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Social Media Then And Now: The 2008 And 2012 Presidential Elections [INFOGRAPHIC] - Posted January 31, 2012
The 2008 presidential election was a big deal for Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and the like. Candidates flocked to social media to attract voters, and news outlets reported Twitter followers like they were poll results. If that sounds familiar, fast-forward to 2012. This year's presidential ... [AllTwitter]

KLM Celebrates 1 Million Facebook Fans [Video] - Posted January 31, 2012
Here at Social Times we're crazy about KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. They've taken the social media world by storm over the past couple of years with their original campaigns, stalking passengers via social sites and giving them personalized gifts, puttin... [SocialTimes.com]

What The Facebook Subscriber Feature Means For Content Curation - Posted January 30, 2012
So you're a journalist who turned on the subscribe feature on your personal Facebook page and now you've got a good number of Subscribers. Now what? Previously, it was possible to divide your social media life into two realms: Personal (Facebook) and Business (Twitter). You might have used... [10,000 Words]

25% Of People Have Tweeted Something They Regret [STATS] - Posted January 30, 2012
Even though the internet is becoming less and less anonymous, people are still treating it like a free-for-all without rules or repercussions. At least according to a recent poll conducted to see just how responsible people are on Twitter and Facebook. ... [AllTwitter]

Social Media & Online Community Posts From Around The Web - Posted January 27, 2012
Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful. Included in this week's round-up is discussion about how to build a social media command center; why Facebook isn't an echo chamber; and best practice for a community... [10,000 Words]

Facebook Asks Reporters to Sign Non-Disclosure Agreement - Posted January 26, 2012
Reporters going into a news conference at Facebook's offices in Seattle were asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement, according to reports coming from news outlets in Seattle. The Seattle Times blogged... [TVSpy]

Facebook: Average Journalist Has Seen 320% Increase In Subscribers Since November - Posted January 25, 2012
On average, journalists using Facebook's subscribe feature have seen a 320 percent increase in subscribers since November, according to a Facebook analysis of 25 journalists. This sample included local, national and international journalists who report on various platforms. The growth is coming from social and interest-based discovery, wrote ... [TVSpy]

Parse.ly Brings A Dash of Semantics To Online Publishers - Posted January 24, 2012
Online publishers and other content providers have a new analytics tool to help them understand what their readers care about and use that information to better connect them to their sites' relevant and compelling content. Launching today is Dash, based on the predictive content analytics platform ... [semanticweb.com]

Is A Facebook Newsroom On The Way? - Posted January 23, 2012
There has been talk for years about the possibility of Facebook entering the news gathering and distribution game in a big way, given its size and the number of links posted to it every day. So today's news that Facebook has purchased a number of Facebook Newsroom-themed URLs shouldn't come a... [TVSpy]

Washington Post Invites Readers To Subscribe To Staff On Facebook - Posted January 19, 2012
Today, Mark S. Luckie -- the founder of 10,000 Words, and now full-time social media guy at WaPo -- invited reade... [TVSpy]

iXiGO Offers Natural Language Flight Search on Facebook & Twitter - Posted January 19, 2012
iXiGO, a travel meta search engine has launched a new flight search tool for Facebook and Twitter that utilizes ... [semanticweb.com]

What Are People Saying About SOPA on Google+, Facebook and Twitter? - Posted January 19, 2012
Unless you've been hiding in your IP-hidden digital cave for the last few weeks, you're probably aware that the Internet is currently rife with protests for SOPA, the Stop Online Privacy Act. Critics from Silicon Valley and various technology companies around the world blacked out their sites to protest the... [SocialTimes.com]

Social Media & Online Community Posts From Around The Web - Posted January 13, 2012
Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful. Included in this week's round-up is discussion about how to ensure your company's blog is supporting the company's goals; why you should be vigilant in maintaining the... [10,000 Words]

Pizza, Pants, and Tiny Cars Rank High in 'Social Currency' - Posted January 11, 2012
Domino's Pizza, Fiat, and Levi's - what do they all have in common? On th... [PRNewser]

How To Get Fido To Tweet [INFOGRAPHIC] - Posted January 10, 2012
It might not be called a "woof", but Fido has taken to tweeting nonetheless. People sure love their pets, and they're broadcasting this love on social media. We're seeing cats tweeting about their love of catnip, dogs updating Facebook when they get back from a walk, and gerbils posting p... [AllTwitter]

Social Media To Continue To Change Customer Service in 2012 - Posted January 9, 2012
In 2011 companies began changing their worldview about traditional customer service, and started looking to social media channels as a way to interact with customers. Many companies smartened up and created profiles and channels dedicated strictly to answering customer service ques... [TVSpy]

Meet Your Virtual Friends: Google, LinkedIn, Twitter And Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC] - Posted January 9, 2012
She's smart and unique, with a big mouth and lots of connections. She's Twitter, and she's one of four that this infographic from LinkingR details a... [AllTwitter]

Guess Which Country Logs On To Twitter More Than Facebook? - Posted January 9, 2012
According to comScore, there's only one country in the entire world where Twitter is more popular than Facebook. Can you guess which one it is? Here are some hints: Twitter was translated into this country's language first, after English.... [AllTwitter]

Social Media & Online Community Posts From Around The Web - Posted January 6, 2012
Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful. Included in this week's round-up is a ranking of top social media management software; an analysis of global participation in social interactivity; the value of using... [10,000 Words]

Occupy Movement to Create Own Social Networking Site? - Posted January 4, 2012
Our own Jennifer Zaino recently shared the story of two developers turning ... [semanticweb.com]

Occupy Movement to Create Own Social Networking Site? - Posted January 4, 2012
Our own Jennifer Zaino recently shared the story of two developers turning ... [AllTwitter]

Cloud App Activities Unite on Hojoki - Posted January 4, 2012
From Dropbox to Google Docs, cloud applications are increasingly becoming a part of business users' everyday productivity toolbox. Hojoki - taken from the name of an old Japanese book about the way of life and the flow of events - aims to aggregate those cloud apps into a Facebook-like activity feed,... [semanticweb.com]

Social Media & Online Community Posts From Around The Web - Posted December 29, 2011
Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful. Included in this week's round-up is a discussion about the need for strong common interest being present for a community to succeed; a breakdown of Facebook's EdgeRank... [10,000 Words]

Get Social and Keep Your New Year's Resolutions - Posted December 29, 2011
New Year's is a time for revelry, reflection, and making resolutions, both personal and work-related. PsychCentral blog says about forty to forty-five percent of American adults make at least one New Year's resolut... [PRNewser]

Facebook Timeline and Analysts - Posted December 23, 2011
Karen Hanna recently informed business analysts about a few things they should know about Facebook Timeline. Ha... [semanticweb.com]

StreamGlider iPad News-Reader App Touts Mixed Media and Multi-View Modes - Posted December 22, 2011
StreamGlider, which we first covered here, made its debut yesterday. The iPad news and social reader application in its initial version debuts sans the location-aware and some of the more... [semanticweb.com]

39% of Students Say It's Inappropriate to Friend Your Teacher [Infographic] - Posted December 21, 2011
Are today's students sharing their homework through status updates? Are they Tweeting their test answers? While it hasn't turned the corner yet, the world of education is poised to be flipped on its head by the proliferation of powerful social technologies. An infographic looks at today's students use... [SocialTimes.com]

Consumers Prefer Brand Updates Via Facebook Over Email & Traditional Ads [Infographic] - Posted December 19, 2011
With over 800 million active users on Facebook and over 100 million active Twitter users, the way that brands interact with consumers is changing. Consumers are looking for more from brands online, and are giving back by liking and sharing brand content with their ever-growing networks. A ... [SocialTimes.com]

Do You Dumb Down Your Posts for Facebook? Google+ May Be for You - Posted December 19, 2011
As Google Plus begins to win its followers, we're seeing a bit of a culture shift on the users of the network. As with any new technology, the first adopters tend to be a close-knit bunch, and out of them, inevitably, come a few users who stick their nose up... [SocialTimes.com]

Twitter Tops Social Media Buzz List - Posted December 15, 2011
Zeta Interactive, a digital marketing agency, recently released its annual rankings of social networks. They are categorized by "buzz," a ranking calculated by volume and tone (percent positive ranking) of all the sites. This year, T... [10,000 Words]

Facebook's Timeline Launches - Posted December 15, 2011
Facebook today posted that users now officially can upgrade their profiles to its Facebook Timeline by heading here. Timeline, as Mark Zuckerberg described in September, is ... [semanticweb.com]

36.6 Million Americans Got Their Current Jobs Through Social Media [Infographic] - Posted December 14, 2011
These days more and more job hunters are turning to social media to find work and a new infographic that compiles data from Jobvite, LinkedIn, CNN, and JobSearch reveals just how prevalent social media job searching has become. The infographic, ... [SocialTimes.com]

Day of the Dolphin: Swim In the Personalized Social Stream With Bottlenose - Posted December 13, 2011
It's the Day of the Dolphin. Bottlenose (previously known as Bottleno.se), which we initially covered here, moves out of stealth and into private beta mode. The service lassoes your Twitter, Facebook and Yammer streams, a... [semanticweb.com]

The Cold War is Back, With Help from Social Media - Posted December 9, 2011
[caption id="attachment_31238" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Photo: REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk"][/caption] The Cold War is back on bitches! First we have ballet dancers acting as double agents. Now, we ha... [PRNewser]

Heineken Makes a Big Push on Facebook - Posted December 8, 2011
Heineken is all over the place this week, with a couple of campaigns and a big ... [PRNewser]

VKontakte and Facebook Play Important Social Role in Russian Protests - Posted December 8, 2011
If it weren't for the light bulb, groups of people could not gather together at night to work and read. This is one of the examples that Marshall McLuhan uses to explain how the medium -- or the technology -- is vitally important in creating new experiences for humankind. ... [SocialTimes.com]

Only 2% Of Ad Agencies And PR Firms Use Twitter For Their Own Lead Generation - Posted December 8, 2011
When a client speaks with an ad agency about setting up a campaign, they naturally expect that agency to know their way around Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media. And while the agency might have this know-how, new stats show that they... [AllTwitter]

Indian Government Asks Social Networks To Prescreen User Content Before It is Posted. All Of It. - Posted December 7, 2011
The New York Times is reporting a rather archaic-sounding move by the Indian government: asking other bi... [AllTwitter]

Tech Round Up: No One Checks In; Zuckerberg Exposed - Posted December 7, 2011
-I must live in a supe-techie area or know a lot of hypercheckers, because according to Forrester Research, only 2 percent of adults use apps like Foursquare... [PRNewser]

For The CEO Of The Future, Social Media Is A Must [Infographic] - Posted December 7, 2011
These days more and more companies and brands are understanding the benefits of social media and are jumping on board with marketing campaigns on Twitter, Facebook and beyond. However, it's surprisingly common for company CEOs to be absent from the world of social media. Many CEOs don't even have... [SocialTimes.com]

Should Governments Censor Social Networks to Prevent Religious Clashes? - Posted December 7, 2011
We may not hear a lot about it here in the West, but India is currently undergoing their social renaissance. Services like Facebook, Google Plus and Orkut are huge over there, and continue to grow at staggering rates. One look at this "Who's Using Google Plus" infographic and you'll... [SocialTimes.com]

How You Know a Company Is Not Ready for an IPO [CHECKLIST] - Posted December 6, 2011
Zynga's about to go public. Groupon and Angie's List just did. And, until the middle of August, social media and ... [SocialTimes.com]

This Is How You Can Get in on Facebook and Twitter Pre-IPO - Posted December 6, 2011
If you want a piece of Facebook, Twitter or any number of other pre-IPO companies, you need to come ready to play (and pay). To deal directly with these businesses, you need to wield some serious venture capital money. To pick them up in trading venues such as ... [SocialTimes.com]

Los Angeles Lakers Surpass 11 Million Facebook Fans - Posted December 5, 2011
The Boston Celtics might have more NBA titles, but the Los Angeles Lakers are the champions of Facebook. The Lakers are the first American professional sports team to surpass 11 million ... [FishbowlLA]

Gowalla Going to Facebook - Posted December 5, 2011
Gowalla, the other Foursquare, allowing for mobile check-ins, etc., has announced that it's heading to Facebook. The service... [PRNewser]

You Can't Create Good Online Communities Without Taking Risks - Posted December 5, 2011
A time will come when you're managing an online community or a Facebook Fan Page when you feel the urge to make a big splash about something, in an effort to generate activity. Sometimes it will come as a result of something that has happened, or is happening, in the community. Other... [10,000 Words]

The Wit and Wisdom of Sheryl Sandberg: 10 Insights from IGNITION - Posted December 5, 2011
The Business Insider IGNITION conference just wrapped up this week. The height of the event, of course, came on the second morning, at 9 am, when ... [SocialTimes.com]

Who's Actually Using Google Plus? [Infographic] - Posted December 5, 2011
You've probably visited Google Plus, and since any Google user is automatically signed up, you probably already have an account. Now, whether you've ever been back to the service is a question I can't answer (I suspect the answer may be no), but the fine folks over at Flowtown have... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook IPO: Stop Leaving Money on the Table - Posted December 5, 2011
Facebook is running out of time to get its act together. The company is expected to file for its IPO by April 2012, which would mean a likely celebratory opening bell the followin... [SocialTimes.com]

Video Infographic Compiles 2011 Social Media Statistics - Posted December 2, 2011
Social media has never been bigger, with hundreds of millions of people checking Facebook, Tweeting, posting and watching videos and sharing their lives on the web. Videoinfographcs have released a new video infographic with the latest statistics, facts a... [SocialTimes.com]

Social Media & Online Community Posts From Around The Web - Posted December 2, 2011
Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful. Included in this week's round-up is a discussion about finding ways to unite your online community around singular issues; why communities should highlight quality not... [TVSpy]

Napster Fuses with Rhapsody - Posted December 1, 2011
Napster is merging with Rhapsody, the popular on-demand music service. That be said, we are looking at the end of Napster in its current incarnation. The digital audio file sharing platform pioneered a technology that temporarily upset the music industry in 1999. Sean Parker co-founded the digital audio file sharing platform, a... [SocialTimes.com]

Tech Round Up: Brands Missing Links on Google+, Twitter Buys Whisper - Posted December 1, 2011
-In news that suprises probably no one on the planet, brands are not as engaged on Google+ as they are on Facebook. SEO company BrightEdge found that within the first 10 days of availability, 61 percent of the top 100 brands around the globe had a presen... [PRNewser]

Rounds For Facebook To Launch 9 New Social Games By 2012 - Posted December 1, 2011
Rounds, the Facebook "communitainment" platform that lets users video chat, play games, watch videos, listen to music, look at pictures, take snapshots and engage in other activities together with friends (old and new) announced Wednesday that they... [SocialTimes.com]

New Little Printer Prints Receipt-sized Daily Newspaper - Posted December 1, 2011
A bold new product is arriving from BERG that plans to redesign personalized publishing, by printing news from Facebook, Foursquare and The Guardian. The Little Printer is an ideal social media interface edited by you. According to CEO Matt Webb, the new product lives up to its name. It is a... [SocialTimes.com]

Mayor of Tampa Using Foursquare... to Become Mayor Again - Posted December 1, 2011
Mayor Bob Buckhorn of Tampa might earn the title of "mayor" through Foursquare. Foursquare has always had a political bent -- it offers users the chance to achieve the title of "mayor" by visiting a place repe... [SocialTimes.com]

Twitter Teams Up With Japan's Mixi To Fight Off Facebook - Posted November 30, 2011
Twitter is digging its heels in against an encroaching Facebook in one of its biggest market, Japan. At a joint press conference in Tokyo on Wednesday, Twitter and Japan's largest social network, mixi, announced a strategic partnership. Twitter has always had a... [10,000 Words]

Facebook Releases The 40 Most Shared Articles Of 2011 - Posted November 30, 2011
Yesterday Facebook released a list of the 40 most shared articles so far in 2011. The full list runs the gamut from investigative and international stories to viral videos, but with one unifying thread: all articles came from maj... [TVSpy]

Facebook Settles Privacy Case, Says It Made a 'Bunch of Mistakes' - Posted November 29, 2011
Facebook has settled its privacy case with the Federal Trade Commission, which has been ongoing since 2009. The case stems from a change in Facebook's privacy settings that year that made once private info public without warning. The company isn't paying anything as part of the settlement, ... [AgencySpy]

No Zynga IPO Probably Means No Facebook IPO - Posted November 29, 2011
Our colleague Jackie Cohen over at AllFacebook has just posted some insight on the potential of a Facebook IPO in the next year. So far, nobody at Facebook has made any speculation about the IPO. Jackie reports that the recent 'news' about an impending IPO may just be rumors.... [SocialTimes.com]

Weathermob for iPhone: Share What the Weather Looks Like in Your Area - Posted November 29, 2011
We can't do much to about the weather but most of us like to talk about it anyway. So, why not organize this weather information sharing? I took a look at the free Weddar for iPhone and Android earlier this year and came a... [SocialTimes.com]

AT&T YouveGotACase Campaign Helps Youths Plead a Case on Facebook for a New Smartphone - Posted November 29, 2011
If you don't want to buy a new smartphone for yourself, AT&T has a viral marketing campaign that lets you use a Facebook app on your desktop or smartphone that lets you build a case (as in a mock "legal case") to convince someone you designate to buy a phone for... [SocialTimes.com]

Before Writing a Social Strategy, Think About The Blog - Posted November 28, 2011
When developing a corporate social media strategy, it's important to ensure that there are processes in place to allow the social media communities to scale over time. It's also important to ensure that there is a training system in place for employees who will need to be taught be... [TVSpy]

How Influential Are You on Google Plus? Klout Adds New Feature to Let You Know - Posted November 28, 2011
Klout rates social significance on many levels and gives a Twitter user a score based on their influence. The useful service now includes the very young but growing social network --Google Plus. Klout had been waiting for a specific level of population increase on the young social network platform in order... [SocialTimes.com]

Lil' Birds for iPhone: Trade Virtual Birds & Treats with Facebook Friends - Posted November 25, 2011
We started off the holiday season in the U.S. with one of more social of holidays yesterday - Thanksgiving. If you're looking for one more social outlet, there's a new free game that seems to have impressed the people providing customer ratings in the iTunes App Store. The free iPhone game... [SocialTimes.com]

Social Media Survey Says Only Half Would Vote for Obama Today [Infographic] - Posted November 23, 2011
Market researcher Lab42 surveyed 500 social media users on politics and the findings are presented in this infographic. Two-thirds of adult social media users in the U.S. voted for Barack Obama in the 2008. Today, only half would vote for Obama if they knew what they know now. The findings also... [SocialTimes.com]

Hitpad for iPad 2.0 Update Adds Social News Curation to a Lickable Interface - Posted November 23, 2011
Flipboard, the popular and useful social news curation app for the iPad, inspired a number of competitors in that app space. Back in April of this year, I took a look at one of these news aggregation apps and wrote... Hitpad for iPad: Lickable Graphical News Interface - Needs Social News... [SocialTimes.com]

Google Plus Installs Photo Face Recognition - Posted November 22, 2011
Google introduced its face recognition application for Google Plus. With its new facial recognition technology, users can promptly tag photos without manually entering identities for each picture. The face recognition software in Google Plus photo uploader starts with a user creating an album. Then, the user can ... [SocialTimes.com]

Regis Philbin's Farewell Earns 21,000 Comments [INFOGRAPHIC] - Posted November 22, 2011
The "Live! With Regis and Kelly" send-off special for Regis Philbin rumbled a huge wave of social media activity, surpassing 21,000 social network comments for the farewell episode. The wave of online activity crested as co-host Kelly Ripa read her tearful goodbye to Regis and viewers. This infographic shows how the social... [SocialTimes.com]

Three Things I'm Thankful For This Year, Web Journalism Edition - Posted November 22, 2011
Last year, the contributors to 10,000 Words wrote a short post about what we were thankful for. My contribution? Blackbird Pie, Twitter's tool that allows you to embed tweets. This year, I thought I would go a little bit more in depth, by sharing with you three relatively different things in Web... [10,000 Words]

An Official Facebook Phone from HTC in 2012 or 2013? - Posted November 22, 2011
There's no shortage of phones with a dedicated Facebook button. The Vodafone 555 Blue is a low-cost feature phone with a Facebook button. The HTC Statu... [SocialTimes.com]

Build Communities For The Long-Term - Posted November 21, 2011
When you're going through the process of developing a new communities, one question you need to ask yourself is how long the community will live. If the community is built around a time-sensitive event or product, with no contingency plan in place once the product or event's prom... [10,000 Words]

Jewelry Store Displaying Facebook Notes Via Billboard - Posted November 21, 2011
To all the hopeless romantics out there, jewelry store chain Robbins Brothers has a new campaign that allows you to share your thoughts about that special someone to everyone s... [FishbowlLA]

Hedge Funds Don't Use Twitter [SURVEY] - Posted November 17, 2011
It looks like hedge funds aren't quite as eager as the Kardashians to share their deepest darkest secrets on Twitter. A new survey of nearly 100 hedge fund managers shows that they aren't too keen on Twitter, and are even less fond of Facebook. But LinkedIn they like. ... [AllTwitter]

Grooveshark Redesign Aims to "add a social network to music" - Posted November 17, 2011
Online music library platform Grooveshark recently introduced a complete redesign of its site. The site now places a heavy emphasis on social media sharing and community features that complement tighter integrations with third-party social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon and Reddit. ... [SocialTimes.com]

Google vs. Facebook on Privacy and Security [Infographic] - Posted November 17, 2011
No matter what services you use within social media -- be it games, video or photos -- you should be knowledgeable of how your Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is protected. Veracode designed this infographic that details different ways Google and Facebook handle Privacy and Security. ... [SocialTimes.com]

WFSB Giving Away a Car for Facebook Likes - Posted November 16, 2011
In what may be the biggest Facebook promotion in local TV, WFSB is currently running a "Like and Drive Car Giveaway" on its Facebook page, in which viewers are entered into a drawing for a new Nissan Maxima... [TVSpy]

Employees are Happier When Accessing Social Media at Work [Infographic] - Posted November 15, 2011
Majority of the people who log on to social networks in the course of a work day do it once or twice a day. They visit the social media sites via mobile phones or from their office computers in order to keep current with their networks. Those who do access social... [SocialTimes.com]

#protip: Create a Flowchart For Responding to Comments On Company Pages - Posted November 14, 2011
When you're the point person for your company's social media efforts, and there are a lot of pages to be managed, one thing you will need is a post-response flowchart to guide how employees should respond to posts and comments. The need for a post-response tree will make itself known once the... [10,000 Words]

Social Media & Online Community Post From Around The Web - Posted November 11, 2011
Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful. Included in this week's round-up is a discussion about handling complaints that appear on your company's social media profile; why images help boost fan engagement; pr... [TVSpy]

An Infographic Tribute To Golden Girl & Viral Star Betty White - Posted November 11, 2011
In 2010 actress Betty White went from Golden Girl to Golden Meme, thanks to her role in a popular Snickers Super Bowl commercial. T... [SocialTimes.com]

What Do Facebook Users 'Like' Most? [Infographic] - Posted November 11, 2011
An infographic from audience research company Crowd Science explains that Facebook "Likes" are typically spread across various types of content. The company told ZDNet that it believes this could be one of the key reasons Facebook designed the new Timeline profile while heavily pr... [SocialTimes.com]

