Subway, Google And Target Are Top Brands For Social Currency

Subway, Google And Target Are Top Brands For Social Currency - Forbes: " . . . . 1. Subway (Social currency score: 712) Subway not only benefits from a large Facebook and Twitter audience but it also gets very high engagement scores. Subway fans and followers are very active. 2. Google (709) Google’s success follows from its large branded ecosystem of products that consumers access in their daily lives. 3. Target (688) Target succeeds because it attracts consumers using a 360° presence through numerous channels and in different functions to create buzz and awareness. 4. Heineken (665) Heineken continuously creates high visibility for its brand through social media. Its users engage with its viral campaigns and innovative concepts.  . . . "


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Google Notification Center in Chrome

Google to add a new Notification Center to Chrome, paving the way for Google Now integration - The Next Web: "The release has been spotted by François Beaufort over on Google+ today, and appears to be a way for the technology giant to bring Android’s critically acclaimed Google Now cards to the desktop. After downloading the latest build, Beaufort says users simply need to toggle on the “Enable Rich Notifications” under chrome://flags. He also snapped up a screenshot of the new notification center in action, giving us an idea of how it might look and feel in everyday use. However, it’s important to remember that because this feature is in a developmental stage, Google could still change its appearance before a final release on Chrome."


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Google+ iPhone and iPad apps are now available in 48 countries

'Search, Plus Your World' Just Got Bigger As Google+ iOS Apps Launch In 48 ...
TechCrunch
Comments. googleplus-200-red. The Google+ iPhone and iPad apps are now available in 48 countries and territories, announced Google engineer Frank Petterson via his ownGoogle+ profile (h/t TNW). Users with iOS devices can now download Google+ in: ...

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Google+ debuts in 48 new countries and territories
VatorNews
A few days after Facebook debuted its own search engine, one that could potentially rival Google at some point down the road, Google+, the company's rival social network, is getting a major expansion, Google engineer Frank Petterson announced on his ...

How to Add Google Plus Authorship to Your Blog Posts
Business 2 Community
Have you searched Google recently and noticed a photo next to a news or a search result? This is called authorship information and Google displays it if you have verified your Google Plus profile as a contributor to the website housing the content that ...

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Google Brings YouTube And Google+ Closer

Google Brings YouTube And Google+ Closer Together With YouTube Tab, Easier Sharing Of Uploaded Videos | TechCrunch: "Google continues to integrate its Google+ social network deeper into its wide range of other products. YouTube already has an extensive Google+ integration, but now the two services are getting even closer. Google just expanded the connection between the two by making it easier to share new public videos to Google+ after they are uploaded and by highlighting users’ public YouTube videos on their Google+ profiles. Google is also renaming the Google+ “Videos” tab to “YouTube.” Clicking on this tab in a user’s profile now sends users directly to their YouTube channel. This feature, says Google’s Dom Carr, is meant for “those of you who are aspiring musicians, pundits, comedians, or brands.” By giving users another avenue to their YouTube channels, Carr writes, these users will be able to “grow [their] audience even faster with Google+.”. . ."

one commenter to above article notes issues concerning identity/usability, particularly for business:
"Is there any indication when this feature will roll out to company pages? I'm getting more and more frustrated lately trying to keep clients' Google presence in order and the fact that we are essentially forced to make up fake people really complicates things when doing things like linking Google+ profiles to YouTube channels! It seems that no company has been able to consider the business user right from the start despite the fact that they court marketers like crazy when they launch new products."


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Google's Lost Social Network?

Google Reader as Google's lost social network--article excerpt below:

Google's Lost Social Network: "One embittered user suggested that Steve Jobs was to blame. In a 60 Minutes interview, Walter Isaacson, Jobs’ biographer, recounted a meeting between Jobs and Larry Page. The Apple founder told the Google founder: “Focus. Don’t be like Microsoft doing products all over the map. Figure out what you do best, and keep it focused.” Whether Jobs intended it that way — or if they took his advice at all — the Google founders decided that fewer products meant better products. Madrigal, the Atlantic writer, thinks that’s misguided, and that Google should foster “the nascent but largely invisible communities it already has.” The sharebros might agree, but even Reader’s disaffected engineers acknowledge the importance of unification. “Google has clearly made its bets with G+, and Reader should be part of those plans,” Shih conceded."


