Apr
13th

StraightUpSocial News Links for 4/13/2010

Posted by Keirsun on April 13, 2010 at 8:07 am

Twitter Unveils Plans to Draw Money From Ads

Claire Cain Miller at The New York Times previews Twitter’s new Promoted Tweets advertising program, which is scheduled to launch later today.

TweetPhoto Raises $2.6 Million Series A

Robin Wauters at TechCrunch tells us who is investing millions of dollars in TweetPhoto and how the money will be used to bolster the media-sharing service.

Yahoo Opens New Firehose of Social Media Data to Developers

Jolie O’Dell at Mashable shares Yahoo’s announcement about its new service: Firehose. Aimed at developers, Firehose offers a “real-time, searchable index of social content” from social media sites such as Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Delicious, Last.fm, and others.

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Mar
29th

StraightUpSocial News Links for 3/29/2010

Posted by Leah on March 29, 2010 at 12:56 pm

Facebook Proposes Revisions to Privacy Policy, Hints at More Location Features

The social media giant is looking to change its Privacy Policy and Statement of Rights, but with a catch, Facebook wants user feedback. Changes will likely include location features, which may be announced during Facebook’s f8 developer conference.

No Flash On The iPad? No Problem. Brightcove Turns Videos Into HTML 5

TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld writes about what’s considered one of the iPad’s biggest weaknesses – no Flash – and how an Internet TV platform company will stream its videos in an HTML 5 player when it detects an iPad.

YouTube Steps Up Facebook Integration, Shows Shared Videos

YouTube announced that it will soon allow users to see what YouTube videos your friends are sharing on the social media giant – Facebook.

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Mar
22nd

StraightUpSocial News Links for 3/22/2010

Posted by Keirsun on March 22, 2010 at 8:09 am

Rush Is On to Be First in iPad Apps

Brad Stone And Jenna Wortham at The New York Times take a closer look at how app developers are working to create the first iPad applications, even though Apple has not shared the tablet device with developers.

Why Gowalla Will Beat Four Square In The Location Sharing War

Duncan Riley at The Inquisitor compares the two most popular location sharing services, and tells us why he predicts Gowalla will become more popular than Foursquare.

Twitter Working On ‘Most Popular Tweets’ Search Project

Matt McGee at Search Engine Land tells us about Twitter’s project to show the most popular tweets for any search query, but there’s no official word on when Twitter’s search results will actually receive the upgrade.

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Mar
17th

StraightUpSocial News Links for 3/17/2010

Posted by Keirsun on March 17, 2010 at 9:04 am

Facebook Traffic Tops Google For The Week

Julianne Pepitone at CNNMoney shares traffic stats from Hitwise showing that Facebook was the most visited site in the U.S. for the week ending March 13th, beating out top-seat Google for the first time for a full weeklong period.

Mobile App Market to Surge to $17.5 Billion by 2012

Stan Schroeder at Mashable shares the findings of a recent study showing that “mobile app downloads should jump from 7 billion in 2009 to almost 50 billion in 2012.”

Facebook One Step Closer To Real Social Search?

Raj Dash at All Facebook tells us about an upgrade to Facebook’s search feature that includes more results that are related to your social graph on the network, in addition to “globally relevant results.”

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Mar
15th

StraightUpSocial News Links for 3/15/2010

Posted by Keirsun on March 15, 2010 at 8:33 am

Brightcove To Power Online Video Platform For EMI Music In North America

Robin Wauters at TechCrunch tells us that Brightcove, an enterprise-level video publishing platform, plans to announce signing EMI Music to its client roster.

Foursquare Hits 347,000 Check-ins In A Day

Samuel Axon at Mashable tells us about location-sharing service Foursquare’s record-setting day, with nearly 350,000 check-ins on Saturday, mainly due to the SXSW festival.

Big Changes Are Coming to Digg: More Power to Publishers, Less Power to Top Diggers

Frederic Lardinois at ReadWriteWeb previews upcoming changes to the social news sharing site, which were announced over the weekend.

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