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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)

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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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Wellness Apps, Fashion GPS, & Facebook Selling Tickets? The Social 6 for 2/11/13

Happy Monday, everyone! Plenty of great articles abounded today, including a few late shares on my part, admittedly. Today we had Facebook's new experimentation with selling tickets, Graph vs. Google, and how Fitbit and four other apps are improving employee health. Here's your Social 6:

#6: Just in time for NYFW, Fashion GPS Breaks Into The Notoriously Tech-Averse Fashion Industry (TechCrunch)

#5: The Truth Behind Your Facebook friends [CARTOON] (Mashable)

#4: Facebook is testing ‘Buy Tickets’ links for events. Is it getting into the ticketing biz? (TheNextWeb)

#3: The Mentality of Being Number Two (Business 2 Community)

#2: How Facebook's Graph Search Will Dethrone Google Search (AdAge.com)

#1: 5 Social Apps To Encourage Employee Health and Wellness (Mashable)

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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, Virtual Workers, & the About.me Spinoff: the Social 6 for 2/5/13

Today (2/5/13) wasn't the busiest day around the social newsosphere (I realize that sounds awkward and no, I'm not taking it back). Yet, we still had some good reads to be found, including About.me's move towards (re)independence, why you should care about Twitter's acquisition of Bluefin, and the more creative uses of Vine thus far. Here's your Social 6:

#6: Why you shouldn't rush to gamify (Real Business)

#5: How Facebook Graph Search didn't *actually* break your privacy settings (TechCrunch)

#4: 10 Works of Art on Vine (Mashable)

#3: Why The Twitter-Bluefin Deal Matters (ReadWriteWeb)

#2: Virtually There: Working Remotely (New York Times)

#1: About.me spins out as an independent company again, 2 years after AOL acquisition (TheNextWeb)

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Super Bowl, Facebook Exoduses, and Graph Search: the Social 6 for 2/4/13

As expected, Monday the 4th had plenty of news and views regarding last nights Super Bowl, but there were other interesting things to be found today across the social web, including arguments against graph search, gamification's role in revolutionizing health care, and marketing trends to be aware of in order to grow over the coming year. Here's your Social 6:

#6: 4 Powerful Marketing Trends Your Organization Must Embrace in 2013 (Business 2 Community)

#5: How Companies Are Using Gamification To Transform Health Care (Business Insider)

#4: This year's Super Bowl Generated over 24 Million Tweets (Mashable)

#3: Why Graph Search Could Be Facebook's Largest Privacy Invasion Ever (The Nation blog)

#2: How Superbowl XLVII’s Blackout Became A Marketer’s Dream (Likeable Media blog)

#1: Why I Decided To Leave Facebook (ReadWriteWeb)

by jeremygoldman

Timehop, Graph Search, and Vine: the Social 6, Weekend Edition

Over the last few days, the number of stories about Facebook's Graph Search hasn't abated that much, but the velocity at which I've seen new stories about Twitter's new Vine app has been pretty tremendous. We've also got a story about Timehop's timely (sorry, couldn't help it) upgrades, a great analysis of Instagram's top hashtags, and more. Here's your Social 6:

#6: Crowdsourcing: It's Always Been About the Benjamin (Forbes)

#5: Vinepeek Is The Most Addictive New Site On The Internet (Buzzfeed)

#4: Timehop taps USA Today to show you news from today’s date in history, adds ‘Friendversaries’ (The Next Web)

#3: Top 10 Most Popular Tags On Instagram (ReadWriteWeb)

#2: Tumblr Blog “Actual Facebook Graph Searches” Goes Viral (TechCrunch)

#1: 15 Brands already using Twitter’s New Vine App (Social Fresh)

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Tumblr, Taylor (Swift), and Turbulence (Over Graph Search): the Social 6 for 1/25/13

Yesterday I shared a lot, and you guys clicked and shared even more, making it really tricky to curate the Social 6, since quite a few noteworthy stories & pieces got left out. Still, we had a great 24-hour news cycle, highlighted by Keds' big Taylor Swift campaign, quite a few Facebook Graph Search pieces -- including two that disagree with one another -- and the most clickworthy of the day, a new guest post on the Going Social site by content & community standout Tanya Barrios. Here's your Social 6:

#6: Keds' Taylor Swift campaign spends across traditional & social media channels (New York Times)

#5: No, Facebook's Graph Search Is Not Turning Up Racists and Cheaters (New York Magazine)

#4: You Can't Hide from Facebook Graph Search (Businessweek)

#3: Tumblr launches quicker, Twitter-like post creation for a smaller and more streamlined experience (The Next Web)

#2: Facebook Graph Search Shows You 'Married People Who Like Prostitutes' & 'Employers Of People Who Like Racism' (Forbes)

#1: 3 Essential Steps to Handling a Social Media Crisis (Going Social)

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Foursquare Upgrades, TweetTV, & Alicia Keys: the Social 6 News Roundup

A pretty busy day around the social web, with plenty of great examples of social media best practices from the likes of Likeable (pun intended), Alicia Keys, and Arlington Highlands' Instagram campaign. Here's your Social 6:

#6: 3 Tips To Improve Your Social Media Content Strategy in 2013 (Likeable Media blog)

#5: Social TV guide TweetTV launches HTML5 mobile apps, now offers rewards to incentivize activity (The Next Web)

#4: Foursquare beefs up local venue data for 11 cities in data syndication deal with Voice Media Group (The Next Web)

#3: Give-a-Gram Instagram Campaign Case Study (Agency Entourage)

#2: Alicia Keys just joined Pinterest in style, with boards building on her individual songs (Mashable)

#1: Facebook Now Owns Over 25% Of Total Time Spent On Mobile Apps (ReadWriteWeb)

by jeremygoldman

Influencers, Storify, France's Social Data Tax, & More: the Social 6 News Roundup for 1/22/13

Starting today, we (and by we, I mean me) will be posting the Social 6 the same day news happens as opposed to the next morning. So today, January 22nd, we saw plenty of great news stories, including more on the Storify privacy loopholes, France's ideas for taxing personal data collectors such as Google and Facebook, and how some employers' social media policies may not be 100% legal. Here's your Social 6:

#6: Influencers vs. Advocates in New Media (Huffington Post)

#5: Storify Loophole Publishes Private Facebook Updates (Mashable)

#4: Should Google and Facebook be taxed for collecting your personal data? France thinks so (The Next Web)

#3: 16 Inspiring Examples of Interactive Maps in Web Design (Web Design Ledger)

#2: Employers' social media policies come under regulatory scrutiny (New York Times)

#1: The power of brand marketing as a floor (Christopher S. Penn blog)