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Announcing Mediabistro’s Social Curation Summit on July 31 in NYC

Devon Glenn — Fri, 25 May 2012 13:57:42 +0000

The Internet is starting to look like that drawer full of family photos that we’ve been meaning to put into an album for years. That’s why we’re excited to announce the launch of our new conference, Social Curation Summit! Join us in New York City on July 31 for the first ever full-day conference exploring the business of social content curation and visual communities like Pinterest and Tumblr. We’re offering a special early bird rate of only $199 when you register by Thursday, June 7.
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How People Spend Their Time Online [Infographic]

Neil Vidyarthi — Fri, 25 May 2012 10:57:57 +0000

How do people actually spend their time online around the world? Did you know Brazilians have the highest online friends, and Japanese have the least? How many views does YouTube get per day (hint, it’s in the billions). Who gets the most unique visitors per month other than Facebook or Google? Is it Twitter? Wikipedia? Take a look at this new infographic by Go-Gulf and find out.

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Watch: Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne Talks Twitter

Devon Glenn — Fri, 25 May 2012 09:00:38 +0000

The Flaming Lips are known for pushing the boundaries of time and space with their music. Lead singer Wayne Coyne stopped in New York on his way to a 24-hour bus tour from Memphis to New Orleans for MTV’s O Music Awards, the band’s most epic performance since the 24-hour song it released in October 2011. “I can talk all day,” the singer announced upon arrival. But he has no trouble staying within 140 characters on Twitter. In our interview with Wayne Coyne, the singer shares his Twitter philosophy and a few of the unexpected connections he’s made through social media.

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Facebook Releases Camera App | Obama Answers Tweets | Groupon Testing Payments Device

Tim Sohn — Fri, 25 May 2012 08:15:45 +0000

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Facebook Camera App Launches for iOS (TechCrunch)
Facebook began rolling out a standalone photos app Thursday with which users can shoot, filter and share single or sets of photos and scroll through a feed of photos uploaded to Facebook by your friends. Facebook Camera for iOS lets users rapidly pick one or more photos, apply filters, tag friends and locations, add a description and post. Gizmodo iOS users are used to pulling down at the top of apps to refresh a stream, but this action reveals your iPhone’s photo album, instead. This takes getting used to, as does the process of selecting multiple photos to upload or changing your mind and removing one. Wired The product highlights the company’s commitment to its mobile business. But considering Facebook’s recent purchase of the photo-sharing app Instagram, it’s hard not to compare the two. Silicon Valley Mercury News Facebook agreed to acquire Instagram on April 9 for cash and stock then valued at $1 billion, but the value of the stock has widely varied after the Menlo Park, Calif.-headquartered social network went public last week and has experienced volatility on Wall Street. The deal has not closed, and Facebook recently changed wording in its Securities and Exchange Commission filings that indicated it did not expect the acquisition to be complete in the current quarter. Reuters Less than a week after its IPO, Facebook is already facing multiple lawsuits by disgruntled shareholders who claim that the company and its underwriters told only select institutional investors about the social media company’s weakened growth forecast. This is not the first time investors in a hot tech company’s initial public offering have alleged that underwriters favored their regular clients at the expense of the little guys. continued…

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Yahoo! Launches Axis: A More Visual, Social, and Portable Browser

Devon Glenn — Thu, 24 May 2012 13:50:23 +0000

Yahoo!’s got a brand new search tool that will follow you from your desktop all the way home. Launched Wednesday night, Yahoo! Axis is socially connected, spatially redesigned, and has some unusual features that definitely make it worth a test drive. See a demo and screenshots here.

