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Disney Names Playdom's Pleasants, Yahoo's Pitaro As Co-Presidents

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Burbank-based Walt Disney said this weekend that it has promoted John Pleasants, the former CEO of Playdom , as co-President of its Disney Interactive Media Group , along with James Pitaro, most recently of Yahoo! Pleasants joined Disney in July, when Disney paid more than $760M for social games developer Playdom. READ MORE>>.

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San Diego Meets the Xconomists: When Social Media is Not Enough

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View the Slideshow The technology for online social networks arrived practically hand-in-hand with the Internet. Since the advent of the World Wide Web in the mid-1990s, we’ve seen such networks proliferate, from the Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link (remember The WELL?)

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How urRadio Wants To Make You The Radio Station

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We spoke with founder and CEO Tyler Francois to hear about his vision for making anyone an Internet radio DJ, and how the team--made up of former Yahoo! Tyler Francois: urRadio is an all new, social media app, which allows you to host your own Internet radio station. We have vast experience in the social fields as well.

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The 7 “Free” Ways to Get Traffic on the Web

Jason Nazar

The 7 Ways to Get (unpaid) Traffic on the Web. “If There are 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web, in no weighted order they are: 1.) Social Media. The web is interconnected, and traffic flows between sites that interlink.The more sites that link to you, the more sustainable traffic you build overtime. Search Engines.

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Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit

Eric Greenspan

I’ve been engaged with social networking for some time now, starting with Myspace and Facebook and just recently (within the last 30 days), Twitter. I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, I love Namechk.com for this.

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Digital LA: Branded Entertainment Panel Live!

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and live shows (CMA Awards Red Carpet, Oscars Backstage Pass – All Access Show Oscar.com) for Disney/ABC Television Digital Media Group. Neal Weiss, Yahoo! Originals is Yahoo!’s At Agility Studios, closed Puma deal for integration into director Jon Chu’s LXD dance web series, now at Paramount Digital.

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5 Marketing Software Tools Every Business Should Have

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Hootsuite helps you publish and track content by connecting to all of your social media accounts. With Hootsuite you can schedule regular social media updates, find hot content to share, monitor customer interaction and even create sweepstakes or polls. Here is our list: Hootsuite. ConstantContact.