"The “Mad Men” days, where brands will have an ad agency in charge of coming up with ad creatives, (have passed). It’s almost like the content part of the brand is actually separate at ad agency. But what social is — word of mouth really — it’s finding your organic content that works and simply amplifying it so there’s actually less of a need to come up with this witty, creative ad, it’s more about which of your organic content is already growing and just amplifying this message. I think this is the main difference between social ads and display ads or TV ads as we know it."

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Flickr now has more and better filters than Instagram. There’s the ability to like your friends’ photos just as you can on Instagram. It’s got geotagging (which, up until a new photo taking button, was the only product innovation Instagram had provided since launching the product 2 years ago). It has the ability to push the photo updates out to Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter (Instagam no longer plays nice with Twitter).

All these updates would be enough to make Flickr’s mobile app better than Instagram’s. However, they still have the ability to push the photos out to groups of all kinds (always a Flickr strength), photo stats (how many times has your photo been viewed? and on which camera was it taken?), and storage. That last one is big. Because it actually allows Flickr to generate revenue, something which Instagram has yet to do since its inception. I’ve been a pro subscriber for years now and I’ll keep re-upping. All my public and private photos are there.

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Marissa Mayer Just Embarrassed Twitter And Instagram With The New Flickr Mobile App Update - Forbes

It’s like I can’t keep track of who’s David and who’s Goliath anymore, and that’s fascinating.


"With little control over the way our customers experience our brand on sites like Facebook, differentiating ourselves becomes problematic. That’s the problem with social media that we don’t own – its value is constantly at risk."

robdotrob: To Anyone Who Says Instagram Dollars Should Have Been Used To Instead Fix The World's Problems

robdotrob:

By discouraging high price tags on the products of creativity, we are only discouraging creativity. Not only will this result in our lives being more boring to experience, but we’ll be limiting our ability to see our own creative potential.

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This study is an example of the Pareto Principle — or 80-20 Rule — at work, with 20 percent of Facebook users generating 80 percent of the content.

“There is nothing wrong with that, but that usually applies to one-to-one or didactic relationships,” Ladik told TechNewsWorld. “Social network relationships are different.”

For example, say a person has 10 friends, and each of them also has 10 friends. “If everyone sends out five messages, they will receive 100 messages — so, of course, a user will get more than he or she gives,” said Ladik. “It is simply the mathematics of a network.”

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"It seems to be the moment when Zuckerberg decides not to work for somebody else, and to strike out on his own to build what would become Facebook."

"Google and Facebook would have you believe that you’re a mirror,” he said, “but in fact, we’re more like diamonds.” - multi-faceted."

Facebook…haha love this.

no notifications

your ex looks adorable, and has a new girlfriend

someone tries and starts a poke war

reading some ones fight

1 new message from your crush

somebody posts something rude aimed you

mohammed akajamalarmaladee adds you…

looking through some skanks thousands of selfies

reading some bitches song lyric status

people post ”gettinggg drunkk”

groups filling up my newsfeed

move onto TUMBLR

(via mizfancy)