Hootsuite starts integrating Google+ 23. November 2011
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Hootsuite is one of the first apps to integrate Google+. The possibility is at first only available for certain enterprise customers and will grant the following options:
Manage
- Circle management in-dash allows you to create, edit and remove circles
- Add and remove people from your circles
- See comments on posts and save to a stream
- Search public posts and save to a stream
Engage and Collaborate
- Post public updates or to select circles
- See public user activity
- Pop-up user profiles and company pages
- Share saved search and comment streams with team members
- Assign messages to team members for follow up
Post Securely and Measure
- Privacy features allows you to select whether you want to post publicly or to specific circles
- View users who +1, share and comment on posts
- Measure results with five Google+ analytic modules in-dash
- People who add you to circles (growth)
- Posts (per day)
- Aggregated comments (per day)
- Aggregated +1′s (per day)
- Aggregated reshares (per day)
Facebook Is Most Popular Social Network for All Ages; LinkedIn Is Second [STUDY] 7. November 2011
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Of all the social networks, Facebook is the only one that knows no generational limits. From grandparents to teenagers, Facebook — the largest of the social networks — attracts users of all ages. A recent study by Forrester found that of U.S. adults who use social networking sites, 96% of them are on Facebook.
Ninety-eight percent of both the members of the Golden Generation (ages 67 and up) and Gen Z’ers (ages 18 to 22) who use social networking sites are on Facebook. And no age group dipped below the 95% mark.
What Facebook’s New Features Mean for Journalists 6. November 2011
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Most of the changes that Facebook announced at its f8 conference have gone into effect (even though we’re still waiting for Timeline). In general, new Facebook tools create opportunities for journalists to evolve their personal brands and beats.
At Friday’s Mashable Media Summit, Facebook’s journalist program manager, Vadim Lavrusik, explains how the social network’s new features can help journalists.
What Facebook’s New Features Mean for Journalists 6. November 2011
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Most of the changes that Facebook announced at its f8 conference have gone into effect (even though we’re still waiting for Timeline). In general, new Facebook tools create opportunities for journalists to evolve their personal brands and beats.
At Friday’s Mashable Media Summit, Facebook’s journalist program manager, Vadim Lavrusik, explains how the social network’s new features can help journalists.
Official Google Reader Blog: Upcoming changes to Reader: a new look, new Google+ features, and some clean-up 27. October 2011
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In the next week, we’ll be making some highly requested changes to Google Reader. First, we’re going to introduce a brand new design (like many of Google’s other products) that we hope you love. Second, we’re going to bring Reader and Google+ closer together, so you can share the best of your feeds with just the right circles.
Mashable: Occupy Wall Street Hackathons Want to Build a Better Protest 15. October 2011
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Occupy Wall Street has an IT department. The movement’s technologists, like their park-squatting counterparts, are a decentralized group. But they’ve independently started hackathons this weekend in New York City, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
Even before the first protester showed up at Wall Street on
via Occupy Wall Street Hackathons Want to Build a Better Protest.Sept. 17, a group of people had started working on the movement’s technology components . The so-called Internet working group has held meetings that covered how to edit the site openly, how to run the Twitter account and what server space to use. It’s not necessarily the most organized operation, but it’s becoming more so.
Techcrunch: ICANN To Expand Top-Level Domain Names, Applications Start Jan 12, 2012 20. June 2011
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The ICANN board has voted to approve the new gTLD program, which was first announced three years ago. The new program will significantly expand Top-Level Domains (TLDs) to allow companies, organizations and even cities to turn their own brands into domain name extensions. Think .ADIDAS, .HOTEL, .BRUSSELS, .FACEBOOK and the likes.
Applications for new gTLDs will be accepted from 12 January 2012 to 12 April 2012.
The first ones should be operational by late 2013 according to the current roadmap.
ICANN board members voted 13 for, 1 opposed, 2 abstain on the first day of its international pow-wow in Singapore. Earlier this year, the organization’s board entered into a contract with ICM Registry to operate a .XXX top level domain name for adult websites and whatnot.
Currently, there are 22 generic top-level domains, including .com, .org and .net.
via ICANN To Expand Top-Level Domain Names, Applications Start Jan 12, 2012.
Duke Nukem´s PR-agency fired – gagging Web 2.0 as mission impossible 18. June 2011
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After many, many years the new “Duke Nukem” was launched – and many critiques were really desastrous. So the head of the Redner Group twittered very angry:
But Web 2.0 doesn´t like gagging. It was a real avalanche of angry reactions from users followed by a real intense media storm. Redner apologized: “I used a public forum to voice my complaints and I know better. I poured my soul into the project and when I read the review I felt like a father trying to protect his son. In hindsight, I should have approached the writer directly.”
But too late: Quickly following the media storm today, 2K issued a statement: “2K Games does not endorse or condone the comments made by @TheRednerGroup and confirm they no longer represent our products. We maintain a mutually respectful relationship with the press and will continue to do so. We don’t condone@TheRednerGroup’s actions at all.”
Censorship is a mission impossible in the age of “Web 2.0″. Lesson learned?
Redner Group Loses Biggest Client Over Tweet | Digital – Advertising Age.
Mashable: Saudis Use Social Media To Document Campaign for Womens Right To Drive 17. June 2011
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Saudi women — and the men who support them — are tweeting updates as they drive cars through Saudi Arabia on Friday as part of an initiative that defies a ban on female drivers.A large number of tweets can be viewed under the #Women2Drive hashtag. The majority of reports indicate that women have been able to drive freely without interference from police. As one Twitter user, @Maialshareef, said after posting a picture of herself ready to drive outside her house: “Ready to go, police car saw me and did nothing.”Mohammad Al-Qahtani, co-founder and president of the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association, tweeted: “My wife, Maha, and I have just come from a 45-minute drive, she was the driver through Riyadh streets.”
Full Article on Mashable: Saudis Use Social Media To Document Campaign for Womens Right To Drive.
Vincos Blog: Europe largest continent on Facebook 16. June 2011
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Facebook is slowly gaining users around the world. It establishes as leader in 119 of 134 countries analyzed by Vincos Blog. Europe is now the largest continent on Facebook – with 205 million users.
Further information via World Map of Social Networks | Vincos Blog.
