Chicago Tribune
Twitter founder and Executive Chairman Jack Dorsey said on Tuesday that he trimmed his role at the microblogging service months ago as he devoted the majority of his time to Square, the payment start-up where he is chief executive. Dorsey transferred ...
Case Study: Scoot & Doodle Sparks Creativity With Their Google+ ...
By Amy
San Francisco-based startup Scoot & Doodle brings people face-to-face in a shared online play space in real time. Scoot & Doodle chose to launch their first product as a Google+ Hangout app, and since launching built a user base of ...
Google+ Developers Blog
Google+ Wants You To Love It - Business Insider
By Andy Meek
Vic Gundotra, the search engine's social czar, is striving to outdo Facebook on an emotional level.
Business Insider
Matt McClure | Why Google+ Still Has Huge Potential
Thinking of Google+ as a Facebook challenger today is the wrong perspective. Facebook is firmly entrenched as the personal social networking leader. It's going ...
static.matthewlmcclure.com/.../why-google-plus-still-has-huge...
Jones faces social media's coming of age
The Australian Financial Review
Jones's comments two weeks ago that Prime Minister Julia Gillard's father had “died of shame'' led to a social media backlash which has resulted in 70 companies pulling their advertising from the show. This in turn led the Macquarie Radio Network to ...
Social media debate sentiment less critical of Obama than polls and press are
GalesburgPlanet.com
Social media came to a much different initial verdict about the first presidential debate than did the early polls and the conventional press, according to an analysis of the conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs by the Pew Research Center's ...
How Social Media Can Boost Profits
Forbes
“Social media is the extension of who I am,” says Fenne. “On Facebook, which is the main platform for communicating with consultants, I am Stein Ove – the private person, I am not Tupperware. I have my private inspirations, thoughts and pictures. This ...
The Problem With the Media's Social Media Addiction
Huffington Post
Earlier this year, a study found that social media is more addicting than alcohol and cigarettes. Addictions can be dangerous. They can threaten our relationships with others and overall well-being. No one is more addicted to social media right now ...
Celebrities on their favorite social media sites
Washington Post
Personal Post · Email · Tumblr · Reddit · Stumbleupon · Digg · Delicious. Oct. 9, 2012. Alicia Keys and Ne-Yo speak of their love and and hang ups of using social media sites such as Twitter and Tumblr. Associated Press.
Social Media Outreach Can Help Prevent Sexually Transmitted Infections
Infection Control Today
"The use of social media to influence sexual risk behavior in the short term is novel. It is a first step in considering how to reach the overwhelming numbers of youth online, and how to maximize approaches to technology-based interventions," says lead ...
Mars rover Curiosity checks in with its fans on social media
Modesto Bee
Last Wednesday the rover, in the midst of its second month of a two-year exploratory mission on Mars, listed its location for the first time on the social media platform Foursquare. The so-called check-in is an example of a co-evolution between social ...
Modesto Bee
Klout in the Classroom: Grading Students on Social Media Use
PBS MediaShift Idea Lab
In my Social Media for Reporters class at UNC, 20 percent of each student's grade will be based on the number of points that his or her Klout score goes up over the course of the semester. But the best thing about doing so is probably not that it's ...
PBS MediaShift Idea Lab
Facebook Reaches 1 Billion Users and What it Means for Google+
Business 2 Community
As I sipped on my Friday morning cup of Dunkin,' perusing sites such as Mashable, Fast Company and AdAge—to name a few—the news that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that his social networking site reached 1 billion monthly active users ...
Google+ Is The "Social Spine" For Consumers As Well As Brands And Advertisers
TechCrunch
Before you start commenting about how much I cover Google+, just hop over to The Next Web (my previous employer), to see the root of it all. I'm a firm believer in Google's approach to becoming more social, as I've watched it happen not only within its ...
TechCrunch
Join our Google Hangout Wednesday at noon with Mara Davis, formerly of Dave ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
Want to talk to Mara Davis and ask her questions about Atlanta's changing radio stations, her career and what happened at Dave FM? The longtime mid-day personality will be joining me in a Google Hangout Wednesday at noon. And we'd like you to hang...
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
An inside look at A&E's social TV strategy for 'Duck Dynasty'
Lost Remote
In honor of the premier, A&E has become the latest network to leverage a Google+ Hangout with the entire cast. Select fans were chosen to “hang out” with the cast. They've also launched JoinTheDynasty.com a social TV site that allows fans to “tweet...
Lost Remote
Why businesses should be using Google+ Local
Econsultancy (blog)
Google+ Local, formerly Google Places, is a valuable resource for any retailer looking to use the web to drive offline sales. In a nutshell, it allows businesses to create a listing (via a Google+ page) which will appear next to relevant, especially ...
Econsultancy (blog)
How to pick a mutual fund [Google+ Hangout]
Los Angeles Times
To find out more about choosing investment help and figuring out how to wisely invest in stocks and bonds, join us for a Google+ Hangout at 1 p.m. PDT with Hamilton and deputy business editor Joe Bel Bruno. We invite you to join in on the conversation ...
