California governor signs laws protecting social media accounts

California Protects Social Media Accounts From the Grasp of ...
By Jamie Condliffe
A small victory in the fight for digital privacy: California Governor Jerry Brown has announced his signing of bills to prevent employers and universities from demanding social network login.
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California governor signs laws protecting social media accounts ...
By Jeff Blagdon
The fight to prevent California employers and universities from demanding your Facebook login as a condition of employment or enrollment officially ended on Thursday, as California Governor Jerry...
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Facebook gift-giving moves from virtual to actual goodies
PCWorld (blog)
It's only September, but Facebook is already getting into the gift-giving spirit with a new feature that lets you send physical items such as cupcakes, gift cards, stuffed animals, and magazine subscriptions to your Facebook friends. The new feature ...

ComScore: Instagram Tops Twitter in Mobile Engagement
Wall Street Journal (blog)
There's more evidence that Instagram has better engagement, too: the same ComScore report says the average Instagram user spent 257 minutes accessing Instagram in August, compared to 169.9 minutes spent on Twitter. So, now Facebook's massive ...

Facebook Seeks Next-Generation Big Data Tools
InformationWeek
Facebook Seeks Next-Generation Big Data Tools. Social network giant Facebook and venture capital blue chip Accel Partners think emerging platforms like Hadoop deserve new business intelligence, data visualization, and analytics tools. | Doug Henschen ...

Facebook 'friend' with inmate no longer firing offense
USA TODAY
It will no longer be an automatic firing offense for Texas prison guards to have a Facebook friendship with a convict, the Austin American-Statesman reports, mainly because it is almost impossible for anyone to monitor the status of thousands of prison ...

Halsey Twitter abuser cautioned by police
ESPN
The football fan who sent an abusive Twitter message to Premier League referee and cancer survivor Mark Halsey following last weekend's Liverpool v Manchester United game has been cautioned by police. Mark Halsey red card Liverpool Man United ...

ESPN

Twitter, Facebook can be powerful law enforcement tools
Baltimore Sun
To head off problems such as the unruly, violent crowds that descended on Towson and downtown Baltimore this year, police departments locally and across the nation are seeking new ways to tap into Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites.

Facebook-Datalogix deal may skirt privacy promises
Computerworld
A partnership with a data collector called Datalogix may violate parts of a recent FTC consent order that outlined privacy principles Facebook should follow, wrote the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).

Facebook gives Poland a Like with Central Europe office
ZDNet
Wroclaw's efforts turned out to be in vain, as earlier this month Facebook's preference for the Polish capital became clear when it created a new Careers page for the city. (Although at the moment there are no open positions available.) The offices are ...

ZDNet

LinkedIn Has Left A Gaping Hole That Startups Are Scrambling To Fill
Business Insider
Scott Belsky and his team at Behance have built up a big business giving these professionals a more creative solution than LinkedIn (see an example of a Behance resume below). Contently, a database of freelance and aspiring writers, recently released ...

Business Insider

New LinkedIn Endorsements May Benefit College Students
U.S. News & World Report
When she explains LinkedIn's new "endorsement" feature, Canfield, now the network's senior manager of corporate communications, points to the old advertising adage: It's much more credible to get customers to endorse a product or service than for the ...

U.S. News & World Report

LinkedIn Has Changed The Way Companies Talk To People
Business Insider
In a discussion at Business Insider's Social Media ROI Conference, LinkedIn'sExecutive Editor Dan Roth spoke about some of the unique ways companies are using the platform. He cited an internal poll which found that 78 percent of people useLinkedIn ...

Business Insider

Shh: How to Use LinkedIn to Change Careers Without Telling Your Boss
Huffington Post
How do you use LinkedIn to get a new job -- without alerting your coworkers or boss that you've got one foot out the door? A reader of my blog, Corporette, recently wrote in with a great question: I am nearly six years into my first job, which is in ...

Pinterest emerging as promising platform for green marketers
GreenBiz.com (blog)
Over the past 12 months, Pinterest has witnessed explosive growth. The site has topped 23 million unique visitors and average site visit time is nearly 100 minutes per month, making it one of the largest and most engaging social networks around. AdAge...

GreenBiz.com (blog)

Instagram and LinkedIn do the old "pick and roll" on Twitter
Upstart (blog)
In a seemingly unrelated move (as is necessary for a successful pick and roll), back in July Twitter announced it would no longer allow users to post tweets automatically to LinkedIn under the pretense that they wanted to ensure a higher user ...

Scaling Pinterest and adventures in database sharding
GigaOM
Pinterest has learned about scaling the way most popular sites do — the architecture works until one day it doesn't. But in a talk at the Surge Conference two Pinterest engineers shared their wars stories. Here's what they learned about keeping it ...

How Dobango Helps Foster Consumer Relationships On Pinterest
Fast Company
Social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest have ushered in visual marketing as the breakout trend for 2012. When it comes to their products, businesses are learning to show, not tell, and visual content sites are fueling our desire for ...

Fast Company

5 Ways to Use Pinterest for Your Business
Business 2 Community
By now, we should all be familiar with Pinterest, the social site where you pin anything and everything you like. You might have already been sucked into looking at pictures of cute animals, colorful arts and crafts, and antique furniture. If you haven ...

