Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

Just one day after announcing the improved friends lists, Facebook employee Zach Rait introduced the new “subscribe” button in a blog post. The new function reminds users a bit of Twitter, als the following option, or subscribe option, allows users to subscribe to posts from others with whom they are not even friends with on Facebook. Read the rest of this entry »

Social search is being made easier by the online information service dialo.de, allowing users to search through about 4.8 million service providers while all-the-while reviewing their own experience with the according services. The site offers an extensive network of tips, recommendations, and warnings from which all users can profit. Now, the website is offering social ratings directly through users’ Facebook and Twitter accounts. With this, dialo.de offers its users a new and innovative possibility for the circulation of personal tips, recommendations, and experiences from everyday life. Read the rest of this entry »

Google just continues in the direction of Twitter and Facebook. The search engine has now integrated in addition to the two other social communities like Quora and Gowalla in its real-time search. User questions, answers, posts and ratings – all food for the lagging Google feature. However, with a “lucky” algorithm, the posts can also show up in the universal search.

The micro-messaging service Twitter is now being appraised at a fat 8 to 10 billion dollars, at least in the eyes of Google and Facebook. The finance branch appraised Twitter’s worth to be around 3.7 billion dollars last December. Read the rest of this entry »

With the new function “Business News”, the online directory YellowMap wants to help its users with the entry to social media to help gain more coverage. Starting now, business owners can alert customers of new products and current offers as a short message in their entry and on Twitter.

According to the portal, the service is free and everyone that has an entry on YellowMap can use it. And that is very simple to do: direct on the portal’s start page, next to the logo on the top, there is a button titled “Ihre Business-News” (Eng. your business news). After clicking the tab, users will be prompted to log in and can then write and post a short message with a maximum of 90 characters, and with one click, can publish this to the firm’s profile and Twitter.

“Kilroy was here” – the little graffiti with the respective saying should be the most famous in the world. When a service calls itself qilroy, the its name is program. The new spin-off of the American cell provider Qualcomm shows its users who, in a given local area, is currently updating on Facebook, Twitter, and Gowalla. On the flip side, whoever uses MessageParty can chat with people in the local area. Read the rest of this entry »

What if SMEs and SOHOs suddenly had a new means of direct marketing literally in the palm of their hands? Thanks to Mark McCormack’s new website, uPromote.it, this is possible.

The principle behind the concept is that promotions can be created with just a few steps using a mobile device, proceeding to be quickly distributed to a broad range of points including Facebook, Twitter, SMS, and Email.

Though the marketing is primarily focused on current customers, the contacts of those customers are also easily accessed through social networking. In other words, there is an unlimited amount of potential customers to be accessed.

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In an interview with CkickZ News, Foursquare has officially denied that there are no plans for any data partnerships with Google, Yahoo, or Bing as reported by the Daily Telegraph. Read the rest of this entry »

Foursquare was given an estimated net worth of 100 million US Dollars by investors, who decided to pump in an additional 20 million into the American company. With such a strong support system, the company can surely rest a bit more soundly, but the location-based check-in service will need to use their new capital wisely if they want to keep up with their competitors. Foursquare apparently is one step ahead of us and already has an idea of how to make itself stand out in the crowd: the gaming element of the service should be getting a major facelift to become more entertaining for the user. This information was confirmed by Foursquare engineer Anoop Ranganath in “The Big Money’s Disrupters” podcast. Read the rest of this entry »

Foursquare has been at somewhat of a standstill for quite some time now. The check-in features, which have already been outdone by social-network Twitter’s location features, rating service Yelp’s check-ins, and will probably be looking at the same situation when Facebook releases their own check-in service. So how exactly does Foursquare plan on surviving? The answer is quite simple: gaming. Read the rest of this entry »