Secrets of the Most Innovative Social Media Companies of 2013
We used Storify to create this recap of Fast Company’s Social Media Week panel at the Bloomberg offices in New York City on February 21, 2013. [<a...
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Google Reader Drives More Traffic than Google+, Says BuzzFeed
Publishers who have tried using Google Reader and Google+ should not be too surprised to learn that the RSS feed drives more traffic to websites than the fledgling social network. But data from...
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Social Media Newsfeed: LinkedIn Contacts | Bill Clinton Joins Twitter
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. LinkedIn Rolls Out Address Book and Calendar Management App (SocialTimes) LinkedIn Contacts, a feature and iOS app, aggregates the...
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Social Media Newsfeed: Twitter Ad Platform | Google Search
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Twitter Opens its Self-Serve Advertising Platform to All U.S. Users (SocialTimes) Twitter will open its advertising platform to all...
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Social Media Newsfeed: Facebook in Fortune 500 | Onion Twitter Account Hacked
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Facebook Joins Fortune 500 (AllFacebook) Facebook is in some great company right now, with Amazon, eBay and Yahoo on the Fortune 500...
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Social Media Newsfeed: Skype Surveillance | Facebook Questions for Pages
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. NSA Docs Boast: Now We Can Wiretap Skype Video Calls (CNET) Skype now has a backdoor that permits government surveillance of users’...
View ArticleFriday Morning Laughs: ‘Popular’ Parody | Camp Gyno | Beard Facts
Happy Friday, SocialTimes readers! Just when you thought the internet couldn’t get any better, it just did with this week’s crop of videos that will make you feel more popular, less awkward about your...
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Twitter Spoof Lands Writer Great Job
The next time someone tells you you’re wasting your time composing witty tweets, direct them to this post. Though there was a bit more to it than meets the eye, no doubt, this writer landed a fantastic...
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Social Media Newsfeed: Topsy Twitter Archive | Facebook Hashtags
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. How to Use Topsy to Find Your First Tweets (AllTwitter) Wednesday, social analytics platform Topsy has unveiled a huge upgrade,...
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Social Media Newsfeed: News Orgs to Use Facebook Public Posts | Google+...
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Facebook Releases Two APIs That Allow News Organizations to Tap into its Real-Time Public Posts (AllFacebook) Twitter has company in...
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Growing Trend: Big Media = Big Jerks
Joe Veix of Death and Taxes is calling Buzzfeed out for “stealing” his article on teens taking pictures of each other falling down the stairs. The Buzzfeed article was essentially identical, save for...
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[Infographic] The New York Times Gets More Mentions Online Than Mashable
Who receives more mentions online? Traditional media outlets such as The New York Times or new media sites like Mashable? Traditional wins. Digimind, a creator of social media monitoring software,...
View ArticleMaddox Presents All Of The Reasons Buzzfeed Sucks
Maddox’s The Best Page In The Universe has been around forever. Longer than I have been writing humor articles on the Web, and that started in 2002. Unlike me though, Maddox managed to turn his...
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Q&A: BuzzFeed’s Sheera Frenkel on the Importance of Social Media in the...
Journalist Sheera Frenkel recently joined social news site BuzzFeed as Middle East correspondent. She previously worked at The Times of London, NPR and McClatchy Newspapers. SocialTimes recently caught...
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Social Media Newsfeed: Twitter Age Screening | Best Buy’s Black Friday Campaign
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Twitter Integrates Age-Screening and Removes DM System for Following Alcohol Brands on Web, Android, and iOS (The Next Web) Twitter...
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Social Media Newsfeed: Spotify Artist Payments | Holiday Shopping and Social...
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Spotify to Musicians: Don’t Hate on Us (Reuters) Spotify is renewing its effort to win over skeptical critics and artists into...
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What’s Next for Facebook and Viral Publishers?
Facebook and Viral Publishers: Strange Bedfellows? Facebook is tweaking its algorithm to feature “high-quality” content in the News Feed. This means “articles you or others read may show up a bit...
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Social Media Newsfeed: Twitter Card Analytics | Snapchat Security
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Twitter Launches Card Analytics to Let Publishers Monitor Impressions, Clicks and More (TechCrunch) In a move that could give brands...
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Viral Publishing: Credibility Means Balancing Speed and Accuracy
It’s kind of annoying when you’re searching for the latest news and events, only to be confronted by a half-truth. The social media news cycle is a minute-by-minute breakdown, compared to the...
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Why Your Brand Should Stop Trying to Emulate BuzzFeed’s Clickbait
Will Stevens is the blogger outreach executive at 123-reg, the UK’s largest domain name registrar. He covers a range of topics including social media and tech issues. There’s a lot to be admired about...
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