StumbleUpon Most Content Sharing Site for Mail Online - Posted November 10, 2011
The Mail Online, a British media outlet, has revealed that StumbleUpon is the service which drives the most shares from their website. SU drives more shares than Facebook and up to fifteen times more links worldwide than on Twitter, according to a study by Searchmetrics. ... [SocialTimes.com]

Link Building with YouTube, StumbleUpon, Google+, LinkedIn [Infographic] - Posted November 9, 2011
In part, link building is very important for internet marketing efforts because search engines are finding superior ways to determine the quality of each link. It's important for businesses who leverage search to maintain their quality links, and the following infographics give you a few tips. It starts with building a network... [SocialTimes.com]

KBAK Debuts Facebook Music Video 'Like, Like, Like' - Posted November 8, 2011
Trying to gain 11,111 Facebook fans by 11/11/11, Bakersfield's KBAK-KBFX has debuted a music video starring morning weathercaster Aaron Perlman that urges viewers to Like the station (video above). "Like, Like, Like" is actually Perlman's sec... [TVSpy]

Top 10 Facebook Game Gets Movie Deal - Posted November 8, 2011
Fans of Monster Galaxy, the popular Facebook and mobile game from Gaia Interactive, are in for a treat. Gaia Interactive has partnered with Radar Picture... [SocialTimes.com]

Social Media, Sentiment, and the CIA - Posted November 8, 2011
A new article asks, "How stable is China? What are people discussing and thinki... [semanticweb.com]

70 Percent Of Brits Would Agree With Shutting Down Twitter During Civil Unrest - Posted November 8, 2011
A new survey indicates that the majority of Brits would agree with their government or service providers shutting down social media during an outbreak of civil unrest in their country. Security firm ... [AllTwitter]

Social Media & Online Community Posts from Around The Web - Posted November 4, 2011
Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful. Included in this week's round-up is a discussion about high value community management; how to use online communities to keep B2B customers satisfied; best practice fo... [10,000 Words]

Social Media Adoption and Fortune 500 Companies -- Have They Reached their Peak? - Posted November 1, 2011
Fortune Magazine annually tracks America's largest corporations due to their influence in the business world. For this study, Academics from Center For Marketing Research Dartmouth examined the social media activity, specifically blogging, of various organizations, concluding that the biggest companies have slowed down their social media efforts and appear to... [SocialTimes.com]

AdKnowledge Acquires Facebook Advertising Solution Provider AdParlor - Posted November 1, 2011
Facebook Ad solutions provider AdParlor, which has been around the block for quite some years now, has recently been purchased by Adknowledge. It's a move that will help this large privately held ad network move into the social ad management space. More after the jump. What's interesting about this deal... [SocialTimes.com]

Honda Shows Facebook Fans Love By Carving Their Faces On Jack-O-Lanterns For Halloween - Posted November 1, 2011
Honda is all about showing their fans that they love them back. According to a press release, "Since the inception of the Honda brand Facebook page... [SocialTimes.com]

Will Facebook's Timeline Last? A Closer Look at 7 Other Facebook Features from 2011 - Posted November 1, 2011
Facebook users are afraid of change, according to a USA Today poll released in mid-October, which revealed that 56% of Facebook users did not like Facebook's latest changes. With that being said, Facebook users are constantly growing by the day. What keeps current users with the social networking platform, and what... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook For Windows Phone Updated, Now Supports Mango Features - Posted October 31, 2011
Because Windows Phone 7.5 is integrated with Facebook, you could get away with not having the Facebook app installed, but a new version of it adds some features that I think will be really attractive to heavy Facebook users. ... [SocialTimes.com]

iPhone Vs. Android: The Social Apps Battle [INFOGRAPHIC] - Posted October 31, 2011
Is there a difference between how iPhone users and Android users access their social media? Apparently so. Owners of each device favor Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Foursquare differently, accessing some social apps more than others. This infographic from onavo ... [10,000 Words]

The False Promise of Incentives in Online Communities - Posted October 31, 2011
When you're trying to sell something, using incentives to get people talking about the product is a great marketing tool. But when you're trying to bring people together online under an idea, topic or cause, the use of incentives is a false prophet for growth and engagement. You need to be able to... [10,000 Words]

StumbleUpon: Where Should You Share? [Infographic] - Posted October 28, 2011
StumbleUpon is a platform that specializes in social sharing as a service. The infographic in this article delineates underlying causes and reasons for StumbleUpon's continued presence as a sharing service in a field of competitors like Facebook, Twtiter, Reddit and Youtube. The platform actually places itself above the rest of its competitors,... [SocialTimes.com]

Social Media and Online Community Posts From Around The Web - Posted October 28, 2011
Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful. Included in this week's round-up is a discussion about the confusion surrounding the title of community manager; why you should do a check-up on your community every... [10,000 Words]

What Influences the Social Consumer? [Infographic] - Posted October 27, 2011
Today, search on the web is the principal influence consumers use to purchase a product or service. Depending on the consumer, they might turn to their friends on Facebook or search the web using Google. If a company has a brand to sell, they should know what social media channels... [SocialTimes.com]

BunkiMunki Creates a New Tween Virtual World - Posted October 25, 2011
For children too young for Second Life b... [PRNewser]

Facebook Funding, Statistics, Top Five Likes [Infographic] - Posted October 25, 2011
Just how big and fast has Facebook grown? The social network serves more than 400 million users who login to Facebook everyday out of total membership base of over 800 million. 75% of Facebook users live outside the U.S. and Facebook is available in 70 languages. In less than 7 years,... [SocialTimes.com]

Social Media Helps Turkey After Earthquakes - Posted October 25, 2011
When disaster strikes, it is social media to the rescue. When an earthquake hits Turkey, people turn to social media in key moments. On Sunday October 23rd, 2011, at 1:41 in the afternoon local time, a destructive earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2M struck Van, Turkey. The earthquake has caused heavy damage... [SocialTimes.com]

Flipzu for Android & iPhone: Voice Broadcast Via Facebook & Twitter - Posted October 25, 2011
In a mobile world seemingly focused on video, Flipzu is a bit of a throwback by focusing on real-time streaming audio to friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter. Flipzu provides free apps for Android and iPhone that can streams and records audio using a 3G or WiFi connection. A link... [SocialTimes.com]

Social Media and Online Community Posts From Around The Web - Posted October 21, 2011
Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful. Included in this week's round-up is a discussion about the future of online community; how to spot a bad community manager; why agencies are having trouble using socia... [10,000 Words]

CrowdStar Goes Core - Posted October 21, 2011
It's no longer a mystery: CrowdStar's entering the midcore market with a strategy game for social gamers on Facebook called Wasteland Empires. The social gaming company's MAU count fell from 20M at the beginning of the month to 12M in mid October, with Facebook's changes in how it counts active users... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook Messenger Updated for Android & iPhone. BlackBerry Gets an App Too - Posted October 21, 2011
Facebook's group messaging app was launched just a little more than two months ago. Messaging using Facebook Messenger goes around mobile phone companies' text messaging service and is free. Message... [SocialTimes.com]

comScore: LinkedIn & Twitter Mobile Access Growing Faster Than Facebook Mobile Access - Posted October 21, 2011
comScore, an Internet market research firm, released information from data about mobile social media usage changes during the period of August 2010 to August 2011. comScore's data, if accurate provides interesting insights into our mobile social activities. Note that comScore does not differentia... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook Still the Fastest Social Network; LinkedIn and Twitter Close Behind - Posted October 20, 2011
SmartBear Software company released its standard quarterly report for overall Web Performance for Social Networks. The company ranked each social media site by... [SocialTimes.com]

Gallup Poll: The More You Use Facebook, The Less You Care About Privacy - Posted October 18, 2011
Privacy seems to always be a concern of ours with Facebook...or is it? According to a recent USA TODAY/Gallup Poll of 2,000 adults, users become less concerned with privacy the more they use Facebook, which m... [SocialTimes.com]

Trippy 2.0: Plan Trips Using Tips & Recommendations from Facebook Friends - Posted October 18, 2011
Reuters provides comments from the founder and CEO of a free iPhone app that adds recommendations from your social circles to trip planning. Planning a trip? New app lets friends help Trippy gets recommendations and tips from ... [SocialTimes.com]

Before Launching Multiple Communities, Know Your Ideal Community Manager - Posted October 17, 2011
When deploying multiple social networks and online communities across a large company, it's likely that you will need a few people to manage those profiles and act as community managers. For a while it was the "it thing" to poke fun at people who work in social media professionally. The joke usually... [10,000 Words]

HootSuite Snags Vancouver's Geotoko - Posted October 17, 2011
Vancouver's HootSuite is growing like gangbusters with no plans of slowing down. Reported by The Vancouver Sun, the company is on an acquisition spree... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook and eBay Introduce Commerce Platform - Posted October 17, 2011
Facebook is adopting eBay's commerce platform to create new social shopping experiences for hundreds of millions of consumers, according to a report from CNET. Together, eBay is integrating Facebook's new Open Graph ... [SocialTimes.com]

Netflix's Stock Dive May Be Why Facebook Has Fears Of Going Public - Posted October 17, 2011
Over the course of two months, Netflix's market value declined 57%, due to the dissatisfaction of its plan to separate services. As of last week, Netflix changed its tone ... [SocialTimes.com]

Infographic Shows Facebook Still Dominating Social Advertising - Posted October 17, 2011
Is your company advertising on social sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube? If you are, you're in the majority. According to a new infographic from Flowtown, 85 percent of companies are currently involved i... [SocialTimes.com]

Social Media and Online Community Posts From Around The Web - Posted October 14, 2011
Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful. Included in this week's round-up is a discussion about the brands that people want to be social with and engage with; a case study on using LinkedIn for... [TVSpy]

6 Privacy Concerns Around The Latest Facebook Update [Infographic] - Posted October 14, 2011
Facebook's latest update takes sharing to places Facebook has never been before, with their new subscribe feature, Timeline, Open Graph apps, built-in privacy settings in every post and more. But along with the update comes some new concerns regarding privacy. A new infographic from consumer Internet security brand ... [SocialTimes.com]

wooga Launches Magic Land Island on Mobile With Facebook Support - Posted October 11, 2011
Facebook's mobile announcement is spawning an army of games with Facebook tie-ins. Social gaming company Wooga is leaping into the HTML5 frenzy by launching its first mobile game Magic Land Island that can be accessed on almost any device. More after the jump. Magic Land Island has been designed specifically for Facebook's... [SocialTimes.com]

Twitter Takes Home "Digital Service Of The Year" Award At T3 - Posted October 11, 2011
Twitter beat out Facebook, YouTube and Spotify as the best social media site of 2011 at the T3 awards last night. Held in London, t... [AllTwitter]

Zynga Direct Launches for Easier Access to Zynga's Social Games - Posted October 11, 2011
The Facebook tidal wave seems to be unleashing across the social gaming ecosphere. The latest extension of Facebook's social connectedness comes from none other than Zynga itself which today unveiled 'Zynga Direct', an extension of its ZLive platform that will serve as a new discovery and distribution channel for the social... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook for iPad App Finally Entering the App Store - Posted October 10, 2011
The iPad has been available for over a year and half. However, Facebook has ignored the iPad for most of this time. Rumors of an official iPad app started around mid-June this past summer. There are a number of... [SocialTimes.com]

Social Media and Online Community Posts From Around The Web - Posted October 7, 2011
Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful. Included in this week's round-up is a discussion about why some private online communities fail; added insight into the ROI of social media; a primer on the latest... [TVSpy]

How To Design & Install Chat On Your Facebook Page, Tumblr, And Beyond - Posted October 7, 2011
RumbleTalk wants to help you make your website, blog or Facebook page more social with the addition of chat. Earlier this week they launched a brand new chat widget that you can customize and embed on pretty much any website, including Tumblr, Facebook, Wix, Blogger, TypePad, Squarespace and m... [SocialTimes.com]

Deportation Stopped, Thanks to the Internet - Posted October 6, 2011
[caption id="attachment_28266" align="alignleft" width="236" caption="Astrid Silva and her dad. Photo via Change.org"][/caption] How much power is there in social media? Well if Change.org is any example, a lot. A Los Angeles student has used ... [PRNewser]

Facebook's Push toward the Semantic Web - Posted October 6, 2011
A recent interview takes a look at what ... [semanticweb.com]

First Social Media Election Tweets in Ontario - Posted October 5, 2011
With just a few days until Ontario's Election Day, the online hunt for votes is moving daily at a faster rate. The election is being called the province's first real social media election. The candidates are using social media sites such a Twitter and Facebook to attract and communicate with voters... [SocialTimes.com]

What You Need To Know About Facebook's New Metrics - Posted October 5, 2011
Facebook has been on a roll lately, unleashing several noteworthy changes to its platform that impact everything from profile layout to ... [10,000 Words]

Volume11Media CEO Shares Secret To Monetizing Free Users - Posted October 5, 2011
People get nutty for virtual goods. They will solve massive puzzles, play for hours on end, come back day after day, and in many cases even pull out their credit cards. The social gaming space is now estimated at over $1B annually. There are tens to hundreds of... [SocialTimes.com]

How Long Are International Users Spending Per Session on Facebook? - Posted October 5, 2011
An average Facebook user spends just about eight hours on the site during any given month. That is just about four times as long as the average use of Google's websites. But, don't let that number fool you because Google is the only platform to outperform Facebook in terms of unique... [SocialTimes.com]

If Content is King, How Do Facebook's Ongoing Changes Make Analytics Queen? - Posted October 4, 2011
Reggie Bradford is the Founder and CEO of social marketing software provider Vitrue. Reggie brings nearly two decades of technology leadership and experience to Vitrue, which he founded in 2006. Follow Reggie on Twitter on ... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook's Founding President Signs Up For Twitter, Apologizes To "Zuck" - Posted October 3, 2011
He's well-known in the digital circles for his entrepreneur spirit, having founded both Napster and Facebook, but it's taken over 5 years for Sean Parker to start tweeting. Parker signed up for Twitter today, and in his first, and thus far only, tweet, apol... [10,000 Words]

Which Social Media Company Has the Smartest People? - Posted October 3, 2011
Facebook, right? It's always Facebook! And, to a certain extent, this is true. When you look at the war for talent currently being waged in Silicon Valley, Facebook is one of... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook Business Page or a Profile Page for Your Business? Small Businesses Still Aren't Getting the Message - Posted October 3, 2011
As a business owner, I understand the frustration of not being able to add prospective consumers or clients to your page. I'm sure you're tempted to create a simple profile (timeline) page for your business to help attract targeted individuals in your market, however, it is something that I would not... [SocialTimes.com]

Using Barriers to Entry in Corporate Social Media - Posted October 3, 2011
Sometimes creating barriers to entry can be a good thing. In web lingo, if you're adding too many steps, or asking a user to click more than twice to get to their desired content, you're making "the barrier to entry" too high. The resulting action is a loss of visitors, or... [10,000 Words]

There's Only One Place to Go for Social Media Stock Trading - Posted October 3, 2011
According to Peter Barris, managing general partner of New Enterprise Associates, a venture capital firm, secondary markets for shares in private companies are a "sideshow". At the Dow Jo... [SocialTimes.com]

Ad Agency Gets A Little Creepy With New Facebook Timeline Mash-Up Project - Posted October 3, 2011
Ever since Mark Zuckerberg announced the new Facebook Timeline last week at F8, the Facebook community has been abuzz about the new design and its implications. While many of us have been sitting around waiting until our own profiles switch over to the new Facebook timeline, the crew at McCa... [SocialTimes.com]

Five Reasons Zynga Shouldn't Go Public Yet - Posted October 3, 2011
Zynga has a sky-high implied valuation, and it could wind up being worth much more at IPO. There are, quite frankly, billions of reasons for the social gaming company to pursue an IPO. But, is now the right t... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook's Super-Charged Open Graph & the Semantic Web - Posted September 29, 2011
A recent outlook on the latest Open Graph developments out of Facebook states, "It's the Semantic Web, Stupid." Th... [semanticweb.com]

Google+ Vs. Facebook Privacy [Exclusive Infographic] - Posted September 29, 2011
These days most of us spend a lot of time on social sites like Facebook and Google+, but how often do we stop to think about privacy? Unfortunately, not as often as we probably should. In a new infographic shared exclusively with Social Times, PEER 1 Hosting ex... [SocialTimes.com]

'Producer Matthew' Closes His Blog - Posted September 29, 2011
Aggregation journalist "Producer" Matthew Keys (@ProducerMatthew), who we first told you about in March, has stopped providing real-time news aggregations on his Tumblr blog, producermatthew.com. [caption id="at... [10,000 Words]

Google+ Service Continues to Grow Since Opening to the Public - Posted September 28, 2011
[caption id="attachment_79619" align="aligncenter" width="318" caption="A happy Googler"][/caption] Google+, which we all know is Google's new social-networking service, experienced a boom in visits this last week after the service opened up to the public at large, according to New York research firm Experian ... [SocialTimes.com]

Yammer Raises $17 Million as Former VP Facebook Palihapitiya Joins the Board - Posted September 28, 2011
One of the leading providers of enterprise social networks received $17 million in its fourth round of funding. That brings the total financing of Yammer to $57 million. The Social+Capital Partnership, a new fund established by former Facebook Vice President Chamath Palihapitiya, led the round with previous i... [SocialTimes.com]

How Does Facebook Generate Business For Companies? [Infographic] - Posted September 28, 2011
These days more and more small businesses are making their way onto Facebook, but if you haven't opened a Facebook page for your business yet you may be wondering whether or not it's worth it. A new infographic from do-it-yourself Facebook page builder tool ... [SocialTimes.com]

Headliner.fm: A Social Network for Musicians - Posted September 27, 2011
Even though the rest of the web has moved on from Myspace the site is still the go-to network for a great many musicians, maintaining relevancy with bands that use it to easily track fans, set up (and publicize shows) and host music, photos and news in a single place. The... [SocialTimes.com]

Long Anticipated Facebook for iPad App May be Announced Soon... Or Not? - Posted September 27, 2011
[caption id="attachment_79526" align="alignleft" width="320" caption="Facebook for iPhone app in 1x mode on an iPad."][/caption] Despite the iPad's market success, Facebook has managed to essentially ignore it since the iPad's launch in April 2010. In mid-June of this year, we heard rumblings that an iPad app from Facebook was mere week... [SocialTimes.com]

Evri for iPad: Yet Another Social News Aggregation App. Worthwhile or Not? - Posted September 27, 2011
There is not such thing, it seems, as too many news aggregation apps with a social networking twist. The latest to join apps like Flipboard and Zite Evri Comes To iPad With New Topic-Based News Reader Like all th... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook + Spotify = Goodbye iTunes? - Posted September 23, 2011
[caption id="attachment_27650" align="alignleft" width="180" caption="Photo: Facebook"][/caption] Oversharing on the Internet went in to overdrive today, after Mark Zuckerberg and Co. at ... [PRNewser]

The Next Open Graph: Changing Apps and Changing Industries? - Posted September 22, 2011
  Get ready for a new wave of Open Graph-enabled applications -- and maybe for how they'll change the game in their industries, too. At the Facebook F8 developers' conference today, Mark Zuckerberg discussed how the work the company's been engaged in over the last year - to make the Open Graph protocol... [AllTwitter]

Facebook Changes Mean Changes for Marketers - Posted September 22, 2011
People were only just ... [PRNewser]

Tribalfish Launches a Discussion Lounge for Twitter - Posted September 22, 2011
fishlighting.com Twitter users now have a powerful extension for engaging in longer, meaningful discussions sparked from a Tweet. Tribalfish, the discussion network, released T... [SocialTimes.com]

How Orabrush Got Into Walmart Using Nothing But YouTube & Facebook For Advertising - Posted September 22, 2011
Orabrush is the first company to take their product from zero sales to nationwide distribution using nothing but YouTube and Facebook for advertising. The tongue cleaner that rose to fame on YouTube, garnering nearly 40 million total views and over 160,000 subscribers, is the third most-... [SocialTimes.com]

Public Welcomes Google+ While Facebook Stumbles - Posted September 22, 2011
Google+ is now open to the public. The company has announced an open invitation for anyone who wants to join. Some users may think it took Google a long time to remove the invitation policy. But it was a smart move to do it now while Facebook stumbles with its upgrades. Over... [SocialTimes.com]

Klout Expands its Influence to Google+ - Posted September 22, 2011
A recent article reports that Klout, "a startup that measures influence on Twitter, Facebook, Link... [semanticweb.com]

LinkedIn Will Host Obama's Next Town Hall - Posted September 22, 2011
It appears that President Barack Obama is testing all the social networking platforms available to help his campaign. The next platform is the ever so business-oriented LinkedIn. The social media platform is for selective and informative professionals, an ideal host for the president's next town hall on Monday, September 26th... [SocialTimes.com]

Google+ Opens Social Network to the Public - Posted September 22, 2011
Have you been dying to get on Google+? Well, today is your lucky day. Google's social networking site opens to the public. Over the summer, Google+ - Google's addition to the social networking landscape - generated a great deal of buzz: Is it good? Does it improve on other social networking sites?... [SocialTimes.com]

DJ's Can Now Spin On the Go with Turntable.fm - Posted September 21, 2011
Have you ever seen a DJ playing a set while walking down the street? I haven't. But the wonders of modern technology continue to astound us by taking impossible (and maybe even unnecessary) scenarios and translating them to reality. Hence the adaptation of Turntable.fm, the social music service that digitizes DJing,... [SocialTimes.com]

Social Media and Online Community Posts From Around The Web - Posted September 16, 2011
Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful. Included in this week's round-up are social media lessons that SMBs can learn from IBM; whether social media can improve net promoter scores; best practice for how to... [10,000 Words]

Why did Facebook push back its IPO? - Posted September 14, 2011
It didn't take long for the news to spread across the internet: Facebook isn't going public as soon as the world expected. The white-hot social media company, which could be worth close to $90 bil... [SocialTimes.com]

Twitter Influences More Consumer Purchases Than Facebook - Posted September 14, 2011
According to a recent study, it looks like Twitter is more influential than Facebook when it comes to influencing purchases. 35 percent of respondents said their Twitter feed has been influential or extremely influential on their purchase decisions, while only 23.5 percent of Facebook users ... [AllTwitter]

Nielsen Wire: Not Much Google+ Reach on Android & Task Killer App Used More Than Angry Birds! - Posted September 14, 2011
Nielsen Wire has really been looking hard at the mobile world. The latest report used on-device meters to determine which apps were used in a 30-day period. Their measurement techniques provided insight into overall use as well as separating app use by men and women. ... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook Improves Tagging In Android App - Posted September 13, 2011
Facebook continues to improve their smartphone apps and today they released an update to their Android app that has a significant number of user interface improvements. Perhaps the most noticabl... [SocialTimes.com]

Use Offline Events To Drive Online Engagement - Posted September 13, 2011
Sometimes posting good content on your company's or brand's Facebook Fan Page simply isn't enough to drive engagement You're seeing week-on-week organic growth of between 3%-5%, but there isn't any sense of community. The people who "Like" your page aren't responding to content. If you find yourself in t... [10,000 Words]

