Mashable - [brightcove video="1305134098001" /] NORAD's Santa Tracker is back, allowing users to follow Santa's journey on Christmas Eve across Google Maps, Google Earth and various social media channels (including for the first time Google+). This year also sees the introduction of iOS and Android apps for tracking Saint Nick. Read more...
What Social Media Users Think of the Hottest Tech Stories [INFOGRAPHIC] (Mashable)
Mashable - Get your fingers on the pulse of the social media community with this survey conducted by Lab42. It'll get you caught up on the hot tech issues of the past couple of weeks. For the data embedded in this infographic, market research firm Lab42 conducted a study online via social networks between Sept Read more...
Apple TV 4.4 update brings AirPlay mirroring, NHL and Photo Stream (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - On the heels of the iOS 5 update for Apple’s lineup of mobile devices, Apple also quietly rolled out an update for the Apple TV. Version 4.4 of the Apple TV operating system offers AirPlay mirroring, the ability to wirelessly mirror content displayed on the iPad 2 or iPhone 4S and view the images or other type of media on a high definition television. Users will also be able to view other applications on the big screen including games like Angry Birds, social media apps like Facebook and general Web browsing through Safari Read more...
How to Get Facebook Fans: For a Fee
As Facebook gets bigger and bigger, so to does its potential to become a major marketing tool for those who have their own Pages for their business or social group. And therein itself lies a business opportunity. Enter a web service that will help you Get Facebook Fans by having real people “like” your Facebook [...] Read more...
Robbed of phone, Tennessee woman summons help on Facebook (Reuters)
Reuters - Some people have complained about changes in Facebook, but not Rolanda Hill, who used the social media site to seek help after an armed robber broke into her home and stole her cell phone. Read more...
Google Propeller Social News Sharing App to Compete Against Flipboard [REPORT] (Mashable)
Mashable - Google is creating a social news sharing app for iPad and Android that will compete directly with Flipboard, named 2010 iPad App of the Year by Apple. The first word of Google's rumored app that turns social media and news content into magazine-like articles was from Robert Scoble, commenting late Wednesday night on Google+ about what he's heard from "someone working with Google" about the news-sharing reader: Read more...
How the UN Foundation Plans to Meet Its Goals With the Help of Social Media (Mashable)
Mashable - The United Nations (UN) and its philanthropic arm, the United Nations Foundation, have been on a headlong sprint to change the world by 2015. That year marks the deadline of the Millennium Development Goals, a set of far reaching and ambitious humanitarian challenges that include eradicating extreme poverty and hunger and providing universal primary education. They are lofty goals for sure, but ones that the two organizations are committed to achieving Read more...
Mashable Weekend Recap: 24 Stories You May Have Missed (Mashable)
Mashable - It was a weekend of somber reflection as we remembered the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. Read more...
Create presence through Social Media Optimization
Websites try to increase their popularity through all possible means, and that includes social media optimization. Social media sites are launching fast. Most network users connect to your account per day, while some even two or three times día. Users are interested in applications, games, social events, activities, etc.. So the companies are organizing these [...] Read more...
Buy Facebook Fans The Proper Tactic
Social media marketing and advertising is 1 of the finest methods to market and marketplace your corporation. Facebook, with over 500 million active accounts, is definitely the largest social media marketing internet site on the internet. Over fifty percent of account holders log into Facebook every single and each and every day. There is only [...] Read more...