Article Archive for June 2010
HootSuite Releases HootSuite5 Social Media Dashboard
Today HootSuite releases a significant update to the popular social media dashboard, including a complete interface refresh and features utilizing new HTML5 technology standards. Notable changes include multiple design themes, improvements to Facebook media publishing, and language localization. With the recent announcement of Google’s HTML5 site and many other brands including Apple on-board, HootSuite has made a substantial investment in this new technology standard. Using HTML5 ... Read More
Buddy Media Introduces Enterprise Facebook Management Tool
Buddy Media, the leading Facebook Management System for the world’s largest brands and agencies, today introduced Buddy Media Platform +GLOBAL, a new add-on to the Buddy Media Platform. +GLOBAL is the first geo-targeted Facebook page management system that empowers global marketers to maintain a single, unified Facebook presence across multiple countries and languages. Of the nearly 500 million consumers that log on to Facebook each month, only 25 percent live in the United States, ... Read More
Formspring.me Integrates MySpace and WordPress
Formspring, the social network that lets you connect with the people you care about through conversational Q&A, today announced integrations with MySpace and WordPress. As of today, Formspring users will be able to share their Formspring answers on both platforms. These new integrations add to already available Formspring integrations with Facebook, Twitter, Blogger and Tumblr. Launched seven months ago, Formspring is already ranked the 63rd most visited website in the U.S. according to ... Read More
Tungle.me Named Official Scheduling Application for BlogWorld 2010
Tungle Corp., the company that makes scheduling meetings easy, has been named the official scheduling application of BlogWorld & New Media Expo, taking place October 14-16, 2010 in Las Vegas. The company also announced the release of its free WordPress and TypePad plug-ins for calendar publishing and integrated scheduling. WordPress and TypePad, with over 30 million blogs published on these platforms, have added Tungle.me to the widget selection, allowing users to integrate scheduling ... Read More
How Facebook Makes Lonely People Even Lonelier
In a compelling interview between Brian Vaszily, author and founder of the popular personal growth website IntenseExperiences.com, and Dr. John Cacioppo, Director of the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago, Dr. Cacioppo reveals how Facebook and other social media tend to make lonely people even lonelier. In the Loneliness Help interview, available to view in full on IntenseExperiences.com, Cacioppo notes that “what the research suggests is that ... Read More
Google Lists the 1000 Most Visited Sites on the Web
Google released the 1000 most-visited sites list on the web on May 28th. According to the list, Facebook sits on top with 540 million unique visitors, followed by yahoo.com, live.com. The list will be updated monthly and does not include adult sites, ad networks, domains that don’t have publicly visible content or don’t load properly, and certain Google sites. Google removes some of their own sites. Facebook, under Social Networks category, ranks number one of the list. Wikipedia ... Read More
