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Twitter announced it would be adding locations to your tweets back in August, and they’ve been making changes to their API to enable the functionality since late September. The geolocation functionality is now complete, and a number of developers of third-party apps who have been working on building location support into th (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Sysomos just launched the next version of Heartbeat, the company's social media monitoring tool. Highlights of Heartbeat 2.0 include a redesigned user interface and Facebook integration. Sysomos' customers can now monitor public conversations on Facebook and manage their Facebook Pages right from within Heartbeat. The Faceb (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Burned by a scandal in its offer business over inappropriate promos, Offerpal Media is moving to set standards which forbids offers that are misleading, deceptive or otherwise objectionable.The action is the first move the company has made since it brought in a new chief executive, George Garrick, a couple of weeks ago. The (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Foursquare has just gone global with the announcement of 50 new cities worldwide, doubling their previous coverage. The company says it chose the cities based on feedback from users requesting the service.The new cities take the service across six continents, but it’s not so long since it was a strictly a tech-insider pheno (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Facebook unveiled what could become a pretty powerful marketing tool for large multinationals and brands last night. You can now target specific locations and languages when you send out updates on a Facebook page. A brand like McDonald’s could use the new feature to send out coupons to Japanese followers, for example.Why i (Read More)
Mashable!:
This post is part of Mashable’s Fab Five series with Jalen Rose, which highlights trends in the social media space. Jalen Rose is a former 13-year NBA star and current ESPN basketball analyst but may be best known for being a member of the famous University of Michigan Fab Five.Until a couple of years ago, social media did (Read More)
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For those of you waiting for the Facebook integration on the PS3 to roll out, the new version 3.10 firmware is now available. You’ll have to install the update, then look for the new Facebook Settings under the Account Management section of the PlayStation Network area of the cross-media bar (XMB).Once enabled you’ll be abl (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Microsoft launched Xbox Live as an online gaming service in 2002 amid great skepticism. It didn’t really take off until Halo 2 launched in 2004, but now the service is huge. There are more than 20 million active Xbox Live subscribers (both free users and those who pay $50 a year for multiplayer gaming). That means that more (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Ten days after Google's Sidewiki was accused of lifting features from annotation startup Reframe It, the little company is striking back. In a video interview with Reframe It CEO Bobby Fishkin, ReadWriteWeb learned why this 15-person team thinks they've got a fighting shot at besting the search Goliath. SponsorThe idea for (Read More)
Mashable!:
Just a few weeks ago, one of the biggest changes to hit Twitter was launched: Twitter Lists. The feature has permeated every corner of Twitter, allowing you to curate lists of Twitter users that others can follow.Now Twitter is rolling out improvements to its Lists feature, starting with one that many Twitter users have be (Read More)
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David Spinks is a graduating senior in NY that is utilizing the power of social web communities to pursue a career in social media/marketing. He authors a blog at DavidSpinks.com.There is an almost overwhelming number of options on the social web for businesses to create and participate in communities. You hear a lot about (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, announced this morning that he's closing down his Twitter client Ginx early next year and instead focusing on an online local news project. We reviewed a "private pre-alpha" version of Ginx in February and called it a dud. Ginx had some nice ideas but wasn't terribly innovative and it's fi (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
A backlash against anonymous commenters and trolls seems to be underway. Only last month, a court case was settled where anonymous commenters ended up having to pay big fines to the women who they defiled using vulgar, derogatory remarks on a internet forum. And previously, an anonymous blogger in the modeling industry was (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Research firm Gartner has just put out a list of the top ten mobile applications of the future. Well, not the distant future, but the far off year of 2012. Nothing on the list is all that surprising or, in many cases, even all that new. Instead, the list includes the sorts of technologies that are just now coming into their (Read More)
Mashable!:
Earlier this morning, I went on NBC in San Diego to talk about the online hysteria surrounding Twilight Saga: New Moon. The segment is embedded below, but given that both Crimson Hexagon and Trendrr were kind enough to provide exclusive (and astonishing) data surrounding New Moon social media mania, we thought it best that (Read More)