destinations for education. They’ve got a great selection of free courses from amazing schools like Harvard, Yale and MIT; in December they launched YouTube for Schools, a new initiative that strips away non-educational material to give teachers and students access to educational videos; and this week they launched a whole new lineup of educational channels.
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Super Bowl XLVI Reaches Out To Fans from the Social Media Command Center
Thu, 02/02/2012 - 12:51While the Giants take on the Patriots at Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis this weekend, the Host Committee organized for the event will look after their fans from the watchful computer screens of the Indianapolis Social Media Command Center.
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Jon Stewart Makes Fun of Obama’s Google+ Hangout
Thu, 02/02/2012 - 12:06Jon Stewart – host of The Daily Show, a comedy show lampooning the latest in political developments – poked fun at Obama’s latest Google+ Hangout and wondering what exactly Obama was thinking when he accepted a woman’s resume live on the Hangout. Jon Stewart referred to Google+ as the ‘What the F— is that thing up there? Is there any way I turn that off?’
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New York Giants’ Victor Cruz Shares His Spotify Playlist with Fans
Thu, 02/02/2012 - 11:30
Super Bowl XLVI is almost here, and while the rest of America stocks up on potato chips and beer, the wide receiver for the New York Giants is gearing up for Sunday’s big game with inspirational music from the popular sharing site Spotify.
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Microsoft Slams Google with ‘Putting People First’ Ad Campaign
Wed, 02/01/2012 - 16:45If you read the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times or USA Today in the next three days, you might spot an ad from Microsoft that criticizes Google’s privacy policies and social search feature, Google plus Your World. In short, Microsoft is banking on your irritation with Google to get you to switch to Bing. And I thought the presidential candidates were bad.
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Quora Question Sparks Reunion for Craiglist Founder and Friends
Wed, 02/01/2012 - 16:09A user on Quora asked, “What was the true genesis of Craigslist?” Wikipedia can answer that: before Craigslist became became a goldmine of (mostly real) apartment listings and garage sale items in 50 countries, it was a simple email distribution list for friends who met up at events in the San Fransisco Bay area. But it turns out that many friends of the site, including founder Craig Newmark, had a Quora account and some time on their hands for an online reunion.
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6 Ways to Use Quora for Research
Wed, 02/01/2012 - 13:27Brian Honigman is the Social Media Account Manager at LunaMetrics, which you can follow at @LunaMetrics. Read more about Brian after the article.
Have you ever used Quora before to solve an unanswered question or start a conversation about an interesting topic? As a platform, Quora allows its community to post and answer questions about anything of their choosing to gain collective knowledge. One way to take advantage of this question and answer based feedback is using it for your day to day researching needs.
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