Bill Hartzer

Raxxle Beta Availability of Social Networking Community Using Facial Recognition

Raxxle.com announced at the Ad:Tech Conference that they're releasing its new social networking community for beta testing. Powered by patented RaxxleMatch Technology(TM), the site adds the ability to find a member's "twin" among other users of the community. RaxxleMatch technology uses proprietary facial-recognition software to perform complex analyses of facial ...

Study Shows Social Media Marketing is Popular But Funds Not Allocated

Coremetrics has revealed the results of their second annual Face of the New Marketer survey. The results show that social media marketing is quickly gaining popularity as a way to gain a competitive edge. However, companies appear to be very reluctant to allocate funds towards the effort. Coremetrics surveyed 116 ...

Microsoft and Facebook Expand Their Alliance

Microsoft and Facebook have announced that Microsoft will take a $240 million dollar equity stake in Facebook's next round of financing. They will also expand their existing advertising partnership. This new deal will expand the advertising to cover international markets. Under the agreement, Microsoft will be the exclusive 3rd-party advertising ...

Collegiate Social Networking Moves to College.com

Since Facebook has virtually abandoned the college crowd and opened up its social network to the public, college students have been left out in the cold. College.com is coming to the aid of those college students who feel abandoned by Facebook by launching their own social network. The College.com social network ...

ProfileBuilder Acquires ZingFu.com Social Networking Resource Site

  ProfileBuilder, a site that allows you to create, manage, and consolidate your online identity using www.Profil.es, is in the process of acquiring ZingFu, a social networking resource site with over 600,000 members. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Screen capture courtesy of CrunchBase. ProfileBuilder is an online identity management ...

Pronto.com - First Comparison Shopping Service to Offer Social Shoppping

Pronto.com is the first comparison shopping service to offer social shopping features on their site in order to help you make more informed buying decisions. Pronto has launched a community feature that allows you to rate products, create a profile, and share your knowledge with others. You can also write product ...

Didja, New Online Destination and Social Networking Site by USA Network–But Where’s the Content?

  USA Network, a division of NBC Universal, has announced their new first-ever independent digital media initiative--didja.com. For some reason it appears that NBC Universal and the USA Network have forgotten to upload the site's content. (See the end of this post for a screen capture.) Didja.com offers a free ...

Survey Proves Traders Adopting Social Networking Tools

According to a survey released today by the online broker dealer TradeKing, active traders are increasingly adopting Web 2.0 style social networking tools like blogs and podcasts to do research. 3,000 U.S. equity and options traders were surveyed between July 17th and July 20th via email. 36 percent of options traders ...

CrowdPicks Social Networking Sports Website Launches

WSC Group, an incubator company started by two former TD Ameritrade employees, has launched CrowdPicks.com, a social networking sports website in beta. CrowdFilter, one of the featured applications at CrowdPicks.com, allows its members to create customizable searches using multiple variables. Crowdfiller is a "first of its kind" web-based app ...

Perez Hilton Hosts PMBuzz Launch Party; 1st Nightlife Social Networking Site Launches

Perez Hilton, the blogger best know for his musings about celebrities' nightly "mishaps", will host the official launch party of PMbuzz.com, the world's first social networking site dedicated to nightlife. The launch party will be held in New York City at The Grand (41 East 58th Street between Madison and ...

Bill Hartzer is the head search engine marketing, social media marketing, and website marketing expert at Vizion Interactive, Dallas / Fort Worth Texas based interactive marketing firm that offers search engine optimization, pay per click, and other online marketing services. Do you need online marketing services? Let's talk!
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July 1st 2008
Tags: Social Networking 5 Comments

Got a Look-Alike? iLookLikeYou Social Network Launches

How many times has someone come up to you and say, "I know someone who looks exactly like you!" Just yesterday I was at a car dealership and one of the service guys started talking to my wife, just as if he has known her for years. The problem is ...
June 27th 2008
Tags: personal blog 4 Comments

Am I Really Running for President?

A friend of mine just sent this video to me, which is pretty amazing, as I know that I was thinking of running for President, but really. Yes, I guess I am now running for President, as it seems to becoming a viral thing. If you take a look at the ...
June 26th 2008
Tags: Hot Search Terms 5 Comments

We Searched for the iPhone 7 Million Times During April 2008

According to comScore, the company that measures searches on the web, we searched seven million times for the Apple iPhone during the month of April, 2008. They also are reporting that Google delivered a disproportionate number of iPhone-related clicks. comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCOR) has released a study on "iPhone"-related keyword search phrases ...
June 24th 2008
Tags: Search Engines 4 Comments

Searchme Adds Visual Search Features and Social Bookmarks to Search

Searchme has added new visual search features to their site. These new features, called Stacks and Media Search, will help you find, organize, and share information. Media Search for videos and images has content from YouTube(TM) and Flickr(TM). Stacks are visual bookmarks that you can share via email, via your blog, ...
June 20th 2008
Tags: Internet Usage One Comment

comScore Releases May 2008 Search Engine Rankings

comScore has released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the United States search engine rankings for May, 2008. Last month, searchers in the United States conducted 10.8 billion core searches. Google increased their market share slightly according to the stats. In May, Google's core searches reached 61.8 percent, which was up ...

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