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What is social media doing to our youth?

Austin Startup

I joined Facebook in November 2005 and Twitter in November 2009. In both years I was a freshman in high school and college, respectively, and interestingly enough, a freshman at new-age social media. As kids in this “first” social media generation, we really didn’t know what this power meant, and our parents certainly didn’t.

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Twitter Link Roundup #115 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why do we continue to obsess about size?

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Be Shareable

YoungUpstarts

With each new video, we had pushed the limits further and further, which gained us international attention and eventually led to meeting Ronaldo’s team and getting into business with him to launch a new brand. The resulting video, “Ronaldo in Disguise,” became an immediate viral sensation. The shoot was on.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph to combat late fees for video rentals. The company didn’t turn a profit until 2003, but by 2005 business was booming – Netflix was shipping out a million DVDs daily. Reddit, a popular website for news and discussion, was founded in 2005 by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

By day he works on web and social media for HP. Predicting Streaming Video and the Birth of the Spreadsheet. A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks. It was difficult because we had limited bandwidth to send the bits through, and limited processing power to compress and decompress the video.

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The Evolution Of The Podcast

Duct Tape Marketing

Todd is the CEO of Blubrry Podcasting – a podcast media company that represents 105,000 Audio and Video podcasters in which his company provides advertising opportunities, media distribution/hosting, podcast media statistics, and other services. This is John Jantsch. My guest today is Todd Cochrane.

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The Top 10 Duct Tape Marketing Podcast Episodes for 2020

Duct Tape Marketing

In the past few years, several of his video campaigns have amassed more than five billion views, and 35 of them have landed on the first page of YouTube. Kara Goldin is the founder and CEO of Hint Water, a flavored water brand founded in 2005. Biggest takeaway: Today everybody has a megaphone. Click here to listen to the episode.