Fantasy Sports And Social Gaming Join Forces On Facebook - Posted September 13, 2011
Fantasy sports fanatics, you're in for a treat. Fantasy sports just got a social makeover with the launch of Gamingo's brand new Social Fantasy Sports engine. Gamingo is putting a social gaming twist, reminiscent of Zynga Poker, on fantasy sports, giving sports fans the o... [SocialTimes.com]

Is Walmart and WalmartLabs Ready To Take on Amazon? - Posted September 9, 2011
All eyes in retail (not to mention social media) darted to Walmart, dubbed the world's largest retailer, in April 2011, when it surpassed competitors and forged into the social-commerce sphere by purchasing social commerce start-up Kosmix (now called... [SocialTimes.com]

Starbuck's CEO Speaks, Emails, Tweets to D.C. 'No Donations for You' - Posted September 8, 2011
For the past few weeks Starbucks boss Howard Schultz has been stirring up interest in his town hall meeting. The town hall meeting was held Tuesday night as a phone-in and social media debate about the "paralysis and uncertainty" he says is being brought about by the high levels of... [SocialTimes.com]

HOWTO: Send Tweets To Facebook - Posted September 8, 2011
Twitter has made it easier to send tweets to Facebook. All you have to do is click one single button. Here's how: First, log in to your Twitter account. Next, click the "Profile" tab at the top of the screen, and then click "Edit Profile" just below your profile picture. Scr... [AllTwitter]

Ethics 101: Is Using Your Client Ethical? - Posted September 8, 2011
As an owner of a social media marketing business, I have an obligation to look out for the best interests of my clients, which means I will not use them to help benefit my business. Clients do not hire me to help advance my long-term business goals (although that would be... [SocialTimes.com]

Why You Should Not Use Third-Party Apps For Facebook Posting - Posted September 7, 2011
It's worth spending that extra time to post to your Facebook page, a new study says. Facebook posts that are posted via a third-party app like HootSuite, TweetDeck, dlvr.it and others receive an average of 70 percent fewer likes and comments for each fan, according to a new study by Applum. Facebook's algorithm... [10,000 Words]

Why You Should Not Use Third-Party Apps For Facebook Posting - Posted September 7, 2011
It's worth spending that extra time to post to your Facebook page, a new study says. Facebook posts that are posted via a third-party app like HootSuite, TweetDeck, dlvr.it and others receive an average of 70 percent fewer likes and comments for each fan, according to a new study by Applum. Facebook's algorithm... [TVSpy]

MinorMonitor Tracks Childrens' Social Network Friends' Ages - Posted September 7, 2011
MinorMonitor works with parents with its multi-child monitoring capabilities. Parents can keep track of Facebook activities for up to four children. When it originally started parents could only... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook 3.5 for iPhone Adds People & Places Tagging in Posts. Still No iPad Support - Posted September 7, 2011
The Facebook for iPhone app was update to version 3.5 this week. It brings a handful of much wanted features and improvements. Facebook (iTunes App Store) The new big items are: - Added the ability to tag friends and places in... [SocialTimes.com]

Social Shopping App Lets You Ask Your Smartest Friends for Gift Advice - Posted September 6, 2011
Givvy has arrived as a shopping experience that is created by and for the community of Facebook users. The social commerce startup based in San Francisco is touting that Givvy is the first of its kind. With such a bold statement, let's take a look and see if i... [SocialTimes.com]

Embracing Process-Oriented Social Media Strategy Development - Posted September 6, 2011
Developing social media strategy for a corporation or large business is challenging. There are a lot of moving parts; every day you meet a new stakeholders or managers whose input is important; and you find that putting ideas i... [10,000 Words]

Embracing Process-Oriented Social Media Strategy Development - Posted September 6, 2011
Developing social media strategy for a corporation or large business is challenging. There are a lot of moving parts; every day you meet a new stakeholders or managers whose input is important; and you find that putting ideas i... [TVSpy]

Infographic: Facebook Likes Translated Around The World - Posted September 6, 2011
Facebook has given the word "like" a whole new meaning all over the globe, but have you ever wondered what the Facebook Like button looks like in other parts of the world where English is not the primary language? From 'Me gusta' in Spain to 'Lik dette' in Norway, 'Imenipendeza'... [SocialTimes.com]

CRE Files FTC Petition Regarding Facebook, Twitter, Google - Posted September 6, 2011
Regulatory watchdog the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness is picking up the scent of Facebook, Twitter, and Google, filing a ... [SocialTimes.com]

A Mother Decides Facebook Isn't Private Enough, Starts UmeNow - Posted September 6, 2011
UmeNow.com is positioning itself as the bold new player set to destroy Facebook's lead in the social networking universe. It's the first and only ad-free social communication service in the world that is totally focused on privacy. Founded by a Latina entrepreneur mom based in South Florida, UmeNow.com officially begins its... [SocialTimes.com]

StumbleUpon Logs 1 Billion Stumbles a Month - Posted September 6, 2011
Facebook might seem like a social media behemoth, but according to StatCounter StumbleUpon made up 47.11 percent of all social traffic in the U.S. as of July 2011. Not too shabby for the discovery engine which was created in November 2001 an... [SocialTimes.com]

New Extension Adds Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter Feeds to Google+ - Posted September 2, 2011
A new extension has arrived for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. The extension combines Facebook, Linkedin, and Twitter feeds with your Google Plus streams. That means you don't have to manage or browse multiple pages and feeds at once. The new extension is called Gooce+. For ... [SocialTimes.com]

Revolving Door: 'Vanity Fair's List; the 'Rookie' Launch; Rev. Al Sharpton, and More - Posted September 1, 2011
As predicted by The OutCast Agency's TJ Snyder, the Vanity Fair annual ... [PRNewser]

Facebook Set to Launch Music Service on Sep. 22nd - Posted September 1, 2011
I've shown up excessively late for parties. I know how it feels. Everyone else has settled into the mood of the thing and, after several conversations and drinks, become comfortable with the direction of the evening. They're all having a good time and, regardless of how you try to catch up... [SocialTimes.com]

Springpad Friends Stuff (beta) Makes Finding What Facebook Friends Liked Easy and Fun - Posted September 1, 2011
Friends Stuff that will be rolling out in September for their online notebook service and mobile apps. The nice folks there activated the beta version of the Friends Stuff feature for my account to let me get an early look at this new social sharing aspect of the service. ... [SocialTimes.com]

Social Media and Online Community Posts From Around The Web - Posted August 26, 2011
Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful. Included in this week's round-up is a best-practice guide for finding a job via social media; a look at how Sears created a successful online community around health... [TVSpy]

More Social Media Resources for Bad Weather - Posted August 25, 2011
This week's spate of bad weather -- the upcoming Hurricane Irene and the Virginia earthquake -- made one thing even more crystal clear: People are turning to traditional news sources less and less for information. Instead of flocking to the Weather Channel to see how a storm progresses, people are logging... [10,000 Words]

Blocking Twitter During Riots A Bad Idea, Study Proves - Posted August 25, 2011
In the aftermath of the UK riots earlier this month, government officials had floated around the idea of blocking access to Twitter and other social media sites next time something similar occurred. The official reasoning was that this would prevent people from using Twitter to incite violence and plan... [AllTwitter]

Know Where Your Friends are Sitting - Posted August 25, 2011
Ticketmaster unveiled interactive seat maps integrated with Facebook. So now, users can instantly share their live event plans by tagging themselves into their seats, enabling people on Facebook to see where they are sitting and which seats are available for purchase. More than 9,000 interactive... [SocialTimes.com]

Social Media Giants Expected to Refuse Shut Down During Crisis - Posted August 25, 2011
Twitter and Facebook might be social, but they aren't pushovers. Both social media companies are expected to refuse shutdowns during times of crisis. Following the UK riots at the beginning of the month of August, fingers were wagging, hoping to find appropriate places to investigate the riots as well as to place... [SocialTimes.com]

Canadian Province Adds Social Media to Emergency Alert System: Will More Regions Follow? - Posted August 25, 2011
In an emergency, would you turn to the radio or to Twitter? One Canadian province anticipates the latter and adds social media to its emergency response system. In may 2011, a fire ravaged the town of Slave Lake Alberta. 7000 residents were forced from their homes - the largest ever mass evacuation... [SocialTimes.com]

Amid CNN Acquisition Speculation, Zite's Focus Remains on Relevant -- And Disinterested -- Content Discovery - Posted August 25, 2011
Zite CEO Mark Johnson says he's flattered by the rumors this week of a multi-million dollar CNN acquisition. He won't comment on them, of course, but he is flattered. What he will say is that the... [semanticweb.com]

Can Just Adding Photo Filters to the Facebook App Get Instagram's Action? - Posted August 25, 2011
Facebook is dumping Facebook Places and conceding defeat to Foursquare, Gowalls and other check-in services. With Places demoted to tagging locations, what is Facebook setting its sights on now? Messaging, as evidenced by the... [SocialTimes.com]

Tools Round Up: No More Facebook Places, More Facebook Privacy - Posted August 24, 2011
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Tools Round Up: No More Facebook Places, More Facebook Privacy - Posted August 24, 2011
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Social Media and Online Community Posts From Around The Web - Posted August 19, 2011
Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful. Included in this week's round-up is a best-practice guide for determining the value of a Facebook fan; how Chevron uses LinkedIn to target influencers; a best practice guide... [10,000 Words]

Has Facebook Blocked Google+? - Posted August 19, 2011
Google and Facebook are at it again. This time one of Google's executives posted a video implying that Facebook is blocking friend links on the rival network. But, Facebook countered quickly claiming the implication is preposterous. "We are getting reports of Google+ invite links not showing up on Facebook ... [SocialTimes.com]

Two British Men Receive 4 Year Sentences for Inciting Riots on Facebook - Posted August 19, 2011
Two men in the United Kingdom have been given four year sentences for using social media to incite the recent London riots; some wonder if the punishment fits the crime. At the beginning of August 2011, London suffered from almost a full week of riots. There was damage, injuries, and death. Now,... [SocialTimes.com]

The "Small World Experiment": Yahoo and Facebook Help Research Six Degrees of Separation - Posted August 19, 2011
They are practically brothers; Facebook and Yahoo join forces to test the "six degree of separation" theory, and you can participate. In 1929 a Hungarian writer, Frigyes Karinthy imagined that the world would one day become so small that every person on the planet would be six steps away from every other... [SocialTimes.com]

Kenneth Cole Has Social Media Issues - Posted August 19, 2011
Kenneth Cole must be tired of fashion, because he's using social media to spark political debates about war, gay rights, guns and abortion. His new campaign called, "What Do You Stand For" at Wheredoyoustand.com asks you to chime in on intense discussions on an aggregated and inte... [SocialTimes.com]

Twitter Is #1 Social Network For Financial Groups - Posted August 19, 2011
Twitter beats even Facebook when it comes to the social network of choice for financial services companies. As the Financial Times reports, a new survey by marke... [AllTwitter]

Millionaires Are Leaving Twitter For Facebook - Posted August 17, 2011
It looks like some of the world's most wealthy aren't quite getting what their rich blood needs from Twitter. Millionaire's use of Twitter has declined to only three percent from five a year ago. The new study from Spectrem Group shows that millionaires aren't too fond of... [TVSpy]

Record Your Online Video Chat Sessions With Rounds - Posted August 16, 2011
Rounds, the video chat app that lets you chat, play games, watch YouTube videos and do other activities with your friends, has just surpassed one million monthly active u... [SocialTimes.com]

yap.TV for iOS: A TV Guide With a Twitter Twist - Posted August 15, 2011
yap.TV is a free app for the iPhone and iPad that provides a visual guide to what's on TV in your area. To this, the app integrates viewer (app user) generated polls, live chats and Twitter streams. The app asks you to identify which TV content provider you use (cable, satellite, etc.).... [SocialTimes.com]

IPG Sells Half Its Stake in Facebook for $133 Million - Posted August 15, 2011
Interpublic Group, home to advertising agencies like McCann Erickson Worldwide and PR firms including GolinHarris, Carmichael Lynch Spong, and Weber Shandwick, has sold half of its stake in Facebook for $133 million. The company first invested... [PRNewser]

Twitter Vs Facebook: Which Is More Valuable For Brands? [Infographic] - Posted August 12, 2011
These days more and more brands are turning to social media, hoping to spread the word and attract loyal customers. But on a limited time and budget, it can be hard for small brands to cover the entire social network spectrum and engage with fans on Twitter and Facebook. ... [10,000 Words]

Dijit Universal TV Remote Control for iPhone Now Shows Which TV Shows Facebook Friends Like - Posted August 12, 2011
Griffin Technology's Beacon is a piece of hardware that provides a gateway between an iOS device (iPhone, iPad and iPod touch) and home entertainment electronics. It does this by taking commands fromt he iOS device via Bluetooth and translating it to IR (infrared) signals used by most consumer electronics for remote... [SocialTimes.com]

Would A Facebook Hack Hurt Brands? - Posted August 12, 2011
By now most of us have heard that the hacktivist coalition Anomymous' reported Facebook... [AgencySpy]

Social Media and Online Community Posts From Around The Web - Posted August 12, 2011
Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful. Included in this week's round-up is a best-practice guide for getting employees on-board with the company's social media efforts; how to calculate social commerce performance; a case study... [10,000 Words]

Semantelli Releases Solution to Keep Pharm on Facebook - Posted August 12, 2011
Semantic start-up Semantelli has announced "the release of Facebook AETracker- a unique solution to help ... [AllTwitter]

Twitter Vs Facebook: Which Is More Valuable For Brands? [Infographic] - Posted August 12, 2011
These days more and more brands are turning to social media, hoping to spread the word and attract loyal customers. But on a limited time and budget, it can be hard for small brands to cover the entire social network spectrum and engage with fans on Twitter and Facebook. ... [SocialTimes.com]

ODIN RFID Social Media Simplifies Facebook Like-ing, Photos Uploads & More at Events - Posted August 12, 2011
Mercedes' RFID Facebook check-ins at the PGA Championship is enabled by RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) products from ODIN Technologies. Facebook & RFID - The Secret to Ne... [SocialTimes.com]

#protip: Superfan Committees Offer Lots Of Insight - Posted August 11, 2011
These days not much I read on industry blogs about social media and online communities makes me stop and think "Wow, that's actually a great idea." Today, that dry spell is over. I was skimming through ... [10,000 Words]

#protip: Superfan Committees Offer Lots Of Insight - Posted August 11, 2011
These days not much I read on industry blogs about social media and online communities makes me stop and think "Wow, that's actually a great idea." Today, that dry spell is over. I was skimming through ... [TVSpy]

The Three Appendices in Your Social Media Marketing Plan - Posted August 11, 2011
Your body has an appendix. It doesn't do much. You don't notice it until something goes wrong. And without it, you're neither better nor worse off. So, your appendix is really just something that can go wrong without delivering any upside. It's all risk and no return ... who would possibly... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook Messenger's Stealthy Video Calling and Bing References - Posted August 11, 2011
The Facebook Messenger apps released for iOS (iPhone and iPad) and Android yesterday is a game changer just for its ability to send group messages to Facebook contacts and on-phone contacts at the same time. However, 9To5Mac found hidden (or at least unused) icon images within the app that hints at... [SocialTimes.com]

Tech News: Photos on Twitter, 5 More Networks on Klout, Video Chat on Facebook - Posted August 10, 2011
Twitter... [PRNewser]

Anonymous Calls On All Hackers To Destroy Facebook On November 5 [Video] - Posted August 10, 2011
The infamous hacker group Anonymous is calling on all hackers to help them put an end to Facebook. In a video that was uploaded to YouTube last month, but is going viral today, a computerized voice calls for action. "Your med... [SocialTimes.com]

Missouri Teachers Up In Arms Over Social Media Crack Down - Posted August 9, 2011
Getting ready for back to school? So are Missouri teachers. However, they will have to make some adjustments to lesson plans as Missouri adjusts to new social media law. After an Associated Press investigation discovered 87 Missouri teachers lost their teaching licensees between 2001 and 2005 due to social media exchanges involving... [SocialTimes.com]

Check-in to Foursquare or Facebook at DFW & Get Special Offers at Airport Concessions - Posted August 9, 2011
I remember paying $11 for eggs, toast and a small orange juice at an airport years ago. I was as surprised that no meat (bacon or sausage) was included in the package as I was by the price. Well, actually, anyone who has bought food in an airport knows that the... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook Mobile Social Reporting: Tool to Help Get Posts & Photos of You Removed - Posted August 9, 2011
Facebook introduced two new privacy and security features that can be accessed from its mobile friendly website (m.facebook.com). 1. Mobile Social Reporting 2. Mobile Password Reset ... [SocialTimes.com]

Is Facebook Really a Good Lead Cultivation Environment? - Posted August 8, 2011
I know, I know: I've been a bit pessimistic about Facebook marketing lately. The reason for this, frankly, is because so many people do it ineffectively. They seem to think there is inherent value in ... [SocialTimes.com]

Glamour Magazine Using Social SnapTags to Connect Readers to Brands on Facebook & Twitter - Posted August 5, 2011
If you look at the lower left corner of the cover of the September issue of Glamour magazine, you'll see the familiar Facebook logo surrounded by two circles. That is an example of a Social SnapTag. Many more Social SnapTags from more than two dozen advertisers are found inside of the... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook App Users by Mobile Platform: iPhone #1. Android #2. Where Do the Rest Rank? - Posted August 2, 2011
Benedict Evans took the known monthly user figures for Facebook's iPhone and BlackBerry apps and some extrapolated figures for other mobile platforms to provide an interesting look at how many people are using each of the apps. Facebook mobile user... [SocialTimes.com]

Addicted To Facebook? Join The Facebook Rehab Community - Posted August 1, 2011
How many times a day do you find yourself logging onto Facebook? 5? 10? 500? Many of us find ourselves powerless over Facebook, logging in at whim without even thinking about it. But you don't have to let your Facebook addiction control you! That's right--two Facebook addicts,... [SocialTimes.com]

Vodafone 555 Blue: Low Cost Facebook Feature Phone. 2G Only. No WiFi - Posted July 29, 2011
Although Financial Times calls the Vodafone 555 Blue a smartphone, it is not. Vodafone and Facebook team up on smartphone The Guardian UK got it right by identifying it as a low-price feature phone for emerging markets ... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook Fight Leads to Youth Stabbing - Posted July 28, 2011
What happens when an online spat leads to an offline encounter? In the case of two teenagers from Canada, some very scary behavior. In Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, two sixteen years girls were threatening each other on Facebook. Profanity filled messages were passed between inboxes. Some of the insults were probably written in... [SocialTimes.com]

'Marie Claire' Panel Audience Directs Privacy Questions at Facebook - Posted July 27, 2011
[caption id="attachment_24949" align="alignleft" width="340" caption="Left to right: Common Sense Media's Amy Guggenheim Shenkan, Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg, ESPN's Erin Andrews, Chelsea Clinton, and 'Marie Claire' EIC Joanna Coles"][/caption] Last night, former first daughter Chels... [PRNewser]

BIG MONEY: Social Media and Consumer Web Dominate SecondMarket Action - Posted July 27, 2011
Where is all the money going? Well, it's easy to find out on SecondMarket these days. The New York-based marketplace for private company stock has just released its second-quarter/first-half results. To check out the infographics from the SecondMarket report, take a look at the slideshow immediately below. Then, dig deeper into... [SocialTimes.com]

Why is the iPad (and tablets in general) Considered a Second Class Social Network Citizen? - Posted July 26, 2011
Despite the iPad's success and the slow emergence of Android tablets, tablets are a second class citizen in terms of some high profile services. So, a lot of attention was given to the so-called "hidden iPad app" in Facebook's iPhone app. ... [SocialTimes.com]

Want To Work In Social Media? Personality Matters - Posted July 26, 2011
Getting a job working with social media in a business or corporate environment often requires a certain pedigree of a communications background mixed with a bit of geekiness. Businesses hiring for social media marketers and online community managers either know exactl... [TVSpy]

Official iPad Facebook App Appears To Be In The Works - Posted July 25, 2011
Conspicuous by its absence has been an official Facebook app for the iPad. It was not long after the iPad first became available that when asked about an iPad app Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that the iPad was not mobil... [SocialTimes.com]

The State of Open Data - Posted July 25, 2011
A recent article discusses the proliferation of open data sets over the last several years and ... [semanticweb.com]

Facebook Analysis: FOX 2 News in Detroit, MI - Posted July 25, 2011
Last Monday I kicked off a new weekly segment where I analyze a news organization's presence on Facebook. The first news outlet was a TV news station called, WESH 2 News in Orlando, ... [10,000 Words]

More Americans Are On Facebook Than Have Passports [Infographic] - Posted July 25, 2011
Did you know that more Americans have Facebook accounts than have passports? A fun new infographic from social travel platform Tripl that illustrates the ways in which social media is impacting the travel industry reveals this and other interesting facts. The in... [SocialTimes.com]

Megadeth's Dave Mustaine to Blitz Personalized Video Updates From the Road to 3.6 Million Facebook Fans - Posted July 22, 2011
Dave Mustaine of Megadeth, which is currently touring with the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival and playing a show at Yankee Stadium with Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax on September 14th, will stay connected with fans by blasting out personalized video updates on Facebook while on tour. Now, you might find ... [SocialTimes.com]

Social Media and Online Community Posts From Around The Web - Posted July 22, 2011
Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful. Included in this week's round-up are posts about best practice for asking questions on Facebook Fan Pages to get the best response rate; mistakes that branded online communities... [10,000 Words]

Sick Of Planking? Try These Alternatives! - Posted July 21, 2011
Are you sick and tired of hearing about planking? If so, you're not alone. I mean, seriously...people lying facedown in bizarre locales is only funny for so long. The bad news is, the planking fad doesn't seem to be going anywhere fast. But the good news is,... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook Users Link, Like, Love with American Express - Posted July 21, 2011
American Express will be making its presence felt in the social media arena even more so by introducing a social shopping platform called Link, Like, Love. The platform will match deals with Facebook users via their social graph. By simply linking their account to the Link, Like, Love application on... [SocialTimes.com]

Do iPhone Users Like Google+ More Than Android Users? - Posted July 21, 2011
TechCrunch noted that the Google+ app for iPhone became the number 1 downloaded free app within 24 hours of its release. Google+ Now The Top Free App In The Apple App Store But, what about Google's o... [SocialTimes.com]

SyFy for iPad: Program Info + Connect with Show Stars Live Via Twitter or Facebook - Posted July 21, 2011
Some of you may remember SyFy as the SciFi Channel, home to both original and rerun science fiction, fantasy and reality programming. SyFy has a free iPad app that provides program schedules, program information, video clips, photos and something called SyFy Connect that promises to Connect with your favorite stars duri... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook Helps Parents Keep Tabs on Their Kids - Posted July 19, 2011
During my daughter's ballet class, one of the parents told me that she was looking over her child's Facebook page. She knew I wrote about social media, so she asked me to clarify a few aspects about Facebook she didn't understand. She also mentioned that she didn't understand half of... [SocialTimes.com]

Photospots for iPhone: Adds When and Where to Photos - Posted July 19, 2011
Photos recorded using an iPhone or iPad have geo-location information embedded in each photo's meta-data if Location is turned on when taking a photo. Howver, this data is generally not immediately accessible by a friend simply viewing your photos in, for example, a Facebook album. A recently released free app can... [SocialTimes.com]

