Super Bowl XLVI will be the first super bowl in history to connect fans and the game with mobile and social media (on this scale).
It doesn’t matter what team you’re a fan of, Sunday’s Super Bowl will have something for everyone. Even fans of the commercials!
Fans of the teams and fans of commercials will be able to have access to a variety of apps that will transform the way you view the game.
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The virtual bulletin board Pinterest has quickly become a member of the top 10 social networking sites online.
The site has replaced the fun of flipping through coupons in the Sunday newspaper. Users can easily pin their favorite photos and items from around the Internet.
Last year, the company raised $37 million in funding with an unconfirmed evaluation of up to $200 million.
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With Facebook quickly approaching nearly 1 billion users and the increase in new web applications like Spotify and Foodily, the famous “Like” button is in dire need of some siblings.
And we’re not talking about the “dis-like” button.
Facebook has announced that more than 60 new apps are going live. These apps will be apart of the Open Graph allowing people to tell their stories and add things they love to their timeline.
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Since Google Launched their new social network Google Plus and integrated it with search using Search Plus Your World, there has been a lot of talk about Google being biased and only showing G+ profiles for searches like “food” or “music.”
Try this: search for music, movies, or photography by using these exact terms. You will see that Google recommends Google+ profiles that you should visit in the right column.
The problem is, most of these accounts are not kept updated as often as Twitter or Facebook.
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Hey, Neighbor! is a new social network that wants to help you build relationships with the people that live around you.
It’s narrow focus on neighborhoods and apartment complexes makes it stand out from the crowd. The sole purpose is to enrich your real world interactions with your neighbors in an age where we rarely interact with the people that live closest to us.
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Obama and the current White House Administration just joined Google Plus to add to their arsenal of social media networks. This administration has been the most technologically advanced in the history of U.S. Politics. →Keep Reading
Many active Twitter users do most of their sharing in bursts. It’s only natural considering you probably sit down at your computer for an hour or so every day to do your main news reading and sharing during that time. The problem is that your followers will get a big giant burst of tweets from you each day that will knock everything else off the top of their twitter feed. Too much tweet spam could lead to unfollows for your account if you are not careful. That is where Buffer comes in.
With the Buffer application you get a browser extension that allows you to send tweets to your Buffer account instead of sending them live to your Twitter feed. You set up times spread throughout the day for Buffer to post a few of your tweets at a time. What sets Buffer apart from similar apps is that you don’t have to set up a time for each of your tweets to launch. You just set up your posting time frames once and then fill up your Buffer feed with content without worrying about scheduling ever again. It’s a simple and elegant solution to ensure you don’t clog your follower’s feeds.
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Recently Facebook announced it will be making some changes to what can be posted in comment replies. Currently it is not possible to post an image, video or link and have it show up in the comment thread itself when you reply to someone’s wall post. But soon Facebook is going to fix that. Comments will now work exactly the way original posts do, meaning when you post multimedia, a thumbnail preview will be viewable inside the comment thread and users won’t need to go to an external page to view it.
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When Google launched it’s “+” service it requested that businesses and brand names stay off the social network until they could launch their official business offering for the site. And they were serious about that. Recently Google has begun removing brand name profiles from the plus network.
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StumbleUpon (also known as internet crack) is testing out a new way for users to stumble the internet. They are calling it “Explore Box” and it looks quite a bit like a typical search engine set up. But this is StumbleUpon, so obviously it doesn’t work like a typical search engine.
The service allows users to put in specific search queries for what they are interested in, and then SU brings you a random site that falls under the criteria you entered into the box. It’s nothing earth shattering but it does allow the user more control over what sorts of things they want to stumble to and expands upon the categories of interests available to stumblers. This may make users consider more specific tagging when they submit websites to SU.
Story Via: Web Pro News