The Interactive Media events begins on March 12th, Austin, Texas.
Get more infos on Mashable: http://mashable.com/2010/03/10/social-media-guide-sxsw-2010/.
Tomorrow happens there :)
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Google's Liquid Galaxy is engineer Jason Holt's 20% time project, a wraparound view of 8 LCD screens providing a truly immersive experience of Google Earth and Street View.
he annual “UK Online Fraud Report,” which charts the experiences and expectations of over 200 UK e-tailers and the views of more than 1,000 UK consumers, found that four in 10 online businesses expected growth of 20% or less. But 6% said they hoped to more than double their revenues in the current year. Smaller retailers were generally more optimistic than larger ones.
Vita Coco—all-natural, 100% pure coconut water—has for many consumers become the best alternative to sports drinks and enhanced bottled waters. One reason: an 11.2-ounce/330-ml serving size of Vita Coco contains almost 700 mg of potassium, approximately 15 times more than the average sports drink in a similar serving size.
But why did Madonna invest in Vita Coco?
Here is the answer: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/vita-coco-best-selling-coconut-water,1143663.shtml
A year ago Facebook had 150 million users, and more than 200 million people visited the site monthly. I noted “You realize it’s like 1 in 5 people in the world that are on the internet visit Facebook.” Sandberg replied, joking “So we have 4 in 5 more to go.”
Grandfather of Israeli high tech, investor Yossi Vardi, talks with Jeff Pulver about securing the URL for ICQ (what became AOL Instant Messenger), why social media isn't really about information, and the reason he doesn't need to Tweet, at the 140 Characters Conference in Tel Aviv, December 6, 2009.
Video Produced by: GoGlobal New Media Marketing, http://www.Go-Global.TV
B2Bs less experienced but more active
The “2009 B2B Social Media Benchmarking Study” found that those B2B companies already using social media were much more active in the space than their B2C counterparts, especially when it came to microblogging, participating in discussions on third-party sites, blogging and monitoring company mentions on various social media.
Spending shifted among the major search engines, with Google losing some 5 percentage points of spending share from Q3 2008 to Q3 2009. Bing gained 2.9 percentage points in the same time period (compared with then-existing Microsoft search engines).
...or how to turn simple Facebook tagging into a super promotional tool for a new opening Ikea's store.
