Econsultancy (blog)
In the 15 months since the launch of Google+, over 250 million people are using it. Though many of commented on it being a ghost town, this is far from the case. On average, users are on Google + 12 minutes a day, which is just shy of Facebook's ...
Ready for a challenge on healthy eating? [Google+ Hangout]
Los Angeles Times
Now, we're catching up with Wilder this afternoon during a Google + Hangout to go more in-depth about the challenge. (OK, we admit it. Some of us have trouble telling a processed food from an unprocessed food. So we want Wilder to break it down for us ...
SEO.org announce key strategies for SEO through Google Plus
Equities.com
When you do this you will notice that: your profile picture appears, the 'by Your Name' drives searches to your Google+ page and then the 'More by Your Name' leads to an entire search dedicated to your own account. This will enhance your social ...
Google+ trends: Myspace rebrand, Foxconn reopens
Yahoo! Philippines News
Google+ users are getting excited about the preview of Myspace's re-design, which was revealed on Monday, and talking about the continuing events at Foxconn on Tuesday, September 25. On Monday, September 24, Myspace gave the internet a sneak ...
Cadbury flavours Google+ Hangout On-Air
brand-e.biz
Cadbury is claiming a world first today with the launch of a new Dairy Milk Bubbly flavour exclusively via a Google+ Hangout On-Air. The brand will hang with nine fans who will be the first to get a taste of the new product. “When we announced the ...
Google Hangout – Face Arcade | Adverblog
By Tim
Google Hangout – Face Arcade. September 25, 2012 at 7:47 by Tim Comments. Kiwi agency Resn have banged out some pretty funny hack experiments using the Google Hangout technology. Check out their mind-boggling trailer for the ...
Adverblog
Social Meme Monday: Google+ Edition | Search Engine Journal
By Melissa Fach
Since September last year, Google+ has been deemed as Google's biggest, if not most ambitious, attempt to rival Facebook. As such, Google+ has also been the butt of every social media humor post. The social media site is not as bad as ...
Search Engine Journal
Google+ Parades Picturesque Peaks for #MountainMonday ...
By Josh Wolford
If you hop onto Google+ on any given day, there's a good chance that users will be trending a highly impressive collection of photography, whether it be their own or curated from other users on the network. That's because Google+ is ...
Top News - WebProNews
Social media explodes for 56000 comments per minute during Packers ...
CBSSports.com (blog)
The folks at Bluefin Labs broke down the social-media stats and they're mind-blowing: 56,263social media comments per minute (these include public tweets and public Facebook posts) at the end of the Packers-Seahawks game were sent. A good ...
Chinese Social Media Accounts Clash With Official Reports on Riot at Foxconn ...
New York Times (blog)
The company said the dispute appeared “not to have been work-related,” which conflicts with unconfirmed reports on Chinese social media sites that claim the melee began after security guards beat a worker. Richard Lai, a senior associate editor at ...
Justin Timberlake Is Bringing Sexy Back To MySpace
ABC News
The link took his followers to a preview video the New My Space, which brings an entirely new design to the outdated social network. The video shows a very clean looking interface, similar to Pinterest in design, with lots of white space and photos ...
ABC News
Brickfish Sponsoring Social Media Week Chicago - City Sponsor of the Global ...
Sacramento Bee
CHICAGO, Sept. 24, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Brickfish, the award-winning social media marketing technology platform, is today kicking off Social Media Week Chicago as the City Sponsor. This premier global social media event is occurring concurrently in ...
The Social Advisor
Wall Street Journal (blog)
You guys know that I'm skeptical of so-called “social media consultants” to the financial advisory business. I can count on two hands how many advisers have truly been successful with social media in a sustained way and, of that group, not many would ...
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Five Fundamentals for Social Media
Business 2 Community
To finish things up, we're going to talk about five fundamentals for social media – specifically, five fundamentals for social media if you are using social media for business purposes. As is the case with blogging, there are many ways people can use...
Business 2 Community
Jimmy Kimmel and Tracy Morgan boost Emmy social media traffic
Los Angeles Times
Traffic levels represented a 148% increase in social media chatter over the previous year, when the gala honoring the best of television generated 427,000 comments, Bluefin Labs said Monday. However, the 54th Annual Grammy Awards earlier this year ...
Using social media 'Big Data' analytics to analyze or predict events
Government Security News
In July, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) issued a RFP looking for new Big Data tools to track social media postings and interactions, reflecting a growing interest within government to use social media and open source data to ...
Everyday Health Has Bought Social Media Marketers Eqal (Price Up ...
By Ingrid Lunden
Last week, TechCrunch broke the news that Everyday Health was buying EQAL, a social mediamarketing company, for a price of up to $20 million, to fuel Everyday Health's push into more ad-funded video content on its own network of sites ...
TechCrunch
20 TV Shows With the Most Social Media Buzz This Week
By Jennifer Shore
Which TV shows generate the most buzz on social media networks? Find out each week from our social TV chart.
