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What Insurers Could Do With Your 'Social Media Score'
7:00AM 12/12/2011
Here's yet another reason to watch what you say and do online: Insurance companies are already surfing social media sites to get the scoop about their customers, and what their data-miners find may soon be compiled into a new way to rate you as a risk: a social networking score.
The Most Popular Social Network: Facebook
7:30PM 2/07/2011
Facebook has won the most customer loyalty, by far, out of all social media sites, according to the latest Brand Keys's Customer Loyalty Index. The network easily outperformed News Corp.'s MySpace, Twitter and others.
Path is different from other photo-sharing sites because of what it won't allow you share photos with more than 50 people. Path lets users be themselves, share photos freely, and never worry about the images being seen by the wrong people.
New York's attorney general has teamed with social networking giants Facebook and MySpace to work on removing illegal child pornography images using advanced digital technology.
The effort, which also includes Friendster, hi5 and Canada-based isoHunt, involves digitally comparing photos found on...
This year, forget the ties and the socks for Father's Day gifts. If your dad loves technology, then we have the ultimate Father's day wish list. Whether your dad is a an app addict, shutterbug, needs to spruce up the home office, or already has all the gadgets in the world, there's something on...
What is Qlipso? A quick tutorial on social video sharing
12:00PM 4/08/2010
We don't go to movies alone, we don't watch our favorite teams alone and most of us don't even watch Lost alone; so why do we continue to watch our online videos alone? That's an issue that Qlipso, a new social-focused web company, wants to fix.
Qlipso made news recently by buying popular...
Last-minute, online gift ideas that won't make it look like you forgot!
11:00AM 12/24/2009
Undoubtedly someone will show up at your house or a holiday party this year bearing a gift for you; but you won't have anything, even a standby bottle of wine, to give them. So what are you to do? Last minute e-gift cards work, but they reek of, "Oops-I-forgot-about-you" to anyone who gets one time...
Coke thinks globally, acts socially and blogs totally with Expedition 206
3:40PM 11/25/2009
Company News, Technology, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Coca-Cola Company
There's an old saying: "Fish where the fish are." That's exactly the approach big brands are taking as the era of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube transforms how companies engage with consumers, especially the youth market. Case in point: Coca Cola (KO). The beverage giant is taking a deep dive into...
Starbucks' new Via instant coffee: Don't believe the hype
7:00PM 9/29/2009
I took my little boys to Starbucks (SBUX) this morning to witness the hype about its new instant coffee, Via, and we had plenty to see.
A near-life size silhouette of a woman holding a packet of the company's new instant coffee greeted me on the door. A large, three-dimensional display took up...
In February, Starbucks (SBUX) invited AOL to taste a secret new product. In my capacity as a coffee and Starbucks expert, I got a few samples of the product, Via, and uploaded photographs to Flickr before giving my verdict.
I'd almost forgotten that Via's national launch was coming up -- next...
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