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Shareholders Sue Facebook | Disqus Adds New Features | Oracle Acquires Vitrue

Tim Sohn — Thu, 24 May 2012 08:00:25 +0000

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Facebook Faces Shareholder Lawsuits (AP)
Facebook’s fourth day of trading as a public company saw an increase in the company’s stock price and shareholder lawsuits related to the social network’s botched initial public offering. Several shareholders who bought stock in the IPO have filed lawsuits against Facebook, its executives and Morgan Stanley, the IPO’s lead underwriter. Reuters Meanwhile, Facebook is considering a stock-listing proposal put forward by the New York Stock Exchange, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters, in the wake of a disappointing initial public offering last week on the rival NASDAQ bourse. Facebook has exchanged phone calls and emails with NYSE Euronext and are considering their pitch, the source said without elaborating on specifics. CNET Facebook plans to open its first Middle East office in Dubai next week, according to the Associated Press. This United Arab Emirates city is considered the Silicon Valley of the region, so it makes sense that the social network would put its Persian Gulf hub here. The Hill Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday began to look into the debacle of what was supposed to be the social networking company’s crowning achievement. Lawmakers want to know whether institutional investors got a sneak peek at an updated analysis, written just before the initial public offering, that gave a more pessimistic assessment of Facebook’s future revenues. AllFacebook Some Facebook page administrators are seeing messages in the top-right-hand corners of their timeline pages urging them to create Facebook ads and containing a “promote your page” button. Have you seen similar messages on Facebook pages you manage? Mashable A Facebook page and a six-minute video tell the story of a 12-year-old girl whose mother died when she was 3 years old, grew up being abused by her father and bullied on her Facebook page. Eventually, the girl commits suicide. There’s just one problem: this is all fake. continued…

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Watch This Incredible Video Inspired by Today’s Google Doodle

Devon Glenn — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:08:50 +0000

Synthesizer creator Robert Moog, who would have been 78 years old today, is having the best birthday ever. Not long after Google’s artists created an interactive Moog synthesizer doodle for the homepage, a fan responded with a crazy cover of Daft Punk’s “Aerodynamic” using Google’s tool, which he posted on YouTube.

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Syfy’s New ‘Defiance’ Series Will Make MMOG Players Part of the Action [Video]

Devon Glenn — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:24:26 +0000

Part sci-fi drama, part massively multiplayer online game, Defiance gives the phrase “social TV” a whole new meaning. Premiering in Spring 2013, the the entertainment hybrid is a collaboration between game publisher Trion Worlds and the Syfy cable network. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Defiance.

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What Happens To Your Twitter When You Die? Creating A Social Media Will

Neil Vidyarthi — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:57:19 +0000

Mary Long from our sister site AllTwitter has looked at how a person can create a plan for what will happen to their social media accounts after they pass away. It’s a morbid thought but one that may be important to those of us who have a lot of private or personal information on there. Check out Mary’s ideas, as well as a review of some tips from the US government over at AllTwitter.

Oracle Acquires Social Marketing Company Vitrue

Devon Glenn — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:47:25 +0000

Enterprise service provider Oracle has just purchased Vitrue, a cloud-based social marketing platform that integrates brands with major networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+, as well as emerging platforms like Instagram, Pinterest, and Klout. Social media marketing is definitely hitting the main stream with this one.

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In Facebook IPO Probe, Morgan Stanley Subpoenaed | Google+ Photographers Conference | NY Weighs Anonymous Commenting Ban

