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Google+ Photos Get Pan And Zoom Functionality, Letting You Really Explore High-Res Photos
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Google+ is coming out of its holiday slumber with an addition to its Photo section of the service, today. The team has added pan and zoom functionality, which lets you explore small areas of high-resolution photographs. Google’s social feature-set has attracted artists of all types, especially professional photographers. Uploading photos...
The Pope has joined Twitter - how are his followers distributed around the world?
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Pope Benedict XVI is on Twitter, with his English language account under the name @Pontifex. To date he has 714,646 followers, but how are they spread around the world?John Burn-Murdoch...
Why Facebook, Twitter And Instagram Put Up Roadblocks To Each Others' Content
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On March 4, TweetDeck -- a Twitter service for managing multiple social media accounts -- quietly launched the latest salvo in the social media wars. Tucked into an otherwise unrelated announcement was a sentence warning that the service planned to "discontinue support" for their Facebook integration. Millions of TweetDeck users...
Average Twitter user is an an American woman with an iPhone and 208 followers
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The average Twitter user is an American woman with an iPhone, 208 followers and a purple background on her profile, a new study has revealed....
Paying Facebook For Sponsored Posts Makes Huge Difference To "Like" Rate
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After the "Likes" on New York Times writer Nick Bilton's subscription page dropped radically, he paid for the social network's sponsored advertising tool. The results were astonishingly different. An experiment by a tech writer has brought into focus a feature on Facebook that may have its users leaving the...
President Obama's election victory tweet becomes most retweeted ever
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It’s U.S. election night and, as you’d expect given these digital times, a large portion of the discussion and debate around Barack Obama and Mitt Romney has happen on the Web and, indeed, via social media. In that is testament to Obama’s reach around the Interwebz, a tweet from the...
Obama wins, has most retweeted tweet ever
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CNN and other broadcast media outlets have called the election: President Barack Obama will return to the White House. Obama, whose mastery of social media has certainly played a huge role in his victory, tweeted simply this: Four more years. Four more years. http://t.co/bAJE6Vom— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 07, 2012...
New Socialbakers tool lets you check how many bots are following you on Twitter
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Czech-based social media analytics company Socialbakers has released its new tool Fake Followers Check, allowing Twitter users to see how many ‘real’ accounts are following them. The Socialbakers’ new tool is using several parameters to detect “fake or empty followers”: The Following / Followers ratio is less than 50 Following...
F-Commerce Startup Soldsie Raises $1 Million For Its Facebook Comments-Based Shopping Platform
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E-commerce startup Soldsie, which just announced in January that it had raised $425,000 from 72 investors through FundersClub, has now officially closed its full seed round of $1 million in outside funding. In addition to FundersClub, the company raised from 500 Startups and e.ventures. Investors in the round also included former...
Japanese city mistakenly tweets that a missile has been launched by North Korea
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A Twitter account for the city of Yokohama, Japan made a huge blunder earlier today after it mistakenly announced that a missile had been launched in North Korea. The tweet, spotted by The Verge (via AFP) and posted from the @yokohama_sagai account, reportedly told its 40,000 followers that “North Korea...
To Improve Conversations, Facebook Will Launch A Reply Feature And Most Active Threads On Pages And Popular Profiles
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Facebook is preparing to roll out a new feature on Pages and popular Profiles that will help increase interactions with fans and readers: Replies. Up to now, visitors could comment on a post but others, including the Page owners themselves, would not be able to respond directly to them in...
To Improve Conversations, Facebook Will Launch A Reply Feature And Most Active Threads On Pages And Popular Profiles
A Personalized News App At Its Simplest: No Articles, Just Data
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Instead of tracking headlines, Numbeez tracks numbers. Here's why that might not be as absurd as it sounds. When Mark Zuckerberg says he wants to build a "personalized newspaper," he's talking about photos, conversations between friends, music, and news articles. But when a small startup in Tel Aviv called...
The Associated Press starts selling access to its Twitter feed, Samsung is first customer
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The Associated Press is running a sponsored tweets campaign. But the news company is not paying Twitter any money, and the sponsored tweets are not the kind of sponsored tweets that we’re used to. Breaking some news about itself, the AP announced today that it will be selling access to...
The new era of startups focused on design
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Startups that really make a commitment to design and user experience are emerging as the web and mobile’s most successful companies, like Instagram and Pinterest. Mike McCue, CEO and co-founder of social digital magazine Flipboard, explains to us in this video interview clip that he’s seen a resurgence of startups...
Google Turns On In-Stream Installs For Android Apps In Google+
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Google shows off what happens when you control both a social network and a mobile software platform, thanks to a new feature of Google+ spotted by The Next Web today that allows users to share and purchase Android apps directly from the Google+ feed. It’s a small tweak, but a...
