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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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KLM Celebrates 1 Million Facebook Fans [Video]

Megan O'Neill — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:18:09 +0000

Here at Social Times we’re crazy about KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. They’ve taken the social media world by storm over the past couple of years with their original campaigns, stalking passengers via social sites and giving them personalized gifts, putting fans faces on a plane, and even hosting a Guinness World Record breaking in flight dance party in the sky, inspired by a tweet! Today they reached a new milestone—1 million Facebook fans—and they’re celebrating with a Thank You video on YouTube.
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Comedian Facebooks Celebs to Convince Them To Let Him Sleep Over… And Some Said Yes [Video]

Megan O'Neill — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:47:31 +0000

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to sleep over at your favorite celebrity’s house? NYC comedian Mark Malkoff decided to find out. He 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!”
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Do You Want Pinterest, TripAdvisor and other Networks on Your Facebook Timeline?

Devon Glenn — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:52:35 +0000

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.

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What Are People Saying About SOPA on Google+, Facebook and Twitter?

Neil Vidyarthi — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:17:49 +0000

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 American government a kill-switch to shut down websites that have pirated content.

So how has the social web been responding?

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The Social Landscape of 2011 [Infographic]

Devon Glenn — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:41:44 +0000

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.

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Facebook Beats Twitter In Video Sharing By A Landslide [Infographic]

Megan O'Neill — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:51:36 +0000

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.
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39% of Students Say It’s Inappropriate to Friend Your Teacher [Infographic]

Neil Vidyarthi — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:50:55 +0000

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 and social.

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Consumers Prefer Brand Updates Via Facebook Over Email & Traditional Ads [Infographic]

Megan O'Neill — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:59:22 +0000

With over 800 million active users on Facebook and over 100 million active Twitter users, the way that brands interact with consumers is changing. Consumers are looking for more from brands online, and are giving back by liking and sharing brand content with their ever-growing networks. 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.
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Do You Dumb Down Your Posts for Facebook? Google+ May Be for You

Neil Vidyarthi — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:47:26 +0000

As Google Plus begins to win its followers, we’re seeing a bit of a culture shift on the users of the network. As with any new technology, the first adopters tend to be a close-knit bunch, and out of them, inevitably, come a few users who stick their nose up at any earlier, unsophisticated options. Browsing Reddit, the best social news source on the web, I found corroborating evidence.

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36.6 Million Americans Got Their Current Jobs Through Social Media [Infographic]

Megan O'Neill — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:17:55 +0000

These days more and more job hunters are turning to social media to find work and a new infographic that compiles data from Jobvite, LinkedIn, CNN, and JobSearch reveals just how prevalent social media job searching has become. The infographic, ‘Can Facebook Get You A Job?’ reveals that a whopping 36.6 million Americans say that they got their current job via social media.
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Facebook Devs Ask for Help On Reddit — Get 750+ Comments

Neil Vidyarthi — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:20:20 +0000

If you were to ask me to list a few of the most influential sites on the web right now, there’s no doubt that Reddit would be in the top 5. While the sparse design of the site turns some away, the volume of traffic and quality posts as well as the smart comment sorting make it a hive of useful information and a source of endless humor. As some Redditors’ lovingly refer to the population of the site, the ‘hive mind’ is like an anonymous group of millions of people, expressing their thoughts together.

That said, I’m starting to see companies and brands try to take advantage of the intelligent community, and like they always do, some Facebook developers have jumped on board.

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VKontakte and Facebook Play Important Social Role in Russian Protests

Neil Vidyarthi — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:39:17 +0000

If it weren’t for the light bulb, groups of people could not gather together at night to work and read. This is one of the examples that Marshall McLuhan uses to explain how the medium — or the technology — is vitally important in creating new experiences for humankind. Is social media such a technology? We’ve had the web forever, but like many pundits pontificate, the web was about pages, now it’s about people, and that’s because of social media. And, like many protests before it, the current set of protests in Russia are using two main services for their revolution: VKontakte and Facebook.

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For The CEO Of The Future, Social Media Is A Must [Infographic]

Megan O'Neill — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:25:21 +0000

These days more and more companies and brands are understanding the benefits of social media and are jumping on board with marketing campaigns on Twitter, Facebook and beyond. However, it’s surprisingly common for company CEOs to be absent from the world of social media. Many CEOs don’t even have a Twitter account (and many of those that do have very few tweets and even fewer followers). But a new infographic from CEO.com reveals that an increasing number of CEOs are figuring out social media and seeing great success as a result. It looks like the CEO of the future is going to be a whole lot more social.
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