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Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. Hulu Now Lets You Facebook Your Favorite Moments
As more and more social TV apps pop up, it has become apparent that the future of TV is social. Hulu is jumping on the social bandwagon with a big announcement this morning—they are making the Hulu experience even more social with Facebook integration.
Desperados Tattoos Your Face On A Hot Chick In Interactive YouTube Takeover
Desperados Tequila-Flavored Beer may have just won the award for the best YouTube takeover in history with ‘The Desperados Experience’, a new campaign that hit the video site earlier this month, which incorporates Facebook connect to make you and your friends part of the action.
Invite Your Friends to a YouTube Social
YouTube viewing parties are now possible thanks to the launch of YouTube Social, an effort by SocialVision to combine the features of Facebook’s Social Graph with chatting via IM, TechCrunch reported.
Users who type “social” immediately following “youtube” in the URL for any YouTube video will automatically be redirected to the platform, where they can invite friends by sending them the URL or using Facebook Connect, with the latter resulting in automatic chat messages generated via Facebook, according to TechCrunch.
SocialVision may expand YouTube Social to MySpace and instant messaging, TechCrunch reported.
5 Reasons Second Cup Coffee Offers Free Wi-Fi To Customers Who Connect With Facebook
I can still remember a time when people would tell me that OpenID and Google would definitively be the centralized ID of the web. Other people would say there was no use to even having a sort of central identification. And nearly every person would laugh if I insinuated that Facebook had the best shot of becoming the profile that defines a person on the web. Those days are long gone, and today while hitting up a Second Cup coffee I noticed that they offered free wi-fi for logging in with your Facebook account. I take a look at why they would choose Facebook.
ITV using Facebook, Twitter to Track Live Reactions to First UK Election Debate
ITV, the largest commercial television broadcaster in the UK, will be broadcasting tomorrow’s first election debate between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg live online, and will be using social networking tools to reach out to the public. The event will begin streaming live on ITV’s website at 8:30 GMT, and during and after the debate users can use Facebook, Twitter, and live chats to discuss the event.
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Job Genius Leverages Your Social Graph For Resume Improvements
Veechi Corp has released a powerful resume tool, Job Genius, to help college students craft a resume based on edits and suggestions from selected members in their Facebook network. With Job Genius, students can make a resume that uses pertinent information pulled from their Facebook profile, and fill in the rest using the clear template that is full of professional suggestions. Once complete, the resume can be saved as a PDF and printed or shared on job boards online.
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Golden Tee Golf Arcade Integrates Facebook Connect and YouTube Uploads
If you’ve ever spent a night at a local pub, you’ve probably heard of Golden Tee Golf, the arcade cabinet first released in 1989 and one of the first golf arcade games in existence. Following up on their 2000 launch of Golden Tee Fore, where players could participate in tournaments from around the United States, developer Incredible Technologies released Golden Tee Live, which took the tournaments to a whole new level, with coordinated leaderboards and available prizes. Recently, the games have introduced two social elements, Facebook Connect and Youtube Uploads.
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Twitter To Get "Slick Connect-like Packaging"?
According to Techcrunch, Twitter is working on a new service which competes with Facebook Connect, however details about this supposed product are scarce. As any developer knows, Twitter was already an effective competitor to Facebook, supporting OAuth authentication and providing a robust API to third-party developers. However a new package is in the works and while Mike Arrington doesn’t have details, I would venture to guess that this means the creation of a JavaScript library and new widgets.
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There Are Now 8 Million Google Friend Connect Communities
In an interview with Xconomy, Mussie Shore, one of the developers behind Google Friend Connect, says that “8 million communities have formed with Friend Connect”. What do those communities consist of? The same widget which shows up in the sidebar of this site. The number is massive considering that Facebook Connect is now on “tens of thousands” of websites. I’ve written about the service extensively since it first launched and as of now, it’s being hailed as a great success.
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