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And now Tweetcloud.com is gone?
It seems to be a bit of a watershed for social media sites right now. Google+ is nibbling away at Facebook, which itself might be about to undergo radical change. Delicious has introduced a new look and feel that hasn’t been entirely well received. Social Mention disappeared for a short while, making us realise how [...]
New Delicious – sweet eye candy but a bitter aftertaste
As if by magic, Delicious has relaunched. I had that sinking feeling when I powered up my laptop this morning and noticed that the Delicious add-on that I use to navigate the web wasn’t loading properly. It didn’t take long to figure out that there are some fairly radical changes going on. Superficially it looks [...]
3 Ways to Improve Your Company’s Social Media Architecture
via mashable.com This is pretty good, from my ex-employer Fleishman Hillard. Everyone likes graphics because they (usually) make things clearer. In this one, anything big and green in the centre is good, because it’s a nice, living social media presence. Anything red is bad, because it’s dead. The FH solution is simply to delete the [...]
Facebook’s F8 changes: a slight case of oversharing? | Econsultancy
Facebook is renowned for rolling out new platform changes at a moment’s notice, but if early buzz is to be believed, this Thursday’s F8 developer conference will offer something a little bit special. Major changes are expected that could fundamentally reshape the way content is found and shared on the world’s largest social network. Will [...]
Gamers solve puzzle in 3 weeks that stumped scientists for a decade
This is only the first time that online gamers have figured out the solution to a complex scientific problem. Foldit co-creator Seth Cooper said that their spatial reasoning skills allowed gamers to succeed where powerful computers had failed before and expressed hope that their game, and others like it, would lead to many such accomplishments [...]
YouTube Founders Aim to Revamp Delicious
via nytimes.com These are your new social media pin-ups. They’re the guys who are going to save Delicious – by quite some way the most powerful, effective and yet simple way of sharing content online. It was also by quite some way the largest, but the dolts at Yahoo couldn’t figure out what to do [...]
Whither Social Mention?
Social Mention is a pretty good social media aggregator. Think Google, but for social media. When I say ‘pretty good’, I mean it’s not without its faults. It doesn’t do real phrasal searches – that is, a search for “Brendan Cooper” in quotes will give results with just “Brendan” and “Cooper” in them, which is [...]
The ROI of Social Media: 10 Case Studies – TNW Social Media
The question of whether or not social media drives ROI still plagues many marketers and brands. The issue is not always as straightforward as it seems, as there are multiple ways to measure the benefits of social media and it isn’t as simple as looking for a direct sales return at one end, with the [...]
