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On November 7^th Google+ introduced brand pages. Since then 61% of the top 100 brands have jumped on the Google+ bandwagon. This is compared to the 93% of those same brands that are utilizing a Facebook fan page.

61% is pretty good for a young service but is it worth the trouble for you or your client to build and manage a brand page on Google+? 

During my last year of college, I was working on a spec campaign for Mike’s Hard Lemonade. I chose it because I had no desire to ever consume the stuff and I was looking for a challenge.

It’s been only three months since I made my last post on social music and there is already two new sites taking the web by storm. Click to read more about Turntable.fm and Spotify...

There are a lot of men in the United States with a problem similar to George Costanza’s. Cards can pile up fast and while they might not explode your wallet, they can definitely become a literal pain in the ass. Decades of men with sore backsides have been waiting for a revolution that would finally eliminate the need for a big bulky wallet. Thanks to Google, that day is not far away. Last week Google officially unveiled Google Wallet ...

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If social media is a cute little chirping bird then social music is a monster from the underworld scrobbling and meeping all over the web. For the past 3 years social music sites have been flooding the web, each amazingly bringing something different to the table. Including the weird sound they choose to associate with sharing music. No matter what unnatural sound is calling out from the site, they all have the same purpose; to share music...