Facebook And Twitter Will Always Be Crappy Businesses. BREAKING: Twitter Launches Location-Based Trending Topics. Twitter has begun rolling out location-based trending topics.
The product is officially called Local Trends. In a statement to us, Twitter said the following: "We're rolling out local trends to 1 percent of users today, but we'll share more information when it reaches a larger audience hopefully sometime next week. We'll keep you posted when that happens. " The pictures below, courtesy of @lisabarone, show the new feature in all of its glory. Screenshots: Local Trends More Info Currently, only a few users have access to the feature (I don't have it yet), but it should be rolling out to everybody soon.
Exclusive: Ex-MySpace Execs Launch Gravity Into Private Beta. Back in March 2009 a trio of MySpace execs -COO Amit Kapur, SVP Steve Pearman and SVP Jim Benedetto – left to begin working on a new startup.
In May we learned that the company, then called Blue Rover Labs, had raised $10 million in funding. We also heard a few details about what the startup might be about: <em "The company is supposedly targeting the message board/Internet forum space with technology that aggregates content and serves advertising against it. Real time search (bingo! Blippy / What are your friends buying? Netvibes.
The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures. Hello, old friends.
I am back from dark months of data mining, here now to present my ores. To write this piece, we cataloged over 7,000 photographs on OkCupid.com, analyzing three primary things: Facial Attitude. Is the person smiling? Staring straight ahead? In looking closely at the astonishingly wide variety of ways our users have chosen to represent themselves, we discovered much of the collective wisdom about profile pictures was wrong. One of the first things we noticed when diving into our pool of photos is that men and women have very different approaches to the camera. Women smile about 50% more than men do and make that flirty-face four times as often. HarperCollins Debuts Inkpop, An Interactive Writing Platform For.
News Corp-owned HarperCollins this morning put out a release about the launch of Inkpop.com, an interactive writing platform for teens.
Which caught us off guard, because the U.S. publisher had already soft-launched the website on its Authonomy blog on November 24, 2009. Anyway: Inkpop is a project from HarperTeen, HarperCollins Publishers’ teen publishing unit. The platform aims to attract young readers and writers with a combination of community publishing features, user-generated content, and social networking elements. In addition, the company has engaged a group of international HarperCollins editors and authors to function as some sort of ‘editorial board’ whose job it is to review the site’s top five monthly selections, provide teens with feedback and mentorship opportunities, while also considering their work for publication. Susan Katz, President and Publisher of HarperCollins Children’s Books, said: “Teens are a key consumer group with significant financial impact.
Social Is the Top Priority for Marketers in 2010 [STATS] Money spent on social media-related advertising is already expected to grow significantly this year, and now we also know that the medium is considered the top priority in the digital space according to a survey of senior marketers.
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The research, published today in eMarketer, shows that 45.4% of respondents considered social a ‘top priority’ while another 42.2% deemed it ‘important’. That narrowly beat out digital infrastructure for the top spot, with other marketing tactics like search, mobile, and blogger outreach trailing significantly. Here are the full results: Elsewhere, eMarketer reports on the metrics that marketers care most about, and the results support the notion that the page view is declining in relevance. The 5 Social Media Tools Small Businesses Need Right Now : The W. What social media tools are early adopters raving about so far in 2010?
Foursquare is a mobile app that allows you to check-in with your fri January 25, 2010 What social media tools are early adopters raving about so far in 2010? Foursquare is a mobile app that allows you to check-in with your friends when you arrive at a certain location. Google Brings Social Search to the Masses. Google has kept Social Search pretty much hidden from the general public, choosing to make it an opt-in Google Labs feature.
Today, however, Google is pushing the feature to beta status and turning it on for all signed-in English Googlers. You may recall that Google Social Search is a standard search results page add-on that displays socially relevant content from people in your online social circle, as determined by your Google Profile. With the beta release, Google's also integrating social search into Google Image searches, which means you can scroll down to view pictures matching your query that contacts from your circle — friends and friends of friends — have shared online. With the beta release Google is also introducing new UI elements to tie the social search experience together. We think the beta rollout to all English searchers is more significant than the initial labs feature, as it exposes the contextual search results to a mainstream search audience.
Six Ways to Find Social Media Talent - The Conversation - Harvar.