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The Perfect Valentine For The Social Media Addict In Your Life

Megan O'Neill — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:57:20 +0000

Does your “significant other” love their social media sites almost as much as they love you? If your boyfriend is addicted to Path, your girlfriend can’t stop tweeting, your husband can’t get enough of Angry Birds or your wife updates her Facebook at any chance she can get, we’ve found the perfect Valentine cards for you.
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Google+’s David Glazer To App Developers: ‘I Want Someone To Build a Deck of Cards’

Devon Glenn — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:37:08 +0000

Google+ is still virgin territory for games and other social applications. At the Inside Social Apps 2012 conference this week, Inside Network’s Justin Smith sat down with Google+ director of engineering David Glazer to talk about what developers can expect from the platform.

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How Schools Are Using Social Media [Infographic]

Neil Vidyarthi — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:57:24 +0000

84% of colleges and universities now use Twitter to reach out to their students — that’s up from 0% in 2008-2009. With LinkedIn, it went from 0% to 47% in the last two years. There’s no doubt that social media is affecting the way schools reach out to students, and you can bet that students today have a different relationship with their institution than they had just a few years ago.

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Social Games and Gamification: What’s the Difference?

Neil Vidyarthi — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:37:16 +0000

This is a guest post by Keith Smith, CEO and Co-Founder of BigDoor

Often the terms “social games” and “gamification” are used interchangeably, but in actuality they’re very different animals. While it’s true that gamification borrows its game mechanics from social gaming, there are many real-world situations where it makes more sense to apply gamification instead of building an entire game. First, let’s take a look at a definition of each concept:

Social games are built on a social media platform like Facebook or Google+. Casual in nature, they can be picked up or dropped at a moment’s notice and are designed to engage the player’s social network of friends. Games like CityVille, Hidden Chronicles, and Words with Friends are popular examples.

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The Facebook Platform Roadmap in 2012

Devon Glenn — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:17:30 +0000

For Facebook, 2012 will be the year of the third party app. News, videos, and songs streaming down your newsfeed are just a “small taste of overall vision,” said Carl Sjogreen, director of product management for Facebook at the Inside Social Apps Conference. The focus for the coming year will be on enhancements to Open Graph, mobile and games.

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ISA 2012: Facebook, Apple, Google – Which Platforms Hold the Most Opportunity in 2012?

Devon Glenn — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:06:15 +0000

Today at the Inside Social Apps Conference 2012 in San Francisco, game developers discussed which platforms hold the most promise in 2012.

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Google Acquiesces and Censors Content in India

Neil Vidyarthi — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:12:23 +0000

After a prolonged district court case ordered Google to take down images that may be offensive to Muslims, Google has agreed to do just that, and has began to censor its search results to remove offensive images. Facebook and Yahoo, also named in the case, are sticking to their guns and saying that they can’t police the content of their sites as that content is uploaded by users.

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How Well Are Schools Using Social Media? [Infographic]

Devon Glenn — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:37:55 +0000

Is social media a distraction for students or an integrated part of college life? This infographic shows how schools have joined their students on sites like Facebook and Twitter to make college campuses even more social.

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Super Bowl XLVI Was The Biggest Social TV Event Ever Recorded…By A Landslide [3 Infographics]

Megan O'Neill — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:34:45 +0000

Did you watch the Super Bowl last night? If so, did you Tweet or Facebook about it? If you did, you helped make history. According to Bluefin Labs, last night’s game was the biggest social TV event ever recorded. It didn’t only beat last year’s MTV Video Music Awards’ record of 3.1 million social media comments, it crushed the record with a whopping 12.2 million social media comments.
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What Makes Social Gaming So Popular on Facebook and Google+? [Infographic]

Devon Glenn — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:19:50 +0000

Games and social media a natural match. With the exception of solitaire, most games involve at least two players. This infographic explores some of the ways that games have found an audience on social platforms like Facebook and Google+.

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SNAP Interactive’s Stock Grew 230 Percent – Did Facebook’s IPO Help?

Devon Glenn — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:04:47 +0000

Call it the Facebook effect. Ever since the social media giant announced its long-awaited IPO the many gaming companies and social applications that use its platform are rising with the tide. SNAP Interactive, Inc., the parent company of the Facebook-integrated dating app AreYouInterested.com, has already seen its stock go up 230 percent since the beginning of 2012.

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Inside Social Apps Starts This Wednesday

Neil Vidyarthi — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:55:49 +0000

Inside Social Apps 2012 starts in San Francisco this Wednesday! Join the industry’s leading developers on February 8-9 for two days of panels, discussions, and networking around the social and mobile app ecosystem.

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The Super Bowl Sets a Social Media Record with 10,000 Tweets a Second [STATS]

Neil Vidyarthi — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:14:54 +0000

The closing moments of Super Bowl XLVI, which saw the New York Giants come from behind to edge the New England Patriots 21-17 with a last-minute touchdown, were so dramatic that they set a new tweets per second (TPS) record on Twitter.

The final three minutes of the Super Bowl saw Twitter users firing off tweets at an average of 10,000 per second, which is an all-time peak for a sporting event on the network.

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Are Social Media Jobs Only for the Young?

Devon Glenn — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:38:30 +0000

When newspapers started moving online, the technological gap between those who had grown up with computers and those who had not led to a lot of opportunities for younger professionals to jump in and bring the news into the 21st century. Now that it’s 2012, those same young people may be wondering what they were thinking.

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HuffPost Streaming Video, Super Bowl, and a Spotify Playlist [Podcast]

Devon Glenn — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:14:37 +0000

On today’s Morning Media Menu (MP3 link), Social Times joined Jason Boog, the editor of our sister blog, GalleyCat for a chat about some of our top stories in social media this week, from the Huffington Post’s new streaming network to themed playlists on Spotify.
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