When, why, and how Facebook will take on Google in search
The Next Web
Facebook and Google have been on a collision course for years, and their competitiveness has only increased with the release of Google+ just 14 months ago. As the service becomes more and more popular, one has to wonder how Facebook feels about the ...
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The Next Web
Facebook and Google have been on a collision course for years, and their competitiveness has only increased with the release of Google+ just 14 months ago. As the service becomes more and more popular, one has to wonder how Facebook feels about the ...
The Next Web
Digital Trends
Detailed on Google's official Google+ account this week, the search company has added links to movie trailers when a user searches for information regarding showtimes at local theaters. In order to bring up these listings, the user uses a search term ...
Digital Trends
Social media a growing force in race to the White House (VIDEO)
Southgate News Herald
Social media, once written off as a fad, is now a big component of our lives. We use it to communicate with co-workers and friends — even to obtain new jobs. And in the past four years it has become a crucial element to landing the highest job in the ...
Social Media Strategy: Research to Boost Your Social Marketing ROI
Business 2 Community
Hardly a week goes by that we're not shocked by a new development in the realm of social mediamarketing. Last week's big news was the fact that we're now able to create and upload cover photos on Twitter. A few weeks before that, we learned that the ...
Why buying social media reviews is a recipe for marketing disaster
DaniWeb (blog)
One of the great things about social media is the way that it utilises the wisdom of crowds. This concept is perhaps best known through Wikipedia, where user editing can often create some wildly inaccurate entries in the short term but over time these ...
Social media tools help find lost pets
Huntersville Herald
Social media's effectiveness is its ability to reach a lot of people quickly. Pet owners, for instance, can set up a Facebook page for a missing pet, or launch messages on Twitter immediately. The advantages are being able to give detailed descriptions ...
Ultimate Social Media Party Foul List – 70 Party Fouls of the Social Foolish
Business 2 Community
photodune 1154035 surprised funny girl xs Ultimate Social Media Party Foul List 70 Party Fouls of We have all seen them or done them. The social media party fouls. We may want to think everyone is following a standard norm for social media engagement ...
Social Media Boot Camp
HispanicBusiness.com
A press release said the boot camp, begun in 2009, is helpful for social media novices as well as those who use it already. "I feel as if I got a week's worth of content in one day. ... Every leader of a faith community should take this course," said ...
Tech Connect: Is blocking social media a good idea?
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines (blog)
The proliferation of social media — tweeting, texting, Facebook and the like — has been breathtaking. When you have young people sending 60 text messages or more per day, it's obvious that this media has become integral in their lives. Do you think ...
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines (blog)
National Coffee Day: ' Hello, have you ever heard of social media?'
Examiner.com
Today is National Coffee Day, and it is one of the more well-known “days” that we tend to be commemorating more often now due to social media. Some coffee shops and restaurants around the country offer free coffee all day long to customers, but not all ...
Finding fame, and sometimes fortune, in social media
Sydney Morning Herald
Social media has made it easier than ever to catapult from obscurity to prominence. In recent years, the web has blossomed into a more egalitarian version of American Idol, where nobodies compete for attention alongside somebodies. Today, a teenager...
Sydney Morning Herald
Why Social Media Makes Customer Service Better
By Harry Rollason
The social landscape is evolving, but your ability to serve customers in all channels is critical to your business success.
Mashable!
California Stops Employer, University Social Media Snooping
Two new laws were signed by Gov. Jerry Brown that prohibit employers or universities from requesting access, user names or passwords to applicants' social media accounts.
Government Technology News
On The Radar: Social Media Dominates Headlines | Business 2 ...
By Ryan W. Neal
It's been a busy week for social media. It seemed like everything that came across our desk was either about social networks, Social TV, or the second.
Business 2 Community
The 30 Biggest Social Media Advertisers Of 2012 - 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 ...
www.businessinsider.com/the-30-biggest-social-media-advertis...
LinkedIn Board Connect: A Guide for Non-profits to Leverage This Valuable New ...
Huffington Post (blog)
LinkedIn Board Connect has taken online board matching to a new level for non-profit organizations. As I noted in my September 21 post here, this innovative approach is an advance in bringing non-profits and potential candidates together; the most ...
Free Pinterest for "Business Guide" and new "Pins for Pinterest" course from ...
Equities.com
Based on latest traffic and active user statistics, Pinterest in now the third most popular social network above LinkedIn, and techcrunch reports that Pinterest beats yahoo organic traffic, making it 4th largest traffic driver worldwide. Pinterest user ...
LinkedIn Releases One-Click Endorsements for Professional Skills
Small Business Trends
When you visit the LinkedIn profile of one of your connections, you will see a big blue box prepopulated with a list of their skills (examples: entrepreneurship, or online marketing). You just click to endorse one or more of them. It's also just one ...