Would A Twitter And Facebook Class Prevent Cyber-Bullying? - Posted July 18, 2011
Parents' associations in Australia are backing a proposal which would see their children taught how to use Facebook and Twitter properly in the classroom, in the hopes that teaching netiquette would stem the cyber-bullying problem among youth. But is this the right way to solve the problem? ... [AllTwitter]

Would A Twitter And Facebook Class Prevent Cyber-Bullying? - Posted July 18, 2011
Parents' associations in Australia are backing a proposal which would see their children taught how to use Facebook and Twitter properly in the classroom, in the hopes that teaching netiquette would stem the cyber-bullying problem among youth. But is this the right way to solve the problem? ... [10,000 Words]

Facebook Analysis: WESH 2 News in Orlando, FL - Posted July 18, 2011
Today starts a new segment that I will be doing each week, where I look for news organizations on Facebook who are having success with their efforts to engage their audience. First I will be looking at TV news programs on Facebook. I'm leading off with WESH 2... [10,000 Words]

Companies Push For IPOs Despite Worries Of Irrational Exuberance - Posted July 18, 2011
At every level, whether startups or public markets, people are finding expensive valuations, as confirmed by several venture capitalists who are funding companies at high valuations. Companies that have 15%+ yoy growth are trading at a 60% premium to the rest of the market. More after the jump. Institutional investors have licked... [SocialTimes.com]

New Study Provides Insight Into Best Practices For Journalists On Facebook - Posted July 14, 2011
A new study conducted by Facebook examines how users interact with Journalist Page... [TVSpy]

Pinch of foursquare Added to Klout Recipe - Posted July 13, 2011
Add foursquare to the list of social networking sites that factor into the Klout scoring system, as the location-based mobile app joined Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, the latter ... [SocialTimes.com]

On Facebook, Choose Content Over Contests - Posted July 13, 2011
A post today at ClickZ asks the question that many social media marketers have been thinking about, but have been too afraid to ask: What happens after Facebook contests? Companies, individuals and small businesses have been tapping t... [10,000 Words]

Just Want to See Your Facebook Friend's Photos & Videos? Check Out Photoly for iPhone & iPad (free) - Posted July 13, 2011
Photoly for iPhone and iPad provides one very simple but surprisingly useful function: It lets you see just the photos and videos posted by your friends on Facebook. It can also show you your own Facebook media stream (both photos and videos). Selecting a set of photos brings up the entire... [SocialTimes.com]

PopBooth for iPhone 4 Simulates Photo Booth Experience & Can Ship Photo Strips for $2.99 - Posted July 13, 2011
PopBooth is a free iPhone app that simulates the experience of taking a quick series of photos (often goofy looking) in a photo booth. It takes four photos using the iPhone 4's front-facing camera and then lets you apply one of five filters (normal, black & white, colorz, 1985 and hipster). ... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook for Every Phone: Feature Phones Gain the Ability to Post Photos - Posted July 13, 2011
Facebook continues to improve on their support for Java-based feature phones. They claim that the update the Facebook for Every Phone app works on more than 2500 different phone models. Facebook for Every... [SocialTimes.com]

Conan: Liking Your Own Facebook Posts Makes You Look Ridiculous [Video] - Posted July 13, 2011
In a new video F*Card, Conan O'Brien lets Facebookers know the truth about liking your own Facebook posts--it makes you look really, really stupid. He says, "When you like your own posts, it's kind of like giving yourself a high five," which, as Conan illustrates, doesn't look good at all. The... [SocialTimes.com]

Katango Adds Google+ Circles Behavior To Facebook On iPhone - Posted July 12, 2011
One of the distinguishing features of Google+ is its simplicity for grouping people who you follow by simply dragging and dropping their names into circles. Facebook's Groups has the same functionality without the fancy UI, but the problem is that Groups didn't appear until after most of us accumulated dozens, if... [SocialTimes.com]

Smart Places Simplifies Facebook Check-ins - Posted July 11, 2011
I have mixed feelings about check-in apps like Foursquare and Facebook Places. I some time like the idea of checking in at a location and sharing it with my social network as a way of sharing what I am doing. On the other hand, I don't always remember to check-in and... [SocialTimes.com]

How Social Are Websites Today? [STATS] - Posted July 8, 2011
Twitter is among the most popular social network destinations for websites to point to, but just how popular is it? Research from BrightEdge [PDF] suggests that social media still isn't visible on 51% of the t... [10,000 Words]

AP Issues Reminder to Staff on Including Opinions in Social Media Posts - Posted July 8, 2011
Tom Kent, deputy managing editor for standards and production at The Associated Press, felt the need to send a reminder email to AP staffers not to include opinions when using social... [SocialTimes.com]

Social Media and Online Community Posts From Around The Web - Posted July 8, 2011
Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful. Included in this week's round-up are posts about best practice for community cultivation; case studies for using Like-count Facebook campaigns to grow a page; new research on the... [10,000 Words]

Google+ Hopes to Rival Facebook - Posted July 7, 2011
Google is developing a new alternative to Facebook, a project currently in a limited field trial called Google+. According to ... [semanticweb.com]

What Do You Think About Twitter Introducing A Facebook-Like Wall? - Posted July 7, 2011
Rumor has it that Twitter is experimenting with a "Facebook-like" wall for some of its newest users. This is apparently intended to make the steep learning curve for Twitter newbies easier. For those new to Twitter, learning the difference between @mentions and @replies is rather difficult. Sur... [AllTwitter]

Amercian Climber: Live Trek of Swiss Alps on Social Media - Posted July 7, 2011
"This summer will be by far the hardest part of the journey. If I were to stay on the exact border, it would involve about 280,000 vertical meters of up and down, but the plan is to follow more trails and not to climb every mountain. If I stick to that... [SocialTimes.com]

Add Facebook Events To Google Calendar - Posted July 6, 2011
Last month I wrote about Best Wishes, which is an Android app that notifies you when one of your Facebook friends is celebrating a birthday and provides an easy way to post a birthday w... [SocialTimes.com]

Tools Round Up: Facebook and Skype; Radian6 and Twitter; JT and MySpace - Posted July 6, 2011
Facebook has announced a partnership with Skype that will bring video calling to the social network's 750 million users. Microsoft is in the process of acquiring Skype for... [PRNewser]

Discovery Channel Uses Social Media as Shark Week Bait - Posted July 6, 2011
Just when you thought it was safe to use social media ... Shark Week will take a bite out of Discovery Channel the week of July 31, and Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, GetGlue, and the iPhone and iPad are being used for bait. ... [SocialTimes.com]

What Makes People Want To Follow Brands? [Infographic] - Posted July 5, 2011
Followers on social networks like Facebook and Twitter often translate to loyal customers for brands. A positive brand experience online leads to more sharing and engagement and, as a result, more business. But what is it that makes people want to follow a brand? A new infographic from... [SocialTimes.com]

Twitter Tip: Don't Auto-Connect Your Facebook And Twitter Accounts - Posted July 5, 2011
Twitter has made it deceptively easy to connect your Twitter account to your Facebook account, but don't be fooled. It's usually not a good idea. Twitter and Facebook are two distinct networks with two distinct sets of etiquette and norms. Posting all of your tweets to your Facebook wall may sound... [AllTwitter]

Facebook 2.0 for Windows Phone: Push Notifications for Tiles and Toasts - Posted June 30, 2011
The Microsoft-developed Facebook for Windows Phone had a major update released this week. Interestingly, but appropriately, it was announced on a Facebook page but not in the official Windows Phone blog. Facebook 2.0 is now available... [SocialTimes.com]

Guinness World Records Marks Social Media Day from Gaga, Bieber to Sheen - Posted June 30, 2011
Guinness World Records announced the latest social media world records to coincide with global Social Media Day. Of course, there are no surprises this time around, next year may prove different. Guinness World Records includes the Most likes on a Facebook page which is 47,194,601, achieved by Facebook for its own... [SocialTimes.com]

Politicians Are All Over Twitter This Election Season - Posted June 30, 2011
If you follow the presidential hopefuls on your Twitter account, then your feed will be blowing up until we hit the polls next year. President Obama announced today that he'll be hosting a Twitter town hall meeting (... [PRNewser]

Pope Sends His First Tweet: Vatican Increases Social Media Presence - Posted June 30, 2011
The rapture is coming! The rapture is coming! No, wait. False alarm. It's just the Pope tweeting on an iPad as the Vatican tries to reach out to a younger audience. The Pope has gone viral. In a YouTube video released this week, Pope Benedict XVI, 84 years old, can be seen... [SocialTimes.com]

Bluefin Labs Hopes To Breach the Semantic Barrier Between Social Media Comments and TV Content - Posted June 30, 2011
Here's what Bluefin Labs is trying to capture for mass media content providers, be they media companies or brands: The word-of-mouth about TV shows and commercials that has migrated to the social media space. It wants to make visible the feedback loop that is very evident in live human communications -... [AllTwitter]

HTC Status: Android Phone With a Dedicated Facebook Button - Posted June 30, 2011
As the current 11th Dr. Who might say: I like thumb keyboards. Thumb keyboards are cool (and functional). And, the Android OS 2.3 (Gingerbread) based HTC Status looks cool. HTC Status And, check out that blue button sitting by itself under the navigation keys. Yep, tha... [SocialTimes.com]

Monster To Challenge Linkedln With BeKnown; A Job Network Within Facebook - Posted June 27, 2011
Monster.com, a global leader in job placement, has decided to respond to LinkedIn with a job network of its own. Monster's job based social network is called BeKnown, and will exist as a Facebook. BeKnown allows the users to cre... [SocialTimes.com]

Tools Round Up: Twitter for Newsrooms, Cision, Facebook Perks, and More - Posted June 27, 2011
Twitter has launched Twitter for Newsrooms (#TfN), which provides all sorts of guides and resources on topics like "effective tweeting," "branding," and search. Ideally it's a resource for journalists, edito... [PRNewser]

FBI Uses Social Media to Catch Mobster - Posted June 27, 2011
How do you catch a mobster? With Twitter of course! FBI uses TV, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to help catch a criminal they've been tracking for 16 years. James "Whitey" Bulger is not the kind of guy you'd want to run into in a back alley. A South Boston based criminal, he... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook For Android Gets Video Uploading - Posted June 24, 2011
Facebook has released a minor update to their Android app that adds the ability to upload videos from the phone. Facebook also says they made improvements to the newsfeed as well as support for pages... [SocialTimes.com]

HTC Facebook Phone Get's U.S. Name Change - Posted June 23, 2011
We've been monitoring the progress of the "Facebook" phone, known as the HTC ChaCha, as it is set to be released by AT&T in the U.S. after having already been released in the United Kingdom. ... [SocialTimes.com]

eBay Engages Facebook While Considering Twitter and YouTube - Posted June 21, 2011
Christopher Payne, eBay Marketplaces vice president, said the company's philosophy will be to try "a whole bunch of things" in the social media. With that said, eBay is thinking about using Twitter and YouTube to take advantage of the increase in social media activities among shoppers while it launches new social... [SocialTimes.com]

YouTube, Facebook and Netflix Leaders in Web Video - Posted June 21, 2011
Based on a survey of a number of Web users during the last week, Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney reports that Apple's iTunes Store has more or less 10% of market share for online video. In the survey, the most common video platforms were mentioned by users and here are the findings: 1.... [SocialTimes.com]

'Photovine' is Google's Latest Trademark for Photo Sharing? - Posted June 21, 2011
Recent reports seem to indicate that Google is aiming to launch a new photo sharing platform called "Photovine". The reports surfaced from The San Francisco Chro... [SocialTimes.com]

Virgin America's #nerdbird Now Boarding - Posted June 20, 2011
Twitter hashtags serve many purposes, and now, thanks to Virgin America, flying passengers between destinations has been added to the list. The airline named the 39th and newest addition to its fleet #nerdbird, announcing the move via i... [SocialTimes.com]

5 Tips For Launching Multiple Facebook Fan Pages - Posted June 20, 2011
Launching multiple Facebook Fan Pages can be stressful. So many moving parts, so much opportunity for failure. Once you get your head around exactly how many Facebook Fan Pages you need, stress can turn into genuine fear. Before it gets to that, take a step back and breath... [10,000 Words]

In Blogging Space, Spoils Go To Early Posters - Posted June 20, 2011
The breaking news is that a new service from Regator has resulted from tweaking its semantic algorithms to find within its human-curated collection of web content emerging stories and to quickly alert bloggers and journalists about them via a desktop app. Regator actually has been around ... [semanticweb.com]

MSNBC Letting Facebook Users Decide Which Season of Lockup to Air - Posted June 19, 2011
MSNBC had a dilemma: With prison documentary series Lockup set to debut another season July 2, the network had two seasons ready to air, on Boston and Tampa, Fla. ... [TVNewser]

From Founding To IPO, Facebook's Success Story [Infographics] - Posted June 17, 2011
Facebook has come a long way from its initial days in a Harvard dorm room to its growing campuses in Palo Alto, California, and beyond. Facebook is now expected to file for an IPO by the end of this year or the beginning of next year with an anticipated valuation of... [SocialTimes.com]

Report: Social Media Voters More Influenced by Facebook Friends Than Evening News - Posted June 17, 2011
[caption id="attachment_67021" align="alignnone" width="260" caption="Mashable"][/caption] Social media users are more likely to share persuasive political information with friends and colleagues in a matter of seconds from their computer or mobile device as opposed to making phone calls or canvassing. For that reason, social m... [SocialTimes.com]

Social Media and Online Community Posts From Around The Web - Posted June 17, 2011
Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful. Included in this week's round-up are posts that discuss the graying of social media users; a hard look at the value of a Facebook fan; the value of... [10,000 Words]

Think Before You Share: UK Warns About Personal Security Online - Posted June 17, 2011
The UK Ministry of Defense has launched a new online video campaign to educate social media users about personal security online and the dangers of sharing too much. Social networking and check-in sites can be great for keeping in touch with friends and family, but share too much and you... [SocialTimes.com]

Official Facebook for iPad App May Be Available in a Few Weeks - Posted June 17, 2011
Facebook (according to information provided by The Weather Channel in discussing their own apps) is the most used smartphone app across platforms in... [SocialTimes.com]

Klout Expands its Influence to LinkedIn - Posted June 16, 2011
According to a recent article, "Klout, a startup that ... [semanticweb.com]

Vancouver Riots After Canucks' Loss: A City's Social Media Identity - Posted June 16, 2011
Say it with me Vancouver: "I am a Canucks fan, and I have a problem". Vancouver fans rioted after the Canucks lost Game Seven of the Stanley Cup Playoffs to the Boston Bruins. Is this indicative of the city's identity or does social media tell a different story about Vancouver? If you're... [SocialTimes.com]

Sindice Puts The Web of Data At Your Disposal - Posted June 16, 2011
Sindice Ltd. launched as a startup company this week, complete with a publicly available beta SPARQL endpoint to its indexed and live-updated dataset of some 12 billion triples. Next week will see Sindice --which began as a joint academic research project among ... [AllTwitter]

Sindice Puts The Web of Data At Your Disposal - Posted June 16, 2011
Sindice Ltd. launched as a startup company this week, complete with a publicly available beta SPARQL endpoint to its indexed and live-updated dataset of some 12 billion triples. Next week will see Sindice --which began as a joint academic research project among ... [semanticweb.com]

Once Facebook Runs Out of People, It Will Need New Products - Posted June 16, 2011
Add this to the list of reasons Facebook needs to develop new revenue streams... it's running out of new users. According to estim... [SocialTimes.com]

Mitt Romney Wins the (Facebook Likes) Debate - Posted June 14, 2011
Other than the extreme cases of one-on-one landslides, like John F. Kennedy Jr. vs. Richard Nixon, there is really no scientific method of determining the victor of a ... [SocialTimes.com]

Five Ways Facebook Can Diversify Its Revenue Streams - Posted June 14, 2011
Facebook needs more ways to make money. Sure, the $4 billion advertising number is big, and it's impressive for a company still so young ... but it's not enough. If we're going to believe a valuation of over $80 billion, which would surge upon ... [SocialTimes.com]

HTC ChaCha Facebook Phone Available Now On Vodaphone - Posted June 13, 2011
Competition in the smartphone market is forcing handset manufacturers and carriers to look to software to make their products stand out from the competition. A trend appears to be developing with one of the key differentiators being social network integration. A while back HTC announced two smartphones with Facebook integration, and... [SocialTimes.com]

Tools Round Up: Facebook IPO Buzz, Cision, and More - Posted June 13, 2011
Facebook IPO talk is heating up again with sources saying the company's valuation could reach $100 billion by the time it goes public. Sources also suspect the IPO could happen Q1 2012. If this IPO doesn't happen by then, the company could be valued at 10... [PRNewser]

IPgallery Brings IPTV Content Services to Facebook - Posted June 13, 2011
IPgallery announced the release of its Click to Anything application for Facebook, which will allow content service providers to extend the company's cloud-based, Web-activated, Internet-protocol-TV platform to the social networking site, permitting users to call, chat, watch, share, and transfer multimedia content. The company -- which delivers bundled voice, Internet, video, and... [SocialTimes.com]

Five Reasons a $100 billion Facebook Valuation is Nuts - Posted June 13, 2011
Facebook is inching closer to an initial public offering. Today, AllFacebook notes a speculative CNBC report that pegs the social network's valuation, in the event of an ... [SocialTimes.com]

Where To Watch The Webby Awards Tonight - Posted June 13, 2011
The 15th Annual Webby Awards are here at last and if you aren't attending in person you can get your fill of five-word speeches and web celebs live on YouTube or Facebook. That's right--both YouTube and Facebook will be streaming the award show live, tonight at 8PM ET.... [SocialTimes.com]

CNN Incorporates Social Media Into GOP Debate Coverage - Posted June 13, 2011
CNN will host its first New Hampshire Republican Presidential debate Monday at 8 p.m., and social media will be woven throughout its coverage of the event. The debate will take place at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., moderated by CNN anchor and chief national correspondent ... [SocialTimes.com]

Unlocking The Value Of The Vocal Minority - Posted June 13, 2011
When you're overseeing a company's social media activity, there comes a time when you take stock of what has happened during the month, or a specified period of time, and create an analysis of that data. During that analysis it may come to light that while there are a number of people... [10,000 Words]

Quirkiness is a Cheap Way to Virality - Posted June 13, 2011
The roads to virality of the great internet startups that consume our everyday lives, like Facebook, Twitter and Groupon to name a few, have been less conventional than the roads to a similar result experienced by traditional startup businesses. These gre... [SocialTimes.com]

World Map Of Social Networks: Facebook Really Is Taking Over The World - Posted June 13, 2011
Vincenzo Cosenza has just released the latest edition of his bi-annual World Map of Social Networks, a world map showing the most popular social networks by country. According to Vinco's ... [SocialTimes.com]

5 Reasons Why Social Media Marketing Is All About Internal Relationships - Posted June 13, 2011
Yes, you read that right: internal. Forget about your target market for a second... don't worry, it's only a second. You can get back to remembering them shortly. A big part of turning your social media marketing environment into a ... [SocialTimes.com]

U.S. Olympic Committee Turns to Facebook for Fundraising - Posted June 13, 2011
With just about to year to go before the biggest sporting competition in the world, the United States Olympic Committee is turning to Facebook to seek support for athletes that capture the attention of the country for two weeks every four years. Beginning on June 14 through July 31, the USOC will... [SocialTimes.com]

Video Of Facebook & Twitter In Real Life Promotes New Social Media Opera - Posted June 13, 2011
What if your Twitter followers literally followed you everywhere you went? What if people walked around with signs announcing their relationship status and sexual orientation, poked people on the street, or stuck post-its that said 'Like' on all the things they liked in real life? A new viral video,... [SocialTimes.com]

Social Media and Online Community Posts From Around The Web - Posted June 10, 2011
Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful. Included in this week's round-up are posts that discuss the value of using data from users' actions in your online community; the latest data and statistics about social... [10,000 Words]

Facebook Boosts Voting for Spike TV's Guys Choice - Posted June 10, 2011
Voting for the winners of Guys Choice, which debuts Friday at 9 p.m. on Spike TV, was up 115 percent compared with last year, and the cable network credit... [SocialTimes.com]

Israel Ranks Highest for Time Spent on Social Networking Sites - Posted June 10, 2011
Israelis spent an average of about 11 hours a month surfing social networking sites on the Internet, becoming the top ranking country in April. The survey performed by comScore averages all Internet subscribers in Israel and does not highlight those users who are more acti... [SocialTimes.com]

2 Mistakes Prestige Brands Make on Facebook That You Must Avoid - Posted June 10, 2011
Many marketers look at the Facebook Pages of prestige brands envying their beautiful graphics and large number of Likes. A new study conducted by L2, and released in collaboration with Buddy Media, looks beneath the veneer of the F... [SocialTimes.com]

Is Facebook a Brand Platform? - Posted June 10, 2011
For some companies, of course, the question in the headline has an obvious answer. What I'm wondering, though, is if that's all Facebook can be. With a fairly weak advertising product, constraints on reaching your target market and flexibility that'... [SocialTimes.com]

Never Miss A Birthday -- iPhone App Sends Best Wishes To Your Friends On Time - Posted June 10, 2011
Bump Networks launched the soon to be famous Birthday Elephant. He will be famous because the elephant will be wishing everyone's friends "Happy Birthday." Are you quick on your birthday wishes to your Facebook friends? ,!--more--> I am surely not. It's hard for me ... [SocialTimes.com]

Tool of the Day: Encyclo - Posted June 9, 2011
Among the bevy of online news sites, mobile applications, and hyperlocal mashup aggregators, it can be pretty confusing to determine the context of all these tools. Nieman Journalism Lab's exciting new project seeks to pull these tools together into a resource they call ... [10,000 Words]

Tool of the Day: Encyclo - Posted June 9, 2011
Among the bevy of online news sites, mobile applications, and hyperlocal mashup aggregators, it can be pretty confusing to determine the context of all these tools. Nieman Journalism Lab's exciting new project seeks to pull these tools together into a resource they call ... [TVSpy]

Sonar iPhone App Unveils Mysteries of foursquare Connections - Posted June 9, 2011
New iPhone app Sonar makes use of the foursquare application-program interface to tie in check-ins with users' Facebook and Twitter connections, so users can determine if they are linked to other users at the same location or event. foursquare platform evangelist Akshay Patil... [SocialTimes.com]

Users Adjust Your Privacy Settings: Facebook Adds New Facial Recognition Feature - Posted June 9, 2011
When you hear the words "facial recognition" what comes to mind? High level security? A James Bond movie? If your answer was "Facebook", then you'd be correct. As Facebook rolls out a new facial recognition feature, security companies warn users to adjust their privacy settings. The first questions that come to mind... [SocialTimes.com]

Publisher Brings Book Stories To The Facebook Wall To Encourage Reading - Posted June 8, 2011
These days many young people are so preoccupied with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other online distractions that they are losing interest in reading books. Portuguese book publisher Leya wanted to find a way to change that and get people interested in reading once again. The solution? Leya t... [SocialTimes.com]

Can Legal Papers Be Served via Facebook? - Posted June 8, 2011
Hiding behind your Facebook identity won't help you dodge being served with legal papers in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United Kingdom. And according to a ... [SocialTimes.com]

