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Facebook gets Ads in Main News Feed starting January

, Dec 20th 2011 Discuss [22]

Starting in the year 2012 and in the month of January, Facebook will be starting the flood of ads in their main news feed with a trickle: one sponsored ad in your main feed per day at the start, with these ads appearing as normal posts save for the small “Sponsored” tag in the comment line. Users wont be able to opt out of seeing sponsored ads in their main news feed, and mobile news feed stories MAY be in the works for 2012 as well. It appears that a few sites from all walks of life such as Inside Facebook and TechCrunch have received confirmation from Facebook that these changes will appear, again, at the start of 2012.

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YouTube unveils major redesign, gets social, adds algorithmic feeds

, Dec 1st 2011 Discuss [0]

YouTube unveiled today the biggest redesign of its homepage in history. The revamped interface appears to be part of Google's move to introduce a social layer to all its products, adding a new emphasis on integrations with social networks like Google+ and Facebook, as well as bringing in new algorithmic channel feeds. The emphasis on channel subscriptions also makes it easy to navigate and watch YouTube as if you were watching TV. Read The Full Story

Twitter adds photo sharing via text message

, Sep 21st 2011 Discuss [0]

Twitter added a new feature today that lets you share photos via text messages or SMS messages. Although there's the official Twitter app and plenty of third-party clients, many folks still prefer sharing tweets by texting. With this new feature, they can now share photos along with their tweets by simply attaching a photo to their text message. Read The Full Story

Facebook revamps friend lists and newsfeed, adds ticker

, Sep 20th 2011 Discuss [11]

Facebook announced several new changes today, including revisions to its Friends Lists and News Feed features as well as the addition of a ticker with real-time status updates. These changes will be rolled out starting this evening, just two days ahead of Facebook's annual f8 developer conference, where the social network is expected to unveil more new features, including music streaming integration. Read The Full Story

Facebook Blocking Google+ Invite Posts?

, Aug 16th 2011 Discuss [18]

Reports surfaced today that Facebook may be blocking posts that encourage users to try out rival social network, Google+. A video was posted this morning by a Google employee pointing out something peculiar he noticed about how his friends' news feeds would show his regular status updates but would exclude one's with a link to Google+. Read The Full Story

Android 2.3.3 for XPERIA Play and Arc released [Video]

, May 26th 2011 Discuss [0]

Sony Ericsson's latest firmware update for the XPERIA Arc and XPERIA Play has begun to roll out. The new software upgrades the smartphones to Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread, addressing various issues and bugfixes, as well as including the Facebook Inside XPERIA functionality that Sony Ericsson first showed on the XPERIA mini and mini pro. Read The Full Story

Twitter snaps up TweetDeck in $40m desperation deal

, May 24th 2011 Discuss [0]

Twitter has reportedly finally got around to snapping up TweetDeck, in a deal worth over $40m according to CNN. Although neither company has officially confirmed the acquisition - which will paid for with a mixture of cash and stock - the paperwork was apparently signed on Monday. Read The Full Story

Twitter and Facebook must learn from LinkedIn’s IPO success

, May 19th 2011 Discuss [4]

Just after 7 a.m. this morning on its first day of trading, LinkedIn‘s stocked soared up $47 to 92.99 dollars a share. Currently it is around $90 a share up 45 points. I’ve spent the bulk of the morning on the phone with reporters and radio hosts explaining why the the success of LinkedIn’s IPO is not surprising, and here is why.

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Facebook confesses to anti-Google PR campaign

, May 12th 2011 Discuss [7]

Facebook has admitted hiring a PR firm to seed anti-Google news, in an attempt to raise alarm over the search giant’s policies toward user privacy. The social network – and public relations firm Burson-Marsteller – confirmed to The Daily Beast that it had offered journalists assistance in writing critical newspaper articles about Google invading privacy.

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Disqus Adds @ Mentions To Comment Threads

, May 6th 2011 Discuss [23]

If you frequently comment on tech sites such as ours you'll notice that many employ the Disqus commenting platform. It helps us serve, track, and manage our commenting system while connecting us with a large community of Disqus users. After recently raising $10 million in venture funding, the company launched today a new @ mentioning feature. Read The Full Story

Osama bin Laden dead: Raid was confidential but Twitter wasn’t [Video]

, May 2nd 2011 Discuss [8]

The reports of Osama bin Laden’s death may be ubiquitous now, but the story inadvertently broke – and played out amid the firefight – on Twitter first. Abbottabad resident Sohaib Athar noted a “Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event)” and then ”A huge window shaking bang here in Abbottabad Cantt. I hope its not the start of something nasty :-S” without realizing he was giving an on-the-ground insight into what the US government has described as a 40-minute “surgical raid“.

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Google: All Employees Responsible For Success Of Our Social Strategy

, Apr 7th 2011 Discuss [0]

Google has been stepping up their social strategy big time despite little success with the deployment of various features including a discussions system in Google Docs, social features in Google Maps, the Google +1 search recommendation feature, and even a Google Me social platform to rival that of Facebook. And now with new CEO Larry Page on board, a memo has been sent out to employees that puts the social success burden on salary bonuses. Read The Full Story
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