Social Media Minute News & Articles

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

• It's all About Location, Location, Location at SXSWi
• Guy Kawasaki Launches Personalized Alltop
• MySpace Enhances Data Portability
• Twitter Search Traffic to Pass Google Blog Search
• Kevin Rose Launches Twitter User Directory WeFollow

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

• Web 2.0 Etiquette
• Social Media Expert Burnout
• Twitter Becoming A Social Network
• "Every Individual Is Now An Entrepreneur"
• Apps from DEMO You Should Know About

Social Media moves so fast, it’s hard to keep up. Here’s the week’s top stories, in scan-friendly format.

This week:

• TechCrunch Is Full of What?
• Social Networking Attracts 75% of Online Europeans - comScore
• Zcapes Launches Microblogging/Activity Stream Service For Mobile Web
• Baby Boomers Using Social Media
• Yelp.com Outed For Mafia-Like Extortion

Social Media moves so fast, it’s hard to keep up. Here’s the week’s top stories, in scan-friendly format.

This week:

• Orkut is India’s Most Popular Social Network -- comScore
• Yammer Launches Downloadable Version
• Facebook Climbs Down in TOS Row
• One in Ten Internet Users now on Twitter
• Twitter launches Integrated Search and Trends
• Baidu Bearish on Revenues

Orkut is India’s Most Popular Social Network -- comScore

If we think of social network start-ups as social experiments, and why wouldn’t we, then if Facebook is Athenian democracy (admittedly a stretch), and if MySpace is the Enlightenment (stretchier yet), then we might liken Google Orkut to Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

By which we mean that we’ve always thought of it as a bloody and gruesome Social disaster, just in case you didn’t get that subtle analogy.

But we may have to revise that view, because the vast and growing Indian market can’t get enough of Orkut, and comScore’s latest figures state that it is in fact the most-visited social network in India, in a market that drew 18m viewers in December 2008 alone.

comScore’s report on India’s 2008 figures is arresting. Internet audience as a whole rose by a fifth, while social network audience grew by 50%. Facebook, BharatStudent, Hi5 and ibibo make up the rest of India’s top five social networking  sites. MySpace and Linkedin limp in at numbers 6 and 7.

Social Media moves so fast, it’s hard to keep up. Here’s the week’s top stories in scan-friendly format.

This Week:

• Google Launches “Latitude” Geolocator
• Facebook Opens Status API
• Fake Dalai Lama Burns Twitter’s Servers
• YouTube Copyright Madness as Teen is Banned
• FriendFeed Search Enables Easy Business Intel

Google Launches Latitude Geolocator

For once Google has arrived at the party after Yahoo!, the party in question being geolocation. Its new Latitude service will pick up your location either via GPS-enabled handset or laptop (accurate), or via your WiFi connection (accurate-ish). When you sign up, which you probably won’t until you’re allowed to lie about your location, you can track the movements of your friends through your Gmail interface and avail of location-aware services like local-oriented search. Get the lowdown at the Google Latitude homepage , and read more about Google Latitude implementations at PC World . Yahoo! launched a similar service called FireEagle last August. 

• TwitterWorth US$250m, Gets US$20m Injection
• Digg Restructures to Find Profits: Poaches Yahoo! Exec.
• Facebook Rolls Out Ad-Driven Polls
• Ad Network Social Media Bags US$6m
• Superbowl Advertising, Web 2.0-Style
• The Greatest Superbowl Snack Stadium Ever 

Twitter Worth US$250m, Gets US$20m Injection

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

This Week:

• Windows Live Becomes Social Media Hub
• Mince Your Facebook Friends for a Free Whopper
• New Twitter Services to chew on: Tweetbacks and TwtApps
• Digg Persists in Making No Money
• MySpace and Yahoo on your TV
• Twitter still can't handle MacWorld 

Windows Live Becomes Social Media Hub

The walls between the social platforms continue to fall away. Steve Ballmer has just announced a new Windows Live feature which will give you status reports and allow you to interact with your various Social accounts through your Live email. ElectricPig reports on the new Microsoft initiative:

"The announcement... means that you’ll be able to log in to the new Windows Live Essential suite with one password and have all your updates from everything from Twitter to Flickr, and more than 50 other social networks now including Facebook amalgamated on one page. Think of it as an RSS feed to see what your friends are up to."

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

This Week:

• How Obama Won the Online War
• Web 2.0 Summit Updates: Zuckerburg and Yang
• Happy 5th Birthday Delicious!
• Health 2.0 You Say?
• How Will Twitter Make Money #1,000,123
• Following the Election on Twitter Sucked

How Barack Obama Won the Online War

We all know that the President-elect has changed the game in terms of how elections are run, embracing the youth vote through the social tools which they use to communicate and raising millions in campaign funds through omnipresent widgets. No serious electoral candidate in future will go to war without having a serious social media strategy, and without thinking seriously about how to coin it from online contributions.

Social Media moves so fast, it’s hard to keep up. Here’s the week’s big stories from the Social scene, in scan-friendly format.

This Week:

• MySpace to Trounce Facebook With US$1 Billion ‘08 Sales
• Jobs Cut at Seesmic, but Digg is Hiring
• Twitter Gets New CEO
• Yahoo! Launches New Profiles, Social Strategy
• Browser Wars 1: New FireFox Beta 3.1 has Geolocation API
• Browser Wars 2: Flock Upgrade
• Twitter-Watch: Joe the Plumber

Social Media moves so fast, it’s hard to keep up. Here’re the week’s major developments in scan-friendly format.

This week:

• Credit Crises Harming Web Startups?
• Microsoft Prepares for the Cloud
• A New Look to StumbleUpon
• Citizen Journalism’s Epic Failure
• Apple Tosses NDAs to Developers’ Delight

Social Media moves so fast, its hard to keep up. Here’s the weeks news from the trenches in scan-friendly format.

This week:

• Facebook Flip-Flops Over New Design
• Enterprise Microblogger Yammer Scoops Techcrunch50 Top Prize
• New iTunes is Genius. Especially for those with half a brain.
• Google Apps on Blackberry (as discovered at RWW for Pastors)
• Google Mobile Search with My Location
• The Best of Friendfeed

Facebook Flip-flops Over New Design

The new Facebook UI is splitting opinion down the middle. Half of all users despise it. The other half merely really hate it. So it comes as no surprise that the company has postponed plans to impose the new design on all users from this week, and has murmered something about D-day being postponed for ‘a few more weeks.’

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

This week:

• Delicious 2.0 Here at Last
• Lessons Learned from Cuil: How Not to Launch
• ClearStep: Social Media in the Enterprise
• Mobile Web Viruses Alert
• Twitter Displays its Power in Breaking News

Social Media moves so fast, it’s hard to keep up. Here’s the week’s major developments, in scan-friendly format.

This week:

• Google Knol
• Facebook/Microsoft search deal
• Loopt’s cheaper GPS deal
• Google buying Digg?
• New APIs/developer platforms
• It’s a Miracle! Apparition of Robert Scoble in a Grilled Cheese Sandwich!

Social Media moves so fast, it’s hard to keep up. Have a look at the big stories over the past week (…and a bit), in scan-friendly format.