Monthly Archives: December 2011
Is Facebook Hiding Your Messages?
There is a tab under Facebook Messages you may have never noticed. It filters out what’s supposed to be less-than-important messages from events and people you have no apparent connection with.
Although it’s not a new feature, the “Other” inbox upsets some users who have only just discovered it and are reportedly missing important messages.
Check out the video to learn more.
Community of Storytellers Build Online Library of Human Experience
The online project Cowbird is a place where storytellers can keep audio-visual diaries, write stories and collaborate with others in documenting “sagas” taking place in the world, like the Occupy movement. Artist and programmer Jonathan Harris’s labor of love, Cowbird aims to grow as a community and focus on long-lasting and personal storytelling.
via Community of Storytellers Build Online Library of Human Experience.
5 Key Digital Media and Advertising Trends for 2012
The past year didn’t see the emergence of the next Facebook or Twitter. Rather, it saw social and digital spread to new places and along the way enabled a wave of new opportunities for content creators and marketers.
Recently, I had an opportunity to speak about those opportunities at ThinkLA’s Trends Breakfast, a gathering of media, entertainment and advertising professionals in Los Angeles.
via 5 Key Digital Media and Advertising Trends for 2012 [VIDEO].
The Future of Context: Mobile Reading from Google to Flipboard to FLUD
Reading is changing. And arguably, even more than e-readers, tablets, or “readers’ tablets,” smartphones are changing it.
via The Future of Context: Mobile Reading from Google to Flipboard to FLUD | Epicenter | Wired.com.
Hands on With the New Twitter.com
Have you got the new Twitter.com yet? That was the question of the day at Mashable HQ Thursday, as the rollout of the service’s redesigned homepage seemed to defy rhyme or reason.Ostensibly, according to Twitter CEO Dick Costolo at Thursday’s unveiling in San Francisco, you would get the redesigned Twitter.com as soon as you downloaded the updated iOS or Android Twitter app. But that didn’t always work. Some of us got the new homepage without downloading an app; others downloaded the app and saw no change on the web.
via Hands on With the New Twitter.com [PICS].
Read also : http://mashable.com/2011/12/08/twitter-embeddeble-tweets-wordpress-posterous/
and : http://mashable.com/2011/12/09/new-twitter-tricks-tips/
Niche Social Networks Deliver Big Results
When small businesses contemplate a social media strategy, Facebook and Twitter get lots of attention. However, niche social networks and online communities offer additional opportunities for brands to connect with consumers in an environment that’s highly targeted and often less congested. Let’s look at how a different brands are using Instagram, Pinterest and Foodspotting to reach out to potential customers in novel ways.
4 Things to Know When Planning a Social Media Contest
Social media has revolutionized the way companies run sweepstakes, contests and promotions. Specifically, social tools have made it easy to accomplish things that weren’t possible a few years ago. Maybe too easy.
The Most Shared Stories on the Internet – Facebook Likes vs Tweets
Facebook LikeFacebook has released a list of news stories that were shared the maximum number of times on Facebook in 2011. The list offers an insight into the kind of content that goes viral on the web and what news websites are popular among the 800 million users of Facebook.
via The Most Shared Stories on the Internet – Facebook Likes vs Tweets.
Your New Facebook Status: 63,206 Characters or Less
In a blog post Wednesday, Facebook’s Journalist Program Manager (and Mashable alum) Vadim Lavrusik announced that the limit of Facebook status updates has now been upped to “more than 60,000 characters.” When Mashable asked, Lavrusik explained what that meant, exactly: You can now post a status update measuring 63,206 characters.
But not one character more than that. Sorry, would-be Facebook novelists; you’ll have to split your prose into multiple updates. (As Lavrusik points out, an average novel will now require nine status updates.) This also goes for group messages and posts on your friends’ walls — so you can now annoy the heck out of them with unreasonably long catch-up messages.