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Facebook Hashtags, Veronica Mars & Kickstarter, and Pi Day: the Social 6 for 3/14/13

Busy busy day out there today, I tell you! I had about 4-5 great links that didn't even make it today into our top six. The ones that made it were great picks, including Veronica Mars and the power of crowdfunding, a great Pam Moore analysis of Google's odd ways of servicing customers, and how Facebook's rumored launch of hashtags may affect Twitter in some surprising ways. Here's your Social 6:

#6: Aggregift Turns Anything On Amazon Into A Crowdfunded, Group Gift (TechCrunch)

#5: Facebook study shows users who message close friends and family are more likely to find a new job (The Next Web)

#4: Happy Pi Day, everyone!! Here are 10 YouTube Videos for Math Geeks (Mashable)

#3: Veronica Mars Movie Budget Coming Entirely From Kickstarter, More Rewards To Be Added (Bleeding Cool)

#2: Google, Who Are you? (Pam Moore blog)

#1: Facebook to introduce hashtags...good or bad for Twitter? (AllThingsD)

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Duane Reade, Pandora Jewelry, Songdrop, and Apple's War Chest: the Social 6 for 3/4/12

Today was a busy busy day, which is par for the course for a Monday, and we have plenty of great reading material. Some of the highlights included the launch of Pandora in New York City hosted by Pretty Connected, the rise of Songdrop, how Duane Reade is getting hyperlocal right, and more. Here's your Social 6:

#6: Songdrop Is Like A Delicious For Music For That Lives Outside Of Paywalls (TechCrunch)

#5: Are You Targeting the Wrong Social Influencers? 3 Mistakes Brands are Making (BlogWorld)

#4: The UK's Guardian is boasting a new ad campaign to loop in American readers (New York Times)

#3: Case Study: Duane Reade Uses Local Brand Advocates to Promote Neighborhood Stores (Street Fight)

#2: Join Pretty Connected + Lucky Magazine for the Pandora 3/7 Grand Opening in NYC (Pretty Connected)

#1: 10 Things Apple Could Buy with its $137 Billion (AllThingsD)

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Foursquare Discounts, Mailbox, Gamification & Heroic Pigs: the Social 6 for 2/26/13

Incredibly busy day all around! The social sharing around my links was probably 250% what it was on a normal day. Is there something in the water?

Today we had plenty of great news, including surprisingly stats about the future of gamification, some viral marketing that tricked quite a few of us, and how not everyone is jumping on the Mailbox bandwagon (I personally like it, but I'm not bowing at its altar). Here's your Social 6:

#6: Foursquare Partners with Visa, MasterCard for Discounts (Ad Age)

#5: Really Cute, but Totally Faked (New York Times)

#4: After Waiting Two Weeks For Mailbox, The Massively Hyped Email App, I Deleted It After Two Days (Business Insider)

#3: 50% of companies will gamify innovation by 2015 (MarketingMag AU)

#2: How I Got @JCrew to Start Tweeting Again (Likeable Media blog)

#1: LinkedIn compiles testimonials from 70 leaders in its latest series (LinkedIn)

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The Onion Missteps, Running Apps, Facebook Ad Changes, Twitter Hacks: the Social 6 for 2/25/13

Yesterday was an action-packed day, if you're a social media nerd like me. Enough so that plenty of great contestants didn't get onto the list. The stories left standing, of course, make up a very diverse Social 6, from a rundown of running apps, to Netflix's use of analytics to power their programming, to a rare apology from The Onion regarding an unfortunate joke aimed at a nine year-old. Here's your Social 6:

#6: What real-time marketers should learn from Frost Mages (Christopher S. Penn blog)

#5: Twitter Hackings Put Focus on Security for Brands (New York Times)

#4: Three Running Apps to Shake Up Your Routine (AllThingsD)

#3: The Onion apologizes for Quvenzhané Wallis Comment (Mashable)

#2: Netflix is using Big Data to ensure House of Cards' popularity (New York Times)

#1: Facebook is decreasing image size for non-social page post ads. Here's what you need to know (Sprout Social blog)

by jeremygoldman

Papal Twitter, Framebench, & Facebook Insights Fail: the Social 6 Weekend Edition

Hope you all had wonderful weekends! The last few days (I'm including Friday), to be honest, weren't mindblowing with news & views. In fact, some of the links I shared were -- gasp -- a few days old! Nevertheless, there are kernels of gold in here, including details about collaboration platform Framebench, Facebook's Page Insights issues, the Papal Twitter account's exit from the stage, and more. Here's your Social 6:

#6: 5 Business Lessons From Yahoo! (Likeable Media blog)

#5: Posterous is shutting down 4/20. Time to backup your Posterous Content (Social Media Today)

#4: Pope's Twitter shutting down when Benedict XVI Leaves Office (Mashable)

#3: Framebench, a Google Docs-like platform for creative collaboration (TechCrunch)

