NTK, 15 years later

Source: Waxy.org Links

Give or take a few days, it was fifteen years ago that I hit send on the first official issue of NTK. I was hiding out at a start-up called Virgin Internet, trying to work out how to bring Usenet to the masses, or something. I added people to ...
Full article at: Waxy.org Links  More like this  15 hours ago, 12:46pm CDT

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Groupon

Source: OpPapers.com

The name Groupon is a combination of the words "group" and "coupon," which references the company's viral marketing business model .Groupon is a "deal-of-the-day" company which sells coupons and gift certificates that are redeemabl ...
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BuySiteTraffic.com Now Offers Twitter Followers, Facebook Fans and...

Source: PRWeb

Social media is viral marketing tool for online businesses to increase their online presence. BuySiteTraffic.com, one of the industry’s leading web traffic provider, announced today that it is now offering social media marketing services ...
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When social media marketing goes right

Source: Globe and Mail

It started with a “Rawr” and ended with a ’ roo. But Samsung Canada’s latest social media marketing effort has grown into something more than the tiny whimsical exchange that began on Facebook. On Wednesday, Samsung customer Shane Bennett, ...
Full article at: Globe and Mail  More like this  1 day ago, 5:37pm CDT

Men in Black and anomalous experiences: Sometimes we just don’t know what the heck happened

Source: Skeptic

Slate has an interesting article on reports of real Men In Black. A comic book series was inspired by real life reports of visits related by people who have seen UFOs. The comics inspired the movie series with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. The thir ...
Full article at: Skeptic  More like this  1 day ago, 10:39am CDT

New Dark Knight Rises Posters Show Batman and Bane Face Off [SLIDESHOW]

Source: International Business Times

New posters released for The Dark Knight Rises give a glimpse of the scale of director Christopher Nolan's final chapter in the Batman trilogy. The film, starring Christian Bale as Batman and Tom Hardy as the steroid-fuelled terrorist B ...
Full article at: International Business Times  More like this  2 days ago, 3:26am CDT

CANSA condemns tobacco's marketing tactics

Source: Biz Community

Tobacco smoking, including second-hand smoke, is known to cause lung cancer, heart disease and other illnesses. It kills almost 6 million people a year, an average of one person every six seconds with the biggest rise in low- an ...
Full article at: Biz Community  More like this  2 days ago, 3:17am CDT

WWE Breaking News: The WWE's 'A Revolution Is Coming' Subject Revealed

Source: Bleacher Report

It seems as though the revolution that the WWE was plugging in their recent viral marketing campaign on WWE.com was nothing more than a plug for the latest installment of the WWE’s video game series, WWE ’13. With countless different scenarios coming ...
Full article at: Bleacher Report  More like this  2 days ago, 3:58pm CDT

Hey, a New Use for LinkedIn: A Viral Marketing Campaign for Prometheus

Source: Betabeat

Faux Mr. Weyland in a faux TED Talk. (Prometheus-movie.com) Slightly strange emails from LinkedIn recruiters are nothing out of the ordinary. But writer and UX designer Dustin Curtis (whose work you might recognize) reports that he recently ...
Full article at: Betabeat  More like this  2 days ago, 2:30pm CDT