Quick Pitch: Consumer Reports meets Yelp () for the purpose of creating buying alliances on behalf of the consumer. Genius Idea: Groubal is an advocacy platform that enables U.S. consumers to create online petitions and recruit others to their causes. Find your bank’s late payment fees unfair, or upset that you weren’t compensated by an
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Hey there, ma and pop: Are you hip to Twitter (), Facebook () and the myriad of other social media tools that are currently at your disposal — you know, the ones the teens and 20somethings have basically dovetailed into their everyday lives? Social media may seem like a vapid way for tweens to gossip
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When news breaks these days, YouTube is quickly becoming a tried-and-true source for fascinating and poignant video footage from on-the-ground citizen journalists. Because of its perceived growing importance in the Fourth Estate, YouTube () is testing a News Feed. This feature will highlight newsworthy videos uploaded by amateur videographers as well as professional news outlets.
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After months of rumors and hinting, Twitter has unveiled its major new foray into the world of geolocation, Twitter Places. This feature will highlight tweets at a given location. Starting now, Twitter.com desktop and mobile users can tag their tweets with existing Twitter Places and add new Twitter Places, too. Twitter Places can be explored
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“Old people” on Facebook: They couldn’t beat it, so they joined it. But why? And how did they hear about social media in the first place? They can’t all be simply stalking their younger relatives, can they? A new study from the AARP — that’s the American Association of Retired Persons — shows that baby
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The new trend in cable and network television is to turn to social media sites to recruit talent for reality series. Case in point, The Food Network has put out a challenge asking YouTubers to submit video entries to be considered for The Next Food Network Star. Entries will be accepted through July 16, and
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Kim Yeo-hee has been blowing up the tubes lately — the YouTubes, that is — with her iPhone-playing, singing, viral music videos, which have garnered millions of views over the past two months. Her efforts have paid off in spades; the Wall Street Journal reports that this young lady just signed a record deal. The
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Starbucks’ Vice President of Brand, Content and Online, Chris Bruzzo, is on stage at the Mashable Media Summit today and he just revealed that last year’s Free Pastry Day was a whopping success, driving more than one million people to stores. As we noticed, activity on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook () became electric
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Today at WWDC, Steve Jobs officially announced the brand new fourth-generation iPhone, to be called the iPhone 4. Thanks to that whole lost prototype incident, we’ve known what the phone was going to look like for several months. But now we have confirmation of the final design as well several of the 100 new features
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A recent study conducted by the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business showed that nearly one in five small business owners are integrating social media into their business processes, and that technology adoption rates in the U.S. among small businesses have doubled in the past year from 12% to 24%. Whether your business is
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