Announcements

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Guest

This week we were joined by Amanda MacNaughton, the co-founder of CultureJam. CultureJam is the company behind PromoJam, a popular solution for running social media based marketing campaigns for companies, brands and artists. We had a great discussion about how she started the company with her brother and how major brands and celebrities are using CultureJam’s solutions to reach customers and fans.

App of the Week

This week we covered a handful of useful apps for checking your username across all sites at once. Mashable had a great wrap-up of the most popular services we discussed.

News

Facebook Places Announcement - official promo video
Facebook launched their long awaited location checkin service (current landscape of location check in services). The launch was met with both confusion and concern regarding Places privacy settings.

“McAfee Most Dangerous Celebrities” report released.
Security software company McAfee published the fourth version of “McAfee Most Dangerous Celebrities”. The report ranks the percentage risk of landing on a malicious site when searching for their name. The top five most risky searches included Cameron Diaz at number one followed by Julia Roberts, Jessica Biel (was number one last year), Gisele Bundchen and Brad Pitt.

Great Moment in Social Media

Lionsgate created a great viral video campaign using Chatroulette for their upcoming Film “The Last Exorcism”. Make sure to watch the video here.