Tripadvisor recently stated that 87% of travelers read reviews when planning their next trip, and a growing number of people are using online reviews and social media sites to determine where they choose to dine, even locally. Is your restaurant taking advantage of social media marketing? newspaper and yellowpage ads are not only expensive, but [...]
Overview: Tip’d is a niche social news aggregation site with a specific focus on financial news, tips, and ideas.
Defined: Relatively new on the social media scene, Tip’d was launched in September of 2008 to inform and engage investing newbies and gurus alike. Similar to digg, reddit, mixx, Newsvine, Propeller, and others, Tip’d users can comment [...]
Overview: A direct competitor to digg and reddit, Mixx is a customizable social news site that combines social networking and social bookmarking together to provide the most quality and relevant internet articles. While much younger and less popular than its competitors, Mixx has a number of unique features that make it a worthy foe of [...]
Overview: Plaxo is a social networking platform that allows users to keep up with their contacts online and share information with other Plaxo users in a similar fashion to LinkedIn.com.
Defined: With over 20 million users, Plaxo has seen significant growth since it’s launch in May of 2003. The platform is not as widely used as [...]
Overview: Much like digg and reddit, Propeller is a social news portal, where users can vote up the most interesting news stories to the front page and interact with other users on the site. While Propeller is extremely easy to navigate, it lags behind the popularity of its competitors and offers little in the way [...]
Overview: friendfeed is a noble attempt to bring the countless social media applications out there under one roof, to make it easy to keep up with every bookmark, video, link, review, RSS, and otherwise that your friends might be posting on the internet. Unfortunately, friendfeed still has some work to do.
Defined: Launched with huge investment [...]
Overview: Squidoo is a collection of millions of pages made by individual users about whatever topic they so choose. While setting up your own page doesn’t cost anything and does have the potential of earning revenues from advertisements, there are a number of aspects that make Squidoo a poor choice for investing time into.
Defined: With [...]
Overview: twitter is a microblogging application that is more or less a combination of instant messaging and blogging. twitter has quickly established itself as a powerful tool for communicating news, market trends, questions and answers, links, and a whole lot more with numerous benefits for business and personal use.
Defined: For many users, twitter is a [...]
Overview: Yelp is an incredible online community of locals and travelers that have honest opinions about everything. Through user reviews and ratings, you can find a wealth of information on the best and worst places to eat, visit, and do business with from restaurants to dentists. Yelp is a powerful tool with both business and [...]
Overview: StumbleUpon’s 6 million + users ensure that this social bookmarking tool allows you to discover and share websites that you otherwise might never find. Not only is StumbeUpon a great tool for creating extra traffic on your website, it also provides a means of finding other quality sites with benefits for both personal and [...]
