Don’t want anyone searching for you on Google+ ? No problem! Just leave your profile marked as private and Google will punt your page from the cloud after July 31st.
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Google+ to require that profiles be visible to all, will boot private profiles after July 31st
Like Google’s web search, Twitter started off life doing one single thing and doing it very well. And, just like Google, it’s kept adding subtle little enhancements along its way to becoming a mature internet tool. Today, its own famously simplistic search functionality has take a turn through the makeover booth and has emerged shinier, happier, and much smarter on the other side.
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Twitter finally gets a legitimate search function, lets you filter tweets using smiley faces
Six months ago we did an overview of trends in the idea management market . At the time, most of the action was going on in the internal idea/innovation management area
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3 More Trends in Idea Management
Google just made an announcement on the Google Webmaster Central blog that they will start introducing a +1 button to Google Search and as a button for websites. Google +1 seems awfully similar to Facebook Like.
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Google +1 Button, Social Sharing Similar To Facebook Like
Looks like not even mighty Google itself is able to resist the charms of a bit of widespread internet shorthand. +1, whether used to uprank an Engadget comment or in freehand writing to signify one’s support / approval of something, is making its way into Google search results
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Google adding a +1 button to search results, hopes you Like it
Like any other social network, the value of an enterprise social network is tied to the number of active users.
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Network Effects and Pricing Models in the Social Enterprise
People say tech startups have to eat their own dog food (meaning use their own services) but the widespread confusion concerning the value of location check-in apps like Foursquare could be eliminated by dog food as well. Specifically, by dogs eating dog food when their owners check-in at food dispensing marketing displays. It’s just an example, but it’s a really good one! Check out the video below of a German pet food company’s marketing idea.
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Here’s How Foursquare Becomes Relevant (to Dogs)
Inkd , the startup formerly known as Pressplane, launched Zapd over the weekend, a free iOS app that allows you to create and publish Web sites from your iPhone. “Create beautiful websites. In 60 seconds.” the makers of Zapd vow, combining photos with premade layouts to create instant sites, ala Tumblr .
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Zapd allows website creation from iPhone sans social networking
Let’s be honest: We all enjoy a good night out on the town occasionally, and when fun happens these days, chances are you might say or post something on various social networks that you probably shouldn’t, be that something negative about your boss or your ex, or just a little too much information about your current state of mind. Now there’s an iPhone app that purports to deal with exactly these lapses in judgement. Last Night Never Happened is an iPhone app that, when given access to your Facebook and/or Twitter accounts, will delete or replace any social network postings that you happen to regret.
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Erase the social network past with Last Night Never Happened
Fabled serial entrepreneur Bill Nguyen launches Color, a photo-based social networking mobile app which is the anti-Path: Whereas Path limits distribution of your visual “moments” to those in your social cohort, Color augments your experience by unlocking the newly captured memories of the people sharing your physical space. This puts it squarely into a problem space that many sharp minds in tech are trying to solve: How can you create instant local communities among those who occupy the same place at the same time
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Color Me Fascinated: A Photo Social Network for the Here and Now
The web conference circuit is increasingly crowded and covers a wide range of topics. Unless you’re Robert Scoble , you probably don’t get to attend all of the events that you’d like. Even with the events you do attend, you likely won’t see all of the sessions you’d planned to (cough, SXSW !).
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How to Track Conferences Virtually
This post originally appeared on guest author Jeremiah Owyang’s blog .
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The State and Future of the Social Media Management System Space
At this week’s SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, we got a sneak peek at a new Twitterized “newspaper” application for iPad called BroadFeed , just prior to its iTunes launch. Designed by marketing agency Organic , Inc., the app has publisher appeal because it won’t “steal clicks” (i.e., page views) from content providers when displaying articles your friends linked to in their tweets
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SXSW: BroadFeed, a New Twitter Newspaper for iPad
Once you’ve added x-ray vision to your email inbox, you’ll never go back to life without it. The latest service to offer just that is Xobni , a high-profile startup that brought its Outlook plug-in out of Beta status a year ago next week. Today Xobni comes to Gmail and it looks really nice
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Magic Email Sidebar Xobni Now Available for Gmail (100 Invites)
Sales of digital textbooks still only account for a small fraction of the U.S. college market. But according to the latest report by the social learning platform Xplana , we have reached the tipping point for e-textbooks, and the company predicts that in the next 5 years digital textbook sales will surpass 25% of sales for the higher education and career education markets.
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1 in 4 College Textbooks Will Be Digital By 2015
In honor of its fifth birthday , Twitter has just released an astonishing set of numbers chronicling the adoption of the microblogging service. It took Twitter 3 years, 2 months and 1 day to get from its first Tweet to its billionth, and the company now sees an average of 140 million Tweets per day.
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Survey Finds Small Businesses Doubled Their Twitter Usage in 2010
It’s not the first time that spammers and malware writers have used a tragic public event to spread malware on Facebook, but the latest are fake videos purporting to show “breathtaking” or “unbelievable” footage of the Japanese tsunami. These links, when clicked, will take you through to another website where you will be required to perform additional actions such as clicking further links in order to view the the video (which doesn’t exist!) In performing these actions you will be giving the malware writers valuable information, especially if you “like an app” and have personal information such as your home address, telephone and mobile phone numbers and your email address of your Facebook profile. Such malware, and there are many on Facebook and other social networks at the moment, could even require you to download and install a plugin or codec to watch the video. Such a file will certainly be malware of some variety such as a bot or keylogger.