What Problem Is Pinterest Solving?
MediaPost Communications
As we discussed the idea of creating a way for oncology patients to find others like themselves on Pinterest, and share inspirational pins, one of the clients turned to me and asked, “What problem are we trying to solve?” An interesting question ...

The Key To Social Network Success: Rip Off Pinterest?
By John Paul Titlow
Your social network has fallen from its 2006-era prime. You need to reposition yourself and regain the attention of users who have long since moved on. What do you do? Take a page from the Pinterestplaybook.
ReadWriteWeb

LinkedIn identifies the top-10 endangered office tools and trends
By Wayne Williams
The office workplace is continually evolving. New technologies and trends -- like cloud computing and BYOD schemes -- are becoming more and more popular, but not every firm is willing to embrace the future, and many are stuck firmly in the ...
BetaNews

4 girls in custody in brutal Chester beating posted on Facebook
Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted on Facebook, a video of the brutal assault, which took place Tuesday or Wednesday, has a soundtrack, too, with tough talk, expletives, and girlish laughter. "Talk to her first, talk to her first," one attacker squealed, suggesting how to set the ...

Philadelphia Inquirer

Facebook Lets Users Buy Real Things for Friends - NYTimes.com
By By SOMINI SENGUPTA
Facebook announced that people could send real gifts to the homes or workplaces of Facebookfriends. Cupcakes, sunglasses or fruit can be bought. It's an experiment to get people to spend money on the site. Read more...
NYT Bits

Have Just A Phone Number? iOS 6 Facebook Integration Can Fill In ...
By Darrell Etherington
A tipster pointed out to us that Facebook integration in iOS 6 could fill in details someone might not otherwise have if they get a hold of a phone number and put it into their Contacts app. Daniel ... View Staff Page Follow me on twitter. A writer ...
TechCrunch

Ads Aren't Reshaping Twitter, Twitter Is Reshaping Ads
By Dan Frommer
Lost in the recent noise about Twitter's developer relations and product designs is that Twitter is quickly (and relatively quietly) becoming a successful advertising business. And it's doing this in its own way: Not by running banner ads or video ...
ReadWriteWeb

Facebook Messenger for BlackBerry reaches App World, sates ...
By Jon Fingas
If you own a BlackBerry, it might not have been immediately apparent that Facebook Messenger has been an option since October; unlike with. ... Trending posts from Engadget on Twitter, updated hourly. Facebook Gifts swaps virtual trinkets ...
Engadget

Surprise! Facebook looks to boost revenue, mobile with Gifts - GigaOM
By Ki Mae Heussner
Social networking giant Facebook is rolling out a new gift-giving service that enables users to exchange physical gifts entirely through its platform. The new feature is based on technologyFacebook acquired when it purchased the startup ...
GigaOM

California Employers Can't Ask For Your Facebook Password ...
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Facebook's plan to find its next billion users - Quartz
After becoming President Hugo Chávez's 3 millionth follower on Twitter, the .... This is the story ofFacebook's rapidly unfolding plan to take over the world, or at ...
qz.com/.../facebooks-plan-to-find-its-next-billion-users-convin...

How a Diner Gets the Most Out of Social Media
New York Times (blog)
The restaurants are open seven days a week, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. While online commenters rave about the food, I can't get over how creatively this little chain has managed its social media. It has a Web site and a custom mobile site. It promotes the ...

New York Times (blog)

California bars employers from demanding employees' social media log-in info
PCWorld
It's officially illegal for employers and universities in California to request social media log-in information—that is, user names and passwords for Facebook, Twitter, or e-mail—from employees and students. On Thursday, California Governor Jerry ...

NLRB Slams Costco On Social Media Use Policy: What It Means For Your ...
Forbes
7 ruling by the NLRB that essentially invalidates Costco Wholesale Corp's employee policies covering the use of the Internet and in particular, social media. The decision comes nearly two years after Local 371 of the United Food and Commercial Workers ...

Forbes

The Best Ways to Use Social Media in Your Job Search
Forbes
Whether you are just thinking about making a job change, looking for your first job after college, or find yourself unexpectedly amongst the unemployed, you will find that having a social media job search strategy will greatly increase the number of ...

Social media startup Buzzient leaves Boston, sheds employees, seeks new ...
Boston.com
Then, yesterday, Jones published a blog post that accused Boston venture capitalists of missing the opportunity to invest in startups that help corporate customers weave social media into their business processes. Jones wrote: Investors on the west ...

Ford's Bold New Social Media Strategy Has Inherent Risks
Business Insider
Business Insider, Max Nisen. Scott Monty, far left, described Ford's strategy. At Business Insider's Social Media ROI Conference yesterday, Ford's head of global digital communications director Scott Monty talked about his company's approach tosocial ...

Business Insider

Have a black belt in social media marketing? You may want to sign up for the ...
Boston.com
By Chris Reidy, Globe Staff. Think of it as an elevator-pitch competition for social media marketing ideas, only with some of the pitches submitted by video. That seems to be the idea behind a Friday announcement from Dunkin' Donuts and its ad agency ...

Social media savvy make talent more valuable
Variety
For those who don't know already, Klout.com measures individuals' social mediainfluence on a scale of 1-100; criteria include number of Twitter followers and the degree to which they engage you. Other platforms, like Facebook, can be added later, but ...

