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Twitter Cofounder Talks Again About Acquisitions

Posted on November 24, 2009 by cgseo

There's no need to start refreshing the Twitter Blog every five seconds; it doesn't sound like any pens are poised over paper at the moment. Continue reading →

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Now LinkedIn Will Be Featured in a Lot More Apps

Posted on November 23, 2009 by cgseo

LinkedIn has opened up its platform to developers. It can be accessed at developer.linkedin.com . "Over fifty million users entrust their professional identities and relationships with LinkedIn, helping build LinkedIn into the largest global professional network today," says LinkedIn' Adam Nash. "However, professionals around the world use a wide variety of applications and Web sites to get their work done, and they have spoken loud and clear that they want the ability to leverage their professional networks wherever they work." Now developers can integrate LinkedIn into their business applications. LinkedIn's developer site has APIs and widgets. "Over the past months, LinkedIn has supported integrations with some of the most prominent and critical software applications in the enterprise," says Nash. "Partnerships with companies like IBM, Blackberry (Research in Motion), and most recently Microsoft, have given us time to invest in both functionality and scalability of the platform." Developers interested in using LinkedIn in their apps need only fill out a form at the site. The LinkedIn platform leverages the open OAuth standard, so integrations should be that much more simple. On a related note, Twitter client TweetDeck is already utilzing the LinkedIn platform . They just announced that you can view or take action on your LinkedIn network updates from within the TweetDeck application. It should be interesting to see the kinds of apps that start taking advantage of LinkedIn's APIs. This could turn out to be a very significant event for increasing business networking, and even matching prospective job candidates with jobs. Related Articles: > LinkedIn, Microsoft Outlook To Forge Ties > LinkedIn Tests a New Design > LinkedIn, Twitter Connect Through Status Updates Continue reading →

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Twitter Puts Retweet Roll-Out on Hold

Posted on November 12, 2009 by admin

Update 2: Continue reading →

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Facebook Blocks More Ad Networks

Posted on November 6, 2009 by cgseo

Back in July Facebook updated policies for third-party ads on Facebook Platform. The company disabled two entire ad networks and over 100 more apps were suspended or brought into compliance over ad-related violations. Half of those had over a million monthly active users. Facebook has now disabled two more offer and ad networks, which the company says have repeatedly violated its policies. This has all been part of Facebook's continued action against deceptive ads. The company has addressed its efforts in this area on the company's developer blog . "First, deceptive ads are a widespread issue on the Web and one we fight aggressively," says Facebook's Nick Gianos. "This battle is not new and it’s far from over. We faced stimulus scam ads on our own system earlier this year and pushed them off the site with rigorous enforcement. We did the same months later when deceptive ads from third-party ad networks appeared in applications. We’re doing that again now as we see them appear in the form of offers." "We recognize that monitoring ads isn't the first area of focus for an entrepreneur just getting started with social applications," he says. "That's why ad networks that don’t play by the rules should expect to be our first point of contact in our line of enforcement. Our policies are clear. If you're an ad network and don’t comply with them, you are doing a disservice to your customers, and you should expect your business opportunities on Facebook to cease." The company emphasizes that it is the responsibility not only of ad networks, but also of developers to make sure content running in third-party apps is appropriate. Facebook's policies on offers and "inappropriate" ad content can be viewed here . If there are questions, which there no doubt will be, they can be sent to Facebook via the Platform Advertising Contact form . Related Articles: > Facebook App Developers Face New Obstacles > Facebook Puts Privacy Policy in Users' Hands > Facebook Most Widely Used Network Among Businesses Continue reading →

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Twitter Begins Rolling Out its Own Retweet Feature

Posted on November 6, 2009 by cgseo

Back in the summer time, Twitter announced that it intended to add a retweet option to its service and the API. Twitter is now rolling out the feature to a small percentage of Twitter users. "You may remember that we shared the mechanics of this feature with developers a while back so they could think about how to work it into Twitter apps," says Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone on the company blog. "Now we're ready to start trying it on Twitter. The plan is to see how it goes first with this small release. If it needs more work, then we'll know right away. If things look good, we'll proceed with releasing the feature in stages eventually arriving at 100%." If you are a regular Twitter user, it's pretty much a given that you know what retweeting is, but Stone describes what the button does to those in the dark. "Retweet is a button that makes forwarding a particularly interesting tweet to all your followers very easy," he says. "In turn, we hope interesting, newsworthy, or even just plain funny information will spread quickly through the network making its way efficiently to the people who want or need to know." The Impact of Retweets Retweets have already been a great way for content and updates to go viral. Now as the actual feature rolls out, that should only increase. Read this article for a look at the pros and cons of retweets (there are more pros). Now that retweeting is becoming an actual feature of Twitter, you're going to want to keep in mind the tweetability of your content. Sh Continue reading →

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Google Wave Simplified: How it Basically Works

Posted on November 3, 2009 by cgseo

As you may know, Google has been sending out Google Wave invitations for a little while now. Many people are still finding these hard to come by, but others have been lucky enough to be selected and get their hands dirty. Those who have been granted access to Google Wave have the ability to nominate people for invitation, but not directly invite people themselves. So in other words, you're not getting in unless Google wants you to. They have to approve your nomination. Unfortunately, that means those outside of the tech-savvy developer crowd and those who can actually access Google Wave, there is still a lot of mystery around the service. People want to know how it works. The preview comes with a wave featuring a video from "Dr. Wave," or Product Manager Greg. The video is embedded below, but he points to different features within the interface, so imagine that it is placed as it is in the above screenshot. Google Wave brings its own terminology to the table. For one, a wave itself is a collection of messages. Those messages within a wave are "blips." Blips can be edited and replied to. Anyone that is in the wave at the same time can see replies and blips being typed live in real time. That's live. You can see the characters appear as they are typed. If you really want to see how Google Wave works, watch this series of videos that Google provides in the preview Continue reading →

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