Reuters Releases Social Pulse, A Social Media Hub. Reuters on Thursday released Social Pulse, a social media dashboard that shows what’s hot on social networks, with a focus on business news.
The site is divided into multiple sections: A top articles section, a social sentiment section, a section showing the Klout scores of CEOs, a hot tweets section and a section of stories that are popular on Reuters.com. On the right rail is a section called “Live Wire,” a series of hot links curated by Social Media Editor Anthony DeRosa.
The top articles section, called “The Hit List” and powered by Percolate, a social news service, shows the most popular stories that are being shared by people who are followed by Reuters’ official accounts and by their journalists. These stories are not necessarily Reuters stories; in fact, on Thursday afternoon, only one of the six stories in that section was from Reuters (Director of News Product Alex Leo‘s blog post announcing Social Pulse). The social sentiment section is perhaps my favorite feature. 52% of Holiday Shoppers Used Cellphones in Stores. More shoppers are using mobile devices in stores to do product research, price comparisons and look up reviews, but according to a new report, accessing the Internet wasn't the top way consumers sought purchasing assistance on phones during the 2011 holiday shopping season.
Nearly four in 10 shoppers called a friend for advice from a store about a buying decision. Research from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that about half of consumers (52%) used their phones in stores during the holidays. Of this group, about 38% said they called friends for advice and 24% said they looked up product reviews. Meanwhile, about 25% looked up product prices online to see if they could find a cheaper price at other retailers. The study was conducted among 1,000 U.S. adults over the age of 18 who were asked questions about how they shopped 30 days before and after Christmas.
According to a Wall Street Journal report, Target aims to put a stop to this. Topi et le touch messaging, nouveau mode de discussion instantanée. Topi est un nouveau service de messagerie instantanée, basé sur le « touch messaging ».
Un nouveau mode de communication, qui permet d’échanger avec des personnes proches de vous, ou partageant les mêmes centres d’intérêt. Un joli potentiel à exploiter ! Remarquée lors de la conférence LeWeb11 en décembre dernier, l’application a été créée par David Aubespin, entre autres ancien ingénieur chez Google. Nous l’avons intervewé, afin d’en savoir davantage sur les fonctionnalités de Topi et sur le touch messaging. Bonjour David, peux-tu commencer par te présenter ? Je suis un pur produit universitaire, de l’université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis pour être plus précis, où j’ai acquis un Master en Réseaux et Systèmes Distribués en 1999. Topi base son service sur le touch messaging. Le SMS a maintenant plus de 15 ans, et a été inventé bien avant l’arrivée des smartphones et des écrans tactiles.
Qu’est-ce qui t’a donné l’idée de lancer ce service ? As-tu des objectifs à court terme ? The Top 20 iPhone And iPad Apps of 2011. Editor’s note: Contributor Brad Spirrison is the managing editor of mobile app discovery services Appolicious, AndroidApps.com and AppVee.
With this post, he continues an annual tradition of picking the best iOS apps of the year. It’s telling that Apple chose an app that debuted more than 14 months ago, Instagram, as its “iPhone App of the Year” for 2011. This should not imply that there was a shortage of quality and groundbreaking apps released this year. Far from it. From social magazines to music discovery apps to console-quality games that players can hold in the palms of their hands, there are hundreds of new titles in the iTunes App Store that will inform, organize, and entertain virtually anyone who owns an iOS device. We picked 20 of the best iOS applications that came out or received significant updates in 2011. Here are ours. 1. After launching exclusively on iPads last year, this pioneering social magazine expanded to all iOS devices in December. 2. 3. 4.