| Rachel Dodes / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter Goes to the Movies
— Hollywood is digging deep into new ways of using social media; the selling of ‘Ted’ — The teddy bear's first tweet, from an account called @WhatTedSaid set up by the Universal Pictures marketing department, was “Hello, Twitter. Kindly go f— yourself.”
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Facebook buys Karma app
— The newly public Facebook says it is buying Karma, a mobile social gifting app. The news was released via Karma's blog. As we first posted, Karma was founded by Lee Linden and Ben Lewis who in their past life were co-founders of Tapjoy, that was acquired …
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Study: Facebook CPMs Increased 41%, US CPCs Rose 34% Since Q1 Last Year
— Facebook's average CPM rates globally have increased by 41% since the first quarter of 2011, and 15% since the fourth quarter of last year. Meanwhile, CPCs have risen 23% in the top 5 markets versus Q4.
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People don't care about scoops, they care about trust
— We have written a number of times about how social media and the “democratization of distribution” has compressed the news cycle to the point where the half-life of a scoop is measured in minutes rather than hours or days.
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Hashing for privacy in social apps
— Three days ago, Arun Thampi blogged about his discovery that the Path social networking app uploads the user's entire iPhone address book to its servers. There's been extensive industry media coverage of this, and a new version of Path has been released …
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bitly Rolls Out New Enterprise Dashboard, Providing Better Access To The Real-Time Social Web
— Popular link-shortening service Bit.ly is today announcing the launch of Bitly Enterprise 2.0, a new version of its enterprise-friendly dashboard. The Bitly Enterprise platform …
| Jason Del Rey / AdAge: |
Bitly Rolls Out Reputation-Monitoring Tool and Social-Search Product
— The Field of Companies Monitoring Social Media Gets a Little More Crowded — Bitly, the New York City startup best known for its URL shortening service, is today releasing a real-time, reputation-monitoring tool …
| Benny Evangelista / SFGate: |
U.S. spent 53 billion minutes on Facebook in May
— Here's a mind-numbing stat - Americans spent a total of 53.5 billion minutes on Facebook in May 2011, according to a new Nielsen study released today. — In fact, Americans spent more time on Facebook than on any other website …
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Facebook Says “Likers” Click Links To External Websites 5.4x More
— Facebook has released new statistics on its Facebook+Media Page about users who click Like buttons on Open Graph-enabled websites, as well as the influence of the Like button and social plugins on site traffic and engagement.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).