Whisper, the mobile app for sharing secrets, continues to gain a lot of users and media attention as part of the anonymous social networks movement. The Whisper app launched in 2012 […] Original post by gall1
Businesses increasingly are starting to spend some of their advertising dollars to buy ads on social networks. Social media advertising is still a relatively small part of the overall ad […] Original post by gall1
Google announced a new feature called Stories to its Google Plus Photos service last week, and it’s a fairly powerful tool that automatically generates chronological, multimedia slideshows. What’s cool about Google […] Original post by gall1
LinkedIn recently added a feature called “How You Rank” that lets users see how many people have viewed their profiles on the business networking service and compare that number to […] Original post by gall1
The Tunepics app is a new mobile social network that marries music and photos. Created in Britain, Tunepics lets users add songs to their photos and share them with anyone […] Original post by gall1
In a significant reversal of its long-time policy, Facebook announced it is changing the default privacy setting for sharing — who can see their updates– when people first sign up […] Original post by gall1
Don’t want to unfollow someone on Twitter? No problem, Twitter’s got you covered. The company started rolling out a “mute” function this week that lets users block tweets from specific […] Original post by gall1
Rejection on Facebook can not only hurt our feelings, it can also lower our self esteem, according to a new study by researchers in Australia. Scholars at the University of Queensland […] Original post by gall1
Private social networks may sound like an oxymoron, but they represent an imporant experiment with next-generation mobile networking. It wouldn’t be surprising to wake up next year and find that […] Original post by gall1
Users of the popular URL-shortening service Bitly learned this week that their account credentials had potentially been compromised by hackers. Bitly notified users Thursday that it had suffered a potential […] Original post by gall1
Someone needs to create a memorial website for all the Facebook apps of days gone by. The latest items Facebook has consigned to the scrap heap of failed experiments? […] Original post by gall1
Just what we all need — another social media channel to feed, right? As if Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Google+ weren’t enough, LinkedIn wants to see everyone chatting away on […] Original post by gall1
Move over, Klout. There’s a simpler and easier way to measure social influence. A new tool called SocialRank is gaining a lot of attention after introducing a free service two months […] Original post by gall1
People who find Google’s image search service frustrating may welcome the latest news from Pinterest: a new visual discovery tool it calls “guided search.” Pinterest guided search The mega-image sharing site […] Original post by gall1
Facebook today took the wraps off FB Newswire, a new feature that’s part of its drive to make the network a more public place and an influential player in news. […] Original post by gall1