Today's guest post is written by Adam Justice. SEO has a few basic principles that will never change, but search engines routinely refine their algorithms in ways that usually make any fringe efforts worthless. Every few months there is a new set of best practices, and another group of web properties are adversely affected by [...]

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Reggie Bradford is the Founder and CEO of social marketing software provider Vitrue. Reggie brings nearly two decades of technology leadership and experience to Vitrue, which he founded in 2006. Follow Reggie on Twitter on @ReggieBradford and @Vitrue.As an industry, we fully understand the need for comprehensive and detailed analytics to monitor, measure and make sense of social data so the best social strategies can be identified and put into play. Earlier this week, Facebook underlined that im [...]

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According to All Facebook, Facebook is making changes fast and furiously. Much like the Birthday tweak we noticed, Facebook is not announcing these changes necessarily, but it's very interesting to...

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If you have a significant number of apps on your Android phone you likely see frequent app update notifications. Each app in the Android Market has a section for what is new in the latest release, but tracking that information down for each app can be a chore using either the phone or a desktop computer. Changelog Droid is a free app that monitors the app updates that occur and provides a consolidated view of what has changed in all of the apps recently updated on your phone.


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So unless you have been hiding under a gif you will have seen the recent changes that facebook has introduced to its platform. Bookending the F8 event there is always a plethora of blog posts which serve as prophecy pre-event and reaction post-event. Unsurprisingly, the reactions to Facebook's alterations have been varied with some declaring [...]

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For those out of the loop, Facebook just introduced the Timeline at its recent F8 Conference. Besides the obvious changes in aesthetics thanks to the Sofa acquisition, Timeline alters everything from the...

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Yesterday Erick and I had an interesting discussion about Facebook vs. Google+ and I came down on the side of G+. Why? Because tools are important, toys aren't. Granted Facebook's 500 million visitors a day proves me wrong in numeric terms, but in general usability and quality, I'm coming reluctantly down on the side of Google Plus.

As you well know, Facebook won the Internet with its app features and new timeline feature, a view of your data that offers a sort of time machine into the distant [...]

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When it comes to polls, there is a general tilt towards the negative side of the results. People who are outraged are more likely to respond to one than people who are satisfied. At 86% negative, this goes beyond a statistical anomaly. People don't like the Facebook changes. Period. In a relatively small segment of [...]

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Facebook announced some pretty major updates on their platform this week that will change how users interact and how B2B marketers communicate with them. The changes themselves have gotten lots of coverage so I won't recap those, but here are some articles that look at Facebook as a business and how other businesses interact with [...]

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"I hate the new Facebook changes!" "Facebook, why are you so confusing now?" "Are the people at Facebook bored so they just decided to make some changes for the heck of it?" – Those are just a few of the comments I am seeing in regards to the Facebook changes that occurred overnight. And of ...

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Facebook has started to roll out some interesting changes in your news feed. First it was subscriptions, and today we are seeing another change that will affect how your news feed appears to you.According to the Facebook Blog:

If you haven't returned in a week, you may want to see a summary of top stories first. If you've already visited several times that day, you probably care more about recent news.Starting today, it will be easier to keep up with the people in your life no matter [...]

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Facebook has started to roll out some interesting changes in your news feed. First it was subscriptions, and today we are seeing another change that will affect how your news feed appears to you.According to the Facebook Blog:

If you haven't returned in a week, you may want to see a summary of top stories first. If you've already visited several times that day, you probably care more about recent news.Starting today, it will be easier to keep up with the people in your life no matter [...]

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Facebook made a big announcement today, which includes more than a dozen privacy and tagging changes. They want to "make it easier to share posts, photos, tags and other content with exactly the people you want". This follows their recent news regarding new mobile security features. Since the company has been told by users that ...

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This guest post is by Bnonn of Attentionthievery.info. You may not realize it, but the font settings on your blog can have a huge effect on how many people read your content. And how many people read your content has a huge effect on whether a post goes viral. How huge? Well, by some accounts [...]

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Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What's New This Week? Twitter.com Enhancements: Twitter is rolling out a new interface when accessing your accounts on Twitter.com.  The old @Mention tab is replaced [...]

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Facebook made changes to the Facebook Chat sidebar feature, several users are reporting. Now, your favorite online friends appear in the top section of Chat, with a separate list titled "More Online Friends" underneath. This makes it easier to find the Facebook friends you chat with often.However, we've also seen reports where select users are getting a mini News Feed in their Chat sidebar instead. In somes cases, the News Feed appears above your contacts. This appears to be more of an experimen [...]

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A significant factor in the success of social network services is related to the the increase in people using smartphones with good quality cameras, GPS and the ability to install and use apps. Twitter, Foursquare and Instagram are just a few examples. So, it is an intersting exercise to look at trends in smartphone platform marketshares. Asymco compared smartphone unit shares for Q2 2008 and Q2 2011 (three years) to gauge the change in smartphone platform market shares. Note that the first Andr [...]

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