This simple-but-elegant image, recently posted to Instagram, is the start of something special. It represents Instagram’s answer to the throngs of investors, geeks, journalists, and executives who, since day one, have been asking “how will it make money?” The answer, like this photo — and like Instagram’s entire product philosophy — is also simple but […]

This week, Facebookannounced changes to its promotion and contest guidelines that have huge implications for brands using Facebook to connect with their consumers.  The most significant change is that Apps and Page Tabs are no longer required to run a promotion on Facebook. That means that companies can run contests on any native Facebook Page […]

thismoment’s swanky new Page Timeline Today’s fMC, or Facebook Marketing Conference, yielded a motherload of Facebook product announcements representing the natural evolution of concepts introduced at last year’s f8. This time, the audience was full not of coders and geeks, but rather agencies and marketers looking to grasp the continually growing tidal wave of Facebook’s […]

Pinterest is the hottest social sharing site that everyone is talking about. Whether it’s news about the service’s particular resonance with women, its impressive stats on referral traffic, or its controversial “auto-follow” feature, it seems you can’t drop a pin anywhere on the web without encountering Pinterest.As brands look to leverage Pinterest, thismoment CMS users […]

At this year’s f8 conference, jaws collectively hit the floor at around 10:30am; roughly the time Mark Zuckerberg started scrolling through his beta Timeline. As we sighed our Keanu-Reeves “Whoa” amidst all the candid photos of Zuck’s dog Beast, well-wishing comments from a friend’s wedding, and finally, a baby photo to mark the day of […]