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Google Plus Share Button – New Way of Sharing Content to your Circles
May 4, 2012 – Called the Google+ “Share” button, this new share button makes it much easier for SEOs to more easily encourage visitors to spread content (share or endorse interesting content) among connections on Google’s social network.
Klout Introduces Brand Squads for Online Businesses
April 30, 2012 – Social media tool Klout had just rolled out its own versions of brand-specific pages called Brand Squads, taking their social measuring influence tool for brand pages, with a focus on how users interact with the page.
Google Plus Gets a Major Overhaul Design
April 18, 2012 – Google has just rolled out a number of new features for Google+, including navigation and design changes, making Google+ more functional and flexible.
Facebook Now Officially Owns Instagram
April 12, 2012 – Facebook has recently bought Instagram for approximately $1 billion in cash and stock, reeling in a photo-sharing app that is increasingly getting more popular as well one of the bigger social networks.
Facebook Ads: Pros and Cons for Online Businesses
March 23, 2012 – As Facebook has over 800 million potential users, of which more than 50 percent of these are active users on any given day, Facebook has popularly become a power tool for all businesses.
Facebook Timeline for Brands: Coming Soon
February 21, 2012 – Social giant Facebook is set to bring its new Timeline profile pages to brands! According to reports, Facebook is making its new Timeline format available for brands later this month. The current trend used by companies and a number of search engine optimization firms in their promotion on the web nowadays seems to be the brand pages in social networks.
Pinterest: The Fastest Growing Social Network this 2012
February 10, 2012 – Over the past few months, a social site that lets users “pin” things that interest them, has been blazing a rocket-like ascent in traffic and social mentions. And this social site is Pinterest.
StumbleUpon Speaks Up for Iframing and Removal of Direct Links
February 7, 2012 – StumbleUpon, a successful social media site with over 20 million users which had doubled from 10 million in about a year and a half, had just recently launched one of the site’s biggest redesigns – removing themes, groups, and blogs from the site.
Facebook TimeLine: No More Way to Escape Using it
January 27, 2012 – January 27, 2012 – Facebook Timeline will soon be mandatory for everyone! Last December, Facebook has unrolled its Timeline view for profiles, which divided users. Since then, only a few users voluntarily switched to Timeline as Facebook hadn’t made that mandatory.
Top 10 Most Trending Social Media News for 2011
January 4, 2012 – Welcome Search Engine Optimization Experts, Social Media Marketers and webmasters alike to another new year! Here’s a recap of the most trending social media news over the past year:
What’s New on Google Plus and Google+ Pages?
December 23, 2011 – Google has just rolled out its latest list of improvements and changes for its Google+ and Google Pages. As posted on its Official Google Blog, Google+ Team has released a bunch of “Google+ features and functionality” that were derived from the feedback provided by its users on the network.
Facebook Timeline: Now Available in Australia
December 21, 2011 – After months of waiting, Facebook Timeline is now officially available in Australia! Facebook’s millions of Australian users can now access the site’s Timeline feature which offers a new way of presenting your Facebook profile to the world, displaying a virtual chronological scrapbook of your life through big images, memorable posts, and life events.
StumbleUpon Rolls out its Biggest Refreshing Look
December 9, 2011 – The largest and most comprehensive branding and redesign initiative StumbleUpon has made in the company’s history, according to StumbleUpon founder and CEO Garrett Camp, was recently done last Monday.
Facebook Insights Gets an Overhaul to help more FB Marketers
December 2, 2011 – Good news for search engine optimization experts and SEO companies! Social media giant, Facebook, has recently overhauled its Page Insights analytics tool and added a new set of metrics that can help FB marketers.
Facebook Introduces Timeline
September 28, 2011 – Facebook’s newest profile layout is meant to be a central hub for your stories, apps, and a means for you to express who you are, utilizing a chronological timeline to highlight the most important content you share on Facebook — for the new Timeline provides a realtime stream of everything you’ve done, all the way back to your ‘birth’..
Facebook Releases a Major Overhaul Profile Design
September 22, 2011 – According to several developers of popular applications for the site, Facebook’s major redesign of its core member profile pages is risky — as Facebook alters the user interface significantly and may limit the visibility of their applications, affecting their ability to build a user base — but a necessary move for one of the world’s largest online social network.
