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04/08/2014

Are social networks friends or foes? Social media management specialist Hootsuite unites social kingdoms with a clever marketing play and a homage to Game of Thrones http://bit.ly/1qgwbrb

A year ago, we at HootSuite showed just how much we love Game of Thrones with our Social Media Winter is Coming infographic. The infographic was a visual rep...

04/02/2014

Snack on these internet fun facts while enjoying the HTML5 eye candy. Gorgeous content from FrontRange http://bit.ly/1h3K0rz

04/01/2014

The best or worst day of the year for internet shenanigans? Check out the Buzzfeed definitive guide to internet pranks http://bzfd.it/1mxsZ8q

Welcome to the internet, I'll be your guide. This post will be updated throughout the day. Stay strong.

03/31/2014

Is Google+ a dark horse in the social media game? Forrester reports it’s neck-and-neck with Twitter http://bit.ly/1jRHbM2

Google Plus has the same number of U.S. users as Twitter and more opportunity for brands, according to a new survey from Forrester Research. Google Plus, the 2-year-old network that put social in the search giant, is far from a ghost town as some have called it, the survey said.

03/31/2014

Will listeners talk back to their NPR apps? NPR jumps on the tech train with voice recognition-enabled ads http://bit.ly/1gIgvdC

What you say out loud may soon be marketing data, and here’s why: Voice recognition-enabled ads are fast becoming a tool of mobile advertisers who want to ramp up response rates that often fall well short of 1 percent. The futuristic promos quietly emerged late last year, as JetBlue and Toys “R” Us…

03/26/2014

Gmail tests Pinterest-style grids and could change the email marketing game http://mklnd.com/1iBeBeg

It’s like Pinterest for your inbox. Today, the Visual Web is coming to email with Google’s latest test of a grid view in the Gmail Promotions tab. The grid presents marketing emails in a “pin-like,” image-driven fashion by surfacing images within emails and displaying them right in the user’s inbox....

03/12/2014

25 things you might not know about the Internet on its 25th birthday. Happy birthday, Internet! http://bit.ly/1kiDA6A

John Naughton: It sprang from the brain of one man, Tim Berners-Lee, and is the fastest-growing communication medium of all time. We examine how the web has transformed our lives for good and ill

03/03/2014

We love Lupita Nyong'o as much as the next guy, but was the real winner of the Oscars Twitter? Ellen tweeted a front row selfie that literally broke Twitter http://on.mash.to/1hDbCC4

Ellen DeGeneres gathered stars for a selfie that broke Twitter — and that left little doubt about which social media platform won the night.

02/28/2014

All hail Helvetica: Mike Parker, the godfather of Helvetica, one of the most ubiquitous typefaces ever, died last weekend. http://cnn.it/1lpBZP3

Mike Parker, one of the people responsible for the popular use of Helvetica passed away Sunday at age 84.

02/27/2014

Separating the wheat from the chaff or bullying out of the inbox? What do you think of Gmail's new unsubscribe button? http://bzfd.it/1fuxniy

How a few tabs and buttons are changing a multibillion dollar industry.

02/26/2014

Cheers to Hub Strategy for their feature in this week’s Adweek print edition. We love seeing local shops getting some love from the big guns, and good old Presidio Bowl providing a gloriously retro backdrop. Congrats!

02/24/2014

From flying BBQ food trucks to near-field communication-enabled watches and rings, SXSW is open season for marketers to strut their stuff. Courtesy of Adweek http://bit.ly/1mDuXrD

For 20 years, South by Southwest Interactive—which started, humbly enough, as SXSW Film & Multimedia—has evolved into a massive marketing extravaganza, last year playing host to 31,000 tech practitioners and enthusiasts, up from 11,000 in 2009. How can a brand hope to break through all that clutter?