TweetRl is a site that has the objective of letting anybody monetize his own links by having them placed both on Twitter and StumbleUpon. That is, those who do use the site will have their own links relocated to these two social services. Submitting content to the site is not that different from submitting anything to a site like Digg, only that in this case you log in using your Twitter credentials. [...]

Recent discussions suggest that we’ve reached that point in the evolution of social media. What point? The point at which social networks have become sufficiently popular for entrepreneurs to recognize the potential of this as a market space not just for showing advertisements in well-defined sidebars, but through which they can actively generate sales by using and participating in the social medium [...]

Bored by the status updates of your friends? Want to get rid of your online teenage years and delete your MySpace account? Tired of living your life so that you have something to tweet about? Then get reality back, and commit social media suicide with Web2.0 Suicide Machine. The Dutch website created by your unfriendly neighbourhood medialab moddr_ is designed to end users’ social lives on Facebook, [...]

To use social media marketing (SMM) or not, that is the question. But what is the answer? This is a hot topic these days. There is definitely validity to all the arguments for and against using social media marketing. Some arguments against SMM are: • Social media doesn’t sell • Social media is all hype • The ROI on social media marketing can take months • ROI is impossible to determine • [...]