Google + Enables you to Share Google Maps
September 20, 2011 – Search engine giant Google has now made it a little much easier to share directions, addresses and more from Google Maps on Google+ through the latest +snippets feature which has been added to Maps.
Facebook Smart Lists: Counter Solution to Google+ Circles
September 13, 2011 – Facebook’s counter-solution to Google+ Circles is here! Facebook, social media networking giant, has started to roll out its answer to Google+ Circles with its latest Friend Lists feature, the Smart Lists.
Facebook Launches a Like Button Chrome Extension
September 8, 2011 – Social networking world giant, Facebook, has now officially rolled out its “Like” Button extension for Google’s Chrome Web browser. After Google’s launching of its official Google+1 Chrome browser extension, Facebook subsequently followed suit with it “Like” Button extension for Google’s Chrome Web browser.
Facebook Redesigns its Photo Interface
September 2, 2011 – Facebook, one of the most popular and widely used social networking service and website has recently rolled out its latest Photo Interface.
Google Add Instant Google+ Hangout to Youtube Videos
August 25, 2011 – Ever since Google has rolled out its latest attempt to create a social network that rivals Facebook, its own social network site, Google+, the search engine giant has continued to integrate Google+ into its other Google services and features.
StumbleUpon Introduces its Explore Box
August 23, 2011 -Now, with the newly debuted “Explore box” feature, StumbleUpon users can now view streams of content related to specific keywords or phrases in a narrower content stream, and with the alternative of viewing content within hundreds of more granular interests. This means that this new feature will enable users to “stumble upon” hundreds and thousands on particular topics fairly than just being limited to set up specifically defined types.
Google Launched New Verification Badge Program for Google+ Accounts
August 23, 2011 – For quite some time, fake profiles of celebrities and public figures have been plaguing social media sites, from Facebook to Twitter and others.
Google Displays Google+ Public Posts on Social Search
August 16, 2011 – Google has started its integration of Google+ users’ public posts into its search engine’s social search results.
Facebook Adds Merge Option For Duplicate Fan Pages
August 04, 2011 – Just recently, Facebook has added a new “Merge” option to their Resources tab of their Page editor.
Twitter Introduces Promoted Tweets to Followers
August 03, 2011 – Twitter formally announced recently that Twitter users may start to see Promoted Tweets in their main Twitter timeline.
Google Releases a 3X Faster Google Plus One Button
July 28, 2011 – Just recently, after all the hard work that Google had done to improve +1 button load time, Google has proudly announced that they have now speeded up the Google +1 button for websites.
Google Launches Places Page Overhaul Design
July 26, 2011 – As Google renewed its effort in making the user experience of Google products more focused, elastic and effortless, Google has now made their Place pages more simplified across desktop and mobile devices.
Facebook Allows Page Admin to Invite Friends to Like their Page
July 21, 2011 – Facebook has now switched back the feature of allowing Page Administrators to send invitations to their friends to like their page which appears as notifications, opening a new viral channel for Facebook Page Growth.
Twitter Popularity Increases this 2011
July 21, 2011 – Twitter, a social networking and microblogging website and one of the well—known social media sites of today’s generation, has recently released its visitor stats.
Google to Rebrand Blogger and Picasa for Google +
July 19, 2011 – As Google plans to retire several non-Google name brands and rename them as Google products, it has been rumored lately that Google is set to retire its Picasa photo management tools and its Blogger blogging platform.
Google+ Grows Quickly: 10 Million Users
July 19, 2011 – As Google+ reaches its two week mark since it’s been out, Google+ has attracted over 10 Million Users, making it as the fastest growing launch of a new social network.
Google+ Beta Experiences Its First Major Bug
July 14, 2011 - Google’s new social network, Google+ has experienced its first major bug since it was first launched in field trial mode.
What’s New on WordPress 3.2?
July 12, 2011 - While much of the search engine optimization expert chats online in the past week had dealt with Google+, just last July 4, self-hosted WordPress.org has released its “faster and lighter” WordPress 3.2 version which includes some new and improved features.
Google Displays Google + 1 on Search Results
June 29, 2011 - Recently, search engine optimization experts have been talking about Google’s new feature for its Google +1 button. Google search engine results now displays the Google +1 counts for searchers who are logged out.
