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Facebook fatigue is spreading but social media is on the rise, says Internet study
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GlobalWebIndex, one of the world’s most detailed global insight studies into consumers’ online behaviour, has released the findings of its latest research which highlights both new and continuing trends in the way consumers access and use Web-based platforms. GlobalWebIndex 6 (GWI.6) analyses key changes in online behaviour, and is based...
Top online death hoaxes revealed
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Celebrities who have faced false death rumours on Twitter...
3 strategies for making e-commerce truly social
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In just one year from now, we’ll see social technologies disrupt e-commerce the same way they’ve already disrupted online gaming, music and news. Commerce has always been social. Shopping in the real world is a form of social entertainment, and we turn to people we know for advice on products...
OMG: 5-Week-Old App Draw Something Hits 20 Million Downloads And Generates 6-Figures Per Day
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Three weeks ago, we wrote about OMGPOP's mobile app, Draw Something. The ten-day-old social game had been downloaded more than 1.2 million times. Now the company has shared even more staggering numbers with us. In just five weeks, the pictionary-like game has been downloaded 20 million times. That's more...
Tumblr will get a Portuguese version to gain further ground in Brazil
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The microblogging platform Tumblr will soon be translated into Portuguese, its latest Brazilian hire Gina Gotthilf confirmed in an interview with the Brazilian blog Link Estadão, following her participation in the gigantic Campus Party Brazil. It’s been known for a couple weeks that the company was particularly interested in Brazil, and it...
Style For Hire Wants To Bring Personal Stylists To The Masses
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Hiring a personal stylist, who will handpick and curate your wardrobe, used to be a fashion luxury that only the wealthy or celebrities could afford. Today, Style For Hire, a fashion startup co-founded by celebrity stylist Stacy London and Cindy McLaughlin, is launching as a way to help the masses...
Pop music ecommerce play Popdust picks up $4.5 million from NEA, SoftBank
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While Microsoft is busy building a brand new music product, and Apple collects a fat chunk of the world’s music revenues, a small company is taking music in a different direction. Instead of selling tracks, Popdust is selling hats. And more, Popdust has moved from being a website on celebrities,...
140 characters can get Indonesians 12 years in jail
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Indonesia’s Communications and Information Minister has declared that anyone tweeting illegal content, such as blasphemy, pornography, and threats, could spend up to 12 years in prison. Indonesia has a strained history with free speech issues and open media, so laws that would punish Twitter users harshly for their words...
TokBox SDK Brings Video Chat To iOS Apps
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Just over a year ago, video chat startup TokBox shuttered its consumer application and began focusing exclusively on its platform strategy — using its technology to enable video chat on other websites. Today, it’s expanding that effort into mobile. Specifically, TokBox is announcing a software development kit allowing iOS developers...
'How I hacked Hollywood,' a cautionary tale
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Four years ago, Chris Chaney was jobless, depressed, and browsing the web when he fell upon a compromising photo of Miley Cyrus, which would dramatically alter the course of his life. The photo raised questions for Chaney; who stole this picture, how did he do it, and how hard...
Twitter sharpens its focus on India with trending topics expansion, still trails rivals
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Twitter is beefing up its offering in India as it looks to increase its market share in the world’s largest democracy. Building on support for four new local languages, that were added last month, the company has expanded its ‘trending topics’ service to Ahmedabad, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Delhi, in addition...
Hackers break into 55,000 Twitter accounts, leaving passwords bare
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In a massive leak, some 55,000 Twitter accounts have been compromised, leaving them open for abuse. According to AirDemon, accounts belonging to celebrities were attacked in the process. The leak is large enough that 5 PasteBin pages were required to host the list. I’m going to link to them, only so...
The Marketing Behind Celebrity Tweets
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These days, most social-media sites like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Tumblr have departments dedicated to creating partnerships with celebrities as a way to boost traffic and sell ads....
Meet 9 Incredible Instagram Users That Advertisers Are Dying To Work With
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As advertisers stumble into the world of Instagram, they have found out that the best way to gain credibility is to reach out to respected and influential Instagrammers. What began as a creative outlet that unleashes the inner photo artist in everyday smartphone owners has transformed into a lucrative opportunity for...
Sell Simp.ly Rebrands As Chirpify; Launches New Twitter Commerce Platform For Brands
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We first covered Sell Simp.ly in November last year, as it looked to capitalize on the increasing interest in social media as not only a place to advertise and build an online presence for brands, but as a platform for conducting social commerce. Most of that interest has surrounded Facebook,...