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On Twitter and Google, Signs of Less Interest in the Final Presidential Debate

On Twitter and Google, Signs of Less Interest in the Final Presidential Debate
New York Times (blog)
Twitter users wrote approximately 6.5 million posts during Monday night's debate between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. The number was about a million less than the second debate. It represented a further cooling of activity tied to political ...

Report: Twitter Testing 'Favorite' Replacement
PC Magazine
Twitter users have Favorited literally billions of tweets in four years, the tech site reported. Adding a Like option could start a turf war between the micro-blogging site and Facebook, which has led the popularization of the "like" concept with its ...

America's Facebook Generation Is Reading Strong
NPR
In what may come as a pleasant surprise to people who fear the Facebook generation has given up on reading — or, at least, reading anything longer than 140 characters — a new report from the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project ...

NPR

Socialfox: New Feature Puts Facebook in Your Firefox
Wired
If you don't use Facebook there's nothing to see right now. However, after playing around with the new Facebook Messenger it's not hard to imagine how other sites might do something similar. Twitter is an obvious example, but the Social API is not...

Wired

Lance Armstrong Twitter Profile: Tour De France, Triathlon References Removed ...
Huffington Post
The phrase '7-time Tour de France winner' evaporated from Lance Armstrong's Twitter profile, along with a reference to triathlon, in which he is also now banned from elite competition. MELBOURNE, Australia -- Having won seven Tour de France titles is ...

Facebook Exchange, Two Birds With One Stone: Challenge Google, Drive ...
Forbes
Going into its second earnings release as a publicly traded company, Facebook has been under heavy pressure to prove how it will squeeze dollars out of its billion users. With the pressure of having to deliver to shareholders, founder and CEO mark ...

Facebook Or Twitter, Which Is Better For My Local Business?
Business 2 Community
I have a local business and I want to be on social media, which is the best network for me –Facebook or Twitter? Recently, when I did a post on Twitter strategy for brands, a social media enthusiast asked me if I could share some thoughts on which is ...

Twitter Is Testing A “Like” And “Star” Button In Lieu Of “Favorite.” Isn't ...
By Drew Olanoff
I use that button as a way to say “hey I looked at this and it meant something”, but maybe I useFacebook incorrectly. Today, The Next Web surfaced what seems to be a test on Twitter, with the labels of “like” and “star” instead of the word ...
TechCrunch

Twitter's "Favorite" Button? It Could Have Been Called "Thanks ...
By Mike Isaac
For years now, Facebook and Twitter have had their respective “Like” and “Favorite” buttons. They're simple, straightforward ways to show appreciation for a status update or a tweet without verbally replying (and Google, too, has its +1 button.) ...
AllThingsD

Twitter Testing Star and Like Instead of Favorite
By Matthew Panzarino
http://www.facebook.com/david.farrell.9619934 David Farrell. Matthew,. They're both interesting additions, especially seeing the history of who has 'liked' the Tweet. Will Twitter be adding a 'Dislike'? mpanzarino. I'd imagine it would just be a ...
The Next Web

If Facebook Flopped, Zuckerberg Would Have Headed to Microsoft
By Neha Prakash
At a recent appearance at Stanford University, Mark Zuckerberg admits that if Facebook had never taken off he would've liked to be an engineer at Microsoft. ....
Mashable » Social Media

There's Twitter Account Parodying Yahoo's Controversial $62 Million ...
By Nicholas Carlson
Login with Twitter Login with Facebook Login with LinkedIn · Register. Business Insider. SAI ... Ex-Googlers Say A Twitter Account Parodying Yahoo's Controversial $62 Million COO Is Hilariously Accurate. Nicholas Carlson | Oct. 23, 2012, ...
Business Insider

LinkedIn 2.0 released for BlackBerry
Examiner.com
LinkedIn is the world's largest professional social network and boasts over 175 million users with an average of two new users every second. BlackBerry has released a new version of their mobile app for the social network that is finally compatible ...

Examiner.com

LinkedIn ranks best groups to work in UK
Financial Times
LinkedIn, the professional social networking site, has for the first time ranked UK companies according to its 175m members' interest in them – based on clicks through to the companies' profile pages and interaction with their employees – as well as ...

Take Advantage of Pinterest's “Buying Intent”
Small Business Trends
The study found that 69 percent of consumers who have visited Pinterest found an item they either purchased or wanted to purchase, compared to only 40 percent for Facebook. Perhaps even more noteworthy is 70 percent of consumers said they use ...

