Author: Connor Livingston
GM to stop advertising on Facebook
9 hours ago by Connor Livingston | add commentJust ahead of the much-discussed Facebook IPO, General Motors announced that they plan to cease advertising on the social networking site. They will continue to market on Facebook through the free Facebook pages but will not be paying Facebook for ads. Their reason is something that most ads executives have more »
The state of the internet
May 12 by Connor Livingston | add commentNot much needs to be said, here. We’re all on the internet. There are definitely people who are not, but for the most part it is a tool that affects nearly everyone worldwide even if they aren’t users themselves. One would be hard-pressed to find more »
Yelp reviews are the most valuable "social currency" out there: study
May 12 by Connor Livingston | add commentWith so much money going into social media as a marketing and branding tool, it’s hard for businesses to discern the true value that their social media efforts are bringing. How much are they really getting when someone posts a tweet about them more »
Can Google Hangouts get enough traction to make it worthy of its function?
May 10 by Connor Livingston | 1 commentThis is what social media was designed to do in the first place. Heck, it’s what the internet promised to be able to do all those years ago. It has the right company building it, the right technology supporting, and is coming out at a time when it is not only desired but also more »
30,000 dominoes used to pay tribute to Nintendo
May 9 by Connor Livingston | add commentAs Alfred put it in The Dark Knight, “Some men just want to watch the world burn.” Then, there are those who just want to build something over time just to watch them fall down again. That’s the feeling one gets when watching this tribute to Nintendo made from 30,000 more »
All of this now fits in your pocket
May 7 by Connor Livingston | 8 commentsTechnology is amazing and we all know it. What we may forget or even take for granted is that there was a time around thirty years ago when we needed dozens of different devices to do the things that we do with our current smartphones. As they put more »
If you could take your Facebook friends and put them all on Google Plus, would you?
May 7 by Connor Livingston | 3 comments“It’s a ghost town.” “I’m used to Facebook.” “I already have all of my pictures and stuff on Facebook.” “The mobile apps are getting better. They promised they’d get better.” “It’s a ghost town.” There are always going to be reasons to avoid change. It’s human nature more »
The rise of the mobile employee
May 5 by Connor Livingston | 1 commentThere was a time not too long ago when the only employees who could be considered “mobile” were the high-powered executives with cellular phones in their Lincoln Continentals. The business world shifted with the rise of the Blackberry and more »
The history of encryption
May 4 by Connor Livingston | add commentSensitive data has always been a challenge to deliver securely. Even in the days of the Spartans, military commanders would use ingenious encryption techniques to communicate with each other across distances. Today, we have an ongoing battle for data security that more »
The Facebook Ivy League faceoff
May 4 by Connor Livingston | add commentFacebook was started in a dorm room at Harvard, so it’s fitting to see that the social network is most popular there when compared to other Ivy League schools. What started off as a play for exclusivity has opened up to become one of the most prolific web companies of all time. more »
Are Tumblr ads worth $25,000?
May 2 by Connor Livingston | add commentAt some point, nearly every social media startup intends to make money. Tumblr has held off for quite some time, but now they are about to roll out their revenue model: ads. [caption id=”" align=”alignright” width=”240″ caption=”tumblr blog more »
Foursquare makes things easier for businesses... at a cost
May 1 by Connor Livingston | add commentMerchant tools on Foursquare are free and the company claims to want to always keep them that way. It’s challenging for Foursquare to make money when they don’t charge their 750,000 businesses for their listings and they definitely won’t charge the 20,000,000 more »
Posted May 14, 2012 in Microsoft employees like Capri Sun, Google employees like bacon
Posted May 10, 2012 in The invaluable social media custom graphics cheat sheet
Posted May 15, 2012 in Do you own your Tweets?
Posted May 14, 2012 in Microsoft employees like Capri Sun, Google employees like bacon
Posted May 14, 2012 in Microsoft employees like Capri Sun, Google employees like bacon