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Anna’s Social Media Picks of the Week (12/17/10)

Friday, December 17th, 2010

Facebook Accidently Releases Page Updates:

Yesterday, Facebook accidentally released an overhaul of Pages. The Pages have since been reverted back to the previous state, but the screen grabs and articles provide a sneak peek at potential new features. Features include:

A tab free Page – with navigation on the left hand side of the Page
A login button for admins – including a “Switch Accounts” feature
Removal of comment button – as we’ve recently seen with Profile Pages
Memories on Profile Pages – giving a snapshot (with photos, status updates, etc.) of each year on Facebook
Lightbox UI – When you click on an image, the background around the image will become a black box to allow for better concentration on the image.

YouTube Trends:

This week, YouTube released Trends, which emphasizes the most popular videos on YouTube. Trends allows you to view the most popular videos of 2010, trending videos, and even narrow popular videos down by demographics and geographic areas. You can narrow by age, gender, and explore the most popular videos in dozens of U.S. cities and more than 20 countries. Check it out at http://youtube-trends.blogspot.com/.

Facial Recognition Feature:

A Facebook feature we can keep a look out for is Facebook’s Facial Recognition feature. The facial recognition software will make tagging photos easier by using software to pick the person out of your friend network. It was reported this week that we can expect this feature to begin rolling out as early as next week.

Zuckerberg Named Time’s Person of the Year:

The Social Network, The Movie. Zuckerberg Signs The Giving Pledge. Oh.. and that Facebook thing that keeps growing. Zuckerberg has certainly been a topic of conversation throughout the year , and Time has named him Person of the Year. As Time Magazine writes: “For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them, for creating a new system of exchanging information and for changing how we live our lives, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is TIME’s 2010 Person of the Year.”

Twitter Ads Easier:

If you ever wanted to look into buying advertising on Twitter, you may be happy to know that it just got easier. This week Twitter launched an online ad buying form. The form lets you choose between purchasing Promoted Accounts, Promoted Tweets, and Promoted Trends, and lets you select one of 5 monthly ad budget options – ranging from $10-$100K.

-Anna (@alucas9)

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Anna’s Social Media Picks of the Week (12/10/10)

Friday, December 10th, 2010

Do you have time to search the web everyday to find the newest social media tools and trends? If the answer is no, then you have come to the right place. I have searched the internets for social media information all week, and stumbled upon a few favorites along the way. Here are my picks of the week:

New Facebook Profiles:

Facebook profiles got a makeover this week. Profiles now include a snapshot with a brief summary of who you are and recent photos. You also now have the option to highlight your interests, give a more complete picture of how you spend your time, as well as highlight your closest Facebook friends. For more information, click here.

Tumblr Took a Tumble:

This week, Tumblr went down for over 24 hours. Planned maintenance on Sunday unintentionally brought the entire network down. A very apologetic blog post from Tumblr staff stated “Frankly, keeping up with growth has presented more work than our small team was prepared for — with traffic now climbing more than 500M pageviews each month. But we are determined and focused on bringing our infrastructure well ahead of capacity as quickly as possible.”

Google’s Most Searched of 2010:

This week, Google released their Search Zeitgeist for 2010, which highlighted the most popular search terms during the year. So what did the world Google? As Mashable explained,

“Chatroulette, the iPad and Justin Bieber were the three fastest-rising search terms in 2010; Twitter and Facebook also made the list, at numbers eight and 10, respectively.”

New search terms that made the list were Haiti, Chile, “earthquake”, Lady Gaga and the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. Other top searches included world cup, iPhone 4, and Olympics. For a full list, go here.

World Map of Social Networks – December 2010:

Vincenzo Cosenza’s latest world map of social networks is out. Trends for web traffic data from Alexa and Google during the month were mapped out. The map shows that Facebook is ever increasing in their dominance. Other social networks on the rise include LinkedIn and Twitter.

Meme of the Week:

(Note: I am including this because I am a geek about my town and who knows when the next viral video will come from #RVA.) What started as a local YouTube video has turned into a national viral video. Last weekend at a Christmas parade in Richmond, Virginia, a Rudolph float went down after being punctured by a stoplight. It is hilarious.. er.. I mean tragic. The video now has over 500,000 views, and has been featured on The Today Show, Jimmey Kimmel, Tosh.0, Perez Hilton, Metro, and more.

