International Tweetmeme Serving 500M Buttons Daily, Adds Language and Translation Support While the majority of Twitter users reside within the United States, there is also a massive international population of users sharing info and links in various languages around the world. Tweetmeme, a service for sharing and tracking links on Twitter, announced today that it serves a half of a billion retweet button impressions each day on… Social Chris Cameron View comments
Facebook Facebook's Likable Little Comments Could Be a Big Deal Facebook just announced a new feature that probably should have been obvious for a long time: the ability to "like" comments that people post on Newsfeed items. Users were always able to signal text-free approval of shared items, but now they will be able to offer quick support for subsequent parts of the conversations they see as well. This… Social Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Facebook Facebook Privacy Flap Finished? Not So Fast, Say Privacy Groups So, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg came out, spoke about privacy, and the company offered up some ways for users to make quick and easy adjustments to what they were sharing with who - privacy flap over and done, right? Not so fast, say 10 of the nations top privacy groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties… Social Mike Melanson View comments
News The Dream Team Quietly Gathering Behind Real-Time Service SuperFeedr If the web of the future is based on real-time data delivery, San Francisco startup Superfeedr hopes to be a big part of the technology that helps it get there. The company takes content feeds in a wide variety of traditional formats and transforms them into real-time feeds pushed to parties interested in consuming data in real-time. Founder… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Advertising Financial Times Expects Direct Payments to Outpace Print Ads in 2010 A report yesterday from PricewaterhouseCoopers found that online ad revenue is on the verge of surpassing print ads - an inspiring milestone for new media and convergence. However, the PwC survey was based on combined figures across all online media outlets; are individual news outlets having success detaching themselves from the traditional… Chris Cameron View comments