Bargain hounds on Twitter are now able to follow the official @EarlyBird handle for relevant, timely offers and deals from Twitter’s advertisers. Twitter will partner with select advertisers to give followers of the account the inside scoop on limited-time or –quantity offers. It remains to be seen whether branded accounts that rely on offering last-minute deals (like JetBlue’s Cheeps, for instance) will be affected, since…
What’s in badge? Many Foursquare users have been wondering whether or not acquiring all of those colorful circles would ever translate into something tangible, and Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley arrived at the Mashable Media Summit Tuesday armed with an answer.
To combat…
M-commerce saw a boost in consumer activity during the first third of 2010, with 35% of U.S. mobile users saying they participated in some form of mobile shopping. That’s up from 17% last year, but actually purchasing still lags. Only 13% of U.S. mobile users are actually making purchases on their devices, possibly because four out of five multichannel retailers do not have m-commerce capabilities. The key takeaway is that the desire to shop m-commerce…
Small businesses often have a difficult time getting to the top of search results for common terms, such as “auto repair.” Root Orange allows these businesses to lease premium domain names (such as www.autocenter.com) for their location, so that top search results are automatically routed to…
It’s no secret that bands and music biz folks are early social media adopters – especially in today’s shallow-pocketed music industry environment, where getting the word out cheaply is the name of the game. That’s why it’s always interesting to see what the movers and shakers at the annual SXSW Music conference are doing to promote themselves and their artists, and this year promised at least one above-the-radar partnership that I was excited to see in action.
The most buzzed-about was probably the
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