Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’

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

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

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 [...]

Today KLM Royal Dutch Airlines reached a new milestone—1 million Facebook fans—and they’re celebrating with a Thank You video on YouTube.

Comedian Mark Malkoff reached out to celebrities via Facebook, email and snail mail to ask them if he could sleep over at their houses during a visit to LA. Much to his surprise, many celebrities including ‘Full House’ star David Coulier, Kate Walsh of ‘Private Practice’, iJustine, Lisa Loeb and more, said “yes!”

The Internet’s transition from user-generated content to user-curated content continues as Facebook adds some new apps to its timeline. The social network announced in a blog post this morning that timeline apps will be available for Foodspotting, Foodily, Ticketmaster, Pinterest, Rotten Tomatoes, Pose, Kobo, Gogobot, TripAdvisor and other emerging social networks.

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 bill, which effectively would give [...]

The year 2011 is safely behind us, and it looks like the future of social media is all downhill from here.  It seems the bigger companies are consolidating, either by buying out competitors or enhancing their own services.  A new infographic looks at the major events of 2011.

How do you engage with online video? Do you watch more online video on your computer, tablet or mobile device? How and where do you share online video content? A new infographic from Wistia, with data from a quarterly Ooyala report that analyzed the viewing behavior of over 100 million users, explores these questions and more.

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 of various technologies, including mobile devices, iPads [...]

A new infographic from AYTM explores ‘Branding And How It Works In The Social Media Age’, including statistics about how consumers are interacting with brands on Facebook and Twitter, what consumers expect from brands and more.