What's Cooking on Pinterest? Mini Sweet Potato Donut Holes
Houston Press (blog)
The original recipe I found on Pinterest uses a donut maker. The blogger tells you how to make these treats that way, but with a little more research, I discovered you can make the exact recipe in mini-muffin tins (of course if you have a donut pan, by ...

How to Generate Leads with Pinterest
Business 2 Community
Pinterest is one of the largest and fastest-growing social networks in the history of the Web, and also a major source of organic web traffic. Techcrunch recently declaredPinterest the 4 largest driver of Web traffic worldwide – even beating out Yahoo ...

Business 2 Community

Career center offers tips to polish LinkedIn profile
Purdue Exponent
Similar to Facebook – but for the business world – LinkedIn is the social media outlet to connect with professionals. It's easy and free to create a LinkedIn account but difficult to make it useful. Below are a list of tips to keep in mind to maximize ...

Airtel, Infy, TCS among most sort after employers: LinkedIn
Zee News
New Delhi: Six major Indian companies, including Bharti Airtel, Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services, have made the cut in list of 20 'Most In Demand Employers' compiled by professional network LinkedIn. Besides, Wipro Technologies, HCL Technologies ...

Zee News

Social Commerce On The Rise: Dollars Per Share Up 81% To $3.23; Facebook ...
TechCrunch
LinkedIn is the least successful in this context. Its DPS is at $0.92, only 2% up from the $0.90 it brought in two years ago. That's a sign of how LinkedIn, despite its efforts, is still not managing to get people to use it for more than making direct ...

Horses and bayonets dominate social media reaction to final debate
Los Angeles Times
Mitt Romney and President Obama, locked in a dead heat prior to the final presidential debate, looked to their foreign policies to turn the race in their favor. Though Romney delivered several jabs, it was Obama who ended up generating the most talked ...

The Top Four Trends Shaping Social Enterprise in 2013
Huffington Post
I have been on a mission to help senior management teams at Fortune 500 companies learn about the power of real-time social media. It hasn't been easy. There are still so many misconceptions about what social media is; why it's changing everything ...

Social media should not be slandered
The Independent Florida Alligator
Social media makes it possible to notify friends and colleagues of news stories and events with the click of a share button. From television programs to live events, I can log on to Twitter or Facebook and get a play-by-play of what is happening and ...

How business owners can use social media
CNN
Add to. Share Flag as inappropriate. Loading... Alert icon. Sign in or sign up now! Alert icon. Loading... Published on Oct 22, 2012 by CNN. Social media expert Gary Vaynerchuk uses one business as an example of how to maximize presence on social media.

New Social Media Platform, Vir2o, to Host Press Event at W Atlanta - Midtown ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
ATLANTA, Oct. 23, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ -- East Coast Diversified Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: ECDC) is pleased to announce its new social media and engagement platform, Vir2o, will host an opinion leader's press event Thursday, November 29 from ...

Social media and political engagement
GalesburgPlanet.com
The use of social media is becoming a feature of political and civic engagement for many Americans. Some 60% of American adults use either social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter and a new survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet ...

Hawaii Expert Leads Social Media Strategy For U.N. Sustainability Conferences
Sacramento Bee
One of Hawaii's premier social media experts, Rob Bertholf, was hand-selected to work with Eye on Earth/Abu Dhabi Environmental Agency and its partner, the United Nations Environmental program (UNEP), on a social media program with international ...

Peter Fasano Heads Up Social@Ogilvy Atlanta
Sacramento Bee
ATLANTA, Oct. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Social@Ogilvy, a recently launched Ogilvy & Mather practice connecting the agency's social media experts globally to deliver solutions across all areas of business, has appointed Peter Fasano as senior ...

Breast cancer survivor group is a social movement
USA TODAY
The online chat, known as BCSM -- or breast cancer social media -- has a growing following of men and women looking to share war stories, empower patients and change the national conversation on breast cancer. MORE: Health and wellness coverage ...

5 Steps To Optimize Your Social Media Campaign In Real-Time
By Scott Lake
Here are five steps to leverage real-time optimization in your next social media campaign.
The Next Web

What I learned about #debates, social media and being a pundit on ...
By Alex Howard
Earlier this month, when I was asked by Al Jazeera English if I'd like to be go on live television to analyze the online side of the presidential debates, I didn't immediately accept. I'd be facing...
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What You Can Expect at SMX Social Media Marketing - Conference ...
By Search Engine Land
For marketers, social media is the "new" normal. With Facebook surpassing a billion users, Twitter influencing brand perception and social change, and vira.
Search Engine Land: News & Info...

