Advertising: A Social Network Review of Super Bowl Commercials
USA Today is adding a social network to its Super Bowl Ad Meter, teaming with Facebook to rate and share Super Bowl commercials.
Media Decoder Blog: My Dinner With Clay Shirky, and What It Means to ‘Friend’ Someone
You can follow someone on Twitter and friend them on Facebook, but real friends are people you break bread with.
Media Decoder Blog: The Breakfast Meeting: Clint’s Ad Becomes a Political Football, and Dickens at 200
Also, taking a closer look at those "active" Facebook members.
Media Decoder Blog: The Breakfast Meeting: Clint’s Ad Becomes a Political Football, and Dickens at 200
Also, taking a closer look at those "active" Facebook members.
Media Decoder Blog: Facebook Now Must Balance User Experience and Investor Experience
Facebook has largely managed to avoid being seen as greedy, or potentially dangerous, but that gets complicated when you are sitting on billions of dollars in market value.
The Media Equation: At BuzzFeed, the Significant and the Silly
The Web site is trying for pollination: providing the kind of content that will have visitors passing along links from one person to the next, that will in turn bring them around to BuzzFeed.
Media Decoder: A Super Bowl Where Viewers Let Their Fingers Do the Talking
Twitter was abuzz with comments during the big game, reaching a peak of 12,223 posts per second, with a total of about 15 million.
Advertising: Some Super Bowl Ads Being Seen Long Before the Game – Advertising
Advertisers placed many Super Bowl spots on YouTube or social media well ahead of the game, hoping to start a conversation and generate follow-up interest.
Media Decoder Blog: The Breakfast Meeting: Super Bowl ‘Ad Creep,’ and Online Backlash at Cancer Foundation
Also, federal authorities seize 16 sites that were allegedly streaming live sporting events, and how Mark Zuckerberg built Facebook in his own image.
South Korea Indicts Park Jung-geun Over Twitter Posts
South Korean prosecutors indicted Park Jung-geun, a social media and freedom of speech activist this week for reposting messages from the North Korean government’s Twitter account.
Tumblr Hires Writers to Cover Itself
The social blogging site has hired a content executive and a Newsweek writer to document the service and market it to users.
Media Decoder Blog: Obama Favors Interviews Over Impromptu Q.&A.’s, Study Finds
His total number of interviews -- 408 times -- is higher than his predecessors', but he relatively rarely takes questions at photo opportunities and the like.
