Across the Internet, in news, blogs, tweets and other social media, millions of people are talking about major brands. This “buzz” can be produced by product launches, ad campaigns, PR events, earnings reports, a single consumer‘s product experience, and many other triggers, even scandals and rumors. The volume and character ...

Social Connections has released MashedIn.com, an application that allows you to identify mutual connections across multiple social networks. MashedIn provides a widget that you can add to a web site or blog where your users can authenticate with either Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn to reveal common connections to the widget ...

Porsche had the highest community rating in the Community Index with a score of 5,448, followed by BMW at 3,681 and Audi at 3,612 MH Group Communications and Forum Strategies & Communications have released a new study called "Luxury Auto Brands and their Presence in Social Media" that is a comprehensive ...

Thanks to @oprah (Oprah) and @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher), Twitter is now the 49th most popular site according to Alexa. In the past 3 months, Twitter's traffic is up a whopping 334.6 percent. But, with the increased popularity, comes the spammers. Unfortunately, though, it just goes with the territory. Whenever you mix ...

Cranberry, a company led by led by Internet visionary David McInnis (formerly of PRWeb), has launched PeoplePond, an Internet service that provides search engine optimized (SEO) profiles and online identity verification services for individuals. It was officially launched to the general public during the annual South by Southwest conference and ...

A new comScore report out today shows that mobile social networking is responsible for the growth of the mobile internet in Europe. One third of European mobile social networking users access social media sites exclusively. In November 2008, 34 percent of mobile phone owners in Western Europe who visited social networking ...

As a blog partner for the 2008 Open Web Awards, I'm pleased to announce the winners. Mainstream & Large Scale Social Networks Winner: Netlog Runner-up: Platinum Lounge Embeddable Widgets Winner: Qoof Runner-up: Sprout Blog Plugins Winner: ShareThis Runner-up: AddThis Social News Winner: Help a Reporter Out Runner-up: Hubdub Social Networking Applications Winner: Aritition Runner-up: Digsby Social Bookmarking Winner: Diigo Runner-up: ShareThis Search & Social Search Winner: Scour Runner-up: Artiklz Sports & Fitness Winner: Gyminee Runner-up: ...

BrightTalk is hosting a Conversational Marketing Summit asked me to present. At 3:00pm Pacific Time on November 24th, 2008 I talked about Social Media and Search and how your search engine marketing efforts can benefit from social media marketing. I've embedded my presentation right here so you can watch it. If ...

Eric Lander has a great blog post about Sphinn. If you have not heard of Sphinn.com, Sphinn is a "News, Discussion Forums & Networking for Search & Internet Marketing Professionals" site. It's Danny Sullivan's social networking site for internet marketing professionals. Since Eric has written a great post and has ...

For many years now, I have always been a fan of creating custom, unique 404 error pages. I have also, at the same time, been rather annoyed that a site as large as Digg can consistently serve up an error page like the one below. Not only have I been rather ...