LinkedIn launches better, faster, stronger app for BlackBerry 6 and ...
By Emil Protalinski
LinkedIn says the app is “completely revamped” for both BlackBerry 6 and BlackBerry 7 users and that the update makes the LinkedIn mobile experience “simpler, better, and faster.” The newLinkedIn for BlackBerry app is also now available ...
The Next Web

Reddit, Pinterest Among Sites Taken Down Monday By Amazon ...
By Nathan Francis
Reddit and Pinterest were among many sites down for large portions of Monday afternoon, the result of degraded service in Amazon's Elastic Block.
The Inquisitr

Barneys Takes a Cue From Pinterest | Digiday
By Giselle Abramovich
Smart brands are moving beyond thinking of “social” as channels to thinking about how they can make everything they do be social. Barneys New York has rolled out a new social strategy throughout its website. Consumers can sign up to ...
Digiday

Linkedin networking question: Who is more likely to help out? | Wall ...
By trj
Read forum discussions about Linkedin networking question: Who is more likely to help out? on Wall Street Oasis, the largest finance industry social network and web community.

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YouTube Hints at a Simpler, Cleaner Redesign Resembling Google+
By Nick Summers
YouTube could be getting a full redesign in the not so distant future, adding a Google bar along the top of the page and a fresh look that closely resembles the company's aspiring social network,Google+. Earlier today OMG! Chrome! picked ...
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When, why, and how Facebook will take on Google in search

When, why, and how Facebook will take on Google in search
The Next Web
Facebook and Google have been on a collision course for years, and their competitiveness has only increased with the release of Google+ just 14 months ago. As the service becomes more and more popular, one has to wonder how Facebook feels about the ...

The Next Web

Google adds movie trailers to search results
Digital Trends
Detailed on Google's official Google+ account this week, the search company has added links to movie trailers when a user searches for information regarding showtimes at local theaters. In order to bring up these listings, the user uses a search term ...

Digital Trends

Social media a growing force in race to the White House (VIDEO)
Southgate News Herald
Social media, once written off as a fad, is now a big component of our lives. We use it to communicate with co-workers and friends — even to obtain new jobs. And in the past four years it has become a crucial element to landing the highest job in the ...

Social Media Strategy: Research to Boost Your Social Marketing ROI
Business 2 Community
Hardly a week goes by that we're not shocked by a new development in the realm of social mediamarketing. Last week's big news was the fact that we're now able to create and upload cover photos on Twitter. A few weeks before that, we learned that the ...

Why buying social media reviews is a recipe for marketing disaster
DaniWeb (blog)
One of the great things about social media is the way that it utilises the wisdom of crowds. This concept is perhaps best known through Wikipedia, where user editing can often create some wildly inaccurate entries in the short term but over time these ...

Social media tools help find lost pets
Huntersville Herald
Social media's effectiveness is its ability to reach a lot of people quickly. Pet owners, for instance, can set up a Facebook page for a missing pet, or launch messages on Twitter immediately. The advantages are being able to give detailed descriptions ...

Ultimate Social Media Party Foul List – 70 Party Fouls of the Social Foolish
Business 2 Community
photodune 1154035 surprised funny girl xs Ultimate Social Media Party Foul List 70 Party Fouls of We have all seen them or done them. The social media party fouls. We may want to think everyone is following a standard norm for social media engagement ...

Social Media Boot Camp
HispanicBusiness.com
A press release said the boot camp, begun in 2009, is helpful for social media novices as well as those who use it already. "I feel as if I got a week's worth of content in one day. ... Every leader of a faith community should take this course," said ...

Tech Connect: Is blocking social media a good idea?
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines (blog)
The proliferation of social media — tweeting, texting, Facebook and the like — has been breathtaking. When you have young people sending 60 text messages or more per day, it's obvious that this media has become integral in their lives. Do you think ...

The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines (blog)

National Coffee Day: ' Hello, have you ever heard of social media?'
Examiner.com
Today is National Coffee Day, and it is one of the more well-known “days” that we tend to be commemorating more often now due to social media. Some coffee shops and restaurants around the country offer free coffee all day long to customers, but not all ...

