Auteur: Alex Knapp
President Obama Has The Most Popular Tweet Of All Time
In late September, Media Bistro’s All Twitter blog tabulated the most popular tweets of all time – as gauged by retweets. The winner was Justin Bieber, who as of this writing had 223,376 retweets for this tweet.
Lees meerHootsuite Opens Up A Social Media Command Center For The Election
Social Media Management company Hootsuite is offering up a fascinating tool for political junkes: their 2012 Election Tracker. This single screen provides, at a glance, the social media chatter going on around the Presidential election. It tracks menti…
Lees meerThe Issues That Matter In This Election – According To Social Networks
As I’ve mentioned in my previous reporting, San Francisco-based social media company Livefyre offers real-time management of social networks and comments on media sites. As a result, they’re in a pretty good position to gather data to determine what, e…
Lees meerThe Impact of Hurricane Sandy
A look at the wake of one of the biggest storms to ever hit the East Coast.
Lees meerEverbridge Let Cities Keep Residents In The Loop During Hurricane Sandy
It used to be that if a town wanted to communicate to its residents that there was an emergency, there was one tried-and-true method: ring a giant bell. Of course, as technology evolved, so have warning systems – through sirens, radio, TV – and now soc…
Lees meerHospital To Perform First Live-Tweeted/Instagrammed Hearing Restoration Surgery
Starting tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. Pacific Time, Dr. Douglas Backous will be performing a cochlear implant surgery at the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle. As the surgery is being performed, it will be narrated on Twitter and photos of the surgery wi…
Lees meerFormer PayPal President Scott Thompson Joins Kabbage Board
Yesterday, online financier Kabbage announced the appointment of former PayPal President, Yahoo! CEO and current ShopRunner CEO Scott Thompson to its board of directors. Last week, Kabbage, which provides working capital to online sellers, announc…
Lees meerLivefyre’s StreamHub Brings RealTime Social Conversations To Publishers
San Francisco-based Livefyre, a social commenting company founded in 2009, announced earlier this month that its unleashed a new product – StreamHub – with a goal of making unprecedented community management available for web publishers’ soci…
Lees meerKabbage Raises $30 Million To Boost Its Small Business Financing
Atlanta-based Kabbage, which provides working advance capital to online sellers, announced last week that they’ve raised $30 million in Series C financing. That raises the total capital raised by the firm to $56 million. Leading the financing was…
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