Facebook, Social Media News & Practices

Content curation has been getting a lot of attention recently. We’ve covered what it is, why it’s valuable and offered best practices on how to curate content on your own. Yet, if management systems can be designed to manage content, why not build one to curate content?

Cool news: Facebook finally rolled out a secured browsing option (https). Typical news: Users have to manually activate it. 

Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories in scan-friendly format:

• 2011: Facebook Concentrates on Mobile
• InMaps Provides Visual Relevance to LinkedIn Connections
• Twitter's Ad Revenue To Rise to $150 Million This Year
• Foursquare Hits 6 Million Users and 381 Million Check-Ins

No matter how valuable Facebook and Twitter are for businesses, they inevitably end up among the most frequently blacklisted sites by companies. These and other interesting findings come from a recent report by OpenDNS.

As consumer and computing devices add 3D capabilities, how will the Web cope in the third-dimension?

Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories in scan-friendly format:

• Facebook Garnered US$ 1.86 Billion In Ad Revenue In 2010
• Backupify Back Ups 136 Million Tweets And 713 Million Emails in 2010
• Yammer Unveils Leaderboard Feature, Showing Top Members and More
• Taxes May Drive Twitter Out of San Francisco

The social world is all about going public as of late, but what does that mean for business? Meanwhile, new solutions continue to arrive in waves, the latest coming from everyone's favorite VoIP company (cue group video chat).

Launching today, Pushnote adds a new way to comment on websites and pages without the message being buried in a forum.

Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories in scan-friendly format:

• Facebook Rolling New Profile Out Universally
• Formspring Announces New Funding, New Capabilities
• Twitter-ers Break Tweet Record on New Year's
• Social In Your Pocket: Mobile Broadband Subscribers Top 1 Billion

There is speculation that soon we will all get fed up with Facebook. That we’ll rise up against transparency and demand privacy and control over our drunken photos, frustrated updates and the fact that we “like” Glee.

Try as it might, Google hasn't seen much success in the social realm: Wave totally bit it, Buzz has had lukewarm reception, and we're still not sure whether or not the Internet giant's rumored social network will amount to anything more than a pipe dream. While most hopefuls are campaigning for a massive turnaround in 2011, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster says Google is on the verge of giving up.

Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories in scan-friendly format:

• Young Adults: We Get Our News Online
• Facebook Handled 750 Million Photos Over News Year's Weekend
• By 2015: 1/3 Of Americans Will Own a Tablet
• Mobile Photo Apps Explode Onto Social Web

This week news hit that Goldman Sachs has invested US$ 450 million dollars in Facebook, in addition to the US$ 50 million dollar contribution from Russian firm Digital Sky Technologies. With around 500 million Facebook users, that’s a dollar for every user. So what does it mean?

At the end of 2010, it is hard to make any simple analysis of document management in the enterprise. By its nature, it is closely related to enterprise content management and as a result reflects many of the problems afflicting the ECM industry.