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How to Find People Impersonating You Using Google Image Search

By affaholic on Monday, June 20th, 2011 | No Comments

Any image you see online can be easily copied and put somewhere else online and there’s not much you can do about it. Google recently updated their image search to allow you to search for images similar to one that you upload or one that is already online. Here’s their video for it: (the drag-and-drop kinda [...]

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Forever 21, Facebook and Brand You

By affaholic on Monday, June 6th, 2011 | No Comments

Fantastic essay from N+1, The Accidental Bricoleurs by Rob Horning. Read the whole thing. Discussion of this essay on Metafilter. My favorite quotes: “Forever 21 was a brilliant name for a fast-fashion retailer. These two words succinctly encapsulate consumerism’s mission statement: to evoke the dream of perpetual youth through constant shopping.” … “The all-purpose excuse [...]

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Email Marketing and Paid Search Still Beat Social Media

By affaholic on Saturday, April 9th, 2011 | No Comments

Forrester Research analyst Sucharita Mulpur interviewed 24 tech vendors on their experiences using Facebook for marketing and engagement: A social-network presence, she found, was less effective at customer acquisition and retention than e-mail and paid search. The study found that the average Facebook metrics are a 1% click-through rate and a 2% conversion rate. E-mail marketing, [...]

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Your Email Can Be Seized Without Warrant After Six Months

By affaholic on Friday, April 8th, 2011 | No Comments

Back when everyone downloaded their email to their machine every time they checked email the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act considered email older than 180 days to be ‘abandoned.’ A coalition of internet service providers and other groups, known as Digital Due Process, has lobbied for an update to the law to treat both cloud- [...]

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Quora at It’s Best

By affaholic on Friday, April 8th, 2011 | No Comments

Lots of hype about Quora but the site excels when you get answers straight from the horse’s mouth: View full post on Andy Wibbels

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Social Media and the Mom-and-Pop Shop

By affaholic on Thursday, April 7th, 2011 | No Comments

Get Satisfaction CEO Thor Muller spoke at the Oakland Digital Literacy Center’s social media symposium for small business. Great excerpt from his blog post about small business and social media: [M]y father, a long-time restaurateur in San Jose, California, is currently in the process of resurrecting a restaurant called Lou’s Village after several years of [...]

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