Variety

How to Avoid the Big 5 Social Media Mistakes Corporations Make
Forbes
My biggest challenge right now is mastering the vastness of social media and I suspect I am not alone. No matter what size company you work for, facing customers, partners, vendors, investors or the public means you better get good at LinkedIn, Twitter ...

Forbes

Employers Banned From Asking For Social Media Passwords In ...
By Gregory Ferenstein
A newly signed California law forbids employers and universities from asking employees and applicants for their social media passwords. The law was hastily developed in response to a string of reports last spring of employers coercing ...
TechCrunch

Behind the Social Media Campaigns of Obama and Romney
By Samantha Murphy
The and nights of those running Obama's and Romney's social media campaigns are long and exhausting, but the payoff could be huge for either party.
Mashable!

Navigating Carmageddon II [Google+ Hangout on Air]
Los Angeles Times
Transportation officials will shut down a 10-mile stretch of the nation's busiest freeway this weekend for the second time in 14 months. What does the 53-hour closure mean for traffic in the region? What can motorists expect after the project is completed?

Bruno Mars Takes Fans To 'Heaven' With New Single
MTV.com
Mars will unleash "Heaven" upon the masses Monday during a live chat and Google+ Hangout at 7 p.m. ET, during which the Grammy winner will talk about the new track as well as answer fan questions. You can participate in the conversation by asking the...

MTV.com

Google+ trends: Lewis Hamilton moves to Mercedes, 'Last Resort' premieres
Yahoo! Philippines News
On Friday, September 28, Google+ is abuzz with Lewis Hamilton's move to Mercedes and the US premiere of TV show Last Resort. Hamilton has caused waves in the world of Formula 1 after moving from McLaren to rival Mercedes, having been with McLaren ...

White House Hangout: Combating Human Trafficking
The White House
In a Google+ Hangout moderated by Executive Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Joshua DuBois, Executive Director of the White House Council on Women and Girls Tina Tchen, Senior Director for Multilateral ...

Google+ Local Pages Not Showing Categories
Search Engine Roundtable
Jade Wang from Google said in a Google Places Help thread there are confirmed reports on the categories not showing up on Google+ Local pages. Jade explained, "It seems that categories are not appearing on some local Google+ pages. (Or, relatedly ...

Bing and Klout partnership hints at Google+ advantage
Wired.co.uk
Bing has announced that it will be teaming up with social-influence ranking tool Klout to integrate its signals into the search algorithm and provide superior results. The move is a step toward a more "author-led" understanding of content on the web ...

Wired.co.uk

Oops! Anti-Apple Maps ad reveals Google Maps' own failing
CNET
Oops! Anti-Apple Maps ad reveals Google Maps' own failing. In an ad on Google+, Google's Motorola Mobility pointed out that Apple Maps couldn't even find a simple address in Manhattan. The only problem is that that particular address doesn't exist.

What You Missed: White House Hangout on Combating Human ...
By cmeister
Following President Obama's speech about his administration's efforts to combat human trafficking, White House Administration Officials joined a live video chat to answer questions from the public.
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Social Media As LA's Cause Celebre

Social Media As LA's Cause Celebre
Forbes
Networks are part of daily life, and in a larger sense they've become business tools — marketing vehicles for celebrities, artists, musicians, writers, legacy media brands, and global social causes. Perhaps in the greatest example of what social media ...

Facebook Has A Festering, Global Problem With No Solution
Business Insider
All around the world – in France, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States – Facebook users are outraged that the social network has exposed, to all their friends, their private messages from years ago. Facebook profile pages are now ...

Business Insider

Social media as job recruitment tool, up in 2012
Deseret News
With the growth of social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, as well as lesser-known sites — Upspring, PerfectBusiness and Cofoundr — professional networking with the use of social media as a recruitment tool is becoming more prominent.

Deseret News

Last Call for College Bars
New York Times
But bar owners in the Collegetown neighborhood of Ithaca recently convened a worried summit about just this topic. Once upon a time, in the Pleistocene epoch before cellphones and social media, students used bars as meeting places, heading there after ...

New York Times

LoveIt: "LoveIt is a visual platform with powerful and collaborative tools for individuals and groups to discover, collect, organize and share the things they love via public or private collections. From chic fashion to quirky art, tasty recipes to dream vacations, and geeky gadgets to hot cars, LoveIt is a place where you can easily share images of everything that interests you, find people who have similar tastes, discover new things you may not have found otherwise, and turn those interests into actual experiences."

Social engineering: Using social media to launch a cyberattack
Washington Post
Social engineering: Using social media to launch a cyberattack. Hackers penetrate secure networks by attacking the weakest links in cyberspace: human beings. Hackers penetrate secure networks by attacking the weakest links in cyberspace: human beings.

Companies Should Reexamine Their Social Media Policies In Light Of Recent ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
NEWARK, N.J., Sept. 27, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ -- A recent Decision and Order issued by the National Labor Relations Board that invalidated electronic posting or social media limits enacted by Costco Wholesale Corp. could have a chilling effect on many ...

Meet The 30 Biggest Social Media Advertisers Of 2012 [Ranked]
Business Insider
Today, at Business Insider's Social Media ROI conference in New York, we'll tell you just how much advertiser money is pouring into social media, and which advertisers are making it pay off in sales. But to set the tone, it's worth knowing who the ...

