AGBeat » Social Media http://agbeat.com News, insights, tools, and inspiration for business owners and professionals Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:21:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Pinterest covertly swaps out your links for affiliate links http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/pinterest-covertly-swaps-out-your-links-for-affiliate-links/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/pinterest-covertly-swaps-out-your-links-for-affiliate-links/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:35:00 +0000 AGBeat http://agbeat.com/?p=55850 Big money, big money! In order to obtain funding, every tech startup has to show investors what their financial strategy is – some begin as free communities that turn premium, others are ad supported, but in an interesting twist, Pinterest has opted for a different alternative wherein they use a service called Skimlinks, according to VentureBeat, which swaps out links [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/pinterest-covertly-swaps-out-your-links-for-affiliate-links/feed/ 25 Deleted Facebook photos can still be accessed http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/deleted-facebook-photos-can-still-be-accessed/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/deleted-facebook-photos-can-still-be-accessed/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:35:14 +0000 AGBeat http://agbeat.com/?p=55817 Facebook’s problem persists In 2009, Ars Technica reported that Facebook was not allowing users to permanently delete any photos from the Facebook servers and that they were still being stored. Nearly three years later, the technology blog is reporting that the problem still exists. If a user has a photo URL (just as AGBeat showed you how to obtain in [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/facebook-publicly-supports-breast-feeding-photos-privately-bans-them/feed/ 4 Best Twitter follower manager on the market http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/best-twitter-follower-manager-on-the-market/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/best-twitter-follower-manager-on-the-market/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:41:13 +0000 Lani Rosales http://agbeat.com/?p=55783 Managing Twitter After five years experimenting with Twitter, dozens of public speaking engagements on the topic, and thousands of followers, I have personally tried endless products that aim to help manage my Twitter followers which is necessary given the shady tactics of spam, bots and jerks. What I have stuck with since its launch is ManageFlitter, not because it has [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/best-twitter-follower-manager-on-the-market/feed/ 22 Pinterest now drives as much web traffic as Twitter http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/pinterest-now-drives-as-much-web-traffic-as-twitter/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/pinterest-now-drives-as-much-web-traffic-as-twitter/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:58:57 +0000 Lani Rosales http://agbeat.com/?p=55772 What is Pinterest, how do businesses use it? We’ve led the conversation about Pinterest, introducing you to the visual bookmarking site last year, offering the ultimate guide for using Pinterest in business, helped you to learn how to earn influence on Pinterest and even named the site in the 60 Genius Brands to watch in 2012list, after watching the invitation-only network boom as we [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/pinterest-now-drives-as-much-web-traffic-as-twitter/feed/ 50 Facebook calls you an active user even if you don’t use the site http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/facebook-calls-you-an-active-user-even-if-you-dont-go-to-their-site/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/facebook-calls-you-an-active-user-even-if-you-dont-go-to-their-site/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:21:58 +0000 Marti Trewe http://agbeat.com/?p=55749 Facebook’s dictionary raises eyebrows This week, Facebook filed their long awaited Form S-1 Registration Statement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, targeting a $5 billion initial public offering (IPO) under the ticker “FB” as most guessed it would be. The rush to file was quickly spotted with technologist Paul Allen pointing out that investors will be most interested [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/facebook-calls-you-an-active-user-even-if-you-dont-go-to-their-site/feed/ 14 Discover your most valuable Twitter follower http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/discover-your-most-valuable-twitter-follower/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/discover-your-most-valuable-twitter-follower/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:32:01 +0000 Charlene Jimenez http://agbeat.com/?p=55703 Why you might care who your MVF is Sometimes determining your Twitter influence isn’t solely about the number of followers you have. To be a tad brutally honest, not all Twitter followers are created equal. There are countless spammers and those who haven’t actively used the site for quite a while. And we all know how fickle some Twitter users [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/discover-your-most-valuable-twitter-follower/feed/ 13 Forecast app makes impromptu offline meetings more likely http://agbeat.com/cities/austin/forecast-app-makes-impromptu-offline-meetings-more-likely/ http://agbeat.com/cities/austin/forecast-app-makes-impromptu-offline-meetings-more-likely/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:39:51 +0000 Charlene Jimenez http://agbeat.com/?p=55684 Combining social networking and real life contact Social networking sites have created a way to establish and maintain relationships without ever actually having to see each other in person. But this has also created a generational belief that the best way to keep in contact with a friend is through virtual methods. Facebook is a way of sharing what you’ve [...]
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]]> http://agbeat.com/cities/austin/loku-quietly-rolls-out-brilliant-site-redesign/feed/ 24 Facebook files for $5 billion IPO under predictable ticker symbol http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/facebook-files-for-5-billion-ipo-under-predictable-ticker-symbol/ http://agbeat.com/real-estate-technology-new-media/facebook-files-for-5-billion-ipo-under-predictable-ticker-symbol/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:19:56 +0000 Marti Trewe http://agbeat.com/?p=55664 Facebook’s IPO As suspected, Facebook today filed their Form S-1 Registration Statement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, targeting a $5 billion initial public offering (IPO) under the ticker “FB” as most guessed it would be. Expectations for their IPO was for $10 billion which would have made it the fourth largest IPO in American history, with only [...]
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