Google News Experiments with Twitter Integration...

Mashable.com released an interesting article/notice about an upcoming feature by Google News which will allow users to integrate their Twitter accounts with the news aggregator -- dealing this way with the current shift that has been noticed towards personalized social news streams...

Google Wave Crashes...

Google announces that it will not continue Google Wave - a web app for real time communication and collaboration.

Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects.

read more at the Google Blog...

Facebook Questions Oficially Launched

Today, popular social utility Facebook.com introduced Facebook Questions, a service (beta stage) that allows you to ask a variety of questions to the Facebook community on topics of interest to you!

With Facebook Questions, you are able to obtain a wider variety of answers from people with experience and knowledge on your topic of interest.

All you need to do is click the "Ask Question" button at the top of the homepage OR ask questions about your friends from their profiles as you would post on their Walls.

Read more at the Facebook Blog

Karen Wickre To Share Tips, Tricks & Secrets about Blogging at Google

Karen Wickre, Senior Manager of Corporate Communications at Google will share tips and tricks about Blogging at Google today, July 29, 2010, at 1:00pm EDT / 10:00am PDT.

You can register for the free webcast/webinar, which is sponsored by Connected Marketing Week.

You can read more at SearchEngineWatch and the SearchEngineWatch Blog


source: www.searchenginewatch.com

Oldest Twitter User Ivy Bean Dies at 104!

Its amazing to see the power of the net, and of tweeter!

The net is for everybody, and Ivy Bean is proof of this.

At 104, she was the oldest Twitter (she had 56,000 followers at the time of her death)!

No matter the age, social media is the link to the cyber world that everybody is using.

Read the complete post at:

Oldest Twitter User Ivy Bean Dies at 104


source: www.mashable.com

How Big is Social Media in the UK? [VIDEO]

Post on the stats relating to the use of Social Media in the UK.

Quick view:

The social media and networking phenomenon is growing extremely fast in the UK. 85 percent of the population is online; they spend over 6 hours on social media sites every month, nearly 60 percent of them read blogs and 64% have their own profile on a social network...

Read the complete post and view the video at:
How Big is Social Media in the UK? [VIDEO]

Source: www.mashable.com

Location based services, do or dont?

"While it’s always a good idea to look forward and broaden your marketing mix when it comes to technology, a new study shows that expecting a huge, at-scale ROI from such cutting-edge location-based services as Foursquare might be a bit premature..."

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source: www.mashable.com