Business Insider

Gilt's Susan Lyne: Selling On Facebook 'Was Like Trying To Sell Something At A ...
Business Insider
But the site, which is social in nature given that it was founded on the idea of friends inviting friends, has also found great social media successes. "For every one of our businesses, there's a social media platform that's better for that business ...

Worldwide reaction to arrest over Jill Meagher's disappearance on social media
The Australian
In the 90 minutes after news broke of the arrest, social media platforms were ablaze with news of the development and tweets mentioning Ms Meagher's name hit almost 12 million Twitter timelines, or news feeds, trending across Melbourne and Australia.

Social media engagement myths, risks and lessons to learn from Whitehall
The Guardian (blog)
Discussion about social media and government has matured in recent months. It now ranges well beyond naive digital boosterism, having boundless platform possibilities. Real experiences are feeding back what works – and what doesn't – into the plans for...

The Guardian (blog)

Daily Report: A Look at Some Social Media Winners - NYTimes.com
By By THE NEW YORK TIMES
In recent years, the Web has blossomed into a more egalitarian version of "American Idol," where nobodies compete for attention alongside somebodies on social media sites, Steven Leckart reports in Thursday's New York Times. Read more.
NYT Bits

Students Are Choosing Colleges With Social Media Clout [STUDY]
By Joann Pan
A survey of 7000 high school students by Zinch reveals almost two-thirds of students are turning tosocial media when deciding which college or university to attend.
Mashable!

The Marketing Tactic that Social Media Marketers Often Forget ...
By Huyen Truong
Pinterest is a popular paranoia, Instagram is indecently addictive and Facebook is so big you cannot ignore it. Social media is the hot business marketing trend. It is discussed at coffee shops, dinner parties and countless conferences. You can ...
Jeffbullas's Blog

How social media is sinking Mitt Romney | Digital Trends
By Molly McHugh
Love or hate his politics, Mitt Romney's recurring social media slipups show how technology is changing the campaign game, and steepening on the learning curve.

Are Companies Responsible for Employees' Social Media Failures ...
By Patrick Coffee
Are Companies Responsible for Employees' Social Media Failures?
PRNewser

Myspace re-enters the social media ring with yet another rebrand ...
Justin Timberlake shed his boy band image to launch a successful career. Can he help Myspace do the same thing?
www.guardian.co.uk/.../us.../myspace-social-media-rebrand

Infographics are not a Social Media Strategy: The need for social ...
It's not every day that I focus on social media tactics. However, I'm sharing this post to address a growing concern among social media and digital strategists and ...
www.briansolis.com/.../infographics-are-not-a-social-media-str...

WA governor candidate forum going social with a Google+ Hangout
The Seattle Times (blog)
SEATTLE — The YWCA Seattle | King | Snohomish (YWCA) and their advocacy network, Firesteel, are hosting two round table discussions with the 2012 candidates for Washington state governor, Jay Inslee and Rob McKenna. Each one will answer ...

Google+ A Ghost Town? Maybe It's Your Fault
Marketing Pilgrim
Perhaps you've tried Google Plus, but came away a little frustrated. As I noted in an earlier post, Google Plus isn't the place for high school reunions. Many of your friends may not be a part of Google Plus and you won't see lots of old photos of ...

Marketing Pilgrim

Google Brings Interactive Google+ Events Notifications To Gmail, Lets You ...
TechCrunch
Google+ users will also be able to share photos that were attached to the event. Earlier this year, Google introduced interactive Google+ email notifications, which allow Google+ users to view, comment and +1 posts from Gmail without having to leave ...

Come 'Hang Out with Harvey' in FSU Google+ live chat at 1 pm
Orlando Sentinel (blog)
Join Orlando Sentinel Florida State reporter Coley Harvey and national college football insider Matt Murschel for another edition of our Google+ "Hang Out with Harvey" live chat. The chat begins at 1 p.m. and will last until 1:30 p.m.. After a week off ...

Google+ trends: Happy birthday Google, 'Iron Man' from space
Yahoo! Philippines News
Google+ users are wishing Google a happy birthday on September 27 and buzzing about a Buddhist statue with extraterrestrial origins. Google celebrated its 14th birthday on September 27 by featuring an animated interactive Google Doodle of a chocolate ...

Come Hangout with Us and Discuss Food Waste
Sustainablog (blog)
A couple of weeks ago, several of us at Important Media started playing with Google+'s “Hangout on Air” feature, which essentially lets you hold a face-to-face online meetings, and broadcast it. We're hooked now, and decided we've had enough practice ...

Google+ Saved My Mom's Photos
Gotta Be Mobile
After sending off for a replacement phone, my mom told me the only thing she lost were her smartphone photos, but thanks to Google+ she didn't lose a thing. When my mom picked the LG Lucid on Verizon for her first smartphone, one of the first things I ...

Gotta Be Mobile

Video: Virtual roundtable discussion on the #Cybercrimelaw using Google ...
Blog Watch Citizen Media (blog)
This is a first in virtual discussion where we used Google Hangout with Youtube, livestream using ustream.tv/channel/blogwatch , and twitter using the hashtag #cybercrimelaw. Atty JJ Disini and Atty Francis Acero discussed the questionable provisions ...

Blog Watch Citizen Media (blog)

Moms Matter 2012 Hangout - September 26
YouTube
In our first ever Google Hangout, Election Correspondent Lindsay Ferrier speaks with conservative Republican blogger, Jenny Erikson (@JennyErikson) and tried-and-true Democrat writer and attorney, Nadia Jones (@JusticeJonsie) about the topics on the ...