Small Business Trends
The Painful Reality Of Social Spam
Business 2 Community
What surprises me the most about this is that LinkedIn is supposed to be a professional networking system where you can develop relationships with people you know, or would like to get to know better – hopefully with mutual benefits as a result. In ...
Prospecting leads to the gold clients
Sydney Morning Herald
Use Twitter and LinkedIn: Communicate on topics that relate to clients and drive them to your website for a newsletter or free e-book to capture their contact details. ''Constantly engage with them,'' says Marketing Eye founder Mellissah Smith. ''I'm ...
Sydney Morning Herald
With new look, owners bid to bring Myspace back
Cherry Hill Courier Post
The new site, for which people can request an invitation, looks a bit like an entertainment-focused version of Pinterest, with a dash of Twitter and Facebook thrown in. But Myspace has tried redesigns before, to no avail. Will it work this time? “If ...
5 Tips For Creating Effective Digital Marketing for Insurance Agents
Business 2 Community
Or they have a digital marketing plan that involves tweeting one insurance-related news article a week and updating their LinkedIn profile twice a year. Other agents look to these examples and claim them as evidence that digital marketing isn't a ...
Business 2 Community
Are You Too Old For Social Media?
Business 2 Community
If I had to pick a social media network that seems to come naturally to us boomers, I'd think immediately of LinkedIn. Profiles on this major social media network resemble a resume more than a yearbook page. You can fill out information on educational ...
Business 2 Community
How to Make a Profit Using Pinterest - Business Insider
By Samantha Cortez
"To market well using Pinterest, you need to make sure that every piece of content you publish either solves a problem for your audiences, or entertains them—preferably both,” says Beth Hayden, author of Pinfluence: The Complete Guide To ...
Business Insider
LinkedIn Success Stories
One of the people I spoke to is thrilled because, for the first time, employers are contacting her directly through LinkedIn. In fact, she's heard from three recruiters ...
jobsearch.about.com/b/2012/09/.../linkedin-success-stories.htm
Muslims in Bangladesh torch Buddhist temples over Facebook image
Los Angeles Times
AMRITSAR, India -- Hundreds of angry Muslims in southeast Bangladesh torched at least 10 Buddhist temples and dozens of homes Sunday after alleging that a Buddhist man insulted Islam on his Facebook page, authorities said. The protest gained ...
Heath Lara, Prison Guard, Reinstated After Being Fired For Facebook Friending ...
Huffington Post
The sergeant was in violation of the Texas rule that prohibits convicts and guards, as well as parolees and parole officers, from fraternizing -- a policy that can include Facebook interaction, according to the Austin-American Statesman. Sanders had ...
Wilnilia Sanchez Falcon Kills Boyfriend Jesus Rivera Algarin After Facebook ...
Huffington Post
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Police in Puerto Rico say a 27-year-old woman is suspected of killing her boyfriend after he became upset about her activities on Facebook. Lt. Candido Pagan says there were two children in the house when the killing occurred ...
Barch makes lower-paid NHL players' case onTwitter
USA TODAY (blog)
Login with Facebook to comment and share content. Login with Facebook ... Barch has a Twitteraccount and has used it in the past to discuss the NFL lockout and more recently, the Ontario Hockey League's rules to cut back on fighting. Saturday night ...
Post on Facebook threatens to blow up Jaipur airport
Times of India
JAIPUR: Security in and around the Sanganer Airport here was stepped up on Sunday after security agencies received information about a post on social-networking website Facebook threatening to blow up the airport on October 1. "We got information that ...
Chicago looking to Twitter for answer to gun problem
Dekalb Daily Chronicle
CHICAGO – In an unusual attempt at addressing one of its most vexing problems, the city of Chicago is asking residents with ideas on how to get illegal guns off the streets to share their thoughts – in 140 characters or fewer on ...
Facebook to FTC: Let Us Advertise to Children
Yahoo! News (blog)
COPPA's also the reason that children under 13 can't sign up for services such as Facebook -- it's easier for a website to ban children under 13 than deal with COPPA's requirement on getting parental constent before collecting personal information from ...
Miley Cyrus Shows Sideboob & Liam Hemsworth PDA After Twitter Scandal
Hollywood Life
Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth are reportedly fighting due to her constant Twitter oversharing, but during their most recent day together she packed on the PDA with him — and showed plenty of her trademark sideboob! Miley, 19, was spotted with Liam ...
Shopping for gifts now on Facebook
BDlive
Users in the US will soon be able to buy and ship products from more than a hundred "FacebookGifts" vendors with a few clicks on the company's website. The products include eyeglasses by Warby Parker, Starbucks coffee and pastries from New ...
