Google+ is becoming famous among marketers

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) owned Google+ is becoming famous among marketers
Statesman Sentinel
It is for sure that Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) is the largest social networking site across the globe, however a study has revealed that Google+ is famous among people who use it for search engine marketing and search engine optimization. Earlier this ...

Statesman Sentinel

Google+ trends: 'Doctor Who,' Lindsay Lohan
Yahoo! Philippines News
On Monday, October 1, Google + users are mourning the end of the popular BBC One series Doctor Who and sharing news about an alleged assault on Lindsay Lohan. The final episode in the latest series of the popular BBC One sci-fi show Doctor Who aired ...

Rock with pals on video chat
Hindustan Times
One of them is Hangout. On this, apart from having video chats with friends, you can create a "hangout" where people can join in. And you are all on a video call in a group. The best part is that you can broadcast your hangout live via Google's own ...

Hindustan Times

Add People SEO tips – 5 ways that Social Media can give your page rank a boost!
Equities.com
So now more than ever it's vital for small businesses to have a social media presence, and make use of key platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn and YouTube. Here are a few practical things to consider when developing a social media ...

Facebook Revenue: User Data More Important Than Traffic?
ValueWalk
... media personalities and equity analysts have challenged Facebook and other social networking sites, including Twitter, Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG)'s Google+, and the professional network site Linkedin Corporation (NYSE:LNKD), among others on their ...

How Taking Everybody On Tour Via Social Media Changed Josh Urban's ...
hypebot.com
He amplified the tour via social media including use of the hashtag #JURT on social media sites, for Josh Urban Rail Tour, and live broadcasts via Google+ Hangouts. I talked to him after his tour to find out what he learned and what he plans to do ...

How YouTube is shedding its former self to get polished for primetime
Digital Trends
The idea behind Cosmic Panda was to make channels clearer, to pump Google+ (no surprises there), and create a more professional environment. On its surface, this was simply a cleaner makeover – something YouTube routinely implements. But at its core,...

Digital Trends

What Google+ Needs to Do to Kill Facebook
By Chad Catacchio
Chad Catacchio looks at what Google+ can do to get a leg up on the incumbent social service, Facebook.
The Next Web

Social media could hurt Jill Meagher case
ABC Online
EMMA ALBERICI, PRESENTER: Australia's attorneys-general will sit down on Friday to try to tackle the legal challenges presented by fast-moving social media campaigns. The issue has become urgent, with police warning some online comments may ...

ABC Online

California Passes Tough Social Media Privacy Laws
InformationWeek
The vetting of social media content first national drew attention in February 2011, when a Maryland corrections officer revealed that he'd been required to provide his Facebook user name and password as part of a recertification process. The practice ...

Accenture Research Shows Citizen Support for Police use of Digital and Social ...
Businessweek
Citizens also expressed preferences for specific social media platforms: 81 percent of respondents said they would most likely use Facebook to interact with police and 35 percent said they would use Twitter. Almost one-fourth (23 percent) of ...

Missing New Jersey girl spawns social media flurry
CNN
(CNN) -- New Jersey police say they are searching for 16-year-old Kara Alongi, a missing girl who generated big buzz on social media with a post about a possible intruder. "There is somone in my hour ecall 911," she posted on Twitter at 6:20 p.m ...

A Social Media Evangelist's Survival Guide
blogs.hbr.org (blog)
Driving the development of the company's social network — What's a social network? was still a frequent question — was hardly a fast track to employment in a company where nobody had a line item for the guy who was all about digital. But while some ...

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Social media a new investigation tool for Connecticut police
Torrington Register Citizen
Lauri Stevens, principal at LAwS Communications, an organization that provides interactive media advice to law enforcement, said police investigators are using every social media tool available to find criminal activity. “They're going to monitor all ...

Social media may have increased the dangers of fatwa: Salman Rushdie
DAWN.com
BERLIN, Oct 01, 2012- British author Salman Rushdie said Monday that if a fatwa calling for his murder over his book “The Satanic Verses” had been issued in the social networking era, it would have further endangered his life. The writer was in Berlin ...

DAWN.com

Through the Eyes of a Child » Social Media Week
By Delesia Watson
How do children communicate? That was a topic of discussion this week, as experts on adolescent communication gave presentations and answered audience questions about social media use for youngsters. Here are some of the highlights: ...
Social Media Week

A 'Project Runway' Winner, Clare Vivier And More To Follow On Pinterest This ...
Huffington Post
In our latest installment of Hot On Pinterest, we bring you five fashionable pinners that have caught our attention in a big way. From one of our favorite "Project Runway" contestants to a guy whose taste in menswear is impeccable, these are the ...

Internet: Creating a Pinterest Community Board
Utica Observer Dispatch (blog)
Pinterest is the fastest growing site on the internet. From May, 2011 until July, 2012, Pinterest grew 4377%, according to comScore. It's one of my favorite sites. Pinterest contains bulletin boards which are customizable according to personal preferences.

Male-Order Commerce: Opening the Wallet of the Young, Middle-Class Man
Minyanville.com
MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL Pinterest is currently the 38th most-visited website on the entire Internet. This is a true thing that is really, actually true. That fact is made doubly impressive by the fact that women make up 80% of the site's traffic. Turns ...

Pinterest: 5 Tactics for This Visual Social Media Mecca
ClickZ
Pinterest has gathered force in terms of numbers. From a top-line perspective, it attracts over 20 million unique visitors a month who spend almost 16 minutes on the site per visit yielding 1.5 billion page views per month, based on Fast Company's ...