Google Adds Another Dash Of Google+ To Gmail | WebProNews
By Chris Crum
The integration of Google+ into Gmail continues. Today, Google announced it has added interactive email notifications for Google+ Events invitations, so you can RSVP, invite and comment from the inbox. Google's Roshni Malani says you can ...
Top News - WebProNews

Bugs When Merging Google+ Pages With Local
By admin
The update isn't completely bug-free (is it ever?) so it's a good idea to be prepared for some of these issues before attempting a merger.
Local Surge Media - Austin's...

5 Ways to Manage Your Google+ Community | SiteProNews ...
By Dawn Pigoni
Google+ can play an essential role your social media strategy, you not managing it properly then you will not see results you hope for. The time energy you put into sites like Facebook Twitter should also divided into your Google+ community ...
SiteProNews: Webmaster News & Resources

Retweets, Facebook 'likes' can be libelous
ABS CBN News
MANILA, Philippines - Retweeting a comment on Twitter or clicking a Facebook "like" button can result in a lawsuit and imprisonment under the anti-cybercrime law's libel provision, a lawyer warned Thursday. Internet law expert Atty. JJ Disini said one ...

Giving Twitter star TJ Lang the final word
ESPN (blog)
Green Bay Packers guard T.J. Lang started off the Twitter reaction to Monday night's debacle at CenturyLink Field, so we might as well let him wrap it up as well. Here was Lang's reaction Thursday morning to news that the NFL had ended the lockout of ...

Instagram Beats Twitter in Daily Mobile Users for the First Time, Data Says
All Things Digital
That data comes from comScore, via a new mobile measurement report: It says that throughout August, Instagram had an average of 7.3 million daily active users — or DAUs, in Facebookparlance. That tops of Twitter's 6.868 million DAUs over the same ...

Facebook Begins Eliminating Fake Likes
ABC News
Facebook has begun eliminating fake Likes on brand Pages, after pledging to ramp up security in August. On Wednesday, the social network started weeding out bogus Likes caused by compromised accounts, deceived users, malware or purchased bulk...

ABC News

Big Advertisers Are Saying Lots Of Things About Facebook This Morning And ...
Business Insider
Selling things on Facebook, Lyne said, is like selling things in a bar. Lyne said Gilt has had exceptional success on Pinterest, Instagram, and Twitter, albeit for different brands. Pinterest has been huge for JetSetter, because of all the beautiful ...

Business Insider

Facebook page publicizing 'snitches' in Tacoma
The Seattle Times (blog)
A Facebook page dedicated to publicizing "snitches" in the Tacoma area is being watched by law enforcement. Officials say the information posted on "Tacoma Snitches" is public information available in media reports and court documents. But KOMO News ...

Twitter reacts to NFL referees' return
USA TODAY
@SJSamano: *Breaking News*: The #NFL and referees union may or may not have reached a deal, according to every #NFL reporter on Twitter. More to come. @MikeSielskiWSJ: Twitter at the moment: THE REFS ARE BACK! ARE NOT! ARE TOO! ARE NOT!

Facebook's $4.5 billion secret weapon
MarketWatch
(NYSE:LNKD) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) have taken steps to limit their social networks' dependence on third-party ads, it seems like the best Facebook can do is ponder how they can improve the functionality of their mobile app. What if we told you ...

Facebook blasted for Jewish memes page
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
SYDNEY (JTA) -- A Jewish leader in Australia blasted Facebook for continuing to allow access to a page that “constitutes hate speech against Jews.” Peter Wertheim, the executive director of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, lashed out at the ...

Facebook Developer Consolidation: Marketing Outfit Betapond Buys ...
By Ingrid Lunden
Conversocial is a social customer service SaaS tool for Facebook and Twitter. It enables organizations to plug in their customer service teams to Facebook and Twitter, enabling better customer service and reporting with less agent time ...
TechCrunch

Twitter Blog: TechWomen and my experience at Twitter
By Twitter
During my stay, I studied the impact Twitter had on Egypt and the MENA region, and I worked on research related to RTL (right-to-left) support in Twitter and other social media counterparts likeFacebook and Google+ from a native perspective.
Twitter Blog

Share stuff from Dropbox in your Facebook ... - The Dropbox Blog
By Chris Varenhorst
Today we're psyched to announce that you can share stuff from Dropbox right inside FacebookGroups! Now you ... Just like other posts to Facebook Groups, people can like or comment on anything you share from within the group. And if you ...
The Dropbox Blog

Facebook Bug Creates Wall Posts That Can Never Be Deleted
By Emily Price
I've run into a similar case… if you let your twitter post to your facebook, then later disconnecttwitter… your friends will still see those earlier twitter crossposts, but you won't, and you can't deleted them… re-connect twitter, and they magically ...
Mashable!