Could Google+ and Twitter upstage Facebook in Latin America?
Memeburn
Interestingly, the region seems a lot more taken with Google+ than the social network's US home base is. Data from Global Web Index suggests that Argentina, Brazil and Mexico each have Google+ penetration rates of around 30%. To put that into context, ...
Memeburn
Morning Advantage: Social Media Lessons from 123 Sesame Street ...
By Dana Rousmaniere
Last week's presidential debate may very well go down in history as "the Big Bird debate,” thanks to the social media frenzy that ensued when Mitt Romney said that he would cut funding to PBS if elected president, despite the fact that he likes ...
HBR.org
Social Media Sites as Tools: How to Post Quickly for Max Exposure ...
By JD Rucker
Battle of the Sexes on Google There are plenty of tools out there that help people post the same piece of content across multiple networks. Sendible, Hootsuite, Buffer - all make posting easy and convenient.
Social Media Today - The world's...
Social Media Intelligence Brief: October 9 | Social Media Today
By Steve Momorella
Kred has issued its list of Most Influential Venture Capitalists in Social Media, highlighting various influencers and outreachers in the social media financial space. For more details on this list please read ...
Social Media Today - The world's...
Social Media Newsfeed: Twitter Staffing | LinkedIn Ruling ...
By Tim Sohn
Social Media Newsfeed: Twitter Staffing | LinkedIn Ruling | Facebook Offer.
SocialTimes
The Shorty Industry Awards, Honors Social Media's Best Agencies ...
By Rusty Blazenhoff
The Shorty Industry Awards is a professional competition that honors “social media's best agencies, innovators and industry pros.” Companies, advertising agencies, networks, film companies, and other entertainment brands, creative digital ...
Laughing Squid
Lessons From the Social Media Professor, @DR4WARD - HootSuite ...
Dr. William J. Ward (a.k.a @DR4WARD), is the Social Media Professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He's been ...
blog.hootsuite.com/lessons-from-dr4ward/
Facebook agrees to pay $10 to each 'Sponsored Stories' victim
CNN
(Wired) -- Facebook is agreeing to pay up to $10 each to users who appeared in the social-networking site's "Sponsored Stories" advertising program without their permission. The revised settlement agreement (.pdf) to a class action, lodged Saturday ...
Avoiding Facebook Fate Is Twitter CFO Goal on Way to IPO
Businessweek
Ali Rowghani got a voice mail on his mobile phone from Steve Jobs on a Saturday in early 2010. The Apple Inc. (AAPL) co-founder wanted to keep Rowghani, then chief financial officer at Walt Disney Co. (DIS)'s Pixar, from leaving to become finance chief ...
Twitter Mulls an In-House Video-Hosting Service
All Things Digital
People familiar with Twitter's thinking say the switch would be a way of further refining Twitter'sconsistency and user experience, better shaping how users encounter Twitter content. It's Twitter'stheme over the past year. (Example: The LinkedIn ...
Twitter outage caused by human error, domain briefly yanked
CNET
An outage that broke hyperlinks on Twitter yesterday evening originated with a simple human error at a Melbourne, Australia-based hosting firm that was responding to an abuse complaint, CNET has learned. Twitter last year began to abbreviate all ...
Like-A-Hug Makes Facebook Likes Mean a Little More
WebProNews
As a part of that milestone, the company also told us that in the last three and a half years (approximately), Facebook users have hit the “like” button over 1.13 trillion times. Let that sink in for a second. 1.13 trillion likes. With that kind of ...
Stacey Dash takes Twitter heat, racist attacks for Mitt Romney support
Zap2it.com (blog)
"@REALStaceyDash You're an unemployed black woman endorsing @MittRomney. You're voting against yourself thrice. You poor beautiful idiot," one Twitter user tweets, while another calls her "white with a dark tan." That led to Dash's peers rallying to ...
Zap2it.com (blog)
Twitter Launches User Directory
Search Engine Journal
In a world where altruistic social gathering doesn't pay the bills, Twitter continues to make changes that they hope will drive more traffic directly to the Twitter domain and bolster their value to advertisers. The most recent update comes in the form ...
Answering Questions About Twitter's C.E.O. - NYTimes.com
By By NICK BILTON
Answers to reader questions about Twitter and its chief executive, Dick Costolo, a former improv comedian, the subject of a profile in Sunday Business. ... Previous Post Facebook Offers to Sweeten Deal to Settle “Sponsored Stories” Suit ...
NYT Bits
Twitter courts healthcare — but cautiously — Tech News and Analysis
By Ki Mae Heussner
At a presentation at the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco Monday (Twitter's first in the health tech conference's six-year history), Melissa Barnes, Twitter's head of agency and brand advocacy, said that health-related tweets have ...
