Social Networking, Social Engagement News & Guidance

CoreMedia has just announced that it is going social. By that, it means that CoreMedia has just released a new product that will provide advanced social features for its web content management system.

Twitter acquired the Posterous social networking service, but what will happen to Posterous Spaces next remains unclear.

In the last flailing act of a wounded beast, Yahoo won't do the decent thing and go quietly into the night, but will throw lawsuits at anyone it can claw some money from. The latest target is Facebook and the weapon of choice, some super-simple patents.

Facebook is getting lots of attention today on news of a pending "Interest List" service touted as the next evolutionary step in the company's efforts at boosting its relevance to businesses and perhaps even displacing Twitter.   

Enterprise social networking provider Yammer may only be four years old, but it has a huge allowance and lots of friends. Yammer, which has been adopted by over 4 million corporate users, announced a significant influx of new cash from its fifth round of funding.

You may have heard about how more Facebook users are unfriending each other. While some have decided that this is a very unfriendly action, it may suggest that after five years, users are becoming more savvy about how to create, connect and collaborate socially online. A recent study by Pew Research suggests that people are also becoming more savvy about protecting their privacy online.

With Yammer SAP Connector installed, SAP customers can see updates from business suite applications as activity stories in Yammer's Ticker.

You all know that Yammer is one of the most widely known enterprise social networking tools and that it has been steadily adding new capabilities that offer more than the standard micro-messaging. Today, it adds some much needed social business intelligence through a new partnership with GageIn.

Social media sentiment is increasing in importance, so much that Google has started indexing Google+ content. The search giant is even updating its results pages to likewise reflect content from its home-grown social network. Twitter is likewise taking advantage of search engines incorporating its social media stream, and is evident with the microblogging service's latest partnership with Yandex.

The bane of innovators and most muddled aspect of technology for all, copyright infringement interrogations now land on the plate of those behind Pinterest. A popular social network allowing users to create and manage theme-based image collections, it’s become all the rage online with its general constituency, yet not as much with content owners who have been out of the loop as to the extent of the rights they signed over. Now forced to address the issue, Pinterest is giving content owners blocking power, but isn’t that just as good as DMCA safe harbors?

With social networks spiraling into massive virtual communities, emails are almost being circumvented by inter-network messaging via Facebook, Twitter and the others. This presents yet a new problem when it comes to information management, so this week, a platform called Engag.io sets out to offer a solution. This “Gmail-like productivity tool” aims to be your new Inbox, storing the scope of conversations into one hub for easy access and reply chains. Is this just another way of saying email or could it be even more?

The mobile and social media industry is a fast-growing market in the U.S.,with a 30% annual growth in 2011. Forecast to grow into a US$ 100 billion industry by 2015, how does each specific business segment -- including mobile content, advertising and social media -- stack up?

Chinese authorities have recently decided to expand its "online accountability" regulations, with users of microblogging services now required to verify and use their real names. With today's increasing concerns on online censorship and freedom of information around the globe, how will this new regulation affect the growth of social networks and services that thrive on user-generated content?

Yammer, the rapidly growing enterprise social network, exceeds 4 million corporate users and is rumored to be working on a US$ 40 million funding round.

If your website has the Facebook Comments Box plugin, the plugin will now appear automatically on mobile devices, too.