Keep Your Facebook Friends Close & Your Facebook Enemies Closer
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The adage says: "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer." And that's exactly what the creators of EnemyGraph had in mind. It's an application that allows users to list their "enemies," whether these are ideological enemies of your mind, Facebook friends, pages or even groups. Hate a politician? Name...
Pepsi Puts A Pop Culture “Cheat Sheet” At The Heart Of Its New Campaign
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Pepsi is launching a big rebranding campaign today, and the company says social media is going to play a crucial role. Specifically, PepsiCo Global Head of Digital Shiv Singh tells me that the biggest online piece of the campaign is a “social media cheat sheet” called the #NOW board —...
Facebook to Verify Accounts, Allow Use of Nicknames
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In order to verify an account, celebrities and other public figures will have to submit an image of a government-issued photo ID....
Polaroid Z2300 hands-on
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Polaroid. The brand is iconic, to put it lightly. In the post film age however, the company has fought to stay relevant without completely sacrificing its identity at the altar of the digital photography gods. The solution has been cramming printers inside the bodies of its shooters (and partnering...
Why Path is no Instagram
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Ever since Facebook decided that Instagram was worth $1 billion, there has been recurring talk of Path, another social service being the next big buyout target. And while I am happy for the Path team, I find the comparisons with Instagram unfounded and premature. Let’s just start with the...
Google+ Hangouts on Air is now available to all users in 220 countries and territories
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At the beginning of May we told you that Google was rolling out its Hangouts on Air feature to all users. This was a rollout of a feature that some users have been testing for some time. The rollout took a while, but according to Matthew Leske of Google, it...
SoundCloud announces next version of its site, hits 15M users
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Social audio sharing service SoundCloud is announcing its “next” version of the service during a press event in San Francisco. We last told you about the company when it hit 10M users in January of this year. SoundCloud allows anyone to upload audio of any type, including music or messages...
First Look: OnTheAir’s Video Call-In Show Platform Makes Hangouts and Ustream Seem Static
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Google Hangouts only allows 8 viewers to participate and Ustream allows 0, but with OnTheAir, anyone watching a live stream can video chat with the host in front of the audience. Today OnTheAir’s streaming video platform exits stealth into private beta to power radio call-in shows for the digital age....
Starbucks & (RED) To Donate $1 For Every Check-in In 4square’s Largest Non-Profit Campaign Yet
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It’s nice to check-in to battle to be the mayor of your favorite burger joint, or to get 30 percent off a purchase, but it’s much more satisfying to check-in and feel as if you’ve actually done some good in the world. That’s because the AIDS battling organization (RED) has...
Barack Obama and Bill Clinton pay tribute to Steve Jobs at Webby Awards
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Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton joined Bono, George Lucas, and a host of other celebrities in paying tribute to late Apple CEO Steve Jobs Sunday night, during a video presentation at the 16th Annual Webby Awards. The ceremony began with a brief introduction from actors Justin Long and...
Google Just Got A Whole Lot Smarter, Launches Its Knowledge Graph
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Today, Google is launching one of its most ambitious and interesting updates to its search engine in recent months. Starting in a few days, you will start to see large panels with additional factual information about the topic you were searching for take over the right side of Google’s search...
Twitter strikes deal with Gracenote to make it easier for musicians to get verified accounts
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Twitter has closed a deal with the music database company Gracenote, which will make it easier for musicians and bands to get a ‘Verified’ account. Twitter’s hope with this deal is that Gracenote will help streamline its verification process, thanks to its existing relationships with labels, artists and managers It...
Bieberized: Justin Bieber joins social video sharing app Viddy
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There’s no doubt about it, celebrities drive interest and usage on the web. One of the biggest celebrities on Twitter, Justin Bieber, has joined another hot service: Viddy. Whether you’re a Bieber fan or not, you have to respect the fact that someone with the size and type of following...
Twitter and the Metaverse
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I've been reading Snow Crash and there's this great passage when Hiro is in the Metaverse and he explains: The Movie Star Quadrant is easier to look at. Actors love to come here because in The Black Sun, they always look as good as they do in the movies. And...
Tout’s Plans For Turning Video Status Updates Into A Business
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Since launching about a year ago, Tout has been used by celebrities like Shaquille O’Neal and Survivor host Jeff Probst to post short video status updates. Now co-founder and CEO Michael Downing is sharing some details about how the company has grown and where it goes from here. The Tout...
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