Instagram Expands to Desktops: This Week in Social Media
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?
Instagram Feed for PCs: Instagram has gone beyond its mobile-only interface and now allows you to browse Instagram feeds from the desktop – just like you do on your mobile device. Go to instagram.com and log into your account to give it a try.
"Your Instagram feed on the web functions much like it does on your mobile phone. You can browse through the latest photos of people whom you follow with updates as people post new photos."
Facebook Gift Cards: This Week in Social Media
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?
Facebook Introduces Gift Cards: Facebook Card gifts are rolling out gradually in the U.S. You’ll be able to give your friends “gifts to Jamba Juice, Olive Garden, Sephora and Target all on one reusable gift card from Facebook.” After you select a gift for a friend on Facebook and complete your purchase, your friend will be notified immediately and will then receive the Facebook Card in the mail.
"Facebook Cards are reusable. After you've received a card, the next time you get a Facebook Card gift, it will instantly be added to your existing card."
Twitter Mobile Video: This Week in Social Media
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 Adds Mobile Video Capabilitity: Twitter introduces Vine, “a mobile service that lets you capture and share short looping videos. Like Tweets, the brevity of videos on Vine (6 seconds or less) inspires creativity.” You can find out more about this standalone app here. Click the video to pause it.
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— James Buckhouse (@buckhouse) January 24, 2013
Top 10 Social Media Blog Finalists 2013: This Week in Social Media
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Finalists: Top 10 Social Media Blogs 2012
We received over 750 nominations for our fourth-annual Top 10 Social Media Blogs contest (the blogosphere’s biggest contest for social media blogs).
The list of 24 finalists is pretty impressive! Take a look for yourself below.
The judges: Our judges include Gini Dietrich (co-author, Marketing in the Round, founder and CEO of Arment Dietrich), Marcus Sheridan (co-owner of River Pools, founder of The Sales Lion) and Michael Stelzner (author, Launch, CEO of Social Media Examiner and host of the Social Media Marketing podcast). They are currently finishing up their reviews of these sites.
Here are the finalists (in alphabetical order):
- 60 Second Marketer
- Bloggers Make Money
- Boom Social
- Content Marketing Cardiology
- Danny Brown
- Heidi Cohen
- Jeff Bullas
- Jon Loomer
- Jason Cruz
- Lighthouse Insights
- LKR Social Media
- Pushing Social
- Razor Social
- Social Barrel
- Social Fresh
- Social Media Revolver
- Social Mediopolis
- Social Samosa
- Social Solutions Collective
- Social Strand Media
- Socially Sorted
- Spider Working
- Top Dog Social Media
- Viral Blog
Google+ Pages Can Engage Anyone: This Week in Social Media
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?
Google+ Pages Can Now Interact With Users Who Haven’t Circled Them: A Google+ Page “can now +1, share, comment and plus mention personal profiles that have not circled them.”
Google+ Page admins will be happy with this latest update, which provides more networking options.
Facebook Poke for Mobile: This Week in Social Media
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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?
Facebook Introduces Poke For Mobile: Facebook Poke is “an iPhone app that makes it fun and easy to say hello to friends wherever you are.”
The poke feature, part of Facebook since 2004, is now available on mobile.
Facebook Nearby: This Week in Social Media
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?
Facebook Announces Nearby: Facebook’s new Nearby for iOS and Android apps makes it easy to discover new places your friends like. This provides more reasons for local businesses to build a Facebook Page and offers users an alternative to Foursquare.
"From the app menu, open the tab to find local spots your friends have recommended, checked into or liked."