Planking Gets An Anthem And A Video Contest - Posted June 8, 2011
The Facebook planking craze just keeps on growing--these days everyone is planking, from drivers on the IndyCar circui... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook Falls on SharesPost: Counterintuitive Result - Posted June 7, 2011
Facebook has taken a dip on SharesPost from its recent high of $35 a share, but the deal size has spiked. Are existing investors running for the hills? ... [SocialTimes.com]

4 Pre-IPO Companies with White-Hot Valuations According to SharesPost Activity - Posted June 7, 2011
Once upon a time, a moistened finger was raised into the air ... and the result was private company valuation. Much has changed since then, of course, and the advent of private company trading environments -such as ... [SocialTimes.com]

You Can't Say 'Facebook' or 'Twitter' on French TV Anymore - Posted June 4, 2011
The Conseil Sup rieur de l'Audiovisuel (CSA), France's equivalent of the Federal Communications Commission, banned the use of the words "Facebook" and "Twitter" on French television unless they are included in news stories about the respective soc... [SocialTimes.com]

FaceNiff for Android Hijacks Facebook Sessions Over WiFi - Posted June 2, 2011
Engadget reported on a free "research" Android app tool that can intercept web session profiles of computers on a WiFi network. FaceNiff makes Facebook hacking a portable, one-tap affair (video) An Android phone needs to be ro... [SocialTimes.com]

India's SMS Gupshup Wants to be World's Biggest Mobile Social Network - Posted June 2, 2011
An Indian group-texting service called SMS GupShup wants to become the world's biggest mobile social network. And, they want to take on Facebook and Foursquare. SMS GupShup has a good reason to want to be the biggest. The company already has 45 million users in India and is on a $10 million... [SocialTimes.com]

Retailer "Express" Launches Facebook Storefront. But Why? - Posted June 2, 2011
Guest blogger Vidar Brekke, of Social Intent, is less than enthusiastic about the promise of Facebook storefronts. He makes a strong and informed case, but I don't totally agree. Today, we'll hear Brekk... [SocialTimes.com]

Touchy Territory: Different Ethnicities May Use Social Cause Social Media Differently - Posted June 2, 2011
Are your social cause social networking habits developed or were you born this way? Key findings from a new survey reveal differences in the way different ethnic groups engage in social change social media. A few weeks ago Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide and Georgetown University's Center for Social Impact Communication released key... [SocialTimes.com]

RIM Excited by Facebook for BlackBerry V2.0 Beta 3 Working Over WiFi. Really? - Posted June 2, 2011
I've worked with a lot of mobile platforms. But, for one reason or another a RIM BlackBerry device has never been one of them. So, I was more than a little puzzled by this item from the Official BlackBerry Blog. Facebook for BlackBerr... [SocialTimes.com]

Share 3D Video on YouTube & Quick with the HTC EVO 3D - Posted June 1, 2011
The big news in this recent Sprint press release was that The Green Hornet movie will be bundled with the Android-powered glasses-free 3D viewing enabled HTC EVO 3D smartphone. Exciting Content Coming for this Summer's Highly Anticipated Smartphone, HTC EVO 3D Ex... [SocialTimes.com]

Gwyneth Paltrow Joins Twitter and Facebook - Posted June 1, 2011
Gwyneth Paltrow has interviewed ... [FishbowlNY]

Men's Health, Women's Health Seek Fittest Facebook Friends - Posted June 1, 2011
Men's Health and Women's Health are looking to ring in the summer with a few hard bodies. The two ... [SocialTimes.com]

Intel Museum Of Me Creates A Visual Archive Of Your Social Life - Posted June 1, 2011
Imagine, for a moment, stepping foot in your favorite art museum and entering an exhibit that is entirely about you--your friends, your pictures, your favorite words and phrases. Intriguing, right? Well Intel has made the prospects of an art exhibit all about you a reality with their 'Museum of... [SocialTimes.com]

Are Facebook & Netflix Set To Join Forces In The Social Game? - Posted May 31, 2011
Netflix and Facebook are both leaders in their own arenas--Facebook in social networking and Netflix in Internet streaming. But rumor has it that the two companies may be joining forces to cross-promote and improve the social aspects of each of their platforms. Could Facebook and Netflix be helping one... [SocialTimes.com]

Where To Find Original, Local Story Ideas Online - Posted May 31, 2011
Whether you're an intern new to a community hoping to impress your boss or a long-time reporter hoping to avoid writing about air conditioner and ice cream sales this summer, knowing where to look for original local story ideas can be a game changer. The best way to avoid being given... [10,000 Words]

$200 MeeGo Netbook May be a Good Fit for Facebook Users (netbook test drive) - Posted May 31, 2011
The only netbook-like platform that is generating interest these days is Google's ChromeBook running Google Chrome OS. Models from Acer and Samsung will be availale starting June 15. There is another non-tablet mobile platform alternative though: MeeGo from Intel. I, quite honestly, had written it off as something that would di... [SocialTimes.com]

Hot Wheels Breaks World Record At Indy 500 To Promote Facebook Page - Posted May 31, 2011
Want to get people to like your Facebook page? Well you could hold a fun contest, focus on providing fans with kickass content, or ask customers to like your page in your weekly newsletter. Or, if you're like Hot Wheels, you could just break a world record. That's... [SocialTimes.com]

PEJ: Bloggers, Facebook, Twitter Favor Israel in 1967 Borders Discussion - Posted May 27, 2011
President Barack Obama's address about the Middle East May 19, in which he suggested that Israel and Palestine revert to their 1967 borders, drew strong reaction on blogs, Twitter, and Facebook, most of it pro-Israel, according to a ... [SocialTimes.com]

3 Great Social Media Lessons From BlogWorld - Posted May 27, 2011
I had high expectations for three of the sessions at BlogWorld Expo NY this week. And they did not disappoint. Allow me to share with you a bit of what I learned about managing (and avoiding) a social media PR crisis, responding to attac... [SocialTimes.com]

The Atlantic Starts Book Club on Website, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr - Posted May 27, 2011
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood will be the first selection for 1book140, a book club established by ... [SocialTimes.com]

Social Sharing Buttons: Too Much Or Not Enough? - Posted May 26, 2011
News can break at a moment's notice, and whether you have the exclusive scoop or not, chances are that readers coming to your website to read the story will want to share it with their friends and family. Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and other social networking services can help give your story... [10,000 Words]

Kinomap Geolocated Videoplayer Now Integrated Into Facebook - Posted May 25, 2011
Kinomap offers a whole new perspective to video-sharing platform, offering synchronized video-map playback while integrating its geolocated videoplayer into Facebook. I just shared with my friends an Audi R8 driving through the Bay Area in Northern California by clicking on the famous "... [SocialTimes.com]

UFC and Hooters Search for Octagon Girl on Facebook - Posted May 25, 2011
Okay, calm down, boys! Hooters has partnered with the Ultimate Fighting Championship in search of a Hooters Girl to be a guest Octagon Girl during the UFC 132: Cruz vs. Faber event in Las Vegas on July 2, 2011. Yes, it's a promotional gimmick, but I am sure it's a great... [SocialTimes.com]

People Search Service PeekYou Sees Personal ID Layer As Driving Future of Semantic Web - Posted May 25, 2011
How does a site like PeekYou, whose goal is to re-index the public web around people, intersect with the Semantic Web? To hear CEO Michael Hussey tell it, it's this: "The way I thought about the Semantic Web since Day One is that it's about deriving meaning from pages," says Hussey. "To... [AllTwitter]

INQ's Facebook Phone Expanding To Include Foursquare - Posted May 23, 2011
We first heard about the INQ Cloud Touch smartphone, which is tightly integrated with Facebook, back last February. Our Readers in the United Kingdom are able to buy it now from The Carphone Warehouse. Today ... [SocialTimes.com]

Ask.com 2.0 for iPhone Got Social - Posted May 23, 2011
Ask.com released a major update to their free iPhone app last week. Ask for iPhone v2 is here! (Ask.com Blog) The Ask.com app lets you ask any question in plain english and attempts to find an answer. The updated app gained a couple of social aspe... [SocialTimes.com]

Why Call To Action Matters in Social Media - Posted May 23, 2011
Before starting a Facebook Fan Page, YouTube Channel or Twitter feed for your business, first answer a quick question: Why should people follow you, read your updates, add you as a Fan or Friend, or care at all about your existence online? What's in it for them? ... [10,000 Words]

According to Facebook, Facebook is Fantastic - Posted May 23, 2011
See that little Facebook "like" button at the bottom of this post? That tool, at least according to Facebook, helps increase traffic to media sites by 300 percent. Facebook integration helps keep people glued to websites too: Visitors using the Facebook tools stay on websites for an average of eight minutes... [FishbowlNY]

Social Media and Online Community Posts From Around The Web - Posted May 20, 2011
Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful. Included in this week's round-up are posts that look online community typology; re-imagining how online community managers are hired; and advice on how to best use Facebo... [TVSpy]

Do You Know The Real Cost Of Social Media? [Infographic] - Posted May 20, 2011
These days if you're not using social media to build your brand then you're way behind the times. But many companies are fooled into thinking that social media marketing is free, or at least close to free. A new infographic published on ... [SocialTimes.com]

Social Media Should Not Supplant Real Relationship Management - Posted May 20, 2011
One of the major barriers to social media marketing in service-oriented B2B companies, I've heard and seen, is that it doesn't compete with genuine relationship development. Why would I want to talk to one of my best clients on ... [SocialTimes.com]

Parents Should Have Full Access To Children's Facebook Accounts -- California's Proposed Bill - Posted May 18, 2011
It's 11 O'clock; do you know what your child's Facebook profile is doing? If you live in California, you may soon be able to find out as the state considers passing a new Social Networking Bill. A new California bill under the sexy title SB242, or the Social Networking Privacy Act, proposes... [SocialTimes.com]

Anatomy Of An Online Community Manager Job Posting - Posted May 16, 2011
Last week I tweeted on the 10,000 Words feed about an interesting job opening at SunSentinel.com, a South Florida news organization owned by Tribune Co. They're lookin... [TVSpy]

WWBT Reporter's Camel Attack Goes Viral - Posted May 16, 2011
"Why are you eating my hair?" ... [TVSpy]

Multitasking WSPA Anchor Amy Wood Interacts with Viewers Online During Newscasts - Posted May 16, 2011
WSPA anchor Amy Wood, who solo anchors the 10 p.m. news on WSPA's CW sister station in addition to co-anchoring the CBS-affiliate's 5, 6, and 11 p.m. newscasts, is, as Lost Remote ... [TVSpy]

Clarabridge Hones Focus on Social Media as Text Analytics Demand Grows - Posted May 16, 2011
Alta Plana Corp.'s Seth Grimes last week pinpointed text analytics market demand as closing in on the $1 billion mark globally, with growth in particular among apps that use NLP to derive business insight (from facts to relationships to sentiment) via social netwo... [semanticweb.com]

Israeli Couple Names Their Baby Girl "Like" - Posted May 16, 2011
Back in February, the world raised an eyebrow as Egyptian Jamal Ibrahim named his newborn daughter "Facebook", as a tribute to the role Facebook played in the revolution in Egypt. Now, Israeli couple Lior and Vardit A... [SocialTimes.com]

What If Opening A Heineken Could Get You Free Beer On Facebook? - Posted May 16, 2011
Imagine what life would be like if every time you cracked open a Heineken you had the chance to win a free case of beer on Facebook. A new student project proposes just that with 'The Invite', a fun new concept idea for Heineken--a social media-connected bottle opener that invites... [SocialTimes.com]

A Little Late | Yankees Have All The Fun | Dude Looks Like a Lady - Posted May 12, 2011
PRNewser: More from the Facebook mishap this morning, as the PR firm explains the social network's "assignment should have been... [FishbowlLA]

Word-of-Mouth Goes Holistic - Posted May 12, 2011
One of the big takeaways from this week's School of WOM conference, according to ... [PRNewser]

WaTunes Facebook App Targets Indie Musicians - Posted May 11, 2011
WaTunes gets it. WaTunes knows what it's like to play a show in a dingy bar at 1.30 in the morning to ten people, sell a single CD and then go to pool the band's earnings enough so that two hamburgers can be split six ways. WaTunes knows that the life... [SocialTimes.com]

Tumblr Share Button: Will It Work? - Posted May 11, 2011
You can now share with Tumblr because the platform launched a sharing option for third-party websites. The Tumblr Share button is a lot like Facebook and Twitter buttons found on countless sites and the Button will allow Tumblr users to easily reblog their content from sites outside Tumblr's realm. The announcement... [SocialTimes.com]

Calling All Moms: Get The Heck Off Facebook! - Posted May 11, 2011
Facebook is a great tool for staying in touch with friends, sharing pictures and videos, playing games and more, but many of us spend way too much time on the social site, stalking the walls of our long lost junior high friends and playing Farmville when we could be doing something... [SocialTimes.com]

Drudge Drives More Web Traffic Than Facebook and Twitter - Posted May 9, 2011
Matt Drudge's site knows how to get people clicking. In another tidbit from the Pew study released today, ... [FishbowlNY]

Mexico Plans Earthquake Alerts Via Twitter, Facebook and Texting - Posted May 9, 2011
An announcement came from the Mayor of Mexico City that the government plans to send earthquake alerts via text message and through social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Mayor Marcelo Ebrard says he hopes to have the social media alert system working by September 19, 2011. The date is signific... [SocialTimes.com]

Renren -- The Facebook of China -- Raises $743 Million - Posted May 9, 2011
Shares of the Chinese social networking site Renren surged on their trading debut in New York on Wednesday. The company raised $743 million from the offering. Renren has been called China's answer to Facebook and is one of the few publicly traded social networking sites and the latest symbol of China's soaring... [SocialTimes.com]

Next-Generation Zuckerbergs Use Privacy To Sell the Next Facebook - Posted May 9, 2011
Privacy, privacy, privacy. And a little social networking too. That's the pitch being made by the newest generation of Mark Zuckerbergs as they try to crack into the social networking industry the Facebook co-founder so famously created in his Harvard dorm room. Take Ayloo.net... [SocialTimes.com]

Watch a Video During a Facebook Game, Earn a Facebook Credit - Posted May 9, 2011
Social video advertising outfit Sharethrough will take part in an extension of the Facebook Credits program that will allow users of the social network who pl... [SocialTimes.com]

Legislative Update: 'Do Not Track' Advances from California to Capitol Hill - Posted May 9, 2011
Legislation that would dramatically change the way online advertising and Web companies are allowed to collect and retain consumers' personal data is moving forward in the U.S., from sea to shining sea. California moved one step closer to enacting the first 'Do Not Track' legislation in the nation that would give... [SocialTimes.com]

Books for Troops, Alan Rickman Reads & Bookstore Survival Secrets: Top Publishing Headlines of the Week - Posted May 8, 2011
For your weekend reading pleasure, we've collected the ten most popular publishing stories of the week--ranging from romance novel heroes to sharing books with our troops to Jersey Shore's classical remix (video embedded above). Click here to sign up... [GalleyCat]

Scan To Add A Facebook Friend On Android Phones - Posted May 6, 2011
Have you ever been at a social event and run into someone who you want to add as a friend on Facebook? You either have to remember to add them when you get home, or go through the process of adding them using a smartphone, which involves multiple steps. ... [SocialTimes.com]

Books for Troops, Alan Rickman Reads & Bookstore Survival Secrets: Top Publishing Headlines of the Week - Posted May 6, 2011
For your weekend reading pleasure, we've collected the ten most popular publishing stories of the week--ranging from romance novel heroes to sharing books with our troops to Jersey Shore's classical remix (video embedded above). Click here to sign up... [semanticweb.com]

Social Media and Online Community Posts From Around The Web - Posted May 6, 2011
There are three blog posts that I'd like to bring to your attention today. They deal with three different topics: Female influencers online, B2B community management, and best-practice for developing and implementing custom landing tabs on Facebook. ... [TVSpy]

David Goldman to Interact with Dateline Viewers on Facebook - Posted May 6, 2011
Do you have a question for David Goldman, the New Jersey father who won a bitter, prolonged custody battle for his son, Sean, after his late ex-wife's family attempted to keep the boy in Brazil? ... [SocialTimes.com]

The Dark Side of Facebook -- Two Incidents Reveal Its Nature - Posted May 6, 2011
Movies have them. Big cities have them. And, this week reminds us that social media also has them: dark underbellies, where the worst of humanity hangs out. This week, two social media events in Australia, are reminders that while social media can be used for good - to connect to old friends,... [SocialTimes.com]

Batch Upload Photos And Video To Facebook From Android Phones - Posted May 2, 2011
I recently uploaded a batch of photos of my birthday to my Facebook account using Windows Live Photo Gallery on my PC. If I had taken those photos on my Android smartphone the process of uploading them directly from my phone would be very cumbersome with the Facebook app because it... [SocialTimes.com]

RIM PlayBook To Get Facebook App And Video Chat - Posted May 2, 2011
Because Apple has such a big lead in the still developing tablet computer market, challengers need their tablets to be different from the iPad in meaningful ways. The PlayBook from Research In Motion (RIM) does that most notably with the de... [SocialTimes.com]

Bin Laden Killed: CNN's Online Properties Boosted by News - Posted May 2, 2011
CNN released some early statistics for its coverage of the death of Osama Bin Laden on CNN.com, ... [TVNewser]

Best Buy: Next Steps Into the Semantic Web - Posted May 2, 2011
Just a few months ago Jay Myers, lead web development engineer at Best Buy, talked to The Semantic Web Blog about using RDFa to mark up the retailer's product detail pages and more semantic things he'd like to do, including mashing up its online catalog data with some other data sources. ... [AllTwitter]

Best Buy: Next Steps Into the Semantic Web - Posted May 2, 2011
Just a few months ago Jay Myers, lead web development engineer at Best Buy, talked to The Semantic Web Blog about using RDFa to mark up the retailer's product detail pages and more semantic things he'd like to do, including mashing up its online catalog data with some other data sources. ... [semanticweb.com]

This Week's Best Social Media and Online Community Posts From Around The Web - Posted April 29, 2011
Every Friday I will be posting a round-up of the blog posts and news articles that I come across throughout the week that I find interesting and informative. Often I post these links to my Twitter account throughout the week. On Fridays I'll compile the top three o... [TVSpy]

Social Media Mobilizes For New Multiple Sclerosis Treatment in Canada - Posted April 29, 2011
Can social media be used to mobilize large groups on topics other than Justin Bieber and Charlie Sheen? Yes, it can. The Canadian medical community has been bombarded by exceptional social media support for a new multiple sclerosis treatment. The treatment in question is a controversial multiple sclerosis procedure which is not... [SocialTimes.com]

Learn from This: Virgin America's Terminal 2 Takeover - Posted April 29, 2011
Virgin America launched four years ago at the cusp of viable social media marketing. The airline appreciates that social media is not an overlay; it's at the core of the company's culture. I've p... [SocialTimes.com]

Knocked Off the Air, Tallahassee's WCTV Posts Abridged Newscast on Facebook - Posted April 29, 2011
Due to technical difficulties, Tallahassee's WCTV couldn't air its 11 p.m. newscast on Wednesday so the CBS-affiliate to took the web, using its website as well as Facebook and ... [TVSpy]

Send Conan Video F-Cards To Your Facebook Friends - Posted April 29, 2011
Conan O'Brien's Team Coco Digital has launched a series of video greeting cards produced exclusively for online fans. The team has developed 25 "F-Cards," all of which feature Conan O'Brien, host of TBS's late-night hit CONAN. The F-Cards address such Facebook-specific situations as relationship status changes, photo-tagging, recon... [SocialTimes.com]

GetJar Adds Social Media Integration - Posted April 28, 2011
GetJar is a mobile application store that has apps for Blackberry, Symbian, Windows Mobile, and Android. One of GetJar's biggest claims to fame is that it was the first site to have Angry Bi... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook Users Can Now Start "Using Protection" - Posted April 28, 2011
You can now share with your friends on Facebook knowing that you are "using protection" and will not spread any social media diseases. Using Protection protects Facebook users from unwanted viruses, spam and malware posted on their wall. The online service scans for viruses whenever you view Facebook pages, making it... [SocialTimes.com]

KLM Wants To Put Your Face On A Plane - Posted April 27, 2011
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is constantly outdoing themselves with their social media campaigns, from stalking passengers via Foursquare to give them personalized gifts at the gate to hosting a world ... [SocialTimes.com]

NBC News VP Mark Lukasiewicz Touts The Royal Wedding by NBC News App - Posted April 25, 2011
NBC News vice president of specials and digital media Mark Lukasiewicz touted the network's The Royal Wedding by NBC News app, as well as Twitter account @RoyalWedding, in... [TVNewser]

Creating Change in an Online Community - Posted April 25, 2011
One of my favorite blogs about online community management is Fever Bee, written by Richard Millington, an online community consultant. Much like Seth Godin, Richard's posts are short and to the point. His post on April 21 is one of my favorites that he's... [TVSpy]

Cosmo Kramer Saw Facebook Potential - A Lesson for Entrepreneurs - Posted April 25, 2011
Seinfeld, the legendary television show about nothing, has arguably delivered more sentences beginning with "remember the episode when" than any other. So... remember the episode when Cosmo Kramer, the character played by Michael Richards, decided to erect pictures of all tenants in his and Jerry Seinfeld's apartment building on the lobby wall? Kramer... [SocialTimes.com]

Thou Shalt Tweet the Second Coming - Posted April 22, 2011
And the Lord said, "Let there be social media." In an interview with anchor ... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook Smartphone Updates Make It Easier To Find Friends - Posted April 22, 2011
Facebook has released updates to their Android and iPhone apps that make it easier to find friends. The apps use email addresses in the phone's contacts to search for potential friends who are on Face... [SocialTimes.com]

Richard Metzger Contends Media is Guilty of Sloppy Reporting on Facebook Scandal - Posted April 22, 2011
Earlier this week, Facebook found itself embroiled in controversy when a fairly benign photo of gay men kissing was labeled by the site as "abusive material" and deleted from local author Richard Metzger's profile. The story broke an Metzger's website ... [FishbowlLA]

Foursquare Co-Founder Talks About Needed Improvements - Posted April 22, 2011
Foursquare co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley spoke at Girls in Tech event in San Francisco. There he talked about Foursquare's improvements in the coming months. He even promised to make the app go faster. Crowley c... [SocialTimes.com]

Not Just Domains -- Today's Startups Must Snap Up Social Profiles - Posted April 22, 2011
The internet game has changed a lot since the first website hit the web in 1991. Just as text websites have expanded into fully-fledged interactive websites with an eye on mobile, the need for businesses to register a brand-relevant domain name has expanded to include a need for appropriate social profile... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook Censorship: Is Big Brother Watching You? - Posted April 22, 2011
Picture this: you're browsing around your Facebook homepage, checking on your favorite friends and lovers, tagging yourself in photos from the weekend, when suddenly, you stumble upon a religious group. You write a comment on the group's wall, quoting a bible passage or contributing your thoughts to the group's discussion. Yo... [SocialTimes.com]

Canadians Could Be Fined For Tweeting Election Results, But Can a Fine Stop Social Media? - Posted April 22, 2011
How much is a tweet worth? Well, if you're Canadian it could be worth a 25, 000 dollar fine if you tweet election results before all national polling stations close. Oh, Canada. The upcoming Canadian Federal election set to take place on May 2, 2011 has been called the country's first "social... [SocialTimes.com]