GigaOM
Facebook Collections Lets Retailers Augment Posts With “Want ...
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
Chrome Extension Protects Privacy Against Google, Facebook & 1000
By Dave Copeland
Like on Facebook. Share on Twitter. Share on Google+. Share on LinkedIn. If you're tired of logging into Facebook to reset your privacy options every time the company updates its user agreement, a new Chrome extension may be the fix ...
ReadWriteWeb
Facebook 'Want' Button Gets Tested With Retailers
By Reuters
Facebook said it is working with seven retailers, including Pottery Barn and Victoria's Secret, to test the new feature that will allow certain users to flag images of desired products by clicking a special "want" button. ... Zuck and co. better hope those rumors of a . . . .
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Most of Facebook's Billion Accounts Are Fake [SUNDAY COMIC]
Does Facebook really have a billion active users? Nitrozac and ... 26 Comments. To leave a comment on this story, please log in with Facebook or Twitter ...
mashable.com/2012/10/07/facebook-billion-accounts/
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Facebook crosses billion threshold, on quest for growth - Yahoo! News
Facebook's number of users is larger than other social media services such as Twitter, which has 140 million monthly active users, and Google+, the Internet ...
news.yahoo.com/facebook-reaches-1-billion-monthly-active-u...
LinkedIn lawsuit bears watching
Bizjournals.com (blog)
According to tech industry publication Ars Technica, a judge dismissed Linda Eagle's claims that her former employer violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act when it took control of her LinkedInaccount after she had been let go. Eagle had been head ...
Internship Tips: How To Use LinkedIn To Land Your Next Job
Huffington Post
Though it's the go-to site for career networking, the social norms for using LinkedIn are a bit vague. When it comes to Twitter, we know that it's acceptable to "follow" and engage in conversations with complete strangers. With Facebook, it's awkward ...
Facebook Tries to Monetize By Annoying; LinkedIn Adds to Value of its Site
NASDAQ
In the span of 24 hours this week, the two most important (for now) publicly traded social networking companies in the world, Facebook ( FB ) and LinkedIn ( LNKD ), each made fairly minor strategic moves that did a magnificent job of highlighting the ...
10% of Pinterest Traffic from Inspirational Quotes
Bloomberg
Published on Oct 8, 2012 by Bloomberg. Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Today's "BWest Byte" is 10%, for the percentage of Pinterest traffic that comes from inspirational quotes. Cory Johnson reports on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg West." (Source: Bloomberg) ...
Few Fortune 500 CEOs on LinkedIn, report says
Bizjournals.com
LinkedIn, which claims to have more than 160 million members worldwide, also claims its members include executives from all 2011 Fortune 500 companies, New York City-based CTPartners (NYSE: CTP) reported. There are 12 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs ...
LinkedIn co-founder: Here's the way startups should do marketing
MedCity News
Konstantin Guericke knows more about marketing than the typical engineering graduate. As aLinkedIn co-founder and the founding marketing vice president of the company, he helped grow our favorite dull-but-worthy social network from zero to six million ...
With Google Lawsuit Looming, Facebook and LinkedIn Face Similar Threats
Minyanville.com
MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL Hedge fund manager James Altucher has made something of a name for himself after siding with a patent troll named Vringo (VRNG) (NYSEAMEX:VRNG) that is suing Google (GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOG) for infringing on patented ...
Zappos Introduces a Pinterest Shopping Feature, But How Does It Work?
Racked National (blog)
One of the biggest complaints about Pinterest is that it's hard to shop. People pin images, but unless the pins come straight from brands it's hard to tell where the item comes from and if it's even for sale. Enter PinPointing, a new Pinterest feature ...
Facebook testing Pinterest-style 'Collections' to get brand pages ...
By Nathan Ingraham
It looks like Facebook is pulling a page directly from Pinterest's playbook. According to All Things D, the company is testing a new "Collections" feature that lets users collate product images from...
The Verge - All Posts
LinkedIn Blog » 4 Ways to Stand Out on LinkedIn
By Nicole Williams
Sharing is caring: Professionals who share articles or content with their LinkedIn network at least once a week are nearly ten times more likely to be contacted by a recruiter for new opportunities than people who don't share with their network.
LinkedIn Blog
VatorNews - Facebook adds Pinterest-like Collections service
By Steven Loeb
Facebook adds Pinterest-like Collections service. Select retailers will promote goods, which users can add to a wishlist and buy offsite by Steven Loeb on October 08, 2012.
Vator.tv news stories and report
iphone - How to generate LinkedIn 64 bit Api Key - Stack Overflow
By Fatima Arshad
Apply for one on LinkedIn's web site: https://www.linkedin.com/secure/developer ...
Recent Questions - Stack Overflow
5 Tips for Finding Freelance Work on LinkedIn
By FreelanceSwitch.com
If you don't use LinkedIn as part of your marketing strategy you're missing out on a rich source of new ...
FreelanceSwitch
