Facebook, Social Media News & Practices

Where where you this time, last year? That and other questions can be solved a little easier thanks to Facebook's new Timeline feature which is now part of the upgraded iPhone app.

It was only 5 or 6 years ago that Twitter and Facebook were introduced, but for some, the endless connectivity has already become burdensome. For those looking for a way to streamline their social media feeds, Bottlenose has introduced a smarter way to “surf the stream.”

Social business is all about getting connected within one's organization, as well as connecting with the right people. Facebook plans to launch a new feature that lets page owners not only post messages in public, but also reach out to other social network users in private.

Facebook is offering website owners and authors more ways to help their readers discover, curate and share content. With Facebook's latest Subscribe button for websites, users can subscribe to their favorite authors straight from within their respective websites.

Android users have millions of apps to enjoy, but there's still some envy for iOS's best-in-class products. Another of those pins will fall down soon, with the upcoming release of mega-popular photo app Instagram while a faster updated Facebook app is out now.

Flipboard was a roaring success on the iPad, making news accessible, stylish and fun. Now, it makes its way to the iPhone with improved features for easier use on the run. 

If you had any doubts that the cloud has gone mainstream, the latest news from Hewlett Packard (HP) and Box might change your mind. The companies announced that several models of HP business PCs will have access to a free Box account.

At first, neither party confirmed the purchase, but multiple sources indicated that Facebook was inking a deal to buy Gowalla, a location-sharing company based out of Austin, Texas. Today Gowalla founder Josh Williams confirmed that his company had been purchased.

Earlier this week, we told you that there may be more than meets the eye when it comes to Google+. Google is looking to use Google+ to connect its millions of users already engaged with its numerous other platforms. This week, Google cranked its Google+ campaign up a notch, while Google Security added a few more layers of privacy.

If you manage the Twitter or Facebook presence for an organization, it takes discipline to remember to tweet out updates and news stories on a regular basis. Also, perhaps you're on vacation or going to be out of pocket for a period of time. What if there was an application that let you schedule your tweets or Facebook updates ahead of time?

Such a web app does exist and it's called Buffer. Let's dig in.

Like most of the Internet Giant’s social networking efforts, the reception of Google Plus has been up and down. After a long-awaited debut and a surprisingly positive initial reaction, the smoke is clearing away to reveal a growing nugget of doubt. After all, compared to Facebook, Plus is a ghost town. But wait, should we even be comparing the two? A closer look indicates Google has something different -- and potentially way more powerful -- up its sleeve.

Google used to hate advertising, in fact it was proud that others did its advertising for it. That's not the case with Google+, so the company has had to produce some promos to show off the service.

An interesting question crops up time and again: Will today's major social networks turn to the enterprise market in the future? Business-oriented social networks are already popular among organizations and companies. But as Facebook and Google+ run out of markets to grow into, they will need to find more growth areas from within, and the enterprise is one big market ripe for the picking.

Computer-based analysis of billions of social media posts focuses on the economy's affect on...women's footwear.

Expert Labs announces that the ThinkUp social data analysis tool hit its1.0 milestone.