Social Media News
Taptu Brings Realtime Search To Mobile
16th November 2009
With the growing popularity of realtime search, it was only a matter of time before it became available on the mobile Web. Taptu has managed to beat Google and Microsoft to become the first provider of realtime search on mobile. More »
Top Social Media Resources For Business
13th November 2009
A recent study by Business.com has found that webinars, podcasts, user ratings and reviews and corporate profiles on social networks are the most popular social media resources used by professionals to gain information. More »
Is Twitter Already On Its Way Down?
3rd November 2009
A recent report released by analytics firm Hitwise, does not provide good news for Twitter. According to the report, the growth curve of Twitter has taken a fairly steep turn for the worst between July and October 2009. More »
The Productivity Costs Of Social Networks
30th October 2009
Over the years there have been several articles based on surveys conducted that have suggested that employees spend a lot of their working hours on personal or non-productive work. Some consider Twitter to be such a non-productive pursuit. More »
Bing First To Search Live Twitter Streams
22nd October 2009
At the recently held Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Qi Lu, the President of Microsoft’s Online Services Group, spoke to Tim Reilly of TechCrunch, about the new facilities soon to be launched on their new search engine Bing. More »
Can Social Media Overtake Search Engines?
13th October 2009
It has been noticed of late that more and more people are turning to social media instead of the usual portals or search engines when they want to find out something online. More »
Bing Launches Social Sharing In Beta
9th October 2009
Microsoft now recognises the value of the social Web and is trying various means to get people to search on Bing. Rather than trying to displace Google as the go-to search engine they are prompting users to search and then share the information as well as the search query with their friends. More »
Social Web Dominated By Women
7th October 2009
Women, today, seem to be taking the lead over men in a lot of technical. Only recently it was found that working moms are the real power users of mobile phones.
The latest statistics, collected by Brian Solis of Google Ad Planner, and published on Information is Beautiful, show that women also dominate the social web. More »
LinkedIn Targets HR With Profile Bookmarking
5th October 2009
Social networking site LinkedIn has been very useful for professionals to interact with each other and also to help companies to recruit staff for a variety of jobs. More »
Nielsen Brings Market Intelligence To Facebook
28th September 2009
Facebook and Nielsen are teaming up to provide a new service to marketers on the popular social networking site. Nielsen will make use of their vast marketing experience to help marketers reach all Facebook users more effectively. More »
Google Sidewiki Brings User Comments To All Sites
25th September 2009
Google has just introduced a new feature to enable all their users to add their own comments or experiences to every website which they visit. More »
Mixx + Twitter = TweetMixx + Self-spam?
15th September 2009
With Twitter growing larger by leaps and bounds everyday, it is getting increasingly difficult for users to decide whom to follow and which tweets they would find interesting and relevant. To help users, Mixx has now stepped in to simplify matters. More »
Facebook Copying Twitter @Mentions
14th September 2009
It looks as though, Facebook will do all that is required to slow down the growth of Twitter and to retain their own popularity. More »
Ad Impressions On Social Sites Grow
10th September 2009
comScore has revealed that display ads on social networks accounted for more than 20% of the total number of online ad impressions in the USA during the month of June 2009 . More »
Facebook Mobile To Reach 100 Million Users By 2010
8th September 2009
Facebook Mobile is growing very rapidly in popularity. Recently released numbers indicate that the service is now used by more than three times as many people as the number that used it eight months ago. More »
Digg Adds Nofollow To All Stories That Aren’t Popular
7th September 2009
Digg recently added the rel=”nofollow” attribute to some links on their site, whose quality and veracity they are not sure of. This move comes hot on the heels of Twitter, who did the same for all their links last week. More »
Twitter Geolocation Service Due For Launch
27th August 2009
So far it has been difficult to assess the geographic location from which a tweet originates, due to the unavailability of sophisticated apps required for the purpose. Twitter will soon launch a new feature to make this process simple. More »
Twitter Slaps SEOs With Nofollow On All Links
26th August 2009
A year ago, Twitter was known to only a handful of people who were all search and social media marketing enthusiasts. These search and social media professionals saw the potential in Twitter and promoted it on their blogs, in their emails and in a lot of their communications. Twitter has repaid the favour by treating all users as spammers and slapped rel=”nofollow” attributes onto all external links. More »
Twitter Monetisation Through Commercial Accounts
25th August 2009
For a long time now, there has been speculation that Twitter will start some service that would provide the site with an opportunity to earn some revenue. They now seem ready to do just that. More »
ReTweet Button Growth Disproportionate To Usage
24th August 2009
TweetMeme, a service that monitors the popularity of tweets and links being sent out on Twitter, has itself grown rapidly in the past few months, due to the extremely popular retweet buttons. Usage of the service, though, has not quite kept up with this growth. More »
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