The ephemeral now has value, at least for users of cellphones. More than 60 million photos or messages are sent each day through an app called Snapchat and then, after they are viewed for a... Read more
Can you imagine a service like Twitter without advertising, spammers and URL shorteners? Without clunky official clients, and without hostility towards the third-party ecosystem? The 12 stro... Read more
Companies that promote the exchange of rides are joining a wave of so-called collaborative consumption sites The annual ritual of piling into the car for the great American summer road trip... Read more
It’s time for a new picture. Think “innovative startup” and the picture of an entrepreneur under 30 generally comes to mind — someone ready to feed new products to the coveted 18-to-34 demog... Read more
Fab has already racked up more than 4.5 million members BUMBLEBEE-STRIPED or polka-dotted, neon orange or neo-argyle, socks of all types are selling out fast on Fab.com, a popular des... Read more
Advertising To Humans As More Than Just Selfish Machines For decades, companies have made you feel inadequate in order to get you to buy things. In an excerpt from his new book Story... Read more
Charities need us more than ever. It’s not an easy time to be a charity but many of them are turning to social media to connect with potential donors. In these days of straitened budgets, fe... Read more
The head of the Global Philanthropy Forum on what the future of giving–both from individuals and corporations–holds. The world of philanthropy has changed dramatically over the p... Read more
Users are rapidly adopting new interest-based social networks With the pending public offering of Facebook anticipated to be the largest tech IPO in history, it’s an interesting time... Read more
Village Defense saw crime rates dropped 58% in the first year If you’ve ever lived within the bounds of a Neighborhood Watch footprint, you have no doubt been astonished by the... Read more
“the world’s largest canned food sculpture.” Here at Marketing Pilgrim we like to give our readers some exposure to unconventional uses of social media. Let’s face it, there are so ma... Read more
Can an online algorithm track down your child? In some cases, yes — and if you’re a parent, it could alarm you too. Consider the case of Maggie Leifer McGary, mother, blogger and soci... Read more
In general I can see people using G+ while people simply play with Facebook Yesterday Erick and I had an interesting discussion about Facebook vs. Google+ and I came down on the side of G+.... Read more
“People’s lives are saved with Twitter.” Before the police or news reporters had even arrived at the underpass outside Veracruz where gunmen held up traffic and dumped 35 bodies at rush hour... Read more
