Social Media
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S'pore offers certification for social marketing
News Singapore company provides training and certification course designed to teach companies how to use social media sites as marketing platforms.
Tags: Marketing, Internet, Certification, Social Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Asia, Social Media, Tool, Singapore, Small And Medium Business
Asian call centers target for social media
News Call centers, abound in India and Philippines, need to retool and deploy social media tools to say competitive in market, say top Salesforce.com execs.
Tags: Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Web 2.0, Mobile platforms/communications, Facebook, Social Networking, Twitter Inc., Marc Benioff, network, Web 2.0
Turning unwanted ads to clicks
News Industry experts discuss how data is driving new advertising metrics, and the ways in which social media ads can avoid being seen as spam.
Tags: Advertiser, Social Media, e-mail, Facebook, network, agency, ROI
Facebook confirms site instability
News Login and content-posting problems on social networking site have been confirmed by company, but no explanation or cause has yet been provided.
Tags: Web 2.0, Network security, Social Media, distributed denial of service, social networking, Facebook, Network security, Web 2.0
Tweeting from the command line
Techguide Find out about a simple script that will allow you to send tweets from the command line.
Tags: Open source, Web 2.0, Script, Twitter Inc., Web 2.0, Red Hat Inc., Social Media, Vincent Danen, API, Canada
Twitter malware filter 'disappointing'
News Microblogging site's new weapon, to block users from tweeting links to malicious sites, is laudable but has shortcomings, according to security experts.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Network security, Security Management, Security applications/tools, Twitter, Phishing, Malware, Security, F-Secure Corp.
Using Twitter as a server notification tool: Pros and cons
Techguide Twitter is breaking out of its "look at me" shackles and may offer real business value. Scott Lowe suggests using the microblogging engine for server notifications.
Tags: Servers, Web services, Internet Access, Social Media, Tool, Server, API, Internet, Microsoft Exchange Server, Servers
Business in the 21st century: Stay tuned for brave new world
Insight perspective Corporate leaders, take note: Web technologies are poised to change everything--economic, political and social, says consultant.
Tags: Web 2.0, Business Strategies & Functions, Leadership, Semantic Web, Tim O'Reilly, Social Media, Social Web, Web 2.0, Internet, collaboration
BBC hires Yahoo exec as CTO
News Linwood will be responsible for delivering the BBC's technology strategy, this includes maintenance of the technical infrastructure behind all BBC output and also overseeing the corporation's IT requirements.
Tags: Web sites, Network infrastructure, IT training, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Social Media, Steve Ranger, social networking, VP, CTO
Asian Net users most engaged online
News Chinese youths spend more leisure time online than anyone else globally, while Koreans top the world in social networking, new study finds.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Web services, Web browsers, Web logs, Wiki, Social Media, Japan, Internet User, social networking
Why 2008 was another great year in Web technology
Techguide Journey back on Web development software updates and new products in 2008, with an eye toward 2009. Revisit service-oriented architecture, mobile development, Silverlight, Python and more.
Tags: Web services, Web browsers, Protocols and platforms, Twitter, Microsoft Corp., SOA, Web Browser, Google Inc., Social Media, Tool
MessageLabs: Short URLs in e-mail spam spikes
News E-mail spam that includes truncated Web addresses sees a dramatic increase, MessageLabs says.
Tags: Hacking, Spam and phishing, Security applications/tools, Domain names, Spam filtering, Twitter, Malware, MessageLabs Ltd., Spam, Social Media
Use social networks right for job hunts
News Human resource practitioners offer tips for jobseekers to better their chances when using social networking sites to secure employment.
Tags: Recruiting, Executive recruiting, Web 2.0, Twitter, Asia, Jobseeker, Social Media, social networking, Facebook, job
Hackers blamed for wave of fake death tweets
News Hackers are suspected to have broken into Twitpic accounts of Britney Spears, Ellen DeGeneres and P. Diddy to post false death announcements.
Tags: Web 2.0, Network security, Security Management, Twitter, Social Media, Password, Britney Spears, photograph, Associated Press, e-mail
Customers have say in marketing, too
News Consumers should be given role in company's marketing efforts as social networks take them to forefront of product branding and innovation.
Tags: Business development/management, Innovation, Marketing, Web 2.0, Conference, Branding, Procter & Gamble Co., Social Media, digital content, Pacific