Musicians gloat about early access to Twitter #music app
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The past week has seen a flurry of activity around Twitter's purported new music streaming service, #music. As previously reported, Ryan Seacrest told his followers last Thursday that Twitter #music was real, and he was already playing with it. Over the last two days, a number of prominent musicians...
The Pope tweets for the first time, blessing his online followers
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The Pope has officially tweeted for the first time, telling his followers that he was "pleased to get in touch"....
Justin Bieber: parents and fans take to Twitter over late show
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Canadian singer finally appears on stage at O2 arena almost two hours after the time he was scheduled to do soHell hath no fury, it seems, like Justin Bieber fans and their parents on a school night.After showing up on stage at London's O2 arena nearly two hours after he...
Flying car crashes near elementary school in Canada
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Part parasailer, part fanboat, all Dick Van Dyke's wildest dream. Brian Reed A flying car crashed near an elementary school in Vernon, British Columbia on Friday, according to a report from CBCNews. The car, which is kept aloft by a parasail and driven forward by a rear propeller, hit...
Facebook confirms it will 'monetize' Instagram
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Since Facebook acquired Instagram earlier this year, people have wondered how the service might be changing. We're still not sure, but Facebook VP of Global Marketing Solutions Carolyn Everson has confirmed that monetization is coming in some form. Talking with Business Insider, Everson avoided the question of whether ads...
The typical Twitter user is a young woman with an iPhone and 208 followers
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Twitter’s endless funnel of data is producing an equally endless series of studies — including on Twitter itself. The latest study offers fun tidbits about who is using Twitter and why. In”An Exhaustive Study of Twitter Users Around the World,” analytics firm Beevolve claims to have crunched data from 36...
Facebook news feed too quiet? Auto-play video ads are coming
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You think this ad is convincing now, wait until it can both talk and move. Facebook presumably heard how much we all enjoy auto-playing video ads elsewhere on the Internet, because the company plans to begin incorporating the format in users’ news feeds starting this summer, according to a...
FACEBOOK CONFIRMS: Ads Are Coming To Instagram (FB)
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Facebook vp/global marketing solutions Carolyn Everson tells us that yes, "monetization" will be coming to Instagram. Thus far, the photo-sharing app has been ad-free. But ever since Facebook acquired the company, speculation has been rife that the service's big, broad, relatively uncluttered palette is ripe for sponsored pics and posts....
Unpopular Twitter accounts could escape prosecution for 'grossly offensive' tweets
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Twitter account holders with few followers could escape prosecution for posting "grossly offensive" messages as part of an attempt to protect free speech online, under new guidelines being developed by Britain's most senior prosecutor....
Google+ Mobile Apps Now Support Pages, iOS App Gets iPhone 5 Support And Finally Lets You Edit Your Posts
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Google just launched the latest version of its Google+ apps for Android and iOS. The most important new feature in this update is support for Google+ pages. Page owners can now view, post and comment from their mobile devices, something quite a few Google+ users have been asking for ever...
Google+ Mobile Apps Now Support Pages, iOS App Gets iPhone 5 Support And Finally Lets You Edit Your Posts
Twitter algorithm can analyze the truthfulness of tweets
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While we've seen work on an algorithm that can predict trending Twitter topics before they happen, that's no good if you're sifting through a mountain of tweets to find accurate, up-to-the-minute news. For that, you might want to look into a new paper to be published in Internet Research...
Nestivity's a Community Engagement Service Built on Twitter
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Nestivity has officially launched its Twitter-based community management service, emerging from private beta to open to the public. Built entirely on top of Twitter, Nestivity functions as a Software as a Service tool that creates a community webpage based around a specific Twitter handle to create discussions and receive feedback....
Rdio Launches Program For Artists To Earn Cash By Attracting New Users, But Stops Shot Of YouTube's Model
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Streaming music service Rdio, currently being trumped in North America by Spotify, probably needs to incentive its partners more, especially given the complains from labels and artists about the low monetization available on Spotify. Thus today it’s introducing the ‘Rdio Artist Program’ which they say is the first of a...
Rdio Launches Program For Artists To Earn Cash By Attracting New Users, But Stops Shot Of YouTube's Model
You Know What's Cool? A Billion Snapchats: App Sees Over 20 Million Photos Shared Per Day, Releases On Android
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Snapchat, an impermanent photo messaging application, soft launched a version for Android today. Co-founder Evan Spiegel tells me users have shared over 1 billion photos (“snaps”) on the iOS application. Spiegel says users share over 20 million snaps every day, a figure he says keeps growing. The application is currently...
You Know What's Cool? A Billion Snapchats: App Sees Over 20 Million Photos Shared Per Day, Releases On Android
DataSift teams with Bitly to show what social content really gets clicks
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Social data platform DataSift, one of two companies with access to Twitter’s firehose, is teaming with link shortener Bitly to help its customers understand what content is actually clicked on and read, not just shared and retweeted. Marketers spend a good chunk of their money on content marketing but when...
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