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Interview with Ian Swanson, Sometrics

socalTECH

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. So who is using your software? We also just recently launched a standard API, which allows any social networking site to use our analytics code.

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Interview with Sometrics, Ian Swanson

socalTECH

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. So who is using your software? We also just recently launched a standard API, which allows any social networking site to use our analytics code.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

People mistook the fact that these text advertisements worked in Google to say they would work in social networks. So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on social networks has performed poorly to date. After all, when I’m in Facebook they know one hell of a lot more about me than Google does. Just ask MySpace.

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Creator…Know Thine Users! | Making Apps the Markets Want

Tech Zulu Event

If you’re new to software development, you may be asking yourself, “What the heck is a User Story, anyway?” ” Put simply, a User Story is the analysis of a user’s mindset, their goals with your application and a consideration of how they would use it to accomplish certain tasks.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!