-Anna (@alucas9)

Tags: 2010, december, Facebook, fb, google search, gulf oil spill, haiti, highlight facebook friends, iPad, iPhone4, justin beiber, Lady Gaga, new profile, parade, profile snapshot, Richmond, rudolph, Virginia, world map of social networks, zeitgeist
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Anna’s Social Media Picks of the Week (12/03/10)

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

Gowalla 3.Whoa!

Check-in at one of the biggest location based services, check-in at them all? The newest version of Gowalla’s iPhone app was released on Thursday, and had some pretty big updates. Gowalla has unified check-ins, allowing users to check-in to Facebook Places, Tumblr, Twitter, and competitor Foursquare when they check-in to Gowalla. Download Gowalla 3.0 here.

Rumor Alert: Google to Buy Groupon?

Rumor has it that Google may buy Groupon for a whopping $6 billion dollars. Groupon is rapidly growing in popularity, and is set to exceed $500 million dollars in revenue this year. Sources say that Google wants to make this purchase to extend their online dominance through local advertising dollars, and to fend off competition like Facebook, who recently announced their own deal service.

One Hangover (Badge), Coming Right Up:

Badges! Foursquare announced new badges this week, including Dog’s Best Friend (“for frequenting dog parks”), Great Outdoors (“for getting out to parks to breathe in some fresh air”), Swimmies (“for the aquatic minded”), 9 to 5 (“for those of us in the weekly grind”), Hangover (“we’re not encouraging hangovers, but are happy to salute people who keep on trucking!”), and Ski Bum (“to commemorate your trips up the mountain”).

Social Networking for Social Good:

This week, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes officially launched Jumo, a social activism social network. You can connect with Jumo via Facebook connect, and then select to follow any of the 3,500 charity organizations (in 200 issue areas) you support.

Netflix To Offer More Streaming Options:

Recently, Netflix began offering a streaming-only subscription, and beginning in 2011, we may have more instant options. This week, Netflix announced a deal with FilmDistrict that will allow first run movies to be streamed. The New York Post also reported that Netflix is in talks with production studios, possibly paying upwards of $100,000 per episode for first-run TV content.

Tags: chris hughes, dog lover, filmdistrict, foursquare, foursquare badges, google acquires groupon, gowalla 3.0, gowalla update, groupon, hangover, jumo, netflix streaming upgrade, outdoors, rumor, ski bum, social network for social good, tumblr, twitter
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Anna’s Social Media Picks of the Week (11/12/10)

Friday, November 12th, 2010

Do you have time to search the web everyday to find the newest social media tools? If the answer is no, then you have come to the right place. I have searched the World Wide Web for social media information all week, and stumbled upon a few favorites along the way. Here are my picks of the week:

Facebook’s Gmail Killer?

Rumor has it that Facebook is announcing it’s very own web based email system on Monday. Known as Project Titan, the email system will give you your very own personal email @facebook.com. More details to come on Monday. The event is scheduled to take place at the Web 2.0 Summit at 10 a.m. PT.

Grab Your Community Pages:

Organizations, listen up! Facebook is now allowing you to claim up to 5 community Pages. All you have to do is visit the community Page(s) you would like to merge with your official Page, and request to claim the Page. Once approved, people who like the community Pages will be merged with your official page. Fans are the only thing that will be merged with your official Page.

Twitter Ping Partnership:

You can now connect Ping with Twitter, making it easier to find friends on Ping, and to share songs and album likes and purchases on Twitter. The cool thing is that playable song previews and links to purchase and download music from iTunes will also show up in your Tweet.

Bump Music:

Twitter and Ping joining together makes it easier to share music from afar. The new Bump app makes it easier to share with the person next to you. Bump 2.2 allows users to bump phones to share music. Users can select songs they want to share, then bump phones together to make it happen. The person receiving the music can then listen to a preview and purchase on iTunes, or they can hear the full song live-streamed from YouTube. So, don’t just bump to music, bump music.

YouTube Uploads on the Rise:

Over 35 hours of video are uploaded every minute to YouTube. This stat, that YouTube blogged about this week, shows that video sharing continues to grow. This has risen 11 hours since March. As YouTube explained:

“If three of the major US networks were broadcasting 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year for the last 60 years, they still wouldn’t have broadcast as much content as is uploaded to YouTube every 30 days.”

-Anna (@alucas9)

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