Finding fame, and sometimes fortune, in social media
Sydney Morning Herald
Social media has made it easier than ever to catapult from obscurity to prominence. In recent years, the web has blossomed into a more egalitarian version of American Idol, where nobodies compete for attention alongside somebodies. Today, a teenager...

Sydney Morning Herald

Why Social Media Makes Customer Service Better
By Harry Rollason
The social landscape is evolving, but your ability to serve customers in all channels is critical to your business success.
Mashable!

California Stops Employer, University Social Media Snooping
Two new laws were signed by Gov. Jerry Brown that prohibit employers or universities from requesting access, user names or passwords to applicants' social media accounts.
Government Technology News

On The Radar: Social Media Dominates Headlines | Business 2 ...
By Ryan W. Neal
It's been a busy week for social media. It seemed like everything that came across our desk was either about social networks, Social TV, or the second.
Business 2 Community

The 30 Biggest Social Media Advertisers Of 2012 - Business Insider
Today, at Business Insider's Social Media ROI conference in New York, we'll tell you just how much advertiser money is pouring into social media, and which ...
www.businessinsider.com/the-30-biggest-social-media-advertis...

LinkedIn Board Connect: A Guide for Non-profits to Leverage This Valuable New ...
Huffington Post (blog)
LinkedIn Board Connect has taken online board matching to a new level for non-profit organizations. As I noted in my September 21 post here, this innovative approach is an advance in bringing non-profits and potential candidates together; the most ...

Free Pinterest for "Business Guide" and new "Pins for Pinterest" course from ...
Equities.com
Based on latest traffic and active user statistics, Pinterest in now the third most popular social network above LinkedIn, and techcrunch reports that Pinterest beats yahoo organic traffic, making it 4th largest traffic driver worldwide. Pinterest user ...

LinkedIn Releases One-Click Endorsements for Professional Skills
Small Business Trends
When you visit the LinkedIn profile of one of your connections, you will see a big blue box prepopulated with a list of their skills (examples: entrepreneurship, or online marketing). You just click to endorse one or more of them. It's also just one ...

Small Business Trends

The Painful Reality Of Social Spam
Business 2 Community
What surprises me the most about this is that LinkedIn is supposed to be a professional networking system where you can develop relationships with people you know, or would like to get to know better – hopefully with mutual benefits as a result. In ...

Prospecting leads to the gold clients
Sydney Morning Herald
Use Twitter and LinkedIn: Communicate on topics that relate to clients and drive them to your website for a newsletter or free e-book to capture their contact details. ''Constantly engage with them,'' says Marketing Eye founder Mellissah Smith. ''I'm ...

Sydney Morning Herald

With new look, owners bid to bring Myspace back
Cherry Hill Courier Post
The new site, for which people can request an invitation, looks a bit like an entertainment-focused version of Pinterest, with a dash of Twitter and Facebook thrown in. But Myspace has tried redesigns before, to no avail. Will it work this time? “If ...

5 Tips For Creating Effective Digital Marketing for Insurance Agents
Business 2 Community
Or they have a digital marketing plan that involves tweeting one insurance-related news article a week and updating their LinkedIn profile twice a year. Other agents look to these examples and claim them as evidence that digital marketing isn't a ...

Business 2 Community

Are You Too Old For Social Media?
Business 2 Community
If I had to pick a social media network that seems to come naturally to us boomers, I'd think immediately of LinkedIn. Profiles on this major social media network resemble a resume more than a yearbook page. You can fill out information on educational ...
 
Business 2 Community

How to Make a Profit Using Pinterest - Business Insider
By Samantha Cortez
"To market well using Pinterest, you need to make sure that every piece of content you publish either solves a problem for your audiences, or entertains them—preferably both,” says Beth Hayden, author of Pinfluence: The Complete Guide To ...
Business Insider

LinkedIn Success Stories
One of the people I spoke to is thrilled because, for the first time, employers are contacting her directly through LinkedIn. In fact, she's heard from three recruiters ...
jobsearch.about.com/b/2012/09/.../linkedin-success-stories.htm

Muslims in Bangladesh torch Buddhist temples over Facebook image
Los Angeles Times
AMRITSAR, India -- Hundreds of angry Muslims in southeast Bangladesh torched at least 10 Buddhist temples and dozens of homes Sunday after alleging that a Buddhist man insulted Islam on his Facebook page, authorities said. The protest gained ...