Glee Spoiler Leaked on Twitter Leads to Amending Talent Contracts - Posted April 21, 2011
Musical television show "Glee" had its own little drama on Twitter this week when a day player, Nicole Crowther, of the Fox hit show, caused a stir with "Glee" co-creator Brad Falchuk. The uproar came when Crowther revealed key plot developments via Twitter. Falchuk quickly slammed her by tweeting, "hope you're qualified... [SocialTimes.com]

Guest Post: Knowing More About Edgerank Could Give You An Edge on Facebook - Posted April 21, 2011
Facebook has been around for what seems like ages (in digital years), but there are always new improvements to learn about. Enter Edgerank, which has been around for a while, but may still be an enigma to many. In today's guest post Brian Cross... [PRNewser]

So This Politician Posted His House on Facebook... - Posted April 20, 2011
If the headline reads like the set-up of a joke too good to be true, it's not. It's just the latest example of politics in social media or, rather, what happens when a politician goes wild on social media. That politician would be Representative Ron Paul, a Texas Republican who does... [SocialTimes.com]

Former Press Sec Gibbs Not Going to Facebook? - Posted April 20, 2011
A story in today's Wall Street Journal says Robert Gibbs won't be going to Facebook after all. Last month, ... [PRNewser]

Do We Need 'Facebook Not on a List' Tool? - Posted April 20, 2011
Facebook users can now choose to view "Friends Not on a List" as part of Facebook's Friend Lists interface. The new function allows users to double-check to see if all their friends are assigned to a list. The content can be hidden or made visible. Such as, the function allows users... [SocialTimes.com]

Earth Day Network, Facebook Aim to Add Up A Billion Acts of Green - Posted April 20, 2011
Earth Day Network teamed up with Facebook to create an app backing the Billi... [SocialTimes.com]

Can Debt Ridden Social Media Users Now Breathe Easy? - Posted April 20, 2011
If you heard a collective sigh of relief on Facebook today, it was probably the big spenders on your 'Friends' list just reading the news of a ground-breaking ruling in Florida that means debt collectors will have to go back to collecting their money the old-fashioned way, off of social media. In... [SocialTimes.com]

HuffPost Gets Social -- Follow Bloggers Through Facebook, Twitter and Email - Posted April 20, 2011
The Huffington Post aims to be a leader when it comes to following topics, having added new features that give its readers the options of following topics, or specific bloggers and reporters, including updates via Twitter, Facebook, or email when new content is posted... [SocialTimes.com]

Anchor Susan Geha Departs WOOD After 30+ Years - Posted April 20, 2011
Anchor Susan Geha has left WOOD after more than three decades with the station. Geha began her TV news career with the Grand Rapids NBC-affiliate and now both she and the station are confirming her departure. In a b... [TVSpy]

Twitter's Effect on Search Engine Rankings: Not as Big as You'd Expect - Posted April 20, 2011
In December 2010, Google and Bing confirmed that Facebook and Twitter affected search rankings. And although marketers suspected as much for some time, the confirmation seemed to signal the ushering in of a new, more s... [AllTwitter]

#WorldNewsFeed Takes Facebook Users Behind the Scenes with Diane Sawyer - Posted April 20, 2011
Diane Sawyer's beverages of choice are green tea and sugar-free Red Bull. Her assistant's name is Jill, and executive producer Jon Banner's assistant is Tess. More behind-the-scenes nugge... [TVNewser]

New Tool Simplifies Video Uploads to Facebook - Posted April 18, 2011
Free software developer DVDVideoSoft, which specializes in freeware that allows users to convert, download, and upload video and audio files, released its ... [SocialTimes.com]

LA Writer Perplexed by Homophobic Censorship of His Facebook Page - Posted April 18, 2011
Over the weekend, Facebook deemed the photo below "abusive material" and removed it from the profile of Los Angeles-based author Richard Metzger. The pic above is ... [FishbowlLA]

The New Yorker's Facebook Presence Grows Slightly - Posted April 18, 2011
Last Monday, The New Yorker decided to beg for Facebook fans by placing a Jonathan Franzen piece behind its Facebook page. The strategy -... [FishbowlNY]

Facebook Cashing In On User Data? What Do You, the User, Think? - Posted April 18, 2011
"Facebook knows..." "Mother lode of personal information..." "For Facebook users, the free ride is over." Facebook is reportedly ready to cash in on the likes, dislikes, personal information, friends, hobbies and more that it knows about you, the user. Concerned yet? Should you be? "... [SocialTimes.com]

If Media Logos Were a Bit More Blunt - Posted April 18, 2011
Re-imagined logos for Facebook, YouTube, and MTV, from a series called Honest Logos by Swedish designer Viktor Hertz... [FishbowlLA]

Mashable Community Manager Joins Journalists on Facebook - Posted April 15, 2011
Vadim Lavrusik has joined Facebook as journalist program manager, leading the new ... [AgencySpy]

Mashable Community Manager Joins Journalists on Facebook - Posted April 15, 2011
Vadim Lavrusik has joined Facebook as journalist program manager, leading the new ... [PRNewser]

WineMatch.com Raises a Glass to Facebook, Twitter - Posted April 15, 2011
WineMatch.com proposed a toast to Facebook and Twitter, allowing users of its proprietary wine profiling and matching system to create accounts with their credentials from the two social networks. The site also announced that it is now fully compatible with tab... [SocialTimes.com]

Twitter Beats Facebook, Apple, MySpace, Skype on Privacy, but Isn't Perfect - Posted April 15, 2011
A report card issued by the Electronic Frontier Foundation this week ranks some of the largest Internet companies across several measures of privacy and transparency - and Twitter comes out near the top of its class. The ... [AllTwitter]

Facebook and YouTube Prove To Be Fastest, Most Reliable Social Networks - Posted April 15, 2011
Once again, Facebook rules as the fastest social network for the fifth straight quarter in a row, according to Web Performance Index for Social Networks. In the first quarter of 2011, the s... [SocialTimes.com]

Android Works with LinkedIn - Posted April 15, 2011
It's official that LinkedIn works with Android and is now available for download in the Google Apps Marketplace and the LinkedIn Web site. The app takes LinkedIn web site capabilities and brings the functionality to the smartphone. The product involves a home screen with links to six modules: Updates, Connections, Invitations, Search,... [SocialTimes.com]

New Way to Socialize Videos with Showyou - Posted April 14, 2011
Showyou just landed in the App Store as a social video viewing app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The new app is being touted like Flipboard, which aggregates videos from friends on Facebook and followers on Twitter. However, the app is not compatible with Tumblr and YouTube yet,... [SocialTimes.com]

Is China Finally Accepting Facebook's Friend Request? - Posted April 14, 2011
It's how you plan your Saturday night, keep in touch with your childhood best friend, and snoop on your workplace crush. It's on your laptop, you Blackberry, and your iPad. Ask anyone under the age of sixty; Facebook is everywhere. Everywhere, that is, except China. But, is that about to change? Reports... [SocialTimes.com]

Photo and Video Sharing Site Multiply 5.0 Evolves towards Social Shopping - Posted April 13, 2011
Social media platforms tend to evolve by the whims of the owners who decide what is best for their users. We have certainly witnessed that with Facebook, Google as well as YouTube. In Indonesia, a social networking platform for photo and video sharing has evolved into a social shopping site... [SocialTimes.com]

NPR Launches "I <3 NPR" Facebook App - Posted April 13, 2011
NPR is looking for love on Facebook, as the public broadcaster rolled out its first app on the social networking site, I <3 (Heart) NPR, which allows users to tag themselves to their favorite member stations ... [SocialTimes.com]

Why I'm Using a Facebook Ad Campaign To Find Myself A Date - Posted April 13, 2011
Guest blogger Matt Simpson demonstrates the nuances of Facebook advertising by promoting a brand that's very near and dear -- himself. Simpson is Director of Interactive Marketing & Client Services for Facebook promotions at application developer Bulbstorm. Fol... [SocialTimes.com]

What Role Does Social Media Play in College Admissions? [INFOGRAPHIC] - Posted April 13, 2011
'Tis the season for high school seniors to run to the mailbox, or their email inbox these days, to sort through college acceptances and rejections. It may be too late for this year's seniors, but should their classmates in grades below "friend" their top college choice on Facebook, or run... [SocialTimes.com]

Can Facebook Fix its 'Fundamentally Flawed' Privacy Settings - Posted April 12, 2011
Do you find you can never get your Facebook privacy settings just right - that you're sharing that message or photo you wanted to hide, or hiding the photo you wanted to share ? A first-of-its kind, closer look study at the privacy settings on Facebook found you are... [SocialTimes.com]

Curious What Happens During an Online Town Hall...at Facebook? Watch Live Today. - Posted April 12, 2011
What does a U.S. senator have to say about social media? What really happens at an online town hall? You can find out today at 3:00 p.m., EDT, live on Facebook. The town hall's featured speaker, Sen. John Cornyn, will find out what exactly happens at a town hall right... [SocialTimes.com]

Baby Boomers to Cause Further Surge in Facebook Use - Posted April 12, 2011
Facebook adoption is still growing. Despite having 600 million users worldwide, there's room for more. I even know a few people who aren't on it yet ... and that's here in New York. When I read the latest eMarketer report on ... [SocialTimes.com]

The New American Dream Boys: Adam D'Angelo & Charlie Cheever of Quora - Posted April 12, 2011
In 1950, the American Dream looked like a white picket fence and a collared shirt, but what does it look like in 2011? It could be in iPod, a Live Strong bracelet, or a YouTube video. But, if Gen Y had to pick a person - or group of... [SocialTimes.com]

Do Not Add Me: Report Says Teachers and Students Should Not Connect on Facebook - Posted April 12, 2011
If you think being a teenager was hard, try being a teacher in the second decade of the new millennium. Not only must teachers navigate hallways, classrooms, and school grounds, they must also be aware of online spaces - social media in particular. A report released by the Ontario College of... [SocialTimes.com]

4 Reasons Why News Orgs. Need Social Media Rock Stars On Staff - Posted April 11, 2011
[caption id="attachment_3246" align="alignright" width="280" caption="Photo credit: Gore908 on Flickr"][/caption] These days it shouldn't be too much to ask that a reporter at a newspaper or magazine is fluent in the basics of social media. They should have a Twitter page, actively use F... [TVSpy]

5 Tips for Developing News Stories Via Social Media - Posted April 11, 2011
As WABC found out last night in trying to glean information on Facebook about a plane's apparent technical malfunction, social media can be a tricky place to develop news stories. Thankfully, RTDNA blogger ... [TVSpy]

Why Twitter is Better for Journalists than Facebook - Posted April 11, 2011
Last week, Facebook launched the "Journalists on Facebook" page to entice journalists to "reach their audience directly" and access over 500 million users. Despite the over 35,000 people who have "liked" the page, Twitter is still the superior vehicle for news gathering and article ... [AllTwitter]

How to Avoid the Facebook Olive Garden Scam - Posted April 11, 2011
Social media users and fans of salad and garlic breadsticks be warned. Hackers on Facebook are using images of Olive Garden food tagged with your Facebook friends to spread their scam across the site. Here is how to avoid it. Popular Italian restaurant chain Olive Garden fell victim to yet... [SocialTimes.com]

NBA Legend Facebook Game Surpasses 1 Million Users - Posted April 11, 2011
In just a matter of months, Facebook's first real sports game has hit a milestone. NBA Legend, a free basketball fantasy game in which users can create players and earns skills to make an All-Star player, now has over 1 million users. Fans can create their own avatar, and begin to... [SocialTimes.com]

The New Yorker Asks for 'Likes' to View Content - Posted April 11, 2011
Just how much do you enjoy the writing of Jonathan Franzen? The New Yorker is hoping its enough to "like" its Facebook page, because according to Mashable, that's the only way you can view a n... [FishbowlNY]

Exploring the Semantics of Yahoo Search Direct - Posted April 11, 2011
A couple of weeks ago Yahoo debuted a beta version of its Search Direct technology, which was seen as a competitor to Google Instant in that it shows search options as users begin typing in a query. There were also questions raised among those in the industry about h... [semanticweb.com]

4 Secrets To Hiring A Facebook Developer Who Will Succeed - Posted April 11, 2011
So you have an idea for a promising Facebook game, or an application? One of the most critical business decisions you will have to make is which development partner you should hire. Here is a list of key elements you'll need to take in account during your development partner selection... [SocialTimes.com]

Canadian Student Booted from Conservative Event Because of Facebook Photo With Liberal Leader - Posted April 8, 2011
The election cycle in Canada is in full swing as the Harper government was held in contempt, triggering a 30-day campaign cycle culminating in a national vote.This past week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party made headlines for the wrong reasons. Amid myriad stories of people, particularly students, being... [SocialTimes.com]

Spivack's Bottleno.se Built To Match Scale of Exploding Message Stream - Posted April 8, 2011
The Twitter stream, says Nova Spivack, will be a victim of its own success unless we come up with new ways to filter and make sense of it. So that's what he's doing with his latest venture, Bottleno.se (which you've probab... [AllTwitter]

Why It May Be Unwise to Rely on Your Facebook Friends for ROI - Posted April 8, 2011
I've always been a bit skeptical about the value of social media relationships relative to direct mail and email house lists. Don't get me wrong: I'm a big fan of social media marketing, and I think more companies should d... [SocialTimes.com]

'New Egypt' Activists Back on Facebook to Bring Back Tourists - Posted April 8, 2011
Egyptian activists are once again taking to Facebook -- and this time, the government isn't likely to shut down the Internet . To help ... [PRNewser]

Does Mark Zuckerberg Want to Be a Tunisian Hero? - Posted April 7, 2011
"No. 1 hero in Tunisia" is probably not a status update Mark Zuckerberg ever thought would appear on his Facebook wall. Yet that is exactly what Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) has anointed the CEO and co-founder of Facebook after a visit to Tunisia this month. Is 'No. 1 hero'... [SocialTimes.com]

Obama to Participate in Facebook Live Town-Hall Meeting - Posted April 5, 2011
President Barack Obama will participate in an intimate, cozy town-hall meeting, with a small group of more than 500 million potential attendees -- a special ... [SocialTimes.com]

Buy And Sell Shares In Your Friends and Family in Empire Avenue for Facebook - Posted April 5, 2011
The typical Facebook user is probably not into social media analytics. Talk about social games and now you've got a huge audience. Today, Empire Avenue -- the social influence stock market -- officially launches its Facebo... [SocialTimes.com]

Larry Page Steps Up as Google's New CEO. Will Semantic Search Gain Traction? - Posted April 5, 2011
Yesterday Google co-founder Larry Page took over as CEO of the company: "Eric Schmidt, who was 'adult supervision,' and ... [semanticweb.com]

Facebook for iPhone 3.4 Update: See Your Friends' Check-ins on a Map - Posted April 5, 2011
The Facebook for iPhone version 3.4 update brings a number of significant new features. Facebook for iPhone 3.4 - Added Map View for Places - Added the ability to Check in to Events that you're attending - Added the ability to unfriend from the phone - Improved Ne... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook for 2012: Facebook Gets a Big Role in Obama's Official Campaign Launch - Posted April 4, 2011
In 2008, they shouted "Yes we can!", but in 2012, the crowds may be yelling "accept my friend request" as Barack Obama officially launches his 2012 Presidential campaign with a heavy social media component. With the official launch of Obama's bid for a second term, new and improved social media and networking... [SocialTimes.com]

Four Ways to Use Your Corporate Blog as a PR Tool - Posted April 4, 2011
If PR is seen as the primary reason for launching a corporate blog and social media presence, why are so many people screwing it up? I mean, this is the easy one. The slam dunk. The low-hanging fruit. The fish residing in a barrel that even I could shoot without a... [SocialTimes.com]

Look Who's Talking: Advertisers Can Profit From Insight Into Social Conversations - Posted April 4, 2011
The world of online advertising and online conversations meet in BuzzLogic's media index and analytics platform, an all-in-one space for analyzing, buying and reporting on campaigns. Driving the tracking and extraction of relevant web conversations and the indexing and ranking of URLs to buy ads against is the company's NLP and... [semanticweb.com]

Look Who's Talking: Advertisers Can Profit From Insight Into Social Conversations - Posted April 4, 2011
The world of online advertising and online conversations meet in BuzzLogic's media index and analytics platform, an all-in-one space for analyzing, buying and reporting on campaigns. Driving the tracking and extraction of relevant web conversations and the indexing and ranking of URLs to buy ads against is the company's NLP and... [AllTwitter]

New Facebook Web Site Rolling Out to Optimize Mobile Viewing for Any Phone Browser - Posted April 1, 2011
If you use the Facebook for iOS (iPhone/iPad) app and then use the Facebook for Android app, you'll notice a number of differences that adds up to a very different look and feel. For example, Facebook for Android displays recently shared photos in between the main menu of icons a... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook to Lawmakers and Users: We Have 'Privacy Solutions,' Not Problems - Posted March 30, 2011
We don't have problems, just solutions. That, in a nustshell, is the glass half-full view Facebook is taking to Washington as lawmakers zero in on the company's online privacy practices. The question: Will lawmakers, and Facebook users like you, buy it? "When people say Facebook has privacy problems, I... [SocialTimes.com]

How WJW's Facebook Page Became the Most Popular Station Page in the Country - Posted March 29, 2011
WJW's Facebook page is the most popular station page in the country with over 165,000 fans and counting. So how has the Cleveland Fox-affiliate been able to garner so many Likes? Lost Remote, which has ... [TVSpy]

Warner Bros Offers Five Additional Movies on Facebook - Posted March 29, 2011
Warner Bros. Digital Distribution announced it will expand its test offering of movies for rental through Warner Bros. Entertainment's Facebook Movie Pages. Starting today at 10:00 pm Pacific Time and 1:00 am Eastern Time, users will be able to rent five additional titles directly through each film's official Facebook... [SocialTimes.com]

4 Traits of an Effective (or Obsessed) Community Manager - Posted March 28, 2011
[caption id="attachment_3091" align="alignright" width="358" caption="Photo Credit: Niall Kennedy"][/caption] Last week one of my friends on Twitter, ... [TVSpy]

Gibbs Going to Facebook? - Posted March 28, 2011
The NY Times' Andrew Ross Sorkin hears that Facebook is talking with former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs about a comms position that he would take in prep... [PRNewser]

PostRank Analyzes Sharing of Content from Large Agencies - Posted March 24, 2011
PostRank, an Ontario, Canada-based company that measures and monitors social Web data, has taken a closer look at how much content from large PR firms was shared across Delicious, Twitter, Facebook, comments, and trackbacks during the month of February. Overall, ... [PRNewser]

FindtheBest.com Adds More Find Features - Posted March 24, 2011
A couple of more steps were taken in FindtheBest.com's world of social- and human-curated search today. It's introduced top ten slide shows and decision guides. The former addresses the presentation question around how consumers li... [semanticweb.com]

3 Ways to Determine If Your News Organization Belongs on Facebook - Posted March 23, 2011
It's a hard question for a news organization to answer, especially now, when so may blog posts and news articles breathlessly explain how vital Facebook is to any and all businesses today. Your newspaper or magazine has a Facebook Fan Page. It's going good, bu... [TVSpy]

Semantic Image Search: Next Up For a Major Search Engine? - Posted March 23, 2011
We've seen the big three players in the search engine space honing their semantic edge, and we may soon see one of them deploying semantic technology to sharpen image searches, too. nachofoto says it is in discussions with one of the giants (which it declines to name for now) that could... [semanticweb.com]

Creating Social Apps with Graph API - Posted March 22, 2011
Facebook's developer blog recently shared a useful example of how their Graph API can be used to create a sample app that... [AllTwitter]

Twitter Takes Over Facebook's Former New York Office Space - Posted March 21, 2011
If rumors are true, Twitter will be taking over Facebook's former office space at 340 Madison Avenue, New York City, in the next few weeks. And the move couldn't be any more symbolic if it was planned out by a first-year... [AllTwitter]

Twitter Takes Over Facebook's Former New York Office Space - Posted March 21, 2011
If rumors are true, Twitter will be taking over Facebook's former office space at 340 Madison Avenue, New York City, in the next few weeks. And the move couldn't be any more symbolic if it was planned out by a first-year... [10,000 Words]

Why Newspapers Need Community Managers - Posted March 21, 2011
[caption id="attachment_2949" align="alignright" width="349" caption="Photo credit: Alana Fisher"][/caption] The term "community manager" has been around for a while. ... [10,000 Words]

4 Ways Newspapers Can Better Use Facebook To Engage Readers - Posted March 18, 2011
Over at iMedia Connection, Daniel Flamberg wrote an interesting post called 5 Steps Toward Better Facebook Fan Engagement. For brands, this is a great guide to get started on the right path to better engagement with fans. But his tips are also useful for newspapers and new organizations, so I've decided... [TVSpy]

OutCast's Marooney Joining Facebook - Posted March 18, 2011
Caryn Marooney, co-founder and CEO of The OutCast Agency, is joining Facebook in a newly-created position, director of technology communications... [PRNewser]

Facebook "Likes" More Profitable than Tweets, But Twitter May Overtake Them - Posted March 18, 2011
The value of a tweet is a contentious issue among social media marketers, many of whom still don't understand how Twitter can be used to reach a large, targeted audience. And if you combine this attitude with the fact that Facebook "Likes" are still... [AllTwitter]

Patent, Patent, Digital Reasoning's Got a Text Discovery Patent - Posted March 18, 2011
Are you starting to hear more about patents that relate to the Semantic Web space? There was an interesting discussion by Erik Sherman here on Facebook's patent for automatic search curation as feeding its semantic search ambitions, for instance. Generally speaking, in fact, patents are big in the news, with the passage... [AllTwitter]

StumbleUpon CEO on the Future of Social Networks - Posted March 16, 2011
... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

No One 'Likes' Sharing Tragic News - Posted March 15, 2011
In the days following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, people have been sharing news about the aftermath, recovery efforts, and how they can help as far and wide as the Internet will allow. However, a reader brought up an issue with spreading the word using Facebook tools. "Sentiment can be lost,"... [PRNewser]

Tools Round Up: Thomson Reuters Launches Multimedia Centre, Spigit, and More - Posted March 8, 2011
-Thomson Reuters has launched the Multimedia Centre, a tool that allows users to upload video in real-time, share content via social media, tag it to make content searchable, and provides analytics. The service is available in multiple la... [PRNewser]

Tips For Adding and Keeping Facebook Fans - Posted March 8, 2011
Having a voice and using it to speak to fans like a fan is one way to build your brand's "likes" on Facebook, according to Dave Karraker, director of PR and events for Skyy Spirits... [PRNewser]

7 Digital Trends Worth Your Attention - Posted March 3, 2011
The 2011 social media trends watch continued as Steve Rubel, SVP and director of insights at ... [PRNewser]

Does Facebook's aquisition of Beluga threaten Twitter? - Posted March 2, 2011
Facebook's recent purchase of mobile messaging start-up Beluga may put it in position to legitimately compete with Twitter due to its closed group messaging functionality, going against the grain of the public information access so inherent to Twitter's model. Iron... [AllTwitter]

American Cancer Society Launches Colon Cancer Awareness Program - Posted March 1, 2011
The American Cancer Society has launched Tag2Nag, a campaign to raise colon cancer awareness. March is colon cancer awareness month. This is a Facebook campaign that encourages users to tag images of family and friends ages 50 a... [AgencySpy]

