Last week, Facebook held its fifth F8 Conference in San Francisco. In the past, Facebook has used F8 to introduce sweeping new features and technologies, such as the Like Button, Timeline and the Graph API. F8 has always been focused on the shiny new products that developers hope will help them become the next big […]
When you think of brands that are kicking social media butt, banks probably aren’t among the first to spring to mind. Let’s face it: there’s nothing exciting about broadcasting banking activities in the social sphere. Unless you just hit the jackpot with a wayward ATM, your cyber circle is probably not interested. So instead of […]
A few weeks ago, Sephora launched their Beauty Board experience on their website, Sephora.com, built leveraging Thismoment’s platform. It’s a bold move by a bold and innovative company, who is early to the realization that user generated content (UGC) has value beyond the casual entertainment of looking at selfies for the sheer shock value. […]
The recent news about Katherine Heigl suing Duane Reade — for repurposing a photo that celebrity paparazzi site Just Jared took of her walking out of a Duane Reade store — highlights an important lesson for brand marketers when it comes to content and social media: images found on the internet may not always fair […]
As you may have read, an extremely serious bug nicknamed Heartbleed was found in how data is encrypted in transit on the Internet this week. The Heartbleed Bug affects the OpenSSL framework which is used by many websites to privately send data to and from an Internet server. Some estimate that as much as 66% […]
