Facebook Tinkers With Comments To Get Users To Talk To Each Other
Facebook tests nested and ranked comments, trying to make sense of the often tangled mess of undifferentiated comments on popular threads.
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Wed, 14 November 2012
Fri, 26 October 2012
Need Accurate Political Fact-Checking? Ask a Librarian
Everyone with Internet access is a political fact-checker, which, of course, means reliable fact-checking is hard to find. We need…
Wed, 24 October 2012
Zynga Explains What Went Wrong, Refocuses Around Mobile And Real Money Gambling
Zynga fesses up to messing up and sets its sights on the only thing more addictive than virtual farming: gambling with real cash.
Wed, 3 October 2012
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[Infographic] Welcome To The, Um, Second Social Media Election
The 2012 U.S. presidential election isn't the nation's first social media election. This time around, though, the contest is shaping up to…
Wed, 19 September 2012
How The Big Six Book Publishers Are Using Social Media
In the fifth and final part of our series, Social Books, we explore how the "big six" book publishers use social media. So far in the series…
Tue, 18 September 2012
The Social Library: How Public Libraries Are Using Social Media
Like many of you, I'm connected to the Internet virtually every waking hour of my day - via computer, tablet and mobile phone. Yet I still…
Wed, 12 September 2012
Book Lovers: If You're Not Already On Goodreads, Here's Why You Should Be
My next series of posts is entitled Social Books. Over five posts, I'm going to explore how book readers and writers use social networking…
Mon, 27 August 2012
First Look: State, A Streams App Of The Future
As streams of information become more popular on the Web, we need better ways to consume and manage them. Apps that allow you to aggregate…
Thu, 23 August 2012
The Future of Streams: Twitter Looms As Biggest Obstacle
One of the five reasons why Web publishing is changing is the emergence of streams of information. In other words, a constant flow of…
Wed, 22 August 2012
Topic Pages Need An Open Network Too - And Quora Is It
This week I'm exploring why topic pages are getting traction on the social Web. But one potential flaw in topic pages is that they…
Thu, 16 August 2012
How Online Reading Is Changing - And How to Cope!
Yesterday we outlined five reasons why Web publishing is undergoing a sea change, via new services like Medium, Branch, Svtle and App.net…
Thu, 9 August 2012
Social Olympics: Does The Gold Medal Go To Facebook, Twitter or Google+?
Yesterday we looked at how online media is covering the London 2012 Olympics. We gave our virtual gold medal to the New York Times, for…
Fri, 3 August 2012
Can Facebook Capitalize on the Social Discovery Trend?
As Facebook released its earnings last week, pundits focused on the company's troubled mobile strategy. But Facebook may face an even bigger…
Thu, 2 August 2012
Social Discovery Is Pushing Search and Social Closer
Social discovery will remake the Internet, or at least how we plumb it. Need evidence? Persistent rumors of a Facebook search…
Wed, 1 August 2012
Hooked Media Group Uses Social Discovery to Fine-Tune Game Recommendations
Social discovery is the latest buzzword on the Web, but it has limits. Here's how one company is trying to use (but not over-use) social…
Thu, 26 July 2012
Inside Walmart's Social Shopping Skunkworks
The online social world can put consumer actions in context, which makes the targeting of retail offers eerily more precise. No wonder the…
Thu, 19 July 2012
Survey: Google+ Whomps Facebook on User Satisfaction
If Facebook doesn't stop walking over its users, it risks having them leave for social networks that do a better job of keeping them…
Google+ Gets More Business-Friendly with New APIs
Google+ is growing up. The fledgling social media platform, which has increasingly been seen as more of a threat to Facebook and Twitter…
Wed, 6 June 2012
Why Buddy Media Is So Important to Salesforce
Michael Lazerow, CEO, Buddy Media Salesforce.com's willingness to shell out $745 million for Buddy Media shows the confidence Salesforce…
Tue, 5 June 2012
Which Of These 3 Social Media Profiles Are You?
You've got a new piece of content you want to share, but where do you put it? Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, Pinterest, your…
Mon, 28 May 2012
94% of U.S. Wineries Are On Facebook, 73% on Twitter
94% of American wineries surveyed by ABLE Social Media Marketing are on Facebook and 73% are on Twitter. The study, done in December 2011…
Wed, 9 May 2012
Facebook's New App Center Promises Quality Over Quantity
Last September, during the f8 Developers’ Conference, Facebook CTO Bret Taylor said that the company had no plans for a “central app…
Mon, 30 April 2012
How to Stop Google, Facebook and Twitter From Tracking You
On the Internet, every site you visit is recorded. There are tools to help block this act, but what does it really mean to be tracked on the…
How We'll Get Beyond the Emoticon
There’s a sarcasm font. It’s brilliant, actually. Reversed italics, slanted left instead of right, perfectly conveys the tone of…