Mashable!
NFL Is Deleting Social Media Posts Everywhere - SBNation.com
By Bill Hanstock
The NFL posted an unfortunate Facebook image and caption after the controversial ending to Monday Night Football. The post was quickly deleted.
SBNation.com - All Posts
Social Media Interactions During Emmys Increase, but Broadcast ...
By Erik Hayden
Social media analytics trackers say that activity referencing the awards show rose from last year--but not enough to beat out the Grammys, Oscars or MTV's Video Awards.
Television
Listen Up, Social Media Managers! | Social Media Today
By Deirdre Walsh
We're all familiar with the following scenario - a customer complaining or asking a question about your company or product on Twitter. Image.
Social Media Today - The world's...
How Social Media Distracts You at Work [INFOGRAPHIC]
This infographic details how social media interruptions impact employee productivity.
mashable.com/2012/09/24/social-media-work-distractions/
Facebook privacy snafu turns out to be false alarm, but maybe it's time for ...
PCWorld
Facebook told TechCrunch that they have checked every report and have found no privacy breaches. Instead, users are just confused -- before 2009 there were no Likes or comments on wall posts, and so the posts look more like private message threads.
Packers guard TJ Lang's Twitter explosion could be the most re-tweeted Tweet ...
Yahoo! Sports (blog)
Stuff like this may seem irrelevant to some, but Twitter is the new mode of communication and relation for so many people. The NFL is dealing with a severe perception and integrity gap in its dealings with obviously unqualified replacement officials ...
Yahoo! Sports (blog)
Someone taunts Torrey Smith on Twitter
ESPN (blog)
No NFL player knows how to use Twitter as well as Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Torrey Smith. He talked to the Ravens rookie class this year about the right way to use Twitter and touched on social media when he spoke at the NFL Rookie Symposium.
Indian government tries Twitter to connect with its 'Tweeple'
Washington Post (blog)
... on to Twitter last year; the pro-business chief minister of the western state of Gujarat, Narendra Modi, held a Web chat over Google Plus Hangout this month; and the populist chief minister of West Bengal, Mamata Bannerjee, has her own Facebook page.
Facebook Enables Users to Review Own Search History -- and Delete It, If ...
eWeek
Facebook, in a continuing effort to repair public relations damage it suffered a couple of years ago when millions of users were confused about exactly what personal information was going private or public, said Sept. 24 that it will now allow users to ...
Privacy group wants FTC to examine Facebook-Datalogix partnership
PCWorld
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission should analyze Facebook's relationship with a data marketer to ensure it doesn't violate the social networking site's recently approved settlement, the Electronic Privacy Information Center said Monday. Facebook is ...
Twitter users may be victims of direct message malware
CNET
A friend of mine recently sent me a direct message on Twitter, it said "lol u didnt se them taping u" and had a link to Facebook. I hadn't remembered being taped in the past few days and I'd never seen my friend use this type of Twitter-shorthand ...
Facebook, Facing Investor Skepticism Over Mobile, Also Dinged By Developers
Forbes
“Mobile developers believe that a mobile-first startup could disrupt Facebook,” Appcelerator and research firm IDC found after surveying 5,526 mobile developers last month. “A resounding 66 percent of mobile developers state that it is 'likely to very ...
Facebook's IPO Was Not a Failure: Barry Diller
CNBC.com
Diller said that most of the investors who bought at the IPO were probably speculating and not in the stock for the long-term. “In which case, they deserve whatever they get, good or bad,” he said. (Read More: Google Shares Hit Record High as Facebook ...
CNBC.com
Update: Facebook Confirms No Private Messages Appearing On ...
By Colleen Taylor
Updated. Some Facebook users were alarmed this morning when it appeared that private messages written in 2009 and earlier were showing up on viewable Timelines as messages.
TechCrunch
Developer survey explains Facebook's mobile moves — Tech News ...
By Ryan Kim
Two-thirds of mobile developers in a new survey believe that Facebook can get disrupted by a mobile-first startup. And most developers are unhappy with the state of HTML5. The results help explain whyFacebook bought Instagram and why it ...
GigaOM
66% of mobile developers think Facebook will be disrupted by a ...
By Emil Protalinski
Emil is a technology journalist writing for The Next Web. Over the years, he has covered the tech industry for multiple publications, including Ars Technica, Neowin, TechSpot, ZDNet, and CNET. Stay in touch via Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ ...
The Next Web
Facebook's Gen Y Nightmare | Monday Note
What they basically do is data-mining the social internet: blogs, forums, Twitter, and of courseFacebook. Over the years, they've drawn a map of behaviors, ...
www.mondaynote.com/2012/09/.../facebooks-gen-y-nightmar...
By Emil Protalinski
Emil is a technology journalist writing for The Next Web. Over the years, he has covered the tech industry for multiple publications, including Ars Technica, Neowin, TechSpot, ZDNet, and CNET. Stay in touch via Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ ...
