Can you imagine trying to sort through billions of web pages without a search engine? Inconceivable! They make it easy and fast to find information. Now how about finding one of the six billion people on the planet. Where?s the Google of people search? As it turns out, an entire industry of people search engines is ramping up. In this series, I?ll be looking at the people search engines: …
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The Influence of a Social Media Internet
If you believe that social media begins and ends with sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Digg, Reddit and Sphinn, that rock you?re living underneath must be cozy. If you assume social web sites are all about eye candy and juicy talk, you may be right. A new book called, The New Influencers ? A Marketer?s Guide to the New Social Media by Paul Gillin , was my reading companion during a recent …