Highlights of social media news during the past week: 1. Pin It: Publishers on four additional platforms can now offer Pinterest Pin-it buttons so their site visitors can more easily grab […] Original post by FreeWebspace.net – webhosting forum latest …
Twitter announced this week it has agreed to buy one of its data partners, a social media monitoring company called Gnip, which sells data about social media activity to businesses. […] Original post by gall1
Facebook may be known for promoting online friendships, but now it’s taking aim at offline connections through a new mobile feature called “Nearby Friends Friends Nearby Alert Announced today, Nearby […] Original post by gall1
LinkedIn is on the move, beefing up its links to mobile users. The company announced today it has crossed the 300-million-registered-users milestone, up from 277 million at the beginning […] Original post by gall1
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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