WordPress.com Allows Comments Using Facebook and Twitter Accounts
June 9, 2011 - WordPress.com has added a new feature on its social tool, which enables users to leave comments using their Twitter and Facebook Accounts.
Google Social Search Expands Globally
April 27, 2011 - Google Social Search was officially launched in October 2009 to help users find more relevant content from their social connections like their friends and the people they care about online.
Facebook Launches Send Button Social Plugin
May 25, 2011 - Facebook has just launched “Send Button”, its new social plugin that can be used by users to easily share content to their selected friends privately.
Twitter to Introduce Brand Pages Similar to Facebook
April 7, 2011 - Twitter considers to introduce Pages for Brands similar to what you have seen on Facebook, according to Marketing Magazine Reports.
Facebook’s User Profiles to Business Pages Conversion Made Possible
April 5, 2011 - First in Facebook’s history, personal user profiles are now allowed to be converted into official business Pages. This means that Personal User files of Facebook members could now be changed into Official business pages, making all their friends into fans.
Google Launches +1 (Plus One) Recommendation Button
April 1, 2011 - Giving the most relevant results as quickly as possible is Google’s goal. That is why they have started lately to integrate information shared or found in Flickr, Twitter, and other sites in their Google search results.
Angry Birds Game To Launch on Facebook
March 7, 2011 – Angry Birds Game, the world’s most favourite mobile game today with over 75 million times downloaded on mobile platforms, will be launched on Facebook next month. Rovio, game developer of Angry Birds, announced this update on Official Angry Birds Fan Page, expanding their franchise to the largest social networking platform, Facebook, after seeing the game so much popular on smartphones and gaming consoles.
Facebook Adds Most Recent and Top Most Filters for Fan Pages
March 3, 2011 - Facebook has added new useful filters, “Most Recent and Top Most” on business fan pages, letting page administrators and users see the wall post chronologically or arranged based on post’s popularity.
Facebook Like Button Now Functions as a Share Button
February 15, 2011 - Facebook Like or Recommend Button has now changed its functionality, taking over the role of Share Button. With this new update, it lets you share your content with friends on Facebook.
Brand New Photos Interface Rolled Out by Facebook
February 15, 2011 - The all-new design of Facebook for viewing photos now appears to be rolling out to quite a few users. This new photos interface launched by Facebook features larger images, a lightbox-type UI and other unique features.
Facebook Fanpage Redesign: Next Level of Layout and Functionality
February 11, 2011 - Today, Facebook rolls out its major Fan Page Redesign, bringing its layout, style and functionality step up to the next level. The changes on the Fan Page Layout now look and function more like the recently redesigned User Profiles.
Reasons Why Quora will never be as Powerful as Twitter
January 12, 2011 - Quora, the social questions service, is unlikely to scale bigger than Twitter as it has a focused appeal that makes it doubtful to attract mainstream users. Through the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Digg, this site has learned a lot and provided an outlet for conversation and discussion that have been unable to achieve by many other social network sites.
SquareSpace Users Experience Next Level Blogging on iPad
December 23, 2010 – Squarespace for Ipad has been released. It is the very first version of iPad application. It is a free app that allows Squarespace’s registered member moderate comments, view site statistics of their created or edited blog posts and manage multiple accounts.
FACEBOOK: From Social Network to Cartoon Network?
December 7, 2010 – FACEBOOK does it again! It’s really quite natural that Facebook sometimes become boring at some point. This usually happens when people can’t relate to what are posted at the moment. But recently, the leading social networking site has again managed to figure itself in an advocacy espousing stoppage to child abuse.
Twitter’s Official Analytics Product is Finally Here
November 26, 2010 – The buzz going around has it that Twitter is now inviting a select group of users including professional SEOs for the testing of its new analytics product, this according to Mashable. Rumors have been going around regarding the said product and a Twitter executive has made a statement earlier this year that their new Analytics is said to debut by the end of the current year.
Social Networking Survey Reveals Australia’s Stand on Facebook
November 17, 2010 – Social networking sites such as Facebook are so deeply ingrained as many people state that their friendships now depend on them, this according to an Australian study.
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