Neil Young's deceiving Twitter tease — Tech News and Analysis
By Jeff John Roberts
(Twitter didn't help matters by having its publicist hype that “Neil Young” was on Twitter). More broadly, the Neil Young episode raises questions about rights of identity in the age of social media. Companies like Facebook are already trying to ...
GigaOM

Log In | Facebook
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work , study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, ...
www.facebook.com/questions/10151133026822906/

Business of Fashion (BoF) on Twitter
Business of Fashion. @BoF. Breaking news, inspiring content and unmissable fashion business intelligence from Founder and Editor of The Business of ...
https://jp.twitter.com/BoF

My Pinterest Is Piledrivers: What The WWE Is Doing Right (Team Friendship ...
Inside Pulse
Hello there, this is James Sawyer and welcome to My Pinterest Is Piledrivers. You can cyberstalk me on twitter here, wherein you can gain access to my thoughts 24/7. Or, the 8 hours I'm awake. Potential upcoming column idea: So I have a few friends ...

Why Is Pinterest Poking Around In TV Land?
Fast Company
The battle for the living room is on, with tech giants Apple, Google, and Microsoft, and social kings Facebook and Twitter all jockeying for your attention on the TV screen. But the war for the first-screen (Xbox, Apple TV) and second-screen ...

Fast Company

Volvo and Pinterest: Re-branding Through Customer-Driven Social Media
Huffington Post (blog)
The Challenge: As we mentioned earlier this year, Pinterest has been captivating online users with its emphasis on engagement, content, and personalization. Now Volvo is taking to the Pinterest boards with a consumer-driven campaign designed to ...

The Art of the IPO: Lessons From Facebook, LinkedIn, Groupon and Zillow
Huffington Post (blog)
Summer was not kind to Facebook. It was harsher still to Groupon and Zynga. All three companies are new to the public markets. If you were to look to their debuts only, you'd be forgiven for concluding that going public is a raw deal. Each of their ...

LinkedIn denies plans to enter Pakistan
The Express Tribune
LinkedIn refuted the claims of a story filed by the state-owned wire service Associated Press of Pakistan (APP), which quoted the Board of Investment (BOI) Chairman Saleem Mandviwalla saying that Linkedin was planning to establish its offices in ...

No!! LinkedIn Just Went Klout On Us!
Business 2 Community
If you have viewed a LinkedIn profile in the last couple days, chances are you have seen a new box at the top of the page prompting you to endorse the individuals skills. Here is a screenshot of the endorse box on one of my connection's profile page ...

ShopInterest Aims for Pinterest-ed Ecommerce
EcommerceBytes
Shopinterest.co (that's a top-level Colombian domain, and not a typo by yours truly) offers the vibrant Pinterest user base a way to become online sellers. Their service also works for anyone with images of items and a desire to sell to visitors. Since ...

EcommerceBytes

Formal attire, 9 to 5 jobs are passé: LinkedIn survey
Hindu Business Line
He further added that LinkedIn has upgraded mobile platforms to ensure extending seamless LinkedIn experience to members. Globally, professionals selected tablets (55 per cent), cloud storage (54 per cent), flexible working hours and smart phones ...

Hindu Business Line

'New' MySpace: Can They Really Rebuild It?
Investorplace.com
Or even another music site? Probably not. We already can connect with people through Facebook or Pinterest or Twitter or Instagram or Tumblr or LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) or countless other platforms. Even Facebook has Spotify for the music side of things.

Tapiture is a “Pinterest for Bros” That Actually Has a Chance ...
By Michael Carney
Can “bros” drive commerce? Traditional wisdom says no, but brothers and Resignation Media co-founders Leo and John Resig aren't buying that. The pair launched content and commerce brand The Chive four years ago under Resignation ...
PandoDaily

Unmetric Launches Benchmarking for Brands on Pinterest
By Jamillah Knowles
Unmetric, the social media benchmarking company, has launched Pinterest integration into its competitive intelligence platform.
The Next Web

Pinterest. More than just 1000 words. | twenty4
By Zaac Woodhead
A business can log onto Pinterest and see the type of things that users are talking about most.
Web Development, Website Development,...

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Time To Socialize Social Media?

Time To Socialize Social Media
Huffington Post
And while the idea of "government-run" social media may sound off-putting, citizens in this country would actually have greater privacy, security, and freedom of expression under public institutions than under private ones. Witness: the policies of ...

New Social-Media Tools for the Wealthy
Wall Street Journal (blog)
But wealthy people have reason to be wary of social media. Online talk of an upcoming vacation can help burglars time a break-in. Mention of plans to sell a business could sink the deal. Most wealth managers advise clients to avoid such chatter and ...

Packers' Players Lash Out on Social Media
HispanicBusiness.com
Despite a clear social media policy the NFL introduced three years ago that prohibits criticizing officiating, some Packers players used their Twitter accounts to blast the league, Goodell, team owners and the replacement officials after the ...

Using a Social Media Rating to Help People, Not Judge Them
New York Times (blog)
Unlike a credit rating, where the score is determined by, among other things, how quickly someone repays debts, social media credit ratings will also make judgments. Right now, the public measure used to determine importance, or clout, is the number of...

New York Times (blog)

NASA Opens Accreditation To Social Media For SpaceX Launch
Sacramento Bee
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA is inviting social mediausers to apply for credentials for the Oct. 7 launch of the first contracted cargo resupply flight to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial ...

Social Media's Role in the Evolution of FrontlineSMS
PBS MediaShift Idea Lab
Social media has played a considerable role in the success of FrontlineSMS, too. The project never had a marketing and promotion budget, so in the early days it was all about maximizing every free channel that was available. Blogging was the first ...

