Social Media News

Cancer Charity To Correct Wikipedia Information

6th April 2011

Wikipedia is known to be one of the most informative sites on a wide range of subjects, it has severe limitations and drawbacks. One of the major drawbacks of this site is that anyone can contribute to it on any topic. Due to this, the information is often incomplete or even incorrect. This can be especially dangerous, when someone is searching for information on a serious topic like cancer. More »

Over 50% Of Music Recommendations Deemed Inaccurate

25th March 2011

With the constant burgeoning of new music bands and music sites, it is not easy for users to find the music which they want. A recent study has attempted to measure how successful music recommendation sites are at helping users discover good new tunes. More »

Is Facebook A Better Social Commerce Platform Than Twitter?

24th March 2011

A recent study has attempted to place a dollar value on each social share. Facebook out performs Twitter in terms of the net worth of each share on the network. More »

StumbleUpon Expands, Renames Ad Platform

15th March 2011

StumbleUpon upgraded their advertising platform, launching two new ad options and renaming the service to StumbleUpon Paid Discovery. More »

Social Media Used To Fuel Civil Unrest In Egypt

31st January 2011

Protestors in Egypt are using various social platforms such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter as well as mobile communications to spread their message to the outside world. More »

Is Twitter Still Growing?

21st January 2011

In spite of a lot of speculation last year that Twitter’s growth might have plateaued, Twitter disclosed that as of the 1st of January 2011, they had nearly 200 million registered accounts, and received about 110 million tweets every day. More »

Foursquare Launches Business Pages

17th January 2011

Foursquare has recently launched a new feature known as Business Pages to help businesses market themselves through the local social network. More »

Reddit Booms As Digg Busts In 2010

4th January 2011

Statistics recently revealed by Reddit show that the site has grown exceptionally well during the last year. More »

What’s The Verdict On Google Boutiques?

22nd November 2010

Last week, in a move that’s bound to puzzle Wall Street analysts, Google introduced a new site that is meant to make online shopping for fashion products more exciting and interesting. They are touting it as the intersection of chic and geek and have called it Google Boutiques. More »

Google v Bing – Kings Of Social Search?

21st October 2010

Microsoft engineers teamed up with Facebook developers, once again to make Bing search results more social. This new social search service was announced just a week age. Since then, it could only be a matter of time before Google did something similar. Predictably, Google has just introduced social enhancements to their search service. More »

24 hr Twitter Experiment By UK Police

15th October 2010

Greater Manchester Police conducted a 24-hour social media experiment. They tweeted every incident they dealt with during the time period in the hope of  raising public awareness of the work they do. More »

Social Media Security Incidents Cost Millions

5th October 2010

While it is an accepted fact that the use of Web2.0 technologies by companies can be beneficial for generating more revenue through newer marketing techniques and better interaction with clients, the technology comes with its own share of risks and hazards. More »

Kevin Rose To Leave Digg?

30th September 2010

Digg used to be a leading social news site until recently. Now, the site has not been doing too well. This has been openly admitted by founder, Kevin Rose, whose own future in the company is now being questioned. More »

Goodbye Propeller

29th September 2010

AOL-owned social news site Propeller.com has recently announced that the site will soon be shutting down. More »

New Twitter Interface To Debut

20th September 2010

Twitter has just introduced a new interface for Twitter.com. This new interface will not only make the site faster, but will also make it easier to use. More »

3 Million Users On Foursquare

6th September 2010

Location based service, Foursquare, recently crossed a new landmark, when they reached the 3 million user mark in the end of August. More »

Size Of Social Media In U.K.

11th August 2010

An Ireland based social media and online PR company, Simply Zesty, has released some interesting details about the use of the social media in the U.K. More »

Social Media In The Curriculum

9th August 2010

Social media has become such an important part of daily life for millions of users that several reputed business schools are introducing courses on social media in their MBA curriculum. More »

Email Beats Social Media For Consumer Attention

30th July 2010

Of late marketers and advertisers have all been paying a lot of attention to social media sites in order to reach their target audience. While this is certainly a necessary move, considering the growth that social networking sites are now seeing, it is highly advisable that they do not ignore the tried and tested medium of email. More »

Social Media Sites Not Regarded Highly

26th July 2010

Foresee Results and the American Customer Satisfaction Index, have recently conducted a study to find out how customers in the U.S. feel about various social media sites. More »

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