Tim Sohn — Wed, 23 May 2012 08:40:27 +0000

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Massachusetts Joins Growing Crowd Probing Facebook IPO (PC Magazine)
Massachusetts regulators on Tuesday issued a subpoena to Morgan Stanley, the lead underwriter for Facebook’s initial public offering, in an effort to get answers about reports that some investors and not others were informed of earnings revisions for the company ahead of the IPO. The highly publicized IPO is facing scrutiny from several quarters for possible irregularities that may have occurred before the stock was floated and continued through the first day of trading. AllFacebook The hopes of collectors who sought to own one share of Facebook stock from its initial public offering last week were dashed, as paper stock certificates will not be made available, after all. CNNMoney reported that Computershare, which handles shareholder records for the social network, alerted GiveAShare.com and OneShare late last week that there would be no paper stock certificate. Reuters Facebook has agreed to settle a lawsuit that alleged the site’s “Sponsored Stories” feature publicized users’ “likes” without compensation or the ability to opt out, according to a court document filed on Tuesday. The proposed class action lawsuit, filed in a San Jose, Calif., federal court, could have included nearly one of every three Americans, with billions of dollars in damages, court documents say. PCWorld Facebook’s Timeline profiles may be getting a redesign, but this one probably won’t trigger a backlash. The new Timeline design, spotted by TPM Livewire, condenses the biographical information at the top of the page, so it’s nested within the user’s banner image instead of appearing below. Links to the user’s friends list, photos, locations and likes are tucked neatly underneath the banner, next to the user’s profile picture. Alongside those links, a new button called “Summary” leads to a list of major life events. CNET A federal judge has refused to order a Norwegian website that describes itself as “the number one socializing porn and sex network” to turn over its name to Facebook. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White last week ruled that the court had no jurisdiction because Facebook, which sued in California, had failed to show that the owner of website Faceporn had targeted residents of the state. continued…

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Interview: 21-Year-Old App Developer Brian Wong Talks About Virtual and Real Achievements

Devon Glenn — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:31:49 +0000

Brian Wong never imagined he would become the world’s youngest venture-funded entrepreneur when he founded Kiip in 2010. Nineteen years old and newly laid off from Digg, Wong was in a plane when he noticed that the other passengers were happily playing games on their smartphones. Seeing a potentially “huge market for advertising” through games on mobile devices, Wong decided to create a rewards system for gamers. Eighteen months later, the mobile app dispenses 5 rewards every second from brands like Pepsi and Best Buy, and Wong is building a brand of his own.

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The Social Media Landscape [Infographic]

Neil Vidyarthi — Tue, 22 May 2012 10:09:38 +0000

Who are the big players in social shopping? How about social referral? Which companies are involved in external facing social business software vs. internal facing social business software? A new infographic from Buddy Media helps light the way, and also reveals just how large the social networking landscape has become. Far from the days of just a few social networks, we live in a world where everyone is relating to social in some way, so a handy visual map is useful to keep track of everything.

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Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook Take Home Webbys | Social Media and Elections | FaceTime for 3G?

Tim Sohn — Tue, 22 May 2012 07:58:29 +0000

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Webby Awards: Steve Jobs Gets Honored, Full List of Winners (CBS News/techtalk)
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg was honored Monday with a Webby award for Lifetime Achievement for his work with the Bloomberg media corporation. The award was presented by Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp, who reminded the audience that if it wasn’t for Bloomberg’s contribution to financial technology, we wouldn’t have found out the cost of Facebook stock shares until Monday. CNET Nearly a dozen celebrities, politicians and tech luminaries paid tribute to late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs at The Webby Awards show. A video featuring president Barack Obama, former president Bill Clinton and others expressing admiration for Jobs, who died last October, was shown to attendees and streamed over the Web. The Verge Actor Richard Dreyfuss gave a strange and oftentimes discursive speech that began with a jab at Facebook and Google. “If you’re going to take our privacy away from us, why don’t you tell us something private about yourselves,” Dreyfus said to an awkwardly hushed reception. “And if you’re going to change our world, why don’t you pay for it, because it’s theft.” USA Today Instagram won Webby Breakout of the Year, Pinterest took home a social media award, and Facebook scored the People Special Achievement for Social Change honor. In addition, Skype won for Best Social Mobile & Apps. For the complete list of winners, visit WebbyAwards.com continued…

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Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit is just 5 weeks away – June 26 in San Francisco

Neil Vidyarthi — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:27:54 +0000

Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit is headed to San Francisco in five short weeks on June 26, 2012!

With the continued rise of the iPhone, iPad, and Android, 2012 will be a defining year for the world of smartphone and tablet games. What does this mean for the mobile and gaming industries? Where is the future of gaming headed on established and emerging smartphone and tablet platforms? No matter the size or scope of your current game efforts, at Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit you’ll learn successful game design tactics and monetization strategies from industry leaders who will share their collective wisdom on what’s working today and where the future of gaming is heading next.

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