Article Archive for June 2009
Blog Council Changes Its Name to Social Media Business Council
Community Moves From BlogCouncil.org to SocialMedia.org The Blog Council, a community of social media leaders at large companies, has officially changed its name to the Social Media Business Council and will call SocialMedia.org its new online home. “Every day, our members share advice on how to build successful, scalable and self-sufficient social media programs,” said Andy Sernovitz, CEO of the Social Media Business Council and its parent company, GasPedal. “This new ... Read More
LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman Says Massive Amounts of Online Social Data to Result in Cultivation of Highly Specialized New Products
Reid Hoffman, founder of business-oriented social networking site LinkedIn, says that the massive amounts of social data available on the Internet will change the business world by allowing for the development of products that yield analytics from user relationships and identities. A video interview with Hoffman, discussing how new products will be created from social data, is featured on IdeasProject, a website developed by Nokia. IdeasProject is an online “information ... Read More
HubSpot Adds Social Media Monitoring for Small Businesses
HubSpot announces a social media monitoring feature, the newest addition to its inbound marketing software. The tool tracks a small business’s activity on social media sites, monitoring the company’s brands, relevant industry keywords and online coverage and activity of competitors as an integrated part of HubSpot’s inbound marketing system. http://www.hubspot.com/blog/bid/4884/HubSpot-Introduces-Social-Media-Monitoring-to-Inbound-Marketing-System While other social ... Read More
InformationWeek Launches New ffwdPlayer on Facebook® Platform
ffwd (pronounced “fast forward”), an audience powered platform for video content navigation and discovery, and InformationWeek, the leading multimedia business technology brand, announced today the availability of TechWebTV videos on Facebook through the ffwdPlayer application. Built on the ffwd and Facebook Platforms, the application will publish new video to the News Feed on the Fan Page for InformationWeek, using the TechWebTV Brightcove feed, as well as maintaining an always ... Read More
clickbooq Deploys Amazon CloudFront Content Delivery Network
clickbooq, inc. (http://www.clickbooq.com), a leading provider of interactive marketing solutions for professional photographers and visual artists, today announced it has successfully deployed Amazon CloudFront to serve the image-based content of its websites. CloudFront is a groundbreaking web service that is optimized for superfast delivery of web content worldwide. By integrating CloudFront technology and Amazon’s Simple Storage Solution (S3) platform to serve client images, ... Read More
Gigya Launches WordPress Plug-in Making It Easy to Add Social and Authentication Features Enabling Facebook Connect, MySpaceID, Twitter, OpenID, Functionality
Gigya, Inc., the leading technology for connecting content and consumers with the social web, today announced that its Socialize technology is now available as a plug-in for WordPress. WordPress, the largest self-hosted blogging and OpenSource toolset in the world, has quickly become a favorite among developers seeking rich functionality and ease of use. The new Socialize plug-in enables WordPress sites to easily add multi-dimensional social and authentication functionality by providing ... Read More
Commuto Releases – First of its Kind Social Commerce Widget
Commuto has officially released their new community bartering widget, targeting social networking, gaming and blog type websites, based on the ever growing Commuto.com social bartering site. “We’re very excited to release our Community Widget, a first of its kind, which allows users to take their bartering communities and place them on their sites. Now users can create or join hobby specific communities like book clubs or more obscure ones like plant trading and place it on ... Read More
New TwinCAT Developers Group started on Linkedin
KineticaRT has started a TwinCAT Developers group on the professional networking website Linkedin to provide a forum for all levels of Beckhoff TwinCAT PLC developers to discuss programming and system engineering issues, problems and solutions. KineticaRT has been developing solutions using TwinCAT for several years and it would have been great, during that time, to have been able to share our problems with others. Support from Beckhoff and their in-county agent was excellent, but some ... Read More
New SocialConnect™ Add-on Delivers Facebook® Integration
YourMembership.com Inc., a leading global provider of online member communities and membership management software, today announced the launch of a new add-on, called SocialConnect™, that provides Facebook® integration. The SocialConnect add-on to YourMembership.com communities leverages Facebook Connect technology and enables members of YourMembership.com customer communities to sign in to their organizations’ private communities using their Facebook credentials ... Read More
FatCow works with Google to integrate Google Services for Websites into hosting control panel
FatCow (www.fatcow.com), a leader in Web hosting services for individuals and small businesses, worked with Google to become the first Web hosting company to implement the Google Services for Websites console that customers access directly from the hosting control panel. The goal of Google Services for Websites is to enable customers to maximize the potential of their Web site and provide easy access to expanded services such as Webmaster Toolsâ„ , AdSenseâ„ and Custom Searchâ„ ... Read More