Heath Lara, Prison Guard, Reinstated After Being Fired For Facebook Friending ...
Huffington Post
The sergeant was in violation of the Texas rule that prohibits convicts and guards, as well as parolees and parole officers, from fraternizing -- a policy that can include Facebook interaction, according to the Austin-American Statesman. Sanders had ...

Wilnilia Sanchez Falcon Kills Boyfriend Jesus Rivera Algarin After Facebook ...
Huffington Post
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Police in Puerto Rico say a 27-year-old woman is suspected of killing her boyfriend after he became upset about her activities on Facebook. Lt. Candido Pagan says there were two children in the house when the killing occurred ...

Barch makes lower-paid NHL players' case onTwitter
USA TODAY (blog)
Login with Facebook to comment and share content. Login with Facebook ... Barch has a Twitteraccount and has used it in the past to discuss the NFL lockout and more recently, the Ontario Hockey League's rules to cut back on fighting. Saturday night ...

Post on Facebook threatens to blow up Jaipur airport
Times of India
JAIPUR: Security in and around the Sanganer Airport here was stepped up on Sunday after security agencies received information about a post on social-networking website Facebook threatening to blow up the airport on October 1. "We got information that ...

Chicago looking to Twitter for answer to gun problem
Dekalb Daily Chronicle
CHICAGO – In an unusual attempt at addressing one of its most vexing problems, the city of Chicago is asking residents with ideas on how to get illegal guns off the streets to share their thoughts – in 140 characters or fewer on ...

Facebook to FTC: Let Us Advertise to Children
Yahoo! News (blog)
COPPA's also the reason that children under 13 can't sign up for services such as Facebook -- it's easier for a website to ban children under 13 than deal with COPPA's requirement on getting parental constent before collecting personal information from ...

Miley Cyrus Shows Sideboob & Liam Hemsworth PDA After Twitter Scandal
Hollywood Life
Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth are reportedly fighting due to her constant Twitter oversharing, but during their most recent day together she packed on the PDA with him — and showed plenty of her trademark sideboob! Miley, 19, was spotted with Liam ...

Shopping for gifts now on Facebook
BDlive
Users in the US will soon be able to buy and ship products from more than a hundred "FacebookGifts" vendors with a few clicks on the company's website. The products include eyeglasses by Warby Parker, Starbucks coffee and pastries from New ...

Lindsay Lohan Blasts Dr. Phil on Twitter -- 'You're a Fraud!' | TMZ.com
By TMZ Staff
Share your experience on Facebook and many other networks. Sign up to the left ... Lindsay came to her mother's defense on Twitter yesterday, saying Dr. Phil should be "ashamed" of himself and calling him a "fraud" and a "bully." Apparently ...
TMZ.com

Facebook Updates Messenger For iOS With New Chat - TechCrunch
By Frederic Lardinois
... refresh with this update, as well as a speed boost and official support for iOS 6 and the iPhone 5's larger display. Today's update comes just a bit more than a week after Facebook also launched an update to its Messenger app for Android and, for the most part, this update brings the iOS app's design on par with the Android app. ... View Staff Page Follow me on twitter. facebook_messenger_ios_logo. Facebook just launched a new version of its Messenger app for iOS. Messenger ...
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Facebook Embraces Bubbles in Messenger iPhone Upgrade
By Todd Wasserman
Bubbles. That's the biggest change you'll probably notice in Facebook's upgraded Messenger. ... 2 Comments. To leave a comment on this story, please log in with Facebook or Twitter ...
Mashable » Tech

I Got Fired From Facebook - Business Insider
By Henry Blodget
... A former Facebook product manager named Noah Kagan has written a brutally honest article about how and why he got fired fromFacebook in 2006 and what he learned from it.
Clusterstock

DC's New 52 Facebook Poll Backfires Just A Bit | Bleeding Cool ...
By Rich Johnston
The top three have the majority of votes… UPDATE: Half an hour after posting the piece, after a day of aiying because MorrisonCon kept getting in the way, DC Comics have withdrawn the poll from theirFacebook page. It can still be accessed ...
Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies...

11 ways to mine LinkedIn for hidden talent
PCWorld
If you listen to conventional wisdom, LinkedIn is a vast sea of potential hires, all just waiting to jump onboard your company. The good news: LinkedIn indeed holds deep recruiting potential. The bad news: Rock star candidates won't start banging on ...