PBS MediaShift Idea Lab

HootSuite owls getty chatty: Social media dashboard adds chat function for ...
Vancouver Sun (blog)
In its latest move to lead the growing market in social media management, the Vancouver start-up behind the wide-eyed owl logo has expanded its social mediadashboard to add real time online chat. Fittingly, the company, which has become the darling of ...

Vancouver Sun (blog)

alikeU.com, New comer in social networking
Examiner.com
Advertisement. The New Frontier In Social Networking: alikeU.com Unleashes The Power Of Community Networking While Working For The Greater Good Of Society. alikeU.com has officially opened its virtual doors to members worldwide (www.alikeU.com) ...

Social Media Success Comes with the Right Tools
The VAR Guy
The value of social media is becoming more apparent to vendors looking for ways to enable their channel partners' sales success. Social media marketing webinars or workshops are two of the many ways channel professionals are spending time and energy ...

Social Media's Biggest Screw-Ups [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Sam Laird
Social media has backfired on many a brand and celeb. This infographic runs down some of the biggest blunders -- and smoothest recoveries.
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Social Media Blunders | Visual.ly
By MDGadvertising
As the popularity of social media continues to accelerate, it's no surprise that famous faces and well-known brands are increasingly using these pla.
Visual.ly - Social Media

Social Media Intelligence Brief: September 26 2012 | Social Media ...
By Steve Momorella
Ortsbo, a leader in the growing field of social music, is launching their new product FanTalk, aimed at music fans and giving them tools to listen to and share their favorite music all while interacting with other fans.
Social Media Today - The world's...

How social media affects the TV lifecycle
By Natan Edelsburg
Social TV is often narrowly defined by real-time tweets and stunts. While both are extremely important parts of social TV, don't forget that entire TV lifecycle has been changed because of thesocial web. Networked Insights has released a new ...
Lost Remote

Insights Into the Hot Trend of Social Media Content Curation ...
By Maria Petrescu
Online content curation is a hot trend as business owners and professionals realize that content is vital to add value to their customers and prospects. The trend was already evident in 2011 but 2012 saw an outright explosion of the ...
Jeffbullas's Blog

NASA - NASA Opens Accreditation to Social Media for Spacex Launch
NASA is inviting social media users to apply for credentials for the Oct. 7 launch of the first contracted cargo resupply flight to the International Space Station ...
www.nasa.gov/home/.../HQ_12-336_Social_Media_Accred.ht...

Facebook's Next Fight: Suits, and More Suits
Wall Street Journal
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave his first interview since the IPO at TechCrunch Disrupt, a San Francisco conference for start-ups, where he spoke with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington about the performance of his company's stock and his mistake ...

Wall Street Journal

Twitter CEO Costolo Talks Ads, Facebook, and IPO
CNBC.com
(Read More: Twitter Redesign Gets Personal, 'Like' Facebook.) Ad Strategy: Practical, but Cautious. Twitter only has two types of ads — promoted Tweets and promoted Trends — I asked Costolo if they're enough to significantly grow the business. He ...

Facebook Is Still A Sell
Seeking Alpha
Users have profile pages with a large image that fills the entire page, and may even able to register using their twitter or Facebook account. A successful re-launch of MySpace will threaten to lowerFacebook's count of monthly average users ...

Police Get Social Media Training In Pittsburgh As Hostage-Takers Post To ...
Huffington Post
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh police plan to train their officers to be fluent in social media, joining other departments nationwide, days after a man armed with a hammer and kitchen knife used a hostage's computer to post Facebook messages lamenting ...

Outrage over Facebook's private message scandal should send us running for ...
Digital Trends
Yesterday a new Facebook privacy scare hit the Web when users began complaining that old private messages from 2009 were being publicly posted to their Timelines.Facebook quickly came back, defending itself and saying that these were Wall Posts from ...

Digital Trends

Off-duty Facebook guard arrested for laptop thefts
San Jose Mercury News
PALO ALTO, Calif.—An off-duty Facebook security guard and another man have been arrested for stealing 49 laptop computers at the company's former California headquarters. Palo Alto police say 20-year-old Brandon Simon and 21-year-old Travis Calhoun ...

MySpace, Twitter go Facebook way
Hindustan Times
Don't be surprised if you log on to Twitter or MySpace in a few days, and have a new profile page staring at you. Just when netizens and social networking enthusiasts have started getting used to Facebook's huge header picture and compulsory timeline, ...

Hindustan Times

Why Facebook's Next Big Step Will Be A Display Ad Network
Business Insider
There's an obvious, massive hole in Facebook's ad business right now: It lacks a display ad network, which would run standard format web ads on other publishers' web sites, targeted via a Facebook cookie which syncs with third-party advertiser cookies.

Business Insider

McCoy-Osi Twitter feud hits prime time
ESPN (blog)
We have got some mileage, here on the NFC East blog, out of the periodic Twitter spat between New York Giants defensive end Osi Umenyiora and Philadelphia Eagles running back LeSean McCoy. It started last summer, when McCoy tweeted that ...

Middle East telcos mull alliance in Facebook fight
Reuters
The lion's share of new revenue from traffic is being taken by so-called "over-the-top" (OTT) Internet companies such as Facebook, Google, Apple and Twitter. The telecommunications firms have unsuccessfully pressed them for bigger contributions to the ...

