Tumblr Adult Content, Pinterest Categories, Google Plus Upgrades: the Social 6 for 5/20/13
No, I won't say the top story is related to Yahoo or Tumblr - that's #2 ;). If you've been living under a shell you won't understand what I'm talking about, but the vast majority of you guys undoubtedly will!
There's plenty of other great news and views I've shared out over social media today, including an interesting ReadWrite post about Google+, a possibly game-changing move by Pinterest, and a very important read by Dave Kerpen over on LinkedIn. Here's your Social 6:
#6: And the Future of Social Media Is (LinkedIn)
#5: Gmail and Google Plus Upgrades: Simple but Significant (International Business Times)
#4: 5 Signs Your Social Media Campaign Goes Against Permission Marketing Basics (Business 2 Community)
#3: Google: Please Fix The Crippling Problem Plaguing Google+ (ReadWrite)
#2: Yahoo XXX? Tumblr's Adult Fare Accounts For 11.4% Of Site's Top 200K Domains (TechCrunch)
#1: Pinterest begins categorizing pins based on content & introduces share button for mobile apps (The Next Web)
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Flattr, Listly, Foursquare, Flickr's iOS app, Pinterest's New Look: the Social 6 for 3/18/13
Busy Monday in real life and on the Interwebz, folks! I kid you not. What's interesting is that today really didn't have any runaway winner for first place, but we've got plenty of great links today. Interestingly enough, for the most part they're all focused on visuals and startups. Here's your Social 6:
#6: Flattr now lets you make $$ from Twitter Favorites, Instagram Likes & more (The Next Web)
#5: Social Media Campaign to Reunite Auschwitz Twins "A7733" & "A7734" (The Times of Israel)
#4: Listly goes premium with its revamped list-building platform, and gets more mobile friendly too (The Next Web)
#3: Does Foursquare have a Yelp Problem? (AllThingsD)
#2: Flickr's iOS app update features great support for hashtags (The Next Web)
#1: Pinterest shares how its new look lets users discover more of what they love (Pinterest)
Pinterest Analytics, SoundCloud, Netflix on Facebook: the Social 6 for 3/13/13
Today I was a bit out of it, putting out fires at Firebrand Group (no pun intended, pinkie swear) -- but that didn't stop all your clicks & shares. Here's your Social 6:
#6: Peter Thiel On Not Selling Facebook - And Much, Much More (ReadWrite)
#5: Subscriptions, Social and CRM (Ecommerce Times)
#4: At long last, US users can share Netflix history on Facebook (Mashable)
#3: How to get your coworkers to share company news on social networks (Social Fresh)
#2: SoundCloud: the Twitter of Music? (The Verge)
#1: 4 Things to Try with the New Pinterest Analytics [VIDEO] (Social Media Today)
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SXSW Lessons, SimpleWash, & Why People Get Unfriended: the Social 6 for 3/11/13
Who cares about SXSW, anyways? Oh, right, you're all there right now.
Kidding aside, though there has been some great news coming out of the festival in Austin, there's plenty more great pieces that have been clicked & shared today, including a parody of the new Yahoo! employee policy, how SimpleWash can help with Facebook management, and why folks wind up getting unfriended on Facebook. Here's your Social 6:
#6: Breaking News: Yahoo!'s "no work-from-home" policy completely saves company (iMedia Connection)
#5: How to Determine if a Facebook Business Page has Fake Fans (Pam Moore blog)
#4: SimpleWash, the Easiest Way to Clean Up Your Facebook Page (Mashable)
#3: How social media is transforming movie theatres (New York Times)
#2: SXSW13 Panel Says Online Influencers Don't Sway Action (The Holmes Report)
#1: The top 10 Reasons why people unfriend others on Facebook: [INFOGRAPHIC] (Right Mix Marketing)
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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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The Social 6: News Roundup, 9/5/12
MistoBox aims to boost your morning Cup of Joe w/the “@birchbox of Coffee”
"A new monthly delivery service, MistoBox, describes itself as “the BirchBox of the micro roasted coffee industry”...the company, which was founded by Connor Riley and Samantha Meis while in an entrepreneurship program at the University of Arizona, launched in June after just passing its Kickstarter goal of $9,000 in funding."
How Pinterest and Instagram are changing your brand strategy
"In 2008, Steve Jobs took the stage at the Macworld Expo and shared what seemed like a startling statistic: “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year…People don’t read anymore.” Many are saying this statement could be seen as a foreshadowing of the explosive growth in visual content. But that wouldn’t really be accurate. Direct marketers have long known this; creating compelling visual content has been at the center of their world for years."
Android dominates Southeast Asia’s smartphone market: Report
"In a study of the major countries in Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand, 31 percent of smartphones were found to be running Android. Apple’s iOS has about 19 percent of the market with Blackberry, Symbian, and Windows Phone rounding out the remaining shares."
Social Media's Issue: Does It Drive Sales?
"“The next 12 months are the make or break time for social media, but I do think the investments have been there. People have sizable communities and want to make them ROI [return on investment] positive. We will really see if the metrics prove one way or another,” said Maureen Mullen, New York University think tank Luxury Lab, or L2, director of research ."
Wolfram Alpha's new "Facebook Report" lets you be a rockstar at mining your FB data
"Nearly 50% of my Facebook friends are married, which adds up to 123 people total. Meanwhile, 20.1% or 51 of my friends are in a relationship, and 13 are engaged. All this information I now know thanks to a new “Facebook Report” by Wolfram Alpha, which will gift you with more knowledge than you could possibly ever want to know about yourself and your Facebook profile."
Marissa Mayer is now reviewing *every* single serious candidate for employment at Yahoo
"Back in early August, there were reports that new CEO Marissa Mayer intended to do what Google's cofounders have always done: review every single new hire the company makes. Now, according to a Yahoo executive involved in hiring, Mayer is actually doing it....Yahoo has about 15,000 employees and it is hiring all the time, so this is no small task."