Pinterest inspires design for Ringgold boy's bedroom
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Every day, more than 4 million viewers check out Pinterest, according to statistics onbrandignity.com. Pinterest is the Internet bulletin board where users can share anything from T-shirt slogans to home decor ideas. Burke copied a baseball pattern ...

Chattanooga Times Free Press

3 Tips for Using LinkedIn's New 'Endorsements'
Terra.com
In case you missed it, LinkedIn has a new feature called "Endorsements." It allows users to endorse skills or expertise of any members in their network -- including skills they haven't listed. This allows potential networking partners to quickly ...

Instagram vs. Twitter
CNN
Show video statistics. I like this Like I dislike this. Add to. Share Flag as inappropriate. Loading... Alert icon. Sign in or sign up now! Alert icon. Loading... Published on Sep 28, 2012 by CNN. Is Instagram more popular than Twitter? Erin Burnett ...

Pa. teens charged as adults in taped beating
USA TODAY
CHESTER, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Six teenagers were in custody Friday on charges they brutally beat a neighbor on her stoop "just for fun" and then posted cellphone video of the attack on Facebook, authorities said. Four 16- and 17-year-old girls were ...

Facebook gift-giving feature sparks rally
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Facebook Inc. found out yet again Friday that the company's efforts to find new ways to make money from its enormous reach will be rewarded. “Every timeFacebook demonstrates that it is focused on revenue, the stock will ...

The Facebook game platform: Anyone can rise to the top of the charts ...
VentureBeat
He joined Facebook in January, 2011, in order to make sure that the social network understood the games and game publishers that were making Facebook into one of the world's largest gaming platforms. He is the director of game partnerships atFacebook ...

VentureBeat

Timing Twitter
Wall Street Journal (blog)
My print column this week examines the new measure used by Twitter Inc. starting this summer to detect excitement among its user base about a news event: tweets per minute. Twitter analysts compile hashtags and keywords to filter through the hundreds ...

EU lawmaker calls for tighter data rules after Facebook row
Chicago Tribune
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - An EU lawmaker called for tighter control of on-line social networks under a data protection regulation now being debated after some Facebook users said their personal messages appeared on their public profiles. EU regulators are ...

Facebook Scales the Great Firewall of China
DailyFinance
The chart above shows that Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn (NYS: LNKD) still lag local alternatives like SINA, Tencent, and Renren in users. Censored, schmensored. Users could potentially bypass China's firewall by using services like virtual private ...

Facebook video leads to girls' arrest for beating disabled woman
Chicago Tribune
assailants and put on Facebook, police said on Friday. A person who viewed the cell phone video alerted police to the assault in the town of Chester near Philadelphia, Police Commissioner Joseph Bail Jr. said. "It was an absolutely random, savage, ...

Twitter Blog: More Tweets to discover
By Twitter
Last December, we introduced Discover to bring you essential information from the web. This May, we added stronger signals and a new design that made it more personal for you with better stories and Tweets from people you know.
Twitter Blog

Facebook Shares Jump More Than 6% After Gifts Launch. (Hooray ...
By Kim-Mai Cutler
Around Wall Street's close yesterday, the company launched a much anticipated e-commerce initiative that lets Facebook users send real, physical gifts to friends and family on birthdays and special events like engagements and weddings. It gives the company a third business model beyond advertising and payments revenue. Shares have ... View Staff Page Follow me on twitter. Kim-Mai Cutler is a technology journalist who has worked for Bloomberg, VentureBeat and The Wall ...
TechCrunch

Small Business Advertisers Like Facebook's Immediacy, But Not Its ...
By Todd Wasserman
Small businesses weigh the pros and cons of Facebook's advertising and analytics products. ... 0 Comments. To leave a comment on this story, please log in with Facebook or Twitter ...
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Bootstrap Creators Quit Twitter For Obvious And GitHub
By Robin Wauters
Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton (aka @mdo and @fat), who jointly cooked up front-end Web app development toolkit Bootstrap whilst working at Twitter, have decided to leave the social networking company after 2.5 years. In a blog post, Otto and Thornton promise that they will both continue to work on the Bootstrap ... Facebook Users See Private Messages Show Up on Their Timelines ·Twitter logo is displayed at the entranc · Report: Twitter's Most Active Country Is China (Where It Is...
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