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Facebook users become the latest victims of the Japanese Tsunami
We believe that Google will preview a major new social service called Google Circles at South by Southwest Interactive today. If what we’ve heard is correct, the service will offer photo, video and status message sharing. Everything users share on Circles will be shared only with the most appropriate circle of social contacts in their lives, not with all your contacts in bulk.
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Google to Launch Major New Social Network Called Circles, Possibly Today
Social media management dashboard HootSuite launched a dramatic overhaul to its analytics dashboard earlier this week, giving marketers and community managers more powerful reporting tools. We spent some time with the new dashboard, and it’s pretty impressive
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Hands-On With HootSuite’s New Social Analytics Dashboard
View Poll Congratulations! You just bought a new iPad , whether a discounted first generation or an updated iPad 2. Now it’s time to socialize and chat about your new baby.
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iPad Social Club: Share your new baby
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Read more here: TinyTap App Lets Kids Create Customized iPad Books & Games
Read more: MoPub Launches A “Buy It Now” Private Marketplace For Mobile Advertisers
Continued here: Exec, The YC-Backed Mobile App For Instantly Doing Your Errands, Raises $3.3M
While the upcoming Huawei myTouch may not be the phone at their top of everyone’s want list, it did just pass through the FCC on its way to T-Mobile store shelves in the near future. The FCC filing actually provides some details surrounding/confirming the phones specs as well including a 4″ WVGA display, 1.4GHz Qualcomm MSM8255T processor, 1GB RAM, 4GB internal storage, and a microSD card slot. Pretty much all the [read full article]
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Keep your eye on Wirefly.com tomorrow as they drop a nice little deal on the HTC One S for Memorial Day weekend. Beginning tomorrow, May 25th through May 28th, Wirefly is offering an extra $25 off their HTC One S pricing for T-Mobile. So what kind of pricing are you looking at — how about $125 for new activations and qualifying upgrade customers
Developers are uniting this weekend and putting a number of awesome Android titles on sale this weekend and if you’re a mobile gamer, you should be excited. They have a number of my own personal favorites including World of Goo, Canabalt HD, Anomaly Warzone Earth HD, Great Little War Game, Fieldrunners and more.
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Read more from the original source: Kayak Teams Up With Skyhook To Bring Reliable Location Services To Its Kindle Fire App
We’re checking out IDC’s newest report for the first quarter of 2012 showing Google’s Android platform continuing it’s march toward global domination as its market-share climbs to 59%, with Apple a distant second at 23%.
Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann spoke this morning during his company’s investors call and said that a T-Mobile merger is still an option, though an outright sale is more than likely off the table.
Excerpt from: Autodesk Launches The Pen-And-Ink SketchBook Ink App for iPad
The rest is here: Big Apple Leads Millennial Q1 Device Ranks By Wide Margin: 28% For Brand, 15% For iPhone
On the heels of a Wall Street Journal report indicating Google is prepared to announce a variety of partnerships for their exclusive Nexus lineup of smartphones — comes news that these five devices will all arrive on November 5th. Remember, remember the fifth of November
Read more: Sonar Rolls Out “Here-Now” Mobile Social Network, Adds Status, Messaging, Notifications
Read more from the original source: The Verdict Is In: Google Did NOT Infringe On Oracle’s Patents
Some low-key news today as the T-Mobile Prism has already been available through the likes of Best Buy and Walmart since the beginning of May. Today does the mark the day however, that the Prism is available through T-Mobile owned retail stores as well T-Mobile.com. Interestingly enough, T-Mobile’s official press release back on May 2nd indicated the Prism would retail for $149.99 sans contract
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Go here to see the original: Rubicon Project Acquires Mobsmith To Expand Into Mobile Ads
More: Target Rolls Out Shopkick Integration Nationwide
Read the original here: McAfee: Mobile Malware Explodes, Increases 1,200% In Q1 2012
See original here: 9M Users Strong, MapMyFitness Brings Check-Ins, Advanced Google Maps Integration To Fitness Tracking
Read more here: Betaworks Acquires And Relaunches Hownow, The Semi-Anonymous Hyperlocal Social Network iPhone App
Original post: About Last Night Wants To Improve Your Nightlife By Making It Even More Social
I wish I could say that you’re preparing to watch a twelve minute walk-through of a T-Mobile branded Galaxy S III, sadly that isn’t the case. Unfortunately, we’ve yet to see any of the US branded handsets appear in the wild but, this video courtesy of Tech65.com is a great 12 minute walk-through showing off plenty of Samsung’s flagship smartphone features. At the very least, you’ll have something to do for 12 minutes ..
Original post: Clueful Scans The Apps On Your iPhone, Tells You Which Ones Are Doing Naughty Things With Your Data
Read more: Appcelerator Partners With Geoloqi To Bring Location Services To Its 1.6 Million Developers
Read the rest here: Forget Those Scraps Of Paper, SnipSnap Lets You Save And Share Coupons From Your iPhone
Here is the original post: Zimride’s Lyft Is Going To Give Uber Some Lower-Priced Competition
See original here: Quikr, India’s Spin On Craigslist, Gobbles Up $32M From Warburg Pincus, eBay & More
