Google today has officially agreed to settle charges by the United States Federal Trade Commission that Google used “deceptive tactics” and “violated its own privacy promises to consumers” when Google launched their social network called Google Buzz, in 2010. [Read more…]

In what I can only describe as an informal poll of sorts, it appears that the United States is no longer a leader when it comes to Top Tweets on Twitter that are being ReTweeted. Take a look at the last seven days of data from Tweetmeme and you will see that the majority of all of the retweets on Twitter are not Tweets that originated from the United States or English-speaking Twitter accounts. [Read more…]

Anyone working with online marketing will tell you that its important to track your data. You need to know which videos are pulling in visitors, and which ones are being ignored. Tracking the stickiness of blog posts is important as well. Even though tracking your results can be confusing at times, the information and revelations that are revealed can be paramount to your online success. You need a social media dashboard. Unilyzer, a social media dashboard, seems to be a great fit for social media and search engine marketers like myself. [Read more…]

Max Media Group has launched a real time social media search application called “The Babel”. [Read more…]

A company that sells guitar-lesson DVDs online has settled with the Federal Trade Commission for a whopping $250,000 over charges that the company “deceptively advertised its products through online affiliate marketers who falsely posed as ordinary consumers or independent reviewers”. The company supposedly schemed to have fake positive reviews posted online. [Read more…]

There is a new report out from 30 Hour Famine that shows that women are more likely to use social media web sites to support causes they believe in than men. According to the results of this study, girls are more likely than boys to friend, like, or follow charities they believe in. Women support charities using social media 41 percent of the time, and men support charities using social sites only 27 percent of the time. [Read more…]