#2: Why Most Startups Fail (Business Insider)

#1: Facebook confirms Page Insight bugs led to misreported analytics with fix rolling out today (The Next Web)

by jeremygoldman

Twitter Ads API, Square's POS Initiative, & Tweetbot: the Social 6 for 2/20/13

Very busy day for me, between meetings and Social Media Week events, and a very busy for news all over the Internet! In case you were busy running around like I was, you might have missed great news about Tweetbot, some helpful shortcuts courtesy of Mashable, Square's major POS initiative, and Twitter's Ads API, which should have a major impact on the platform. Here's your Social 6:

#6: 5 Brilliant Ways to Staff for Community Management (Likeable Media blog)

#5: Tweetbot for Mac gets some sweet upgrades (The Next Web)

#4: What's Missing From The New Digital Classroom? (ReadWriteWeb)

#3: 25 Clever Twitter Keyboard Shortcuts (Mashable)

#2: Square rolls out “Business In A Box”, A turnkey POS experience For $299 (TechCrunch)

#1: Twitter launches Ads API to give companies more ad control, announces five initial partners (The Next Web)

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Snapchat, Nextdoor, FONYFW, & Tweet-to-Buy: the Social 6 for 2/12/13

Today was actually a pretty busy day around the Internetz, with plenty of strong stories sadly being left off of the Social 6. The good news is that the ones that made the cut are pretty sweet, including plenty of app news (Snapchat, Winston, Nextdoor), another reason to get an Amex card, and the most click & shareworthy piece of the day, my analysis of how Faces of NYFW is democratizing Fashion Week. Here's your Social 6:

#6: Winston, the iOS app that aggregates, curates, & reads you the news (The Next Web)

#5: Nextdoor (private social network) banks another $21 million, launches version 2.0 (AllThingsD)

#4: Snapchat Brings Video To Android In A Private Beta (TechCrunch)

#3: How To Hack Online Dating And Use Data To Find True Love (ReadWriteWeb)

#2: American Express Cardholders Can Now Tweet to Buy (All Things D)

#1: Experience Fashion Week Up Close with Faces of NYFW (Going Social)

by jeremygoldman

Fox News Gaffes, Basecamp, Rental Boyfriends, & Racial Bias in Google Ads? The Social 6, Weekend Recap

Hope you all enjoyed this past weekend! If you were off gallivanting, you may have missed some of the top stories I shared and subsequently, were re-shared/clicked on by my social audience. This weekend we had great news & views including Basecamp's official iOS debut after years and years, some troubling data about Google ads, Twitter's effectiveness as a job search guide, and more. Here's your Social 6:

#6: Upcoming tech & media events you should attend [Discounts] (The Next Web)

#5: Single This Valentine's Day? Get a Rental Boyfriend (Jezebel)

#4: Basecamp Finally Launches An “Official” iOS App (TechCrunch)

#3: Fox News Accidentally Uses Photo of Gay Couple To Illustrate Traditional Gender Roles (Jezebel)

#2: How to Effectively Use Twitter as a Job Search Resource (Mashable)

#1: Racial Bias in Google Ads? (Ecommerce Times)

by jeremygoldman

Twitter and Vine Upgrades, Facebook Quitters, and the Gun Debate: the Social 6 for 2/6/13

Over the last 24 hours, we had six great stories from six different publications, covering everything from the gun debate's divisiveness on Twitter to an interview with Erik Lautier of Lacoste on the Going Social site, to stats about Facebook quitters to updates to Twitter and Vine. Here's your Social 6:

#6: Things Get Rough on Twitter over Gun Debate (New York Times blog)

#5: Twitter Tweaks Search and Discover Products (All Things D)

#4: Vine gets 17+ age rating, option to report users; finally enables social sharing after videos are posted (The Next Web)

#3: Most Facebook Users Have Quit For At Least A Few Weeks (ReadWriteWeb)

#2: Going Social with...Erik Lautier of Lacoste (Going Social)

#1: 9 Things We'd Change About Vine (Mashable)

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Vine, Graph Search, #CMAD, and Google+ Rising: the Social 6 for 1/28/13

Today was a busy day out there, with more views about Facebook's Graph Search, a great Likeable post in honor of Community Manager Appreciation Day, and more on Vine (Christopher S. Penn's first line made me laugh out loud. Here's your Social 6:

#6: 3 Reasons Facebook Graph Search Is Not A Marketer's Dream (Fast Company)

#5: How to make the most of Vine 6 second videos (Christopher S. Penn blog)

#4: 5 Things Every Community Manager Must Have (that’s not in their job description) (Likeable blog)

#3: 6 Trends Reshaping Small Businesses In 2013 (Forbes)

#2: What Multilocation Brands Need to Do to Prepare for Facebook’s Graph Search (Street Fight)

#1: Google Plus Becomes World's No. 2 Social Network After Facebook, Knocking off Twitter (International Business Times)

by jeremygoldman