Tweet Visual.ly: Visual.ly is a free community that allows you to share infographics and data visualizations without the need of Photoshop or a team of designers. Visual.ly’s capabilities include the ability to create custom infographics using information from various databases, including those from social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. In fact, Visual.ly just launched [...]
Tweet Instagram: Instagram is a mobile app that allows you to apply filters to photos taken on a mobile device. Each photo taken can then be shared with both friends and strangers on various social media networks including Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Instagram was just purchased this week for $1 billion by Facebook. You may [...]
Tweet One Billion: Why is this number important? Because in 2012, Facebook is expected to reach one billion users. It wasn’t the first or last social network, but it’s clearly the most popular, and Facebook currently sets the standard for social networks and Internet destinations in general. Here are some numbers provide context as to [...]
Tweet LiveGO: LiveGO is a web dashboard that incorporates email, instant messaging and social media in one easy-to-use platform. After connecting LiveGO to your Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail/Yahoo!/AOL email accounts, users can get a combined view of all messages and updates in the dashboard screen, or they can choose each account individually to obtain the [...]
Tweet SOPA: The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is a bill that was introduced late last year in the House of Representatives that is aimed at protecting intellectual property on the Internet. Supporters of the bill cite its ability to improve the enforcement of copyright laws as well as protect Internet users against scams aimed [...]
Tweet Social Television: Social TV, simply put, is the combination of watching television while simultaneously engaging in conversations via social media. Tweeting or Facebooking about the shows we are watching was a trend on the rise during 2011 and is expected to continue to thrive as we move into 2012. Twitter has already begun to [...]
Tweet In the days following the assassination of Osama bin Laden, you might have checked your Facebook Newsfeed and Twitter home page to see many of your friends posting the following quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.: “I will mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death [...]
Tweet For the sake of argument, we’re all going to pretend everyone reading this has passed social media 101 – you’re on Twitter, you’re on Facebook, and you’ve achieved 100% completion on your LinkedIn profile. If you haven’t, no worries. Read this, this and this. Then come back. We’ll wait… Great! Now, let’s move on [...]
Tweet Facebook has more than 500 million active users. Twitter recently announced that it had topped 200 million accounts. According to ComScore, 1 out of every 8 minutes of the average online user’s internet time is spent on Facebook and 22% of Fortune 500 companies now have a public-facing blog that has at least one [...]
Tweet Check-in: In social media terms, a check-in is the act of letting all your friends and followers know where you are through a social networking service such as Foursqure that is equipped with geolocation capability. Foursqure integrates with Twitter so that a new tweet is sent out with each check-in, and Facebook has even [...]