The Next Web
Facebook's Gen Y Nightmare | Monday Note
What they basically do is data-mining the social internet: blogs, forums, Twitter, and of courseFacebook. Over the years, they've drawn a map of behaviors, ...
www.mondaynote.com/2012/09/.../facebooks-gen-y-nightmar...
LinkedIn rolls out skill endorsements, and it's as easy as one-click
Digital Trends
You'll notice on your LinkedIn page that skills and expertise have taken up a significant amount of real estate, in effect pushing down your experiences to highlight them, as well as your endorsements. Now, your LinkedIn network can choose to endorse ...
Tracking Pinterest Taste Makers with Pinfluncer
Equities.com
Today Pinfluencer, the leader in enterprise analytics and brand development for Pinterest (the fastest ever growing social media platform), launches Pinner360. As the newest addition to the Pinfluencer marketing suite, Pinner360 provides complete ...
Here's What LinkedIn's Marketing Execs Think Is Wrong With Facebook
Business Insider
Personal social networks such as Facebook are used to waste time, and professional networks are used to invest time, according to LinkedIn. In a recent blog post, the career networking site discussed new research it commissioned into why people use ...
ShopInterest, The Startup That Lets You Sell From Your Pinterest Boards, Gets ...
TechCrunch
ShopInterest.co, an e-commerce platform that lets anyone turn their Pinterest boards into online stores, is today announcing a small, undisclosed investment from 500 Startups, via its newly acquired fund Mexican.VC. It's the first investment 500 ...
LinkedIn Predicts the Death of the Office PC, Envisions a Mobile Future
LAPTOP Magazine (blog)
What do Rolodexes and raptors have in common? Not much yet, but according to LinkedIn, the iconic contact manager could be on the brink of Dodo-esque extinction — and it's joined by the desktop PC and other seminal office staples that might not be ...
Twitter Move Impacts LinkedIn and Facebook
Small Business Trends
LinkedIn to Facebook. The real surprise, however, came when stats showed that another well-known social media network has benefited significantly from the dissolved relationship between LinkedInand Twitter. Stats for July, the month after Twitter ...
Photo Release -- The Cubicle Dinosaurs: Tape Recorders and Fax Machines ...
NASDAQ
25, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD), the world's largest professional network with more than 175 million members worldwide, today released some fun statistics about office tools and trends that are on the brink of becoming extinct.
Ubokia Launches Commerce Platform for Pinterest
PYMNTS.com
Ubokia Inc. (www.ubokia.com), the preeminent buyer's marketplace, today announced a “Want It” button, the first of its kind commerce platform for Pinterest. Now when Pinterest users discover something they'd like to purchase, they will be able to buy ...
Wanderful unveils as Pinterest for local papers
VatorNews
Every week, I get a ton of newspaper circulars (you know the dozen or so pages of product advertisements stuck inside the papers). And, every week, I throw them out, without as much as a glance. I'm not the only one, I'm sure. And newspaper publishers ...
Dobango Is a Social Marketing Platform for Pinterest
By Emily Price
Quite a few brands have Pinterest pages, but not many brands are using those pages to truly actively engage their customer base. Dobango, the newest venture by Nexage founder Devkumar Gandhi, is attempting to change that.
Mashable!
What's The ROI Of Posting To Pinterest? New Social Media Solution ...
By Sarah Perez
Social media managers looking to prove their ROI of what they do, today have a new option for tracking social analytics, thanks to the official public launch of a service called Ohtootay. Crazy name aside, the solution lets companies track their ...
TechCrunch
LinkedIn Introduces Support for Danish, its 19th Language
By Jon Russell
LinkedIn has localized its service in Denmark after adding Danish to list of supported languages.
The Next Web
BusinessLink: LinkedIn Myths Debunked | Social Media Today
By ChuckHester
Last week I talked about a few things you may not know about LinkedIn.
Social Media Today - The world's...
The new MySpace: a mix of Pinterest, Metro, and Justin Timberlake
By Martin Brinkmann
MySpace is still a big website on the Internet. It is nowhere near as big as it has been, thanks to the rise of sites like Facebook or Google Plus, but it is.
gHacks Technology News | Latest...
Introducing LinkedIn Endorsements
On LinkedIn, you have many smart, talented, and skilled professional connections. Starting today, we are introducing Endorsements, a new feature that makes it ...
www.slideshare.net/linkedin/introducing-linkedin-endorsements
Oh, How Pinteresting!, Pinterest How To's & Instant Answers
Pinterest How To's & Instant Answers. Whether you've just been struck by inspiration and want to share an idea, or you're locked out of your account and you ...
blog.pinterest.com/post/.../pinterest-how-tos-instant-answers
Daily Dot | Tumblr passes Pinterest in unique visitors
This puts Tumblr, the five-year-old microblog founded in New York, neck and neck with Pinterestwhich collects more than 23 million uniques a month, according ...
www.dailydot.com/news/tumblr-pinterest-unique-visitors/
