Questlove Goes on a “Midnight Ride,” Tweets First Warning of Police Raid on Zuccotti Park’s OWS Encampment

Today, Questlove from The Roots is being hailed as the Occupy Wall Street movement’s Paul Revere. Approximately twenty minutes before midnight, Questlove, who’s also known as Ahmir Khalib Thompson, wrote in his Twitter feed that he saw a thousand police officers, geared up and ready for action, near the OWS encampment in Zuccotti Park. In

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Ashton Kutcher Hands Over His Twitter Account

Ashton Kutcher has just declared himself overwhelmed with the responsibility of managing his popular Twitter account. Today, the actor published a blog post acknowledging that the size of his following — 8 million and counting — demanded greater editorial supervision lest he became the unwitting source of misinformation. In his own words: Up until today,

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Email Marketing – Do I Really Need It?

Whether you need an email marketing software or not is up to you and the importance of your business. What you definitely need is to rely on this email marketing technique. A lot of people are cautious when it comes to the Internet. It has numerous good things and advantages, but it is also seen as an artificial and untrustworthy environment by many. The messaging system, however, is one of the safest and most serious parts of this field. These days, the Internet has managed to get everywhere, in everyone’s life. People can work online, get paid online, talk and see each other. Why wouldn’t they benefit from the Internet and advertise through it too? Besides, the Internet is slowly turning into the largest advertising environment. You see ads and banners everywhere. Your bulk folder is almost exploding. Why don’t you take advantage of all these?

Email marketing is for everybody. It is instant, therefore it is the fastest technology. It provides access to millions of addresses, way more than if you decide to share fliers around the city. It is secure, so you don’t have to worry about how safe the system is. Most importantly, it can reach people you cannot get in touch with otherwise, especially if you have a multinational company.

You might not see its benefits now, but once you purchase it, an email marketing software will make your life softer. You have newsletter templates, mailing lists, scripts and a wide variety of options you never even thought about.

Gmail Inboxes More Social With Mingly Plug-In

Heartening — and social — news are coming to your Gmail inboxes. The source of the scoop is Mingly; and it’s actually the news itself. The self-dubbed “personal relationship management tool” was released as a plug-in for Gmail this week.

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Business World Says Hello to Google+ Pages

Google+ is now officially open for business and to business. Entrepreneurs who were pining for the missing, and increasingly important, social network in their consumer outreach portfolios can now stop holding their breath and create a new business online home asap. The business section of Google+ will go by the slightly retro moniker “Google+ Pages”

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Disney Interactive Media and YouTube to Launch Joint Channel

Disney Interactive Media and YouTube have agreed to jointly invest a total of $10 million to $15 million to turn out original video material online. Disney will be in charge of production (big surprise, there!) while both companies will share distribution credits. As of now, the plan is to set up a shared channel on

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On Facebook, Israel Writes in Arabic to Engage a Contentious Public

The men and women in charge of branding and marketing for Israel’s military are known for their active engagement in social media, but something they had not been particularly known for, at least not until very recently, was the generation of content written and produced in Arabic. Incredibly, this week didn’t just see Palestine voted

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LinkedIn’s First Stock Market Upset

LinkedIn, one of this year’s most prominent stock market darlings, has just made the acquaintance of the quarterly loss. Although the market showing must certainly come as a blow to company CEO Jeff Weiner and his team, they will still be able to keep a great deal of their bullish optimism because the loss wasn’t

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In Order: Improved Sociability and Google+ Incorporation for YouTube

YouTube has been the property of Google for a good number of years now, but as its parent company reaches out for improved sociability and “sharing” features, the famed democratizing broadcaster of video content still has some maturation to undergo. To help YouTube achieve its full social potential, Google acquired the startup Fflick, along with

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Highbrow Socialbots Infiltrate Facebook

Scholars at the University of British Columbia created 102 fake Facebook profiles to analyze security weakness of the world’s super social network. The fake profiles were socialbots or “automated software” that once introduced into Facebook could make friend requests and maintain a steady stream of updates. The droid activity is what conferred the guise of

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