One of the people I spoke to is thrilled because, for the first time, employers are contacting her directly through LinkedIn. In fact, she's heard from three recruiters ...
jobsearch.about.com/b/2012/09/.../linkedin-success-stories.htm
Muslims in Bangladesh torch Buddhist temples over Facebook image
Los Angeles Times
AMRITSAR, India -- Hundreds of angry Muslims in southeast Bangladesh torched at least 10 Buddhist temples and dozens of homes Sunday after alleging that a Buddhist man insulted Islam on his Facebook page, authorities said. The protest gained ...
Heath Lara, Prison Guard, Reinstated After Being Fired For Facebook Friending ...
Huffington Post
The sergeant was in violation of the Texas rule that prohibits convicts and guards, as well as parolees and parole officers, from fraternizing -- a policy that can include Facebook interaction, according to the Austin-American Statesman. Sanders had ...
Wilnilia Sanchez Falcon Kills Boyfriend Jesus Rivera Algarin After Facebook ...
Huffington Post
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Police in Puerto Rico say a 27-year-old woman is suspected of killing her boyfriend after he became upset about her activities on Facebook. Lt. Candido Pagan says there were two children in the house when the killing occurred ...
Barch makes lower-paid NHL players' case onTwitter
USA TODAY (blog)
Login with Facebook to comment and share content. Login with Facebook ... Barch has a Twitteraccount and has used it in the past to discuss the NFL lockout and more recently, the Ontario Hockey League's rules to cut back on fighting. Saturday night ...
Post on Facebook threatens to blow up Jaipur airport
Times of India
JAIPUR: Security in and around the Sanganer Airport here was stepped up on Sunday after security agencies received information about a post on social-networking website Facebook threatening to blow up the airport on October 1. "We got information that ...
Chicago looking to Twitter for answer to gun problem
Dekalb Daily Chronicle
CHICAGO – In an unusual attempt at addressing one of its most vexing problems, the city of Chicago is asking residents with ideas on how to get illegal guns off the streets to share their thoughts – in 140 characters or fewer on ...
Facebook to FTC: Let Us Advertise to Children
Yahoo! News (blog)
COPPA's also the reason that children under 13 can't sign up for services such as Facebook -- it's easier for a website to ban children under 13 than deal with COPPA's requirement on getting parental constent before collecting personal information from ...
Miley Cyrus Shows Sideboob & Liam Hemsworth PDA After Twitter Scandal
Hollywood Life
Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth are reportedly fighting due to her constant Twitter oversharing, but during their most recent day together she packed on the PDA with him — and showed plenty of her trademark sideboob! Miley, 19, was spotted with Liam ...
Shopping for gifts now on Facebook
BDlive
Users in the US will soon be able to buy and ship products from more than a hundred "FacebookGifts" vendors with a few clicks on the company's website. The products include eyeglasses by Warby Parker, Starbucks coffee and pastries from New ...
Lindsay Lohan Blasts Dr. Phil on Twitter -- 'You're a Fraud!' | TMZ.com
By TMZ Staff
Share your experience on Facebook and many other networks. Sign up to the left ... Lindsay came to her mother's defense on Twitter yesterday, saying Dr. Phil should be "ashamed" of himself and calling him a "fraud" and a "bully." Apparently ...
TMZ.com
By TMZ Staff
Share your experience on Facebook and many other networks. Sign up to the left ... Lindsay came to her mother's defense on Twitter yesterday, saying Dr. Phil should be "ashamed" of himself and calling him a "fraud" and a "bully." Apparently ...
TMZ.com
Facebook Updates Messenger For iOS With New Chat - TechCrunch
By Frederic Lardinois
... refresh with this update, as well as a speed boost and official support for iOS 6 and the iPhone 5's larger display. Today's update comes just a bit more than a week after Facebook also launched an update to its Messenger app for Android and, for the most part, this update brings the iOS app's design on par with the Android app. ... View Staff Page Follow me on twitter. facebook_messenger_ios_logo. Facebook just launched a new version of its Messenger app for iOS. Messenger ...
TechCrunch
Facebook Embraces Bubbles in Messenger iPhone Upgrade
By Todd Wasserman
Bubbles. That's the biggest change you'll probably notice in Facebook's upgraded Messenger. ... 2 Comments. To leave a comment on this story, please log in with Facebook or Twitter ...
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I Got Fired From Facebook - Business Insider
By Henry Blodget
... A former Facebook product manager named Noah Kagan has written a brutally honest article about how and why he got fired fromFacebook in 2006 and what he learned from it.
Clusterstock
DC's New 52 Facebook Poll Backfires Just A Bit | Bleeding Cool ...
By Rich Johnston
The top three have the majority of votes… UPDATE: Half an hour after posting the piece, after a day of aiying because MorrisonCon kept getting in the way, DC Comics have withdrawn the poll from theirFacebook page. It can still be accessed ...
Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies...
