BING Integrating Facebook and Twitter Status Updates into Search Results

Today Bing plans to announce the incorporation of Facebook and Twitter status updates into the Bing search engine. This move by Bing to become a real-time search engine is definitely going to help the Microsoft owned company mark its territory amongst the vast landscape of search engines.
Details on the arrangements are supposedly going to be [...]

Facebook Lite and @ Tagging

Today Facebook has widely released Facebook Lite. The new version of Facebook was released in beta throughout August, but as of today is available in the U.S and India. Facebook Lite is a simplified front-end version of Facebook that is optimized for slower internet connections. Essentially it is Facebook on a diet plan, losing all [...]

Twitter Introduces New User Interface

Yesterday twitter silently released a new user interface within the “following” and “followers” sections of profiles. Selecting the “expand” option on the new UI shows the latest updates of all, giving a better idea of their content and activity without having to travel to their page and also provides a drop down menu with options [...]

A Marketing Miracle? Facebook’s New Publisher Controls in Beta

Thanks to the pressure put on Facebook by the advances of Twitter we the people are receiving a better service. Twitter reigns as the thought sharing, micro-blogging mecca, where Facebook provides the end-all be-all network, aggregating all of ones personal sharing and media. Twitter’s success comes about through its simplistic model of sharing and communicating, [...]

Twitter Insights on a #Follow Friday

So for those reluctant souls who still think that twitter is a waste of time for social networking junkies with nothing better to do, I’m here to tell you otherwise. By now your boss has probably said “who knows what this twitter thing is & how can we use it to make sales?” or you’ve [...]

Eminem an Expert on Twitter; Who Would Have Thought

Eminem is using Twitter in an extremely clever way. He has a show coming up and is Tweeting out where fans can find free tickets. Instead of going into all of the details I will point you towards Chris Brogan’s post about the incident. Here it is.

Visualize Twitter

The one thing I use LinkedIn for is social groups. I am in a few social media groups which always provide great content. I found this this morning which is especially intriguing. You can see it in full size here.

Thanks to http://applicant.com for this.

Swine Flu, #swineflu, & H1N1 a social experiment

More interesting than Swine Flu or H1N1 sweeping across continents, is the fear about  Swine Flue or H1N1 sweeping across continents. What is it that we as Americans have for this kind of story. We freakin’ love it. Are people actually scared of Swine Flu, I doubt it, but we love talking about people freaking [...]

Friday is for Followers: Why and How to #followfriday

There are many ways people go about gaining new followers on twitter, but Follow Friday is one that stands out from the rest in my opinion. There’s no app. or bot involved that compiles a list of people to follow based upon your characteristics, posts, interests or otherwise. Follow Friday is a method that is [...]

7 Reasons Why Twitter Is 8th Grade All Over Again

1. Something is cool one week and then everyone forgets about it the next week.
Hashtags – “hashtags are like the coolest thing ever. Did you see Guy Kawasaki’s hashtags, they were like so awesome.”
Retweets – “Oh my god retweets are sooo cool, can you believe Jeremiah Owyang is talking about retweets, omg.”

2. Everyone wants to [...]