October 31, 2011 : Comments (4)
Google+ Updates Android App, Adds New Design And Other Features
eBay Integrates Facebook Open Graph Into Commerce Platform To Make Shopping More Social
Merchants and retailers will soon be able to take advantage of new social sharing features following the announcement that eBay has integrated Facebook's Open Graph functionality into its X.commerce open commerce platform. The news was revealed at eBay's Innovate Developer Conference 2011, which took place in San Francisco Wednesday. This integration will allow... Read more » Facebook Friend Tricks Woman Out Of $20K
A New Jersey woman was allegedly tricked out of almost $20,000 by an old friend she reconnected with on Facebook. According to reports, the 38-year-old woman reconnected with a Florida man she’s known for 20 years on the social network. However, this man certainly didn’t act like a real friend. He asked her to wire him $19,933.24 as an investment in a... Read more » Winklevoss Twins Ordered To Pay Lawyers $13M Over Facebook Settlement
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have failed in yet another legal battle. The twins have lost their bid to appeal against a ruling that awarded the law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan $13 million dollars in legal fees related to their settlement with Facebook. New York's Appellate Division, First Department, ruled that the Winklevosses could not appeal... Read more »
INFOGRAPHIC: What AddThis Has Seen In 5 Years Of Social Sharing
The content sharing platform AddThis is celebrating its fifth birthday. After 5 years the service reaches 1.2 billion users on 10 million domains and in 70 different languages. To celebrate their success, the service released an interesting infographic about sharing on the Web. In 1 day, AddThis sees 2.56 billion views on their shares. If each of those pageviews... Read more » INFOGRAPHIC: Interesting Stats About Facebook, Twitter And More
Social media is something that most of us use every day, but if you look at the networks we log in to, you’ll notice that most of us log in to one of the big 4 – Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Google+. These social networks are some of the most popular, fastest growing and most culturally relevant networks on the Web and it is almost hard to think that less than... Read more » INFOGRAPHIC: The Social Media All-Stars Of 2011
If social networks could be drafted for an All-Star Team, which ones would be chosen? Would Facebook be the MVP with its over 800 million users or would newcomers like Instagram and Tumblr shine? Lemon.ly drafted their second annual social media All-Star Team based on influence, number of users, increase of users since last year, funding and number of employees.... Read more »
SURVEY: How Businesses Value Social Media Presence And Paid Ads
Businesses utilize social media in a number of different ways; they have pages on Facebook and accounts on Twitter as well as paid advertisements on both of those sites. With all of the effort being put forth to promote a company through social media, what’s actually the most effective? A new study published by eMarketer where Microsoft Advertising and... Read more » Facebook Acquires Friend.ly, Q&A Service To Remain Open
Facebook has acquired social Q&A service Friend.ly, the companies have announced. As a result of the acquisition, the Friend.ly team will be working on new projects at Facebook, but Friend.ly will remain open as a separate service. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Friend.ly offers you the ability to connect with others by asking and... Read more » Facebook Lets You Tag Non-friends In Comments On Your Public Posts
Your Facebook notifications might become a whole lot noisier with the rollout of a new feature that lets users tag people they are not friends with in the comments of their public posts. This is related to the Subscribe button feature that was launched a few weeks ago. The new feature was revealed in a post on the official Facebook + Journalists page, which... Read more » 
