Posts Tagged ‘Events’

Earlier this week FanFueled officially launched a new event ticketing and marketing platform that offers a Win-Win situation for event marketers and fans. The service harnesses the power of social media to reward fans for building a buzz around the events they are attending.

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

A unique map-based event organizer, Syncuz enables groups to synchronize their location on the fly without calling or texting. Syncuz users simply create an event, place the event’s location on the Syncuz map, and invite contacts to be part of that event-specific group.

In Germany, a Facebook privacy snafu brought a lot of uninvited guests to a 16-year old girl’s birthday party. When the girl, Tessa, created the event on Facebook she made the mistake of listing her private party as a public event and over 1,400 people showed up.

Our mediabistro team has put together a fantastic roster of online courses for the summer, and if you sign up today you’ll get 25% off your registration fee!  I personally have taken a few of the courses and found that they really will push you to complete your homework and formalize your education in whatever [...]

The world of online video doesn’t have to be restricted to the world of “online”. Sometimes it’s nice to step away from your computer screen and get out in nature to talk about your passions and meet the faces of web video out in the real world.

During a panel at the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco, the top Facebook game developers spoke about the state of the Facebook Platform and social games in general. The silence from panelists when Justin Smith asked the panelists about what Facebook can do to help small developers echoed the overall consensus from many in the room.

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Imagine what the workplace looked like before the Internet and PC revolutions. Now imagine the impacts as high speed broadband and cloud computing transform the global workplace. GigaOM’s flagship conference, Structure, returns on June 23rd and 24th for two days of deep insight into the cloud computing industry. Taking place at the Mission Bay Conference [...]

For the past few weeks we’ve been working hard at finalizing the agenda for the upcoming Social Developer Summit and are finally near completion. While there are still a few more speakers that we have left to announce, we’re really excited about how things are shaping up. If you are still figuring out whether or [...]

Jeff Cook, founder of MyYearBook, showcased MyYearBook as an up and coming social network and a place to meet new people. Founded 5 yrs ago, the social platform has grown to 80 employees and generating roughly $20 million revenue a year. Standing in stark contrast to Facebook where users are bound by their real social [...]