Websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.
Even before Google+ really kicks off, spammy sites are already looking to manipulate whatever influence +1’s have on a site’s rankings by selling them by the hundreds. Can the system be gamed so easily?
URL shorteners, such as bit.ly and tinyurl, are services that help take longer URLs (which can be over a hundred characters long) and transform them into manageable links that almost never exceed 20 characters.
The 2010 Online Marketing Summit was recently held in Dallas. Take a look at a few of our social media learns from the conference.