Social Media Search Tool | WhosTalkin? 5 Tips for Facebook Graph Search Optimization Facebook announced Graph Search today in its press conference, a new form of social search that relies on friends and connected parties to find interesting results. Instead of traversing search archives about topics, Graph Search lets you traverse social networks for people who know about the topics. It should take almost no time for Graph Search Optimization companies to spring up overnight for optimizing your marketing programs for Graph Search. I’ll save you some time with a few simple guidelines based on what Facebook has revealed. 1. 2. Also, you can fling anything you heard about the value of a Facebook Like straight out the window now, if you haven’t already. 3. Get your friends, customers, prospects, and evangelists to Share your stuff as often as possible. 4.
6 Most Powerful Search Engines for Social Networks If you’re like most Internet users, you probably spend a decent amount of time using a search engine to find content and answers to your questions. Based on what you’re searching for, a lot of the top results that come up generally are social networking pages and profiles, especially if you’re searching for a person. But what if you only want to search social networks? Social network search engines are designed to do this. They can filter out all the unnecessary results you might get if you used a regular search engine for your query. In this article, I’m going to cover the most powerful social network search engines. SocialMention Back in March, Ann wrote an article titled How To Search Multiple Social Media Sites At A Time. SocialMention allows you to search blogs, microblogs, networks, bookmarks, comments, events, images, news, videos, audio, and questions for a specific term of your choosing. yoName You can search by first & last name, username, email address, or phone number. Folowen
Facebook's new business plan: from utility to monopoly | Dan Gillmor The tweet, posted a little over two years ago by someone with deep connections in the internet world, was illuminating. It said, simply: "A friend working for Facebook: 'we're like electricity.'" I recalled that tweet last week when Facebook made two announcements of note. First, as everyone knows by now, it has a billion users – including, I suspect, nearly everyone I know. I scarcely use the social network myself, but I am constantly invited to look at items that others post there – and which are unavailable unless I log in. The second announcement was relatively minor in the bigger scheme of things – Facebook's plan to charge a fee, rumored to be $7, for users who want to place a post high in their followers' news feeds. Both moves spoke to the growing influence of this still-young company, and to its genuine potential to become what amounts to a public utility. Facebook's ever-expanding user base is easy to understand. Electricity?
Kurrently - real-time social media search engine (Twitter, Facebook, Google+) Facebook's Graph Could Be OkCupid, Yelp, and LinkedIn, All in One - Rebecca J. Rosen Facebook unveils a powerful new search tool that will put the wisdom of your friends at your fingertips. Facebook Perhaps you've posted on Facebook something like this: "Anyone have any good book recommendations?" I've seen hundreds of these posts, and the reason is that, even with all the power of Google, there are just some things that your friends know better. Today, Facebook unveiled a new search tool they are calling Graph, and with Graph, they are hoping they can make much better use of all that data people have been leaving on Facebook for years. Movies my friends like -- which pulls up, as you would expect, movies your friends have liked, but gives it some nice contextual information showing additionally other similar moviesPhotos of my friends in 2009Friends who live in Palo Alto who like Game of Thrones"People named Chris who are friends of Lars and went to Stanford." Pretty freaking useful, no? The privacy concerns for a tool like this are huge, and Facebook knows that.
Topsy - Instant social insight With iOS 9, Search lets you look for content from the web, your contacts, apps, nearby places, and more. Powered by Siri, Search offers suggestions and updates results as you type. There are two ways to use Search on your iOS device. Quick Search Drag down from the middle of the Home screen and type what you're looking for. Siri Suggestions Drag right from the Home screen to show Search and get Siri Suggestions. Get Siri Suggestions Siri Suggestions include apps and contacts that you might be interested in. You can use Siri Suggestions with iPhone 5 and later, iPad Pro, iPad (4th generation) and later, iPad mini (2nd generation) and later, and iPod touch (6th generation). Change search settings Go to Settings > General > Spotlight Search. From here, you can turn Siri Suggestions on or off and choose which apps to include in your searches. If you don’t want Siri or Spotlight to suggest nearby locations, go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services. Last Modified:
Now's a really good time to update these Facebook privacy settings As details of Facebook's Graph Search unfolded this morning , users heaved a sigh of relief when they learned that Facebook would not be exposing our innermost privacies with its latest product -- the company would simply search the data we've already (willfully) shared and make it easily accessible to friends. Your data. Easily accessible to friends. In the new search bar, a Facebook user can search for something like, "Friends who like 'Star Wars' and cooking." But circa 2008, when Facebook introduced Pages that you could "Like" (like "drinking beer" and "Tyra Banks") you probably didn't think that those Likes would later transform into indexed bits of data used in a robust tool called Graph Search. I bet you also didn't think that the songs you were listening to wouldn't just be shown in the Ticker (aka "Facebook in your Facebook"), and a fun little module on your Timeline, but would also be easily navigated by your friends. For example: 1. 2. 3. 4.
Is Facebook a human right or a weapon? There was a very disturbing and significant social media-related court ruling last week that, curiously, has received little notice or commentary on the web. Let’s change that shall we? A U.S. Federal Appeals Court ruled that an Indiana state law that bans registered sex offenders from Facebook is unconstitutional. The ruling means thousands of Indiana’s registered sex offenders are now free to use Facebook and other social sites used by millions of children with computers and smartphones. Is social media a human right? The appeal was made by an Indianapolis man who had been convicted and served three years in prison on two counts of child exploitation. The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana represented the man and argued that sex offenders are unjustly barred from using Twitter and Facebook, which can be used to do legitimate business over the Internet. The 7th District US Court of Appeals agreed with the ACLU and overturned the law, which has been in place since 2008. Taking action
Understanding Facebook’s EdgeRank A recent controversy over average Facebook Page reach led Facebook to publicly announce the four main factors it uses to determine the reach each Page post gets. Reach refers to the number of your Facebook fans (users who Like your Page) who see each of your posts in their News Feed. The 4 Factors Whether you interacted with an author’s posts before: If you Like every post by a Page that Facebook shows you, it will show you more from that Page.Other people’s reactions to a specific post: If everyone on Facebook that’s shown a post ignores it or complains, it’s less likely to show you that post.Your interaction with posts of the same type in the past: If you always Like photos, there’s a better chance you’ll see a photo posted by a Page.Complaints: If a specific post has received complaints by other users who have seen it, or the Page that posted it has received lots complaints in the past, you’ll be less likely to see that post. Have your fans add you to their interests
Facebook Changes Privacy Controls, Forces Users to be Searchable Facebook is rolling out new privacy controls Wednesday morning, while also taking away the option for you to hide from Facebook search. The new privacy tools will make it easier for you to pick which of your friends or subscribers can view your personal info, status updates and photos, according to Reuters. It also makes it simpler for you to request that a photograph of yourself be taken down by the uploader. Facebook is also making changes to your Activity Log, which will make it easier to see where your personal data is traveling across Facebook's Open Graph. Another change: apps must separately ask for permission to tap into your personal information and to post status updates for you. Along with the privacy changes comes the major change to search — you'll no longer have the option to hide from other Facebook users looking for your name, according to the New York Times. The search changes, however, are likely to aggravate many users and Internet privacy advocates.
This Facebook App Gives Annoying Friends a 'Time Out' Sure, you have the option to hide any objectionable post in your News Feed (it's under a small arrow that appears to the right of any given post). You can also mute or unfriend people entirely. But where's the fun in that? How will your offensive friends know that they need to mend their posting ways?