Newsjacking, HowDo, and more Kindle Fire vs. iPad Mini Comparisons Top the Social 6 for 11/1/12
Morning, team. In the wake of Sandy, newsjacking has become a very popular topic, and my post discussing it on my companion site, Going Social, took the top spot today. You'll notice plenty of great stories from The Next Web, too, and more of the ongoing Kindle Fire/iPad Mini debate, as the latter is still scheduled to be in stores tomorrow. Here's your Social 6:
#6: 500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup (The Next Web)
#5: HowDo lets people share everyday knowledge, lands seed funding from Wellington Partners and Horizons (The Next Web)
#4: How Australia's Advertising Standards Board became the Facebook police for business (Crikey)
#3: Kindle Fire vs. iPad Mini: 10 Reasons to Choose the Amazon Tablet (eWeek)
#2: Facebook confirms it's testing new Timeline design w/just 1 column for posts (The Next Web)
#1: Newsjacking – and its Ramifications for Your Brand’s Social Media (Going Social)
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Conan & Zynga, Kindle Fire & iPad Mini, and Facebook & Fraud: the Social 6 for 10/29/12
Hope you're all okay and not affected much by Hurricane Sandy, which is still virtually nonexistent here in Manhattan. This weekend, besides Sandy news, I shared a few links that a bunch of you found interesting, including Conan's ideas to improve Zynga's outlook, the continued battle between the Kindle Fire and iPad Mini, and Paul Ceglia's majorly sketchy claims against Facebook. Here's your Social 6:
#6: DreamIt Ventures Partners With Microsoft To Offer BizSpark To All Of Its Startups (TechCrunch)
#5: News From the Advertising Industry (New York Times)
#4: iPad Mini Display: Not Good Enough? (InformationWeek)
#3: Conan Comes Up With Some Naughty Social Games to Save Zynga (All Things D)
#2" Amazon email hints at anxiety over iPad mini (Smartmoney blog)
#1: NY Man Arrested For Trying to Defraud Facebook & Zuckerberg (Mashable)
Kindle Fire, Eventbrite's Social Media ROI, and Super Pacs: the Social 6 for 10/26/12
Happy Friday, gang. How was your Thursday? If yours was as hectic as mine, you might have missed these stories, and we wouldn't want to have that. Today we've got plenty of tablet news & views, Eventbrite's quantifiable social media success, and even a story from my book companion site, at http://goingsoci.al. Here's your Social 6:
#6: Can Amazon's Fire extinguish the iPad mini? (Daily Mail)
#5: Super PAC Wants to Put You in Its Facebook Ad (Mashable)
#4: If You Don't Like Your Current Story, Change It (Huffington Post)
#3: How to Build Your Brand Across Multiple Social - and Editorial - Platforms (Going Social)
#2: Social Media Drive Dollars, Users to Eventbrite: CEO (CNBC.com blog)
#1: Human costs of iPad mini: chemical smells, unpaid overtime, constant work (Macworld)
Twitter Profiles, Social Highlights, iPad Mini: the Social 6 roundup
Trying to streamline the Social 6 by only providing you guys with the links and publications of the articles that attracted the most clicks, shares, retweets, and so on over the last day or so. Today we've got an interesting mix, from social highlights to Twitter's new profiles to -- shocker -- more Apple news (this time it's the iPad Mini). Here's your Social 6 news roundup for 9/19/12:
#6: How Social Media Made Us Narcissists (EBONY.com)
#5: Buying Followers On Social Media Sites (San Francisco Chronicle)
#4: The Designers Who Got The Most Social Media Buzz During Fashion Week (Business Insider)
#3: iPad Mini Release Date, Price: Why Screen Size, Retina Display Crucial to Compete with Apps on Kindle Fire 2, HD (Books & Review)
#2: How to change your Twitter header image (Mashable)
#1: Why Book Highlights Are Anti-Social (ReadWriteWeb)