Twitter Blog: People you may know
By Twitter
Following the people you know makes Twitter a more personal way to discover essential information. That's why we're introducing a new email that makes it easier to connect with your friends, classmates and co-workers on Twitter.
Twitter Blog

Better SDKs = Wall Street Shutting The Fuck Up: Facebook's Mobile ...
By Josh Constine
View Staff Page Follow me on Twitter. Josh Constine is a technology journalist who specializes in deep analysis of social products. He is currently a writer for TechCrunch. Previously, Constine was the Lead Writer of Inside Facebook, where ...
TechCrunch

Facebook Shares Drop Below $20 for First Time in 2 Weeks
By Seth Fiegerman
Facebook stock dropped to as low as $19.80 in early trading on Wednesday, falling below the $20 line for the first time in two weeks. ... 10 Terrific Twitter T-Shirts · 12 YouTube Clips of Hungry, Hungry Kitties. Comment Share. Previous 1 of 10 ...
Mashable » Business

Facebook SDK 3.1 for iOS available to developers | TUAW - The ...
By Michael Grothaus
Attention all you iOS devs, Facebook has just released its Facebook SDK 3.1 for iOS. Among other things, the SDK allows developers to ... Gallery · Deals · Events · About Us · Contact · RSS logo ·Facebook logo · Twitter logo · Google+ logo ...
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Why I Love Apple's Facebook Integration
By Jon Mitchell
Like on Facebook. Share on Twitter. Share on Google+. Share on LinkedIn. The Facebookintegration into Apple's OS X and iOS brings me relief. It's the easiest, least icky, most user-friendly partnership between two major tech companies I've ...
ReadWriteWeb

50% of Consumers Value a Brand's Facebook Page More Than Its ...
In fact, about 82% of respondents said Facebook page is a good place to interact with ... To leave a comment on this story, please log in with Facebook or Twitter ...
mashable.com/2012/09/24/facebook-brand-page-value/

Facebook: snitchgate! « Paul Bernal's Blog
A story about Facebook went around twitter last night that provoked quite a reaction in privacy advocates like me: Facebook, it seems, is experimenting with ...
paulbernal.wordpress.com/2012/09/21/facebook-snitchgate/

A Hangout for All Your Social-Network Photos
Wall Street Journal
Nowadays, people are storing a lot of personal photos on a variety of social networks. They capture photos with their smartphone cameras, instantly share them with Facebook, Twitter or Instagram and never see them again. This week, I tried two methods ...

Wall Street Journal

Join us for a live Google+ Hangout on the Lakers and Clippers
Los Angeles Times
Join us for a Google+ hangout starting at 1 p.m. Pacific time when Lakers writer Mike Bresnahan, Clippers writer Brad Turner and Deputy Sports Editor John Cherwa discuss the upcoming season for both teams. Bettors have such robust faith in the ...

Would a Google+ Business Page Benefit You?
Business 2 Community
Poor Google+. Since its release into the competitive world of social networking sites, it has been the bullied and berated outcast of social media. People have ridiculed it for its lack of users, confusing navigation, and inability to compete with the ...

Business 2 Community

Circle Lifehacker at Google+ For Our Top Stories Right in Your Stream
Lifehacker
Circle Lifehacker at Google+ For Our Top Stories Right in Your Stream Every day, we share some of our top posts on Google+ so you can stay up to date and share with friends. But don't worry! We only post a selection of our top stories and we space out ...

Kraft's PR punch: Google+ Hangout On Air Cadbury Mint Bubbly launch
ConfectioneryNews.com
Kraft-owned Cadbury UK has harnessed the power of its 2.5 million-strongGoogle+ network to launch a new mint flavour of its dairy milk bubbly bar, its social media manager says. Google+ Hangout On Air the chosen launch platform. The chocolate brand ...

ConfectioneryNews.com

Google+: Catlin Seaview Survey Underwater Hangouts
YouTube
The Catlin Seaview Survey, a major scientific study of The Great Barrier Reef, have been using a specially designed underwater camera to capture underwater imagery, as part of their expedition to document the composition and health of coral reefs. Here ...

Haw Creek hangout
Mountain Xpress
Just in time for fall patio weather, CreekSide Taphouse is open. The Haw Creek restaurant occupies the old Ruby's BBQ Shack building and the abundant outdoor space that surrounds it: a covered porch, open deck, picnic tables in the grass, a volleyball ...

How Journalists Are Using Google+
By John Paul Titlow
Google's still-young social network is largely the territory of early adopters and tech enthusiasts, but that hasn't stopped journalists from experimenting with it. (This is part three in a four-part series on how journalists are using social networks ...
ReadWriteWeb

WA Governor Candidate Forum Going Social with a Google+ Hangout
By Jon Hickey
So what makes this Google+ Hangout so exciting? Over the past 4 years, social media has been hyped for its ability to allow huge presidential campaigns to reach out and have two-way conversations with citizens. The reality is, with a ...
Flip the Media

A Hangout for All Your Social-Network Photos - Katherine Boehret ...
By Katherine Boehret
Katie tests two products that pull in and back up photos and videos from various social networks.
AllThingsD

Join FoodCorps and Bill Telepan for a Google+ Hangout on Friday ...
By Jacqueline Wasilczyk
Curt Ellis, the executive director of FoodCorps, an organization that connects and educates kids on healthy food practices, will be joining us on Friday, September 23 alongside New York chef Bill Telepan (Telepan) and others to discuss how ...
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