Social Media Archive
27 Mar 2012
Twitter advertising for select small businesses
Twitter made its ad platform for small businesses, via a self-serve program. Now, the first stage of that program is live as businesses, with American Express cards, can now sign up and start promoting their tweets and their accounts. Only a few businesses will be part of the program at first and
03 Dec 2011
Add Facebook Like Box to Your Website
Facebook pages are becoming more popular with brands, organisations and celebrities who want to boost their social exposure on the web. Facebook pages have become an important tool for expanding the reach of websites and blogs. The Like Box is a social plugin that enables Facebook Page owners to attract and gain
11 Sep 2011
Now You Can Lock Photo Albums in Google+
Sometimes you want to limit how your photos are shared. So Google+ released new locking feature. You can lock an album from two places — your Photos page, or album posts in the Stream — and when you do a few things happen: – Viewers won’t be able to +mention new people
20 Feb 2011
Phishing Scam Spotted on Facebook
Phishing scams in Facebook. It’s not new and it’s not sophisticated. But they still catch the unwary and they’re still happening now, with only minor tweaks in tactics. Security researchers from F-Secure warn of a phishing scam targeting Facebook users and propagating through chat messages and wall posts. At 2010’s end, we
31 Dec 2010
Social Media Update Last Week
Facebook Begins Rolling Out New News Feed Filters Facebook has started rolling out new News Feed filters, allowing users to quickly navigate between recent stories related to games, status updates, photos, links and Pages. Users can also filter stories by Group and adjust the amount of news they receive from individual friends.
17 Dec 2010
Facebook Introduces Face Recognition for Photo Tagging
Every day, people add more than 100 million tags to photos on Facebook. They do it because it’s an easy way to share photos and memories. Unlike photos that get forgotten in a camera or an unshared album, tagged photos help you and your friends relive everything from that life-altering skydiving trip