Articles about Social Media – Page 14 of 15

Vizify scores $1.2M to turn your social networking chatter into beautiful visualizations

Maybe all of that incubation really does pay off. Vizify, a Portland startup that had the unique honor of participating… Read More

Starbucks appoints 29-year-old social media expert with Microsoft and Google roots to its board

Starbucks is getting more serious about its social media efforts, and the Seattle coffee giant just named a 29-year-old rising… Read More

Fantasy Shopper wins top prize at Amazon Web Services’ annual Start-Up Challenge

More than 1,500 companies applied from 78 countries. But, at the end of day, England’s Fantasy Shopper took home the… Read More

Google+ opens to businesses, with link to Google search

Google today announced the long-awaited debut of pages for businesses on Google+, looking to boost the functionality of its fledgling… Read More

Social media monitoring firm Visible Technologies adds $1.5M

Visible Technologies has reeled in an additional $1.5 million, bringing total financing in the maker of social media monitoring technologies… Read More

Social media agency Spring Creek acquired by Mediabrands

Spring Creek Group, a five-year-old social media agency, has been acquired by Interpublic Group’s Mediabrands unit for an undisclosed price.… Read More

Social media agency Banyan Branch takes root with $1.7M

Banyan Branch, the Seattle-based social media marketing firm whose clients include Hartz, Porsche and Gilt Groupe, has raised $1.7 million… Read More

Insights from F8: Facebook’s content strategy is a game changer

F8 now has several years under its belt, and attendees and the media have come to expect that as Mark… Read More

Social media monitoring firm Visible raises $4 million

Visible Technologies, the Bellevue company which provides social media monitoring technologies to Boost Mobile, DirecTV, Vail Resorts and others, has… Read More

Does Facebook’s new ‘subscribe’ button go too far?

Here’s a surprise. Facebook is copying Twitter. Again. But this time, they might be going too far — for their… Read More

Seattle gamification startup BigDoor buys OneTrueFan

BigDoor believes it has the keys to success to increase engagement on Web sites. And today the fast-growing Seattle startup… Read More

Intersect raises cash to help people chronicle and share their personal journeys

It has been nearly a year since Peter Rinearson’s stealthy Intersect started testing its social networking service, a new way… Read More

Chart: Twitter and Facebook chatter mushroomed as stock market tanked

There’s an old adage in the media business that “if it bleeds, it leads.” That also seems to be holding… Read More

Recap: Twitter and Obama reinvent the town hall, with a little help from algorithms

Guest Post: Today, President Obama participated in the first White House Town Hall on Twitter. The White House asked people… Read More

Obama’s latest social media Town Hall: Will Twitter do better than Facebook?

Twitter will be in the spotlight today, along with President Obama, as the company and the White House present a… Read More

Finding the ‘recipe’ for digital democracy in the Middle East

As Americans celebrate their revolutionary anniversary today, other countries, especially in the Middle East, are still in the midst of… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Alien landings, baseball standings and other iPrediktions

Aliens will first land in Chechnya. Sarah Palin will not run for president in 2012. And the Mariners will be… Read More

A creative explosion set for Tuesday: Sir Mix-A-Lot meets Giant Thinkwell

This is going to be fun to watch. The creative forces of Sir Mix-A-Lot and Giant Thinkwell are set to collide… Read More

Votocracy looks to shake-up 2012 presidential race, recruits Average Joes to campaign online

Think you’re better equipped to run for president than Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney or Barack Obama? If so, Votocracy wants… Read More

Venpop looks to turn Facebook pages into social shopping destinations

More and more retailers are thinking about ways to conduct business on Facebook and Twitter. That, in turn, is sparking… Read More

Weiner says to blame him, nothing wrong with Twitter

OK, we admit it, we tuned in to see the latest in the Anthony Weiner debacle today, as the Congressman… Read More

Why your product must be social — not just your marketing

Guest Commentary: If you market to consumers, you will be out of business in 10 years if you don’t have… Read More

Rep. Weiner claims Twitter hack as lewd photo sent to Seattle college student

A Seattle college student has found herself in the middle of an Internet kerfuffle after a lewd photo was allegedly… Read More

Geek of the Week: Arianna O’Dell — entrepreneur, marketer, startup sparkplug

Arianna O’Dell, GeekWire’s latest Geek of the Week, has an infectious entrepreneurial spirit, a mind for marketing, and a million startup… Read More

Prosodic to help brands cut through social media noise by predicting what Facebook posts will resonate

As the head of social media agency Nology Media, Leigh Fatzinger would sometimes publish as many as 5,000 Facebook posts… Read More

CityGrid Media buys social media monitoring service BuzzLabs

The consolidation continues in the social media monitoring space. And now one of Seattle’s upstarts is benefiting. BuzzLabs, a 2-year-old… Read More

Sex columnist Dan Savage: The undisputed social media news king of Seattle

The Stranger’s Dan Savage is crude, lewd and, at times, outrageously funny. Seattle’s best-known sex advice columnist also is an… Read More

Social media monitoring startup Visible Technologies raises $6 million

Visible Technologies has raised an additional $6 million, money that CEO Kelly Pennock said will help the heavily-funded company accelerate… Read More

The ‘Fourth Place’: Starbucks as a technology giant

Starbucks has always aspired to be the quintessential “third place,” giving people another place to settle in apart from home… Read More

Podcast

Rewind: Hanson Hosein on SxSW, iPad 2, NYT paywall

Our guest this past weekend on the inaugural GeekWire Podcast was television news veteran and gadget aficionado Hanson Hosein, director… Read More