“People used to take days off from work in the summer to watch the Olympics,” said Kenneth C. Wisnefski, founder and chief executive of Internet marketing company Webimax. No longer. Wisnefski expects to see a drop in midday TV ratings because people will check their Facebook and Twitter accounts for real-time updates while on the go.  Read more

The United States Supreme Court largely upheld the Affordable Care Act in a 5 to 4 decision, marking a major victory for the Obama administration and greatly impacting small businesses.  Kenneth Wisnefski discusses the impact of the Affordable Care Act on small businesses.  Read more

We know the Houston area is receptive, given the success of Yao Ming. In addition, the inroads that were developed with Yao Ming in the international Asian market can carry over and impact Jeremy Lin’s brand recognition.  Read more

Thousands worried that they would lose Internet access after the Federal Bureau of Investigation pulled the plug Monday on a safety net set up to keep machines infected with a widespread virus online.  Kenneth Wisnefski discusses online security.  Read more

Facebook is reportedly exploring the option of removing the minimum age requirement and allowing children under the age of 13 to access the platform with parental supervision. At this point, the social media titan requires users to register their birthdate at or above 13 years old.  Read more

Kenneth Wisnefski, social media expert and founder and CEO of WebiMax, expects activity during the Finals to smash the record for Twitter chatter for a major sporting event. That was set during the New York Giants’ victory in the Super Bowl at 10,200 tweets per second.  Read more

Recently, proposed bills such as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) have stalled, largely because of negative backlash by Internet companies and, more importantly, the Obama administration.  Kenneth Wisnefski discusses online security in addition to the proposed SOPA and PIPA.  Read more

Google launched a major update to their search engine algorithm, titled the Penguin update on April 24th. The Penguin update targets websites and businesses that Google has identified as over-optimized and penalizes them for trying to trick their search algorithm and increase rankings. This update is predicted to impact 3% of all search queries.  Read more

Now that Rick Santorum has suspended his campaign and the race is on between President Obama and Mitt Romney, an unprecedented media war has begun. We’ve seen big media battles before. But in money, in woman- and man-hours, and in technical and strategic sophistication, this will be the biggest ever. Especially in Pennsylvania and other swing states, you’ll see television ads from both camps, and from the semianonymous political action committees that have become the coin of the 2012 realm.  Read more

Kenneth Wisnefski, founder and CEO of WebiMax, a leading search engine optimization firm, announced the online search industry has undertaken major changes in the past year and further indicates more changes are expected in the short-term.  Read more

A heated debate has emerged over social media users’ right to privacy stemming from recent reports of corporations and government agencies asking potential applicants to surrender their Facebook login credentials during job interviews.  Read more

The United States Postal Service recently announced the agency will consolidate or eliminate more than 35,000 jobs in the U.S. This comes as the agency has struggled over the past few years to generate a positive net-income. It is on a three-year plan to save $20 billion.  Read more

The media frenzy surrounding the sudden rise of New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin may be cooling, but it offers important branding lessons on how small businesses can raise their profiles. Lin’s surge to fame primarily reflected through social media and traditional media coverage alike has given marketers and advertisers an opportunity to leverage a trending phenomenon. Furthermore, it provides an example of an age-old marketing tactic.  Read more

It was a leaderless movement that waged war via new media. It got big people to back down and mighty corporations to change their ways. Stoked by the blogosphere and social media, the public outcry against talk-show host Rush Limbaugh may have helped spur an exodus of sponsors from his show, both nationally and locally.  Read more

This is now becoming more than a trend — viral is, in large part, the future of marketing. We’ve seen the physics of viral, most recently with “Tebowmania” and then its maturation with “Lin-sanity.”  But individuals, companies and now social causes are harnessing the exceptional power of viral for significant marketing gain.  Read more

Facebook disclosed an eye-opening fact this month when it filed its plan to go public: 425 million members access the social network on smartphones and tablets.  The disclosure sent up red flags for analysts, because the company also said it does not “currently directly generate any meaningful revenue from the use of Facebook mobile products, and our ability to do so successfully is unproven.”  Read more

Facebook has designed Timeline to look the same on mobile devices as it does on PCs, although without the ads. Lieb said Facebook is also testing ads that appear like status updates on the news feed, yet remain in view longer, so they don’t get pushed down and out of sight right way. The ad could start as a friend’s “like” or other social activity, and only be seen within a friend’s network, she said.  Read more

When Boxer Floyd Mayweather wrote on his Twitter account Monday that ‘Jeremy Lin is a good player but all the hype is because he’s Asian,’ and then later followed up with a tweet saying, ‘I’m speaking my mind on behalf of other NBA players. They are programmed to be politically correct and will be penalized if they speak up,’ I thought it made sense to ask some of the 76ers what they felt about Mayweather’s comments rather than let him speak for them.  Read more