11 ways to mine LinkedIn for hidden talent
PCWorld
If you listen to conventional wisdom, LinkedIn is a vast sea of potential hires, all just waiting to jump onboard your company. The good news: LinkedIn indeed holds deep recruiting potential. The bad news: Rock star candidates won't start banging on ...
Pinterest inspires design for Ringgold boy's bedroom
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Every day, more than 4 million viewers check out Pinterest, according to statistics onbrandignity.com. Pinterest is the Internet bulletin board where users can share anything from T-shirt slogans to home decor ideas. Burke copied a baseball pattern ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press
3 Tips for Using LinkedIn's New 'Endorsements'
Terra.com
In case you missed it, LinkedIn has a new feature called "Endorsements." It allows users to endorse skills or expertise of any members in their network -- including skills they haven't listed. This allows potential networking partners to quickly ...
Instagram vs. Twitter
CNN
Show video statistics. I like this Like I dislike this. Add to. Share Flag as inappropriate. Loading... Alert icon. Sign in or sign up now! Alert icon. Loading... Published on Sep 28, 2012 by CNN. Is Instagram more popular than Twitter? Erin Burnett ...
Pa. teens charged as adults in taped beating
USA TODAY
CHESTER, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Six teenagers were in custody Friday on charges they brutally beat a neighbor on her stoop "just for fun" and then posted cellphone video of the attack on Facebook, authorities said. Four 16- and 17-year-old girls were ...
Facebook gift-giving feature sparks rally
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Facebook Inc. found out yet again Friday that the company's efforts to find new ways to make money from its enormous reach will be rewarded. “Every timeFacebook demonstrates that it is focused on revenue, the stock will ...
The Facebook game platform: Anyone can rise to the top of the charts ...
VentureBeat
He joined Facebook in January, 2011, in order to make sure that the social network understood the games and game publishers that were making Facebook into one of the world's largest gaming platforms. He is the director of game partnerships atFacebook ...
VentureBeat
Timing Twitter
Wall Street Journal (blog)
My print column this week examines the new measure used by Twitter Inc. starting this summer to detect excitement among its user base about a news event: tweets per minute. Twitter analysts compile hashtags and keywords to filter through the hundreds ...
EU lawmaker calls for tighter data rules after Facebook row
Chicago Tribune
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - An EU lawmaker called for tighter control of on-line social networks under a data protection regulation now being debated after some Facebook users said their personal messages appeared on their public profiles. EU regulators are ...
Facebook Scales the Great Firewall of China
DailyFinance
The chart above shows that Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn (NYS: LNKD) still lag local alternatives like SINA, Tencent, and Renren in users. Censored, schmensored. Users could potentially bypass China's firewall by using services like virtual private ...
Facebook video leads to girls' arrest for beating disabled woman
Chicago Tribune
assailants and put on Facebook, police said on Friday. A person who viewed the cell phone video alerted police to the assault in the town of Chester near Philadelphia, Police Commissioner Joseph Bail Jr. said. "It was an absolutely random, savage, ...
Twitter Blog: More Tweets to discover
By Twitter
Last December, we introduced Discover to bring you essential information from the web. This May, we added stronger signals and a new design that made it more personal for you with better stories and Tweets from people you know.
Twitter Blog
By Twitter
Last December, we introduced Discover to bring you essential information from the web. This May, we added stronger signals and a new design that made it more personal for you with better stories and Tweets from people you know.
Twitter Blog
Facebook Shares Jump More Than 6% After Gifts Launch. (Hooray ...
By Kim-Mai Cutler
Around Wall Street's close yesterday, the company launched a much anticipated e-commerce initiative that lets Facebook users send real, physical gifts to friends and family on birthdays and special events like engagements and weddings. It gives the company a third business model beyond advertising and payments revenue. Shares have ... View Staff Page Follow me on twitter. Kim-Mai Cutler is a technology journalist who has worked for Bloomberg, VentureBeat and The Wall ...
TechCrunch
Small Business Advertisers Like Facebook's Immediacy, But Not Its ...
By Todd Wasserman
Small businesses weigh the pros and cons of Facebook's advertising and analytics products. ... 0 Comments. To leave a comment on this story, please log in with Facebook or Twitter ...
Mashable!
Bootstrap Creators Quit Twitter For Obvious And GitHub
By Robin Wauters
Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton (aka @mdo and @fat), who jointly cooked up front-end Web app development toolkit Bootstrap whilst working at Twitter, have decided to leave the social networking company after 2.5 years. In a blog post, Otto and Thornton promise that they will both continue to work on the Bootstrap ... Facebook Users See Private Messages Show Up on Their Timelines ·Twitter logo is displayed at the entranc · Report: Twitter's Most Active Country Is China (Where It Is...
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SundanceFilmFestival. @sundancefest. We find, love and share the best independent culture in the world. We are presented by the nonprofit Sundance Institute.
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