Neil Vidyarthi

Our Social Times PRO team has been hard at work putting together the two latest PRO reports for our business-minded users out there, and I have to say that there are a ton of valuable insights in each of these.  I’m of course biased, but I can safely say that getting involved with Social Times [...]

You may have been seeing a boatload of promos for our upcoming Social Media Marketing Boot Camp hovering around the site, and this is just a friendly reminder to sign up!  The guest list on this newest one is pretty special, and includes  Gretchen Rubin (The Happiness Project), David Meerman Scott (Real-Time Marketing & PR), and Justin Smith [...]

Yup, as if Google+ wasn’t great enough already, with the smart grouping Circles, and easy integration with other services, their new Hangout service lets you easily set up a chat room for you and whoever you want.  That’s well and good, I hear you say, but it’s one of those things that’s best to just [...]

Zynga just announced that they have filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) related to their initial public offering.  The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the offering have not yet been determined, but the shares will be split between being sold by Zynga and by [...]

News Corp has sold MySpace to Specific Media, a digital media company.  The deals’ details were not disclosed, but reports are speculating that it’s in the $35 million area.  This ends an era for the once social networking leader.

The 2012 London Games Olympics Committee has issued their social media rules for games, and most importantly athletes are not permitted to advertise or post their own videos — you know, the ones that you always see the athletes taking during their breaks.

We’re proud to announce that the latest edition of Social Times PRO includes two new fantastic reports, including Facebook Credits: Deployment Strategies in Facebook Games and Facebook Ad Networks: A Guide To Monetizing Facebook Games & Apps.  The two have been crafted from research over the last few months and will help anybody in the [...]

The newest Social Media Marketing Boot Camp is starting tomorrow, and I have to say that the speakers and itinerary are really incredible.  We’ve had a big success on the past few boot camps, and now with our relationship with Inside Network we’re able to centralize a lot of experts from a variety of fields. [...]

Serial Entrepreneurs Brian Norgard and Dan Gould, founders of Newroo (acquired by News Corp) and Ad.ly (the largest micro endorsement platform), experimented their way into next creation: the world’s first real-time global conversation community.

Today, that community exists in limited release alpha at Namesake.com. Compared by many to Twitter, Quora, Facebook, Yahoo Answers and more, Namesake stands on its own differentiating laurels. Operating as a real-time conversation engine, the platform enables members to converse around topics which they are passionate about via an extremely intuitive user experience that has no peers.

Thanks to our new partnership with the Inside Network, we’re now able to present you with harder-hitting data and reports.  As an example, the June 2011 edition of the Facebook Marketing Bible: The Comprehensive Guide to Market Your Brand, Company, Product, or Service Inside Facebook is now available.