Examiner.com Named as Launch Partner for Facebook Commenting Plug-In - Posted March 1, 2011
Local news network Examiner.com will be a key launch partner for Facebook's new Commenting Plug-In, which incorporates comments from the News Feed on the social network into the co... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Rockville Central to Become a Hyperlocal News Site, Without the Site -- It Will Go Facebook-Only - Posted February 24, 2011
Citing limited resources, competition from Rockville Patch, and the confusion of having "two different conversations going on," hyperlocal news site Rockville Central, which covers Rockville, Md., announced that all of its content will now be housed on its ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Bing Ramps Up Use of Facebook Likes - Posted February 24, 2011
Bing really, really likes Facebook Likes: The Microsoft-owned search engine announced that it extended its Liked Results to include any URLs returned by its algorithmic search results. Lawrence Kim of the Bing Social Team had more on the ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

NBC Wants to Buy Your Chipotle Meal - Posted February 24, 2011
In the mood for Chipotle? Watch a 90-second promo video for NBC's upcoming ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

RDFa is Sweeping the Web - Posted February 23, 2011
A new article by Peter Mika looks at the growing reach of RDFa and microformats on the web. The ar... [AllTwitter]

Gravity, Latest Project From Former MySpace Execs, Ties Users to Their World of Web Interests - Posted February 23, 2011
It's gravity that keeps us tied to earth, and it's Gravity that seeks to tie us to our personal world of interests on the web. With an executive team founded by MySpace's Amit Kapur (CEO), Jim Benedetto (CTO), and Steve Pearman, Chief Product Officer, the premise behind Gravity is the building... [semanticweb.com]

Unfunny | More About Less | Stalking Made Easy - Posted February 22, 2011
TVNewser: Larry King is going on a stand-up comedy tour. We're sad that we just typed that last sentence. AllTwitter: James Franco finally ... [FishbowlLA]

Belly Up to the Bing Bar - Posted February 17, 2011
Google isn't the only search engine extending its reach into social networking: Bing is raising the b... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Google Continues to Tweak Social Search Results - Posted February 17, 2011
Google is testing a way to make social results a more prominent part in its search results, moving content that previously appeared at the bottom of its results page toward the top and adding friends' names, where applicable, ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Tame the Bering Sea with Deadliest Catch: The Social Game on Facebook - Posted February 15, 2011
Discovery Communications teamed up with Hive Media on new Facebook game Deadliest Catch: The Social Game, in which players act as the captains of their own crab boats, navigating the Be... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Beware of Serene Branson Facebook Scam - Posted February 15, 2011
Serene Branson's erratic Grammys report has achieved a unique level of int... [TVSpy]

Dive Into the WFUV Issues Tank - Posted February 15, 2011
Fordham University's WFUV 90.7 FM, a noncommercial radio station in New York, is in the tank -- the ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

'People Familiar' With a Bajillion Exaggerations Bloat Valuations by the Billions - Posted February 10, 2011
A Wall Street Journal story addressing, ironically enough, tech industry hyperbole, starts with the statement that certain people "familiar with the matter" have said Twitter has had low-level acquisition talks with executives at both Facebook and Google. Then it shuts the door on that notion by stating the talks have gone... [AllTwitter]

Twitter is the Least-Liked Social Media Brand? - Posted February 7, 2011
Twitter apparently doesn't make the cut when it comes to brand loyalty. A new study from Brand Keys paints a picture of social media being dominated by, of course, Facebook, but also MySpace and Flickr. And Tw... [AllTwitter]

Egyptian Protester's Sign: 'Thank You, Facebook' - Posted February 4, 2011
NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel Tweeted the photo below of an Egyptian protester holding a sign that said, "Thank you, Facebook." There was no word on whether Engel or any of the other journalists covering the political turmoil in Egypt have discovered anyone expressing their gratitude to Friendster.... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Dating Site Apes 250,000 Facebook Profiles - Posted February 4, 2011
When online dating site lovely-faces.com launched this week with 250,000 profiles, the German creators Paolo Cirio and Alessa... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

What Every Business Owner Needs To Know About Virtual Economies - Posted February 3, 2011
If you're a business owner who does not completely understand how much impact the virtual economy has on your business, this article piece will cover the important concepts every entrepreneur should be aware of. Whether you're new to the business world or you own an established business, comprehending material on the... [SocialTimes.com]

Why Doesn't Twitter Matter to Gawker? - Posted February 2, 2011
The much-blogged-about Gawker redesign is finally upon us, and we here at AllTwitter - like many in the Twitter-sphere and beyond - are scratching our heads about one specific design change: the lack of a Twiter button. There is no way ... [AllTwitter]

Class of 2011 Revealed for TheGrio's 100: History Makers in the Making - Posted February 1, 2011
TheGrio kicked off Black History Month by revealing the 2011 class of TheGrio's 100: History Makers in the Making... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Obama Launches Startup Non-Profit - Posted January 31, 2011
In a bid to encourage U.S. entrepreneurs, the White House launched the Startup America Partnership, a non-profit campaign to encourage the development of new businesses. With backing from Fa... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

PostPost Now Available via Google Chrome Web Store - Posted January 25, 2011
PostPost, an app from TigerLogic that ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Gossip Girl: Social Climbing Game Debuts on Facebook - Posted January 24, 2011
To coincide with the return of Gossip Girl to The CW Monday night,... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Gossip Girl: Social Climbing Game Debuts on Facebook - Posted January 24, 2011
To coincide with the return of Gossip Girl to The CW Monday night,... [UnBeige]

Facebook to make FB Credits Mandatory - Posted January 24, 2011
Facebook confirmed Monday that it will be making it's own virtual currency the mandatory payment method for virtual goods sold on its network. That means any company developing apps f... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

"This Photo Will Self-Destruct In..." X-Pire Puts an End Date on Images - Posted January 24, 2011
At long last, there is a program out there for the many that worry about their image on the Web. Researchers in Germany have developed X-Pire, a program that will kill off your images at a fixed time so that they don't stay online forever. X-Pire will put an expiration date on... [SocialTimes.com]

That Winner Can Download A Lot More Apps - Posted January 24, 2011
Apple announced this weekend i... [PRNewser]

Facebook Gives Roger Ebert's Blog Post Thumbs-Down - Posted January 21, 2011
The good news for legendary film critic Roger Ebert: He now has a new prosthetic jaw to replace his actual jaw, which he lost in 2006 while fighting thyroid cancer. The bad news for Ebert ... [eBookNewser]

But Did He Friend Her? - Posted January 21, 2011
Towering over most of them in platform heels, ubiquitous pop star Katy Perry made a strange and awkward visit to Facebook... [PRNewser]

Ben Mezrich's Book Proposal Already Optioned for Film - Posted January 21, 2011
Author Ben Mezrich's latest project is a nonfiction book entitled Sex on the Moon. According to the LA Times, Sony Pictures ... [GalleyCat]

Semantic Movie, TV "Taste Engine" Jinni Enjoys New Funding, Plans Added Services, and Explains Why It Can Be More Helpful Than Facebook's Like Button - Posted January 21, 2011
2010 ended on a down note for VC funds. Word came this week that 2010 represented the fourth consecutive year of declines and the slowest annual period for venture capital fundraising since 2003, according to Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). T... [AllTwitter]

Discovery Networks iPad App to Maintain Facebook Momentum - Posted January 20, 2011
Discovery Networks executive vice president and general manager of digital media and commerce Kelly Day told ... [eBookNewser]

Discovery Networks iPad App to Maintain Facebook Momentum - Posted January 20, 2011
Discovery Networks executive vice president and general manager of digital media and commerce Kelly Day told ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Security Giant Sophos Criticizes Facebook for Surge in Social Network Attacks - Posted January 19, 2011
According to the latest security report published by Sophos, spam and phishing attacks have substantially increased, on social networking sites, over the past year. Of the 1000 respondents which were polled, around 82 percent named Facebook as the biggest threat to security. This is a 22 percent increase c... [SocialTimes.com]

Live Like a New Yorker in HGTV Facebook Contest - Posted January 19, 2011
HGTV is backing real estate reality series Selling New York with its first social-media contest via its ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Whatever Happened to the Guy Who Wanted to Be USA Today's Social-Media Manager? - Posted January 18, 2011
Remember Josh Chiles, who ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Whatever Happened to the Guy Who Wanted to Be USA Today's Social-Media Manager? - Posted January 18, 2011
Remember Josh Chiles, who ... [eBookNewser]

Facebook Continues to Take Over the Media, One Newspaper at a Time - Posted January 13, 2011
The conspiracy theorists who believe Facebook will eventually control all media saw their fears move one step closer to reality, as Vacaville, Calif.-based newspaper The Reporte... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

'Friend'lier Headlines for Goldman With Facebook Investment? - Posted January 5, 2011
[caption id="attachment_12188" align="alignleft" width="293" caption="Goldman chief exec Lloyd Blankfein"][/caption] Goldman Sachs' $450 million investment in Facebook... [PRNewser]

Bloomberg Television to Answer Facebook: The $50 Billion Question - Posted January 5, 2011
Bloomberg Television will offer its take on the deal between Facebook and Goldman Sachs in live one-hour special Facebook: The $50 Billion Question, which will air Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. Anchor Betty Liu and Bloomberg Television San Francisco bureau correspondents ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Starz Turns Facebook Into a Roman Empire Arena - Posted January 4, 2011
Starz Entertainment will enter the social-media-gaming arena with a Facebook game to help promote the Jan. 21 debut of six-episode original series ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

SEC Looking Into Twitter's Private Stock Trading - Posted December 29, 2010
Rumors are floating around today that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is conducting a probe into the private trading going on in companies like Facebook and Twitter. Twitter isn't traded publicly, and the SEC wants to know more about the private... [AllTwitter]

Top Startup Trends of 2010 - Posted December 28, 2010
... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Facebook Promotion To Play A Part In The 2011 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic Broadcast - Posted December 23, 2010
Social media will play a huge part of the New Year's Day broadcast of the 2011 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic. The NHL and NBC Sports announced today a unique promotional campaign that integrates Facebook into the Washington Capitals-Pittsburgh Penguins broadcast. As part of the... [SportsNewser]

NHL, NBC Sports, Facebook Set NHL Winter Classic Challenge - Posted December 23, 2010
The National Hockey League and NBC Sports will team up with Facebook to give away p... [FishbowlDC]

Ex Googler Tells Gawker, Facebook Has Better Social Skills - Posted December 22, 2010
Former ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg an Upset Winner of TIME 2010 Person of the Year - Posted December 15, 2010
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has more important things to worry about, lik... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Mark Zuckerberg is Time's Person of the Year - Posted December 15, 2010
Mark Zuckerberg's image just keeps getting better and better. (His eyes in this cover image are intense.) Over the past couple of weeks alone, Zuckerberg has added to his philanthropic endeavors by joining the ... [PRNewser]

Yo, Facebook: HMU with the Top 10 Status Trends of the Year - Posted December 14, 2010
Twitter ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Josh Chiles Using Social Media to Try to Become USA Today's Social Media Manager - Posted December 13, 2010
As reported by WebNewser ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Facebook Reveals "Hacker Cup"... And A Clear Misunderstanding Of The Term "Hacker" - Posted December 13, 2010
On December 10, Facebook announced its first Hacker Cup. Engineers world-wide have been atwitter (terrible pun intended) about the opportunity for programming glory - and also the hilarity of the public's fundamental misunderstanding of the meaning of hacking. The programming competition, which will begin on January 7, 2011 with an online qualification... [SocialTimes.com]

History, A&E Network Gear Available via Series' Facebook Pages - Posted December 9, 2010
Facebook users who are fans of History's Pawn Stars and ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

TigerLogic's PostPost: Facebook Shared Content in Newspaper Form - Posted December 7, 2010
TigerLogic released a solution for newspaper fans who want to catch up with their Facebook friends in tabloid style: PostPost, which allows users who log in via Facebook Connect to see all shared links, pictures, videos, and articles by their friends in newspaper format. Users can also comment on shared items and... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

'60 Minutes' Covers Facebook Redesign - Posted December 6, 2010
Mark Zuckerberg made a rather long appearance on 60 Minutes last night to introduce changes to the look of Facebook profile pages and rehash a bunch of stuff y... [PRNewser]

DoubleClick Founder's FindTheBest Comparison App Gets Investment From Social App Fund -- And Sees Open Graph In Its Future - Posted December 6, 2010
Comparison engine FindtheBest, the startup launched by DoubleClick co-founder Kevin O'Connor (see our story here), has found itself the recipient of some VC funding. The Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers sFund is parting with an undisclosed sum out of its ... [semanticweb.com]

Google Considering Startup Incubator to Retain Talent - Posted November 30, 2010
The 12-year-old Google is tired of losing talented employees to younger rivals, and is considering starting an internal startup incubator to keep them in-house, according to a ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

George W. Bush to Discuss Decision Points on Facebook Live - Posted November 29, 2010
Former President George W. Bush will discuss his new book, ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Qatar 2022 World Cup Bid Gets Boost from Facebook - Posted November 29, 2010
Qatar 2022, which is attempting to bring the FIFA World Cup to the Middle East for the first time ever, is getting a big kick from ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend Reading: Spend Some Time With Social Media Insights - Posted November 26, 2010
Come tomorrow, you may be looking for a chance to do some relaxing reading after the Thanksgiving football and food fest and the Black Friday shopping chaos. To that end, The Semantic Web Blog thought it would offer some guidance on a few analyst reports and ... [semanticweb.com]

NBC Sports, 4mm Games, Facebook Become Dog Show Friends - Posted November 24, 2010
NBC Sports and 4mm Games have officially gone to the dogs, announcing the development of ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Embattled San Francisco Chronicle Workers Speak Out on Facebook - Posted November 23, 2010
As the union for the San Francisco Chronicle braces for another round of negotiations with management, workers have ... [FishbowlLA]

Users Can Donate to Top 10 CNN Heroes of 2010 via Facebook - Posted November 23, 2010
CNN is accepting donations for the Top 10 CNN Heroes of 2010, with the help of Facebook, as readers can support the honorees' causes by clicking the Donate Now tab on the ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Facebook Putting the Squeeze on Lamebook - Posted November 23, 2010
Another company that will not stand for your funny ha-ha jokes - Facebook. The social media giant has shut down Lamebook's Facebook page and filed a trademark infringemen... [PRNewser]

MySpace Connected to Facebook via Connect - Posted November 18, 2010
Just a couple weeks after introducing its redesigned site and new entertainment focus, MySpace will now allow its users to log in via ... [PRNewser]

Bloomberg Television Facebook Page to Host Q&A Following Jay-Z Episode of Bloomberg Game Changers - Posted November 18, 2010
Bloomberg Game Changers executive producer Nina Weinstein will host a live Q&A on the Bloomberg Television Facebook page at 10 p.m. Thursday, immediately following the airing o... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

What Every Social Media Marketer Should Know About MarketMeSuite - Posted November 18, 2010
MarketMeSuite is a dashboard to help businesses proactively manage their social media marketing. Twitter compliant, its tools are designed to help brands grow their n... [SocialTimes.com]

The IPO Buzz Around Facebook - Posted November 17, 2010
[caption id="attachment_9360" align="alignright" width="336" caption="Photo: Craig Ruttle/AP"][/caption] When it comes to a Facebook IPO, CEO ... [PRNewser]

The Palin Daughters' Dirty Facebook Posts - Posted November 17, 2010
While one daughter of Sarah Palin was dancing with the (actual) stars, the other was reportedly ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Facebook or Gmail? Analysts are Watching - Posted November 16, 2010
Facebook's new messaging system doesn't seem to scare Google CEO Eric Schmidt. While some woul... [PRNewser]

Facebook Cleaning Out New York Companies - Posted November 16, 2010
Facebook's plan to scour New York startups for fresh talent seems to be paying off. Turns out the social network's ... [FishbowlNY]

Facebook Launches New Messaging System - Posted November 15, 2010
Today, Facebook hosted the invite-only press event we talked about last week. And, as suspected, the company ... [PRNewser]

Foursquare, Focusing on Growth, Exceeds Four Million Users - Posted November 15, 2010
Foursquare chief executive Dennis Crowley told Bloomberg News that its use... [PRNewser]

Facebook's Secret Weapon: the "Gmail Killer" - Posted November 12, 2010
By the postal look of the press invites Facebook sent on Thursday, those rumors of a fully featured webmail product for the social network might be true. Titan, more affectionately known within the Facebook team as the "Gmail killer," could fix the out-of-date messaging platform to include a personal ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Shop with Bad Girls Club Miami, Courtesy of Oxygen Media, StyleQ, Facebook - Posted November 12, 2010
Want to wear what the bad girls are wearing in Tuesday's Bad Girls Club Miami reunion special on ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Job Outlook: Semantic Web Skills and Social Media Savvy Help Seekers - Posted November 12, 2010
Photo courtesy: Flickr/deanmeyersnet The jobs market continues to paint a confusing picture. Last week, news came that the private sector added close to 160,000 jobs in October, bringing the total number of new jobs i... [semanticweb.com]

Our Invite to the Facebook Event Must Be On Its Way - Posted November 11, 2010
Mashable has received an invitation to a Facebook press event scheduled for Monday at 10am in San Francisco. The site suspects that Facebook will be... [PRNewser]

Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on BBC World News America: I Am Popular, Facebook Says So - Posted November 10, 2010
Pervez Musharraf, former president and military ruler of Pakistan, brought up Facebook during an interview with BBC World News America anchor Matt Frei on his plans to run for office again. The exchange between the two men, after Frei suggests that Musharraf might not be popular: Musharraf: I think that is very w... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Make Green Count Is Red-Hot for NBC Universal - Posted November 8, 2010
NBC Universal reached its initial goal with its first-ever "green" Facebook application so quickly that it set a new goal of 10 times the old goal. Make Gree... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Facebook's PR Head Stepping Down - Posted November 8, 2010
Brandee Barker, Facebook's director of corporate communications, is stepping down from her post effective December 10. She was with the company for four years. In a portion of Facebook... [PRNewser]

Queen Elizabeth II Wants to Be Friends on Facebook - Posted November 8, 2010
Her Royal Highness is ready to be ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

The White House to Answer Employment Questions via Monster.com Facebook Page - Posted November 8, 2010
The White House teamed up with Monster.com on an initiative that, unfortunately, will not offer new jobs to the unemployed, but that will have the most popular questions submitted via the employment site's Facebook... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

What a Difference a Year Makes: Foursquare Hires PR Firm; Grows Up? - Posted November 5, 2010
Last October, Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley ... [PRNewser]

Location-Based Service Users 'Fit Profile of Early Adopter' - Posted November 4, 2010
Pew Research Center found that use of location-based services like Foursquare remains low, with users fitting "the profile of any early adopt... [PRNewser]

PRNewser Poll: Will You Use Foursquare or Facebook? - Posted November 4, 2010
Last week, in anticipation of Halloween, we asked whether Halloween was an important holiday for the PR industry. More than two-thirds of respondents said "Somewhat," despite the fact that the holiday is a $6 billion business. Those respondents agreed with the statement ... [PRNewser]

Social Election Night for msnbc.com - Posted November 2, 2010
msnbc.com plans to embed itself into social-media users' tracking of Tuesday's midterm election results, announcing that its live stream of NBC News' coverage from 9 ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Amazon Introduces Facebook Gift Cards - Posted November 2, 2010
Amazon is getting ready for the holiday season with a new tool that lets shoppers send gift cards to friends via Facebook. It seems like a great way to share the gift of eBooks. Amazon customers can now connec... [eBookNewser]

Bing Deployment of Facebook Integration to Wrap Up Tuesday - Posted November 2, 2010
Bing announced that it is wrapping up the deployment of its integration with Facebook Tuesday, so users of the social-networking site who have chosen to share information with their friends will show up in ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Facebook Buys, Kills Drop.io - Posted November 1, 2010
Facebook has purchased most of Brooklyn-based startup Drop.io in what appears to be a move to hire its CEO Sam Lessin. Drop.io, a service that let users quickly and privately share ... [FishbowlNY]

Cliff Lee Is Most Mentioned World Series Player on Facebook Through Two Games - Posted October 30, 2010
San Francisco Giants fans may have bought into the "Fear the Beard" frenzy, donning jet-black goatees for Halloween in honor of closer Brian Wilson, but the beard hype was only good enough to ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Facebook, Dell, CBS Boost Alliance to Save Energy - Posted October 29, 2010
The Alliance to Save Energy is tapping into the media and technology sectors, announcing initiatives with Facebook, Dell, and CBS to push its energy-efficiency... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Why Anne Rice Quit Christianity - Posted October 26, 2010
Horror novelist Anne Rice made a summer news splash with her Facebook announcement: "I quit." She left Catholicism, a religion she re-entered during her middle age years. Her resignation drew more than 2,000 comment... [GalleyCat]

Facebook, Amazon Back $250M Social Startup Fund - Posted October 25, 2010
In a bid to boost social media technology, Facebook and Amazon.com, along with other notable social media companies, have lined up behind notable Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Pe... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Can $300 Buy You a Month Off Facebook? - Posted October 18, 2010
Here's a way to keep your teen off Facebook: bribery. Melynda Rushing, a mother of six in North Carolina, paid her daughter Alyssa $300 not t... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Facebook Vs. Twitter: Decide for Yourself - Posted October 14, 2010
At this point there are a bajillion articles that discuss some aspect of the "Facebook versus Twitter" question: ... [PRNewser]

How much is that tweet worth? - Posted October 14, 2010
How much is that tweet worth? Well, to ticket-selling startup Eventbrite, it's worth about 43 cents. Pretty valuable, according to the results of a study released online Thursday. And a shared item on Facebo... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

'Facebook Effect' Author Discusses Movie and Company's Prospects - Posted October 14, 2010
[caption id="attachment_6482" align="alignleft" width="272" caption="Left to right: David Kirkpatrick and Adweek's Brian Morrissey Photo: Nancy Lazarus"][/caption] David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect: The Inside S... [PRNewser]

Changing the future of e-business - Malta Business Weekly - Posted October 14, 2010
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Facebook Users Flock to Chilean Mine Rescue - Posted October 13, 2010
An interesting tidbit and graphic from Facebook manager of public-policy communications Andrew Noyes: At 11:12 p.m. ET Tuesday, when the first rescued miner emerged from the northern Atacama desert in Chile, the social-networking site experienced a peak of related stories, with user-generated stories reaching 478 per minute in Chile and 1,265... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Tips for Handling the Unavoidable Facebook Crisis - Posted October 13, 2010
Part of the reason why CEOs refrain from jumping on social media sites like Facebook is because the Whatifs have crawled inside their ears. To quote the great poet ... [PRNewser]

Facebook to Live-Stream ABC News' Midterm-Elections Coverage - Posted October 11, 2010
ABC News will live-stream its election-night coverage Nov. 2 on Facebook starting at 8 p.m. ET, including some reporting from the social network's headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., reports ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Tech, Media Dominate Landor Associates' 2010 Breakaway Brands Study - Posted October 11, 2010
Clif Bar and Kraft Foods have something else in common besides edible products: They were the only two companies to crack the top-10 list in the 2010 Breakaway Brands Study from strategic brand consulting and design firm ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

It's Bloomberg's Turn to Poke Mark Zuckerberg - Posted October 11, 2010
For fans of Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg who already saw The Social Networ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