ClickZ

How Pinterest Is Killing Feminism
BuzzFeed
One in five women over the age of 18 who regularly use the internet is on Pinterest, which had an estimated 23 million users users as of July. It also has an overwhelmingly female audience; around 60 percent of visitors to the site are women. And the ...

Announcing Pinterest CEO to speak at RoadMap
GigaOM
Any discussion about cutting edge web design needs to include Pinterest — the disruptive startup has one of the most breakthrough and compelling web designs to emerge over the past few years. That's why we're really excited to announce that Pinterest ...

Pinterest use must differ from other social networks
Marketing Week
Pinterest is one of the fastest growing social networks and offers brands a platform to drive high levels of traffic back to e-commerce sites. It will, however, only add value for brands if they use it differently to other social networks rather than ...

LinkedIn MENA opens first office in Dubai
MENAFN.COM
LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network with more than 175 million members worldwide, today announced the opening of its first office in the Middle East and North Africa,[1] where a new team will support a growing membership and client base.

LinkedIn Opens Its First Office In The Middle East
By Robin Wauters
In a blog post, former LinkedIn consultant turned employee Ali Matar says over 1 million people have flocked to the social networking service in the United Arab Emirates alone. Matar says LinkedInboasts “several million more across the ...
The Next Web

Facebook's new pitch to brand advertisers: forget about clicks
Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc, stung by doubts that advertising on the social network delivers enough bang for the buck, is preparing to unveil data to counter its critics and show that "clicks," the current metric of choice, tell only half ...

Bangladesh vows to protect Buddhists after Facebook photo attacks
Christian Science Monitor
The Buddhists moved to safety after an overnight weekend attack in which thousands of Bangladeshi Muslims burned at least 10 Buddhist temples and 40 homes in anger over a Facebook photo of a burned Quran. Army soldiers, paramilitary border guards ...

Christian Science Monitor

Facebook founder Zuckerberg visits Russia, Medvedev pushes him to open ...
Washington Post
A Facebook spokeswoman, who refused to be named because she wasn't authorized to discuss the matter with the media, said the company has no immediate expansion plans for Russia. Zuckerberg, who ditched his trademark hoodie and jeans for a suit ...

Where Facebook Is Looking to Grow: COO Sheryl Sandberg
CNBC.com
By: Julia Boorstin CNBC Correspondent. For the first time since Facebook's IPO, COO Sheryl Sandberg sat down for an exclusive interview to talk about what's happened since the social network went public, and where she's taking the company next.

Facebook refuses to take down page inciting hatred against Jill Meagher's ...
IrishCentral
And the family's fears were magnified on Monday when Facebook refused to take down a page that is inciting hatred against Bayley. ... There are several pages on Facebook related to the case but one in particular is calling for Bayley to be killed in ...

Instagram Beats Twitter – What Does it Mean?
iMedia Connection (blog)
For the first time this August Instagram beat Twitter in daily active users. Not only that, but users spent 50% more time on Instagram than users did on Twitter. Hopefully this makes Mark Zuckerberg feel better about the botched Facebook IPO and lousy ...

Paul Ryan Finds Winning Facebook Formula As Campaign Strategists Name ...
AllFacebook
Jennifer Moire on October 1, 2012 9:47 AM. With Election Day only 40 days away in a cycle that's been dubbed the first “social” election, campaigns are working overtime to gain an advantage on Facebook in order to motivate supporters and get out the vote.

AllFacebook

Can Facebook Make A Dent In The Online Shopping Space?
Seeking Alpha
One of those endeavors was called Facebook shopping carts. The idea might have been good and it was probably a good try, but the whole thing just never caught on. One of the problems is theFacebook platform itself. When people go to Facebook, the last ...

Why The Facebook Gift Shop Won't Work - Business Insider
By Ashley Lutz
Login with Twitter Login with Facebook Login with LinkedIn · Register. Business ... Facebook also had an unsuccessful gift-giving business several years back, but many of the gifts were virtual goods and social games. There are three big ...
Business Insider

Sheryl Sandberg 'Disappointed' and 'Surprised' By Facebook IPO ...
By Seth Fiegerman
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, opened up about the company's difficult IPO for the first time Monday during an interview with CNBC. ... 3 Comments. To leave a comment on this story, please log in with Facebook or Twitter ...
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Facebook, YouTube blocked in Kashmir - Tech News - IBNLive
By IBNLive.com editor@ibnlive.com
New Delhi: Internet users in Kashmir are unable to access Facebook and YouTube. The government had ... (For updates you can share with your friends, follow IBNLive on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest). #Facebook #YouTube ...
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Your Facebook Pages have a Résumé
By Amit
Your Facebook Page has a secret résumé but one that is only visible to search engines and non-Facebook users. ... Related tutorial: Create Custom Facebook Pages · « Apple Drops the “Most Powerful Mapping Service Ever” Claim ...
Digital Inspiration Technology Blog

Twitter Roundup: Week 5 Laff Riot | Campus Union
By hollyandersonsi
On Twitter, every high-scoring game is bad defense, every low-scoring game bad offense. No one is good at anything in college football. — Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) September 29, 2012. My kingdom for an MSU fan to answer a marriage ...
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Barbie (BarbieStyle) on Twitter
Welcome to my totally official and completely fabulous Twitter page. Malibu, CA ·http://www.facebook.com/Barbie. Follow Following Unfollow Blocked Unblock ...
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Facebook photo sparks violence in Bangladesh - Video on - Msn
Facebook photo sparks violence in Bangladesh ... temples and 40 homes in anger over a ...
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