Friday afternoon AllFacebook broke the news that Facebook is testing a new feature that brings up liked external links in search results. Previously, search results brought up Facebook hosted links such as profiles, pages, and apps. Now, pages outside Facebook.com that are liked by a user or anyone in the user’s social circle are beginning Read more »
Run to Target Sunday and update your Facebook status to “rich beyond my wildest dreams.” Target will start selling Facebook credit cards in denominations of $15, $25, and $50 to spend on Facebook goods and games. Eric Savitz at Barron’s observed… “the perfect gift for the person who has everything in the real world, but still needs Read more »
A young woman allegedly committed a big no-no on Facebook, a blunder that got her kicked off a jury in a suburban Detroit trial. So what was her mistake? Apparently, it’s the same screw up that gets everyone in trouble on social media: posting false information and/or too much information. In this case, the juror, Read more »
When Mike Wise asked himself how reporters could possibly run stories without checking facts, he decided to try out a little experiment. Wise, who is a reporter for the Washington Post, decided to post something on his Twitter feed to see if other reported would write about it without checking the facts. Needless to say, Read more »
Google has been busy shopping lately, buying firms and start-ups that are players in the social networking niche left and right. It’s latest acquisition brings more light to the nature of its upcoming social networking site Google Me. According to paidContent.org, Google’s acquisition of mobile game startup SocialDeck, is aimed at shaping up GoogleMe to Read more »
Jimmy Fallon asked his Twitter followers to tweet introductions for the 20 presenters at the Emmy Awards. The bit may have been too cool for the room as the tweets were mostly met with less than raucous laughter. Some of the presenters were: Glee’s Matthew Morrison, 30 Rock’s Tina Fey, Mad Men’s Jon Hamm and Read more »
Ultimately, the goal of any brand engaging in social networking boils down to the same goal of traditional business practice: generate, and maintain, word of mouth exposure. In fact, the entirety of social networking, when it comes to people interacting with a company or sharing news about a company with their friends, is word of Read more »
If you’re an old school Internet user, chances are you recall the good old days of chat rooms – whether they were AOL chats or, even better, IRC, there was a time when chatting was the social networking of its day. Read more »
In a Tumblr and Twitter dominated world, microblogging service Soup.io has mostly flown under the radar of social media obsession. But the site can be truly useful and certainly worth a little exploration. I’d discuss in detail the list of features Soup.io offers, but it would sound an awful lot like a post about Tumblr. Read more »
If you’re marketing on Twitter, chances are you’re looking to connect with like-minded individuals to network – both on a professional-to-professional level, and on a potential customer level. The easiest way to do this is to search for hashtags related to your industry or brand, and follow the people who are using those hashtags. The Read more »
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