Timothy Post

A native Bostonian, now living, working and enjoying life in Krasnodar Krai.

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The Social Media Marketing Blog: Have You Got an App for That?

Jan 22, 2010 5:13am

Friday, January 22, 2010 Have You Got an App for That? It seems that app development is where it’s at in social. According to a recent eMarketer article, mobile apps for social networks – in addition to phones – are under consideration...

Facebook Developers | Preparing for the Launch of the Games and Applications Dashboards

Jan 22, 2010 4:17am

We’re launching the Games Dashboard and the Applications Dashboard in the coming weeks to make it easier for users to interact with your applications and provide you with new communication channels accessible to all users from the home page. Later today, we’re updating the Dashboard API and opening up the...

Facebook Post Insights Go Live

Jan 21, 2010 5:25am

This evening Facebook began rolling out the new post insights product that we wrote about earlier in the week. The service is extremely simple. It lets Page administrators find out how many impressions each story on their Page receives and what percentage of those impressions result in action...

Avatar: More than Meets the Eye

Jan 4, 2010 10:15am

Image by PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE via Flickr Like you, I had heard the hype surrounding the new movie, Avatar. Normally, I would have simply ignored the movie and perhaps gotten around to seeing it some months hence. However, when the film broke through the billion dollar mark in box office sales and the...

You Will Always Be With Us

Jan 3, 2010 12:40am

After the airing of the television program, Ukraine’s Got Talent, Kseniya Sobchak is no longer the only famous Kseniya out there in popular culture. The winner of the contest was sand animation artist, Kseniya Simonova, who drew: a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were...

Putin and Medvedev are Singing Comic Couplets

Jan 1, 2010 1:41pm

Who says that Russians don’t have a sense of humor? Watch the video (below) and then read the article Making a Little Fun of Russia’s Powerful (New York Times), which gives some more background information regarding the video skit. Thanks to Joera Mulders for first posting the video. When it aired last...

Happy New Year

Dec 31, 2009 11:03am

We are getting ready to visit friends and celebrate the New Year here in Krasnodar. The neighbor’s music has been cranked-up and the fireworks have started throughout town (everyone lights their own). 2 hours before the new decade begins. Thanks for reading this blog and I look forward to communicating...

Mark Pincus talks to Charlie Rose

Dec 30, 2009 2:08pm

Image by Zynga via CrunchBase Just watched a fascinating interview of Mark Pincus by Chalie Rose regarding Mark’s company Zynga. Zynga is the company which has created the Facebook sensations- Mafia Wars and Farmville. While I am not personally a player in either game, the fact remains that something very important...

Social Media Tastes Good

Dec 28, 2009 2:00pm

I’m working with a number of executives at some Russian companies on various social media campaigns and I keep getting the same question from them, “What’s social media?” The answer to this question usually involves worlds like “conversions” “relationships” “authenticity” “user generated content” “bi-directly discussions” and the like. Huh? Yup,...

Christmas Shopping with Yuri Milner

Dec 16, 2009 5:05am

The New York Times is reporting that Russian venture capitalist, Yuri Milner, who earlier this year invested more than $200m in Facebook directly has been busy this holiday season. It was announced today that Milner’s Digital Sky Technolgies (DST) venture capital fund will invest $180m in Zynga, the hugely profitable...