The Social Media Minute

Social Media moves so fast, its hard to keep up. Here's the week's top stories from around the blogosphere, in scan-friendly format.

This Week:

• Twitter Cuts SMS Access
• Movable Type Goes Social
• AOL to Acquire Socialthing
• ReplyFeed.com : Social Media Conversation Management
• Google's Failed Acquisitions in Social Media
• Facebook Launches New Social Ad Unit, and Gets Sued… Again

Twitter Cuts SMS Access in UK

Twitter announced on Wednesday that they were cutting SMS services for the U.K. Outbound Tweets are no longer coming to British subscribers, but U.S., Canadian and Indian services remain unaffected.

What did the Brits ever do to deserve this? Oh yeah…

Twitter has been getting its act together pretty well over the past couple of months in terms of keeping the service running, but this has come at a cost. Vast swathes of users archived Tweets are reported MIA, and users have been reduced to making do with a mere 2,000 follows.

Meanwhile some wag at Get Satisfaction, the popular consumer-services startup, got sick of people on Twitter-business ambling into their new office, which was recently vacated by Twitter. So he or she posted this on the door:

Credit and article: Stephen at OfficeSnapShots

Movable Type Goes Social

SixApart has been gently edging towards more social capabilities for its blogging platform for some time, and we reported on Monday the latest evolution in Movable Type's Social blueprint.

MT Pro combines Movable Type’s blogging features with social networking capabilities, primarily enabling blog owners to “create a vibrant social network by “letting their readers and visitors become members of their sites, with profiles and the ability to rate content and follow each other.”

Various blogging platforms and mid-range Web CMS enable some of these features, but 6a's new solution looks like it will have the whole Social feature set right out of the box, and may very well win over a fair portion of Wordpress fans.

AOL to Acquire Socialthing

If the rumours are to be believed, AOL has been on the hunt for more Social goodness of late (it bought Bebo for close to a billion dollars in March), and C|net reckon Socialthing is squarely in its sights.

Socialthing is a social aggregating service similar to FriendFeed, which enables you to track users movements throughout the Social spectrum. It is still in private Beta but is widely admired by the hopeless social junkie-set.

ReplyFeed.com : Social Media Conversation Management

The eminent Louis Gray stumbled across this little beauty on his travels, and posted the link to FriendFeed. It's some kind of social aggregator-aggregator (it had to happen sometime), which looks like it will be pretty useful.

“ReplyFeed is a free tool that will aggregate all of your replies from your various communities (blogs included) into one place. Now you can monitor replies, answer them and have them sent back to the community from whence they came in one convenient location.”

The Social Media Minute

Social Media moves so fast, its hard to keep up. Here's the week's top stories from around the blogosphere, in scan-friendly format.\n\nThis Week:\n\n* Twitter Cuts SMS Access\n* Movable Type Goes Social\n* AOL to Acquire Socialthing\n* ReplyFeed.com : Social Media Conversation Management\n* Google's Failed Acquisitions in Social Media\n* Facebook Launches New Social Ad Unit, and Gets Sued... Again

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