CNBC Likes Facebook Enough to Produce a Documentary About It - Posted October 9, 2010
Here's a programming announcement that CNBC really wants you to know about. The network is producing a documentary on Facebook, but it won't hit the air for another three months. It could be that CNBC is taking advantage of last week's release of "The Social Network," (#1 at ... [TVNewser]

OutCast Communications Rebrands as The OutCast Agency - Posted October 8, 2010
OutCast Communications has rebranded as The OutCast Agency... [PRNewser]

Vanilla Ice, DIY Network: Go Ice Yourself - Posted October 8, 2010
If you've got a home-improvement problem, yo, Vanilla Ice will solve it. ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Useless Information Sours Facebook Friendships - Posted October 7, 2010
A University of Denver study has found that the biggest reason behind Facebook unfriending is a very ... [PRNewser]

Attensity Expands Its Social Media Monitoring Solution - EContent (press release) - Posted October 7, 2010
... [semanticweb.com]

Facebook Groups No Longer the Place for Brands - Posted October 7, 2010
Our colleague at AllFacebook.com sums up the developments from yesterday's live Facebook event, where Mark Zuckerberg and company announced changes to the groups product. "The main purpose of groups is to help ... [PRNewser]

CNBC to Debut Documentary The Facebook Obsession Jan. 6 - Posted October 6, 2010
Perhaps hoping to capitalize on the popularity of Facebook-related feature films The Social Network and Catfish, as well as the social network'... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

FX Accepts Friend Requests for The Social Network, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - Posted October 5, 2010
The Social Network will make its broadcast-television premiere on ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Hey Bart, Move Over: More Zuckerberg PR - Posted October 5, 2010
Facebook's face has graced The Simpsons. That's right, Mark Zuckerberg turned up on the show "and Zuckerberg comes across a... [PRNewser]

Will Amazon Expand Social Shopping To Include eBooks? - Posted October 1, 2010
Amazon has been taking advantage of the new social commerce tools on Facebook. In other words, letting people connect their Amazon and Facebook accounts to help share... [eBookNewser]

Facebook's Sandberg Talks Privacy, 'The Social Network,' and More During Ad Week - Posted September 30, 2010
[caption id="attachment_5408" align="alignleft" width="259" caption="Photo: Nancy Lazarus"][/caption] The growing role of social media versus websites, openness versus privacy, community giving, and the new movie The Social Network were among the topics covered when ... [PRNewser]

comScore: Twitter Bypasses MySpace in Monthly Unique Visitors - Posted September 28, 2010
The inevitable finally happened, according to data from comScore, Twitter bypassed MySpace to become the world's No. 3 social-networking-type online service, ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

TV Guide, Facebook Getting Ready to Check In - Posted September 27, 2010
TV Guide will check in to the TV-show check-in game in October, when it will launch a feature using Facebook technology to allow users to click a button and post what shows they're watching or plan to watch on social networks, ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Newark Schools Actually Benefiting from Zuckerberg Donation - Posted September 27, 2010
Ever since news hit that Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg would be donating $100 million to the Newark school system, the chatter about how Zuckerberg's image would benefit has be... [PRNewser]

Digital PR Professionals, Know These Four Skills - Posted September 24, 2010
Public relations, like the rest of the media world, is constantly shifting as the digital world provides more outlets for communication, but makes it tougher to break through the clutter and grab someone's attention. In this ever-changing world, what skills do you need most of all? NextFifteen CEO Tim Dyson gave his... [MediaJobsDaily]

Facebook Explains Two-and-a-Half-Hour Outage - Posted September 23, 2010
This must be the week of the mea culpa for social networks. Just two days after Twitter was victi... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Zuckerberg's $100 Million Donation: Goodwill, PR, Oprah? - Posted September 23, 2010
If you like Mark Zuckerberg, tomorrow should be a great day to watch Oprah. He's reportedly going to formally announce a $100 million donation to the Newark public school system on the show.... [PRNewser]

Mashable Social Good Summit: Social Media's Growing Role - Posted September 21, 2010
Leveraging social media to help solve some of the world's toughest problems was the theme of Mashable's Social Good Summit in New York on Monday. The conference was held in par... [PRNewser]

CBS News' Political Hotsheet Boosts Social-Media Efforts - Posted September 21, 2010
CBS News is ramping up social-media efforts for its Political Hotsheet blog, relaunch... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Virtual Goods Summit West features Facebook, Microsoft, and Zynga, October 12 ... - MarketWatch (press release) - Posted September 21, 2010
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Have Semantic Technologies Crossed the Chasm Yet? - Posted September 17, 2010
  This article kicks off a series of interviews on Semantic Technologies in the MIT Entrepreneurship Review with industry thought leaders including Thomas Tague (Thomson Reuters), Chris Messina (Google), David Recordon (Facebook), Will Hunsinger (Evri) and Jamie Taylor (Metaweb). At first sight, the answer is yes. I recently attended the Semantic Technology Conference... [semanticweb.com]

Frequent Twitter Users More Likely to Buy - Posted September 16, 2010
A new report from ExactTarget titled "Subscribers, Fans, and Followers" found that daily Twitter users who follow a brand are more than twice as likely to purchase than Facebook users who "like" that brand. A third of Twitter followers also said they were more likely to make a recommendation... [PRNewser]

Primal Launches Automated Publishing and Community Engagement Solution at DEMO Fall 2010 (Press Release) - Posted September 14, 2010
New Primal Pages for Publishers leverages advanced semantic technology to make Web publishing and community engagement easier than ever DEMO Fall 2010 - SANTA CLARA, CA, September 14, 2010 — Live today from the 2010 DEMO Fall Conference, Primal, a pioneer of Internet automation technology, officially launched an exciting new product.  Primal... [semanticweb.com]

The semantic web and the move towards an interconnected world - Posted September 14, 2010
Media Update The semantic web is a relatively new concept, initially proposed some ten-plus years ago as a component of Web 3.0, and is creating quite a bit of buzz in ... ... [semanticweb.com]

Dilbert Pokes Fun at Corporate Social-Media Strategies - Posted September 13, 2010
Monday's installment of United Feature Syndicate's Dilbert strip, by Scott Adams, pokes fun at the adoption (or lack thereof) of social media in the corporate environment. ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Social Media App Helps Users Find Best Content - Bluhalo (blog) - Posted September 8, 2010
... [semanticweb.com]

Elevator Pitch: VisualBee plugs life into PowerPoint - The Guardian - Posted September 3, 2010
The Gua... [semanticweb.com]

'FarmVille Meets Fantasy Sports:' CBS Takes Fantasy Football to Facebook - Posted August 30, 2010
CBSSports.com has long had its own fantasy football league, but now the company is expanding its fantasy presence to a new platform: Facebook. The network is launching "Franchise Football," a new variation of fantasy football, which will be available exclusively on the social networking site. Calling it "... [SportsNewser]

Facebook Questions & Ask.com: Cashing in on Mass Ignorance - InfoToday.com - Posted August 9, 2010
... [semanticweb.com]

Facebook and Google Build Semantic Web - Big Think - Posted August 3, 2010
  ... [semanticweb.com]

Study: Half of us Care About Social Network and Geolocation Privacy - But What are we Doing About it? - Posted July 16, 2010
Two separate studies were conducted this week that suggest that social network and geolocation users are torn right down the middle when it comes to issues of privacy. Both studies showed that for about half of the respondents, privacy is their number one concern. However, this has yet to translate... [SocialTimes.com]

SemTech 2010 Hosts Web Day 3.0 at the Annual Semantic Technology Conference, Thursday, June 24th - Limited Seating Still Available - Posted June 23, 2010
David Recordon, Senior Open Programs Manager of Facebook and best-selling Author, David Siegel will keynote the conference. San Francisco, CA (June 24, 2010) -- SemTech 2010 is currently taking place at the San Francisco Hilton in Union Square. Web Day 3.0 will be held Thursday, June 24, and will include a number... [semanticweb.com]

The Power of Social Media Data in Business - Posted June 22, 2010
With just about every major brand and celebrity on Facebook and Twitter, the line between social media and popular culture is becoming harder to distinguish by the day. What is evident is the incredible power social media has in uncovering popular sentiment and the way information is being shared and disseminated.... [semanticweb.com]

Can Web 3.0 save the publishing industry? - VatorNews - Posted June 2, 2010
VatorNews... [semanticweb.com]

RDFa Momentum: Open Graph Protocol (OGP) In Drupal 7 - Posted May 31, 2010
We love seeing momentum for RDFa. Yahoo started things by supporting RDFa in Search Monkey, Google gave it a big push in Rich Snippets and then Facebook adopted RDFa in their Open Graph Protocol. That is 3 very good reasons for ... [semanticweb.com]

Entries tagged with open graph from O'Reilly Radar - O'Reilly Radar (blog) - Posted May 26, 2010
A few weeks ago, Facebook announced an Open Graph initiative -- a move considered to be a turning point not just for the social networking giant, but for the web at large. The company's new vision is no longer to just connect people. Facebook now wants to connect people around and... [semanticweb.com]

The Like Revolution - The Next Web - Posted May 11, 2010
... [semanticweb.com]

Why They Can't See It - The Pew Survey - Posted May 5, 2010
Today the Pew Center released a survey regarding the future of the Semantic Web. More than half of those responded didn’t think that the vision associated with the Semantic Web would be realized – that’s a startling conclusion, really. It’s even more remarkable given the fact that those who responded negatively... [semanticweb.com]

Facebook's Like button ages Google overnight - Bizcommunity.com - Posted May 4, 2010
... [semanticweb.com]

The new face of Facebook - it's everywhere - Montreal Gazette - Posted April 29, 2010
... [semanticweb.com]

The RDFa initiative in Drupal 7, and how it will impact the Semantic Web - Posted April 28, 2010
Date: April 30, 2010, 11:00AM (1 hour)Register: View the Recorded WebcastQ&A: Q&A Session for "The RDFa initiative in Drupal 7, and how it will impact the Semantic Web"Attachment: ... [semanticweb.com]

Shocker: Facebook Does What's Best For Facebook - Mashable (blog) - Posted April 26, 2010
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Facebook's new features raise privacy concerns - San Francisco Chronicle - Posted April 25, 2010
... [semanticweb.com]

How Facebook has revolutionized the web - innocreatives - Posted April 25, 2010
... [semanticweb.com]

Facebook's Graph API: The Future Of Semantic Web? - InfoQ.com - Posted April 24, 2010
... [semanticweb.com]

Facebook Open Graph: The Definitive Guide For Publishers, Users and Competitors - ReadWriteWeb (blog) - Posted April 23, 2010
... [semanticweb.com]

Amazon Earnings: The Big Loss You Won't See There - BNET - Posted April 23, 2010
  ... [semanticweb.com]

A Giant Whooshing Sound - Posted April 21, 2010
Did you hear that sound this week? The giant whooshing sound? There was a great disturbance in the Force, as if thousands of Semantic Web academics, implementors and enthusiasts sighed in unison and their critics were silenced. I believe something wonderful has happened. With apologies to Mr. Lucas, I don't think that... [semanticweb.com]

Facebook Seeks To Build The Semantic Search Engine - Posted April 21, 2010
Facebook Seeks To Build The Semantic Search Engine If HTML is the way developers get information into Google’s search engine, meta data is the way developers will get data into Facebook’s semantic search engine which will be based on the company’s “Open Graph”. Through the use of easy to implement plugins,... [semanticweb.com]

Twitter Embraces Semantic Web With Annotations, Now What About Facebook? - Posted April 20, 2010
The blogosphere/twittersphere is buzzing about Twitter's announcement about "annotations". In simple terms, this allows you to embed metadata about the tweet (the metadata is not part of the 140 character limit). That is like candy (or ma... [semanticweb.com]

Extreme Makeover: Online Profile Tips at SXSW - Posted March 18, 2010
Web 2.0 consultant Leora Israel photographs Nick McGlynn during their SXSW panel. One of the major themes at SXSW was how do you effectively manage your privacy while simultaneously managing a stellar online profile? Beyond the big think talks on the subject (Doug Rushkoff and danah boyd... [FishbowlNY]

Could Google Become the Semantic Web? - Posted February 21, 2010
"Describing the Semantic Web as a “Web of data” is not too helpful for most people, I have learned."  There’s a lot of talk about it, but for most Web users, the idea described in 1981 by Tim Berners-Lee means little. A number of experts and forward thinking companies do care though,... [semanticweb.com]

Privacy, Facebook and the Future of the Internet - ReadWriteWeb (blog) - Posted January 28, 2010
... [semanticweb.com]

Privacy Concerns Had No Effect On Facebook's Brand Popularity in 2009 - Posted January 12, 2010
Facebook has faced heat numerous times in the past over privacy concerns - from it's Beacon advertising program in 2008, to changes in personal privacy settings in December 2009. However, ... [PRNewser]

Facebook PR Head Looking for Best Tech PR Agencies, But Not for Facebook - Posted November 30, 2009
Brandee Barker, Facebook's Director of Communications is looking for the best tech/internet PR agencies. The search is not for Facebook, she says. Her second Tweet, "Facebook loves Outcast," refers to the social network's agency Outcast Communications. Barker is looking for a friend, she told PRNe... [PRNewser]

Interview: Andrew Noyes, Manager of Public Policy Communications, Facebook - Posted October 27, 2009
Facebook announced yesterday the expansion of their Washington D.C. public policy team with the hire of former CongressDaily reporter Andrew Noyes as ... [PRNewser]

MySpace "In Freefall" as Marketshare Drops More Than 35% in Last Year - Posted October 14, 2009
Internet monitoring company Hitwise released new data on the top social networks last week. As suspected, Facebook and Twitter experienced growth. In Facebook's case, the network grew 190% over last year and now claims 58.6% market share in terms of total visitors to social n... [PRNewser]

Which Brands Are Doing the Best on Facebook? - Posted October 12, 2009
As the Facebook platform continues to grow by leaps and bounds, it's not surprising that more and more people are receiving invites to become "Fans" of brands from Coca-Cola to your local pharmacy. If anything, these requests have increased ... [PRNewser]

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg: "People Want to Interact With Marketers the Same Way They Interact With Friends and Family" - Posted September 22, 2009
At the Times Center in New York this morning, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg delivered a keynote Advertising Week presentation to a packed house, titled, "Facebook: Knowing Is Better." The big news of the day was Facebook's ... [PRNewser]

Facebook Says: Please Don't Update Your Facebook Status From Our Advertising Week Party - Posted September 18, 2009
Next week is Advertising Week in New York, and PRNewser will be covering various events over the course of the week, along with our sister blog AgencySpy. In an email to media highlighting the week's events, it was noted, "For all press attending the Facebook's GeneratioNext Wrap Party, please note that... [PRNewser]

Google Adds Semantic Web, Facebook Support for Video Search - ReadWriteWeb - Posted September 14, 2009
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Twitter Outage: What Happened - Posted August 7, 2009
Okay, the Twitter outage yesterday wasn't the end of the world. But it did put a crimp in our usual routine and made gathering breaking news and information that much more challenging for a good part of the day. Yesterday, Twitter said its technical difficulties were ... [FishbowlNY]

Jason & Matt Talk About Twitter's Downtime, Ben Stein and G.I. Joe On The Menu - Posted August 7, 2009
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Semantic Search Engine Gets Help from Facebook Friends - ReadWriteWeb - Posted June 23, 2009
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Connect Your Thoughts To The Mindex With Imindi (Private Beta Invites) - TechCrunch - Posted May 25, 2009
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WSJ Implements New Conduct Rules For Twitter - Posted May 14, 2009
So it turns out that Twitter can be very helpful to journalists, whether they're promoting their own work, seeking sources or just looking for what everyone is talking about. In fact, it's the perfect way to find out what everyone's talking about. But it's no surprise that media companies like News Corp.... [FishbowlNY]

San Francisco, We've Got You Covered - Posted May 11, 2009
Our Fishbowl blogs have New York, DC and LA covered, but until now we have neglected that important city by the bay. But, never fear San Francisco, BayNewser... [FishbowlNY]

sBooks: Beingmeta Reinvents the Software of the Book - PR Web (press release) - Posted May 7, 2009
sBooks: Beingmeta Reinvents... [semanticweb.com]

Social Network For Human Resource - Posted April 20, 2009
The Society for Human Resource Management is launching a new social networking platform&#151as if LinkedIn weren't enough for you guys&#151and Laurie Ruettimann over at ... [MediaJobsDaily]

Battle of the Twitter Titans? Microsoft and Google Both Express Interest - Posted April 10, 2009
Regardless of the fact Twitter makes no money, and thus far no one has figured out a way to make money from the microblogging service that has saturated the media landscape in the past few months, everyone wants a piece (including ... [FishbowlNY]

Ways To Stop The Social Media Firings - Posted April 8, 2009
In this economy everyone is facing the real possibility of unemployment, but losing your job because of infractions on social media sites? Recruiter Joel Cheesman says this has got to st... [MediaJobsDaily]

Former CFO Of Netscape Joins Facebook To Make Money - Posted April 1, 2009
For the last year, aside from the reports on Facebook's tremendous growth in users and traffic, the number one news item that has accompanied every article about the company is their lack of gen... [MediaJobsDaily]

Former AOL CEO Finds New Job With News Corp. - Posted March 30, 2009
The former head of AOL, Jon Miller, is joining News Corp in the new role of CEO, Digital Media ... [MediaJobsDaily]

Automatically Structuring Unstructured Corporate Websites for Producing a Company Search Engine - Posted January 21, 2009
Executive Summary We have used a sophisticated array of AI/Machine Learning systems in combination with statistical methods, background knowledge and expert defined rules engines, to create, entirely automatically, a structured database with high quality information. The example we have produced contains structured company records and fields for over 2 million IT and... [semanticweb.com]

Actualizing Future Web Knowledge Distribution - Posted January 20, 2009
— DENNIS THOMAS, SANJEEV MISHRAExecutive Summary The future web is expected to evolve into a situation aware web that surfaces the hidden knowledge of enterprises and individuals and enables greatly more powerful paradigms. Actualizing these requirements demands a semantic technology that is magnitudes greater in efficiency and performance than conventional layered techn... [semanticweb.com]

Social Tagging and the Enterprise: Does Tagging Work at Work? - Posted January 13, 2009
Executive Summary As social tagging grows increasingly popular on the Web, organizations are curious to see how this trendy Web 2.0 approach can benefit the business world. Social tagging allows users to employ their own language to organize and retrieve content, and encourages social collaboration between peers by making those tags visible... [semanticweb.com]

Michael Wolff on MySpace and Why Rupert Murdoch Loves 'Cretins' - Posted December 2, 2008
So Michael Wolff's long-awaited bio of Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns The News, hit shelves yesterday. Portf... [FishbowlNY]

The New York Times Wants to be Your Friend! - Posted November 26, 2008
Back when the New York Times launched their social networking site TimesPeople we agreed to... [FishbowlNY]

Wired: Blogs Are Dead - Posted October 22, 2008
Wired Magazine, which usually cheerleads everything, has declared blogging dead: Further, text-based Web sites aren't where the buzz is anymore. The reason blogs took off is that they made publishing easy for non-techies. Part of that simplicity was a lack ... [FishbowlLA]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted September 19, 2008
What Would Allah Blog? Jeffrey Fleishman has a terrifically interesting piece about religious and secular Muslims duking it out on ... [FishbowlLA]

2ergo Builds 'Swift' Mobile Facebook Profiles - Posted August 5, 2008
Mobile marketing products company 2ergo Americas has come out with a Facebook plug-in for its Swift mobile Web site publis... [ThinkMobile - SocialTimes.com]

Social Advertising Faces Big Privacy Debate - Posted June 23, 2008
Today at the OMMA Social in New York City, Seth Goldstein, founder of social media advertising network SocialMedia, announced a new service for advertisers called "Friendship Ranks." The new service combines data related to peoples' interactions on Facebook applications to generate more effectively targeted ads. Seth also formally announced... [SocialTimes.com]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted March 10, 2008
Al Martinez Discovers Liars... but somehow still hasn't found a point. Go Ahead, Make My Clip: Paramount... [FishbowlLA]

Social Networking Gets Its Own Beat--Cathy Taylor at MediaPost - Posted February 21, 2008
MediaPost has hired journo columnist and blogger (adverganza.com) Cathy Taylor to track social networking web sites, in its feature, Social Media Insider. We thought this was kinda interesting, considering MediaPost generally de... [FishbowlLA]

Enterprise 3.0: Semweb Commercialization Options - Posted January 16, 2008
Back when I was an industry analyst (VP, E-Business Strategies at the META Group, since acquired by Gartner), I often had to critique emerging markets.  Unlike venture capitalists, industry analysts are privy to product roadmaps from publicly-traded companies, including the industry giants (Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, IBM).  And unlike i-bankers, they are... [semanticweb.com]

Building Effective Relationships in Software - Posted January 15, 2008
One of the many factors that led to the success of the Web was in how it defined links in a very simple manner, which encouraged cross-referencing. In the last two installments of this column, I've discussed the importance of the identifiers of the Web: URIs. The Web's native... [semanticweb.com]

Social Graphology | Online Communities and the Small Business - Posted December 4, 2007
In a recent blog post, Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, wrote about a new paradigm. In the early days of the internet it was the computers and the wires that were important; more recently it was the documents that were the important things, the centres of focus... [semanticweb.com]

Red The Book: Read The Future Of Writing - Posted November 28, 2007
Amy Goldwasser and her troupe of 58 teen authors are in L.A. to celebrate the release of Red: The Next Generation of American Writers -- Teenage Girls -- on What Fires Up Their Lives Today. The book's site, redthebook.com, functions a bit like Facebook with a complete social network ... [FishbowlLA]

Web 3.0 - Posted November 20, 2007
I'm weighing in in favor of Web 3.0 as an alias for the Semantic Web. I know there are a lot of people who will roll their eyes and initiate some anti hype exorcism, but let's have a sober look at the pluses and minuses here. Web 3.0 is not without its... [semanticweb.com]

Evolution of Web Business - Posted November 12, 2007
The World Wide Web evolves; so do businesses on the World Wide Web. But what are the relationships between Web evolution and Web business evolution? And what are the general issues about Web business evolution?  This article addresses these questions. The vision of Web evolution is important not only for technology researchers... [semanticweb.com]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted October 25, 2007
Fighting Fire With Fire: Police shoot and kill an arson suspect near Cal State San Bernardino. Another suspect was arrested. ... [FishbowlLA]

The Semantic Web as a Large, Searchable Catalogue: A Librarian s Perspective - Posted October 1, 2007
— DEAN GIUSTINI, ALLAN CHOSome information observers have suggested that Web 2.0's rise has been due to software applications, while it is becoming increasingly obvious to futurists that the Semantic Web will be defined by services. How those services will be developed and leveraged to bring order to the Web is central... [semanticweb.com]

Web 2.0 Publishing Roundup - Posted July 11, 2007
Booktour.com, whose existence we first announced on GalleyCat during BEA, has now gone live. As first reported here yesterday morning, Shelfari and Facebook have teamed up to launch the S... [GalleyCat]

Pearson Boss Falls Four in UK Media List - Posted July 9, 2007
By way of the Bookseller, the Guardian reports that Pearson boss Marjorie Scardino has fallen four places in the Guardian's "Media 100", the newspaper's power-list of the media world's movers and shakers. She is the only book publisher in the list, Reed's Crispin Davis... [GalleyCat]