Tag: Social Media

So-Called Facebook Alternative Diaspora Gets a Launch Date
You may recall that earlier this year, Facebook took a lot of heat over user privacy. While some may still not be satisfied, the company did release simplified privacy settings...
Read More
SocialDeck Announces Acquisition by Google
Google continues its pattern of social gaming-related acquisitions with the acquisition of SocialDeck. Inside Social Games has...
Read More
MySpace Users Can Now Sync Accounts with Facebook Profiles, Pages
MySpace has announced a new feature that lets users sync their status updates with their Facebook profiles or Pages, while also l...
Read More
Digg Users Sure Dig Digg Competitor Reddit
Update: Digg Founder Kevin Rose has made the following statements on Twitter: We're working h...
Read More
How One Company is Finding Value in Promoted Tweets
Many businesses have probably been wondering just how much Twitter's Promoted Tweets could help them if they were given the chance to participate. Promoted Tweets is still in be...
Read More
LinkedIn Recruiter Gets New Search Filter Features
LinkedIn has launched new search filter features for LinkedIn Recruiter. The company has taken advanced search and refinement...
Read More
TweetUp is Now PostUp, Includes Facebook, LinkedIn Updates
TweetUp, a search engine/ad network that has been based on Twitter, is now changing its name to PostUp,...
Read More
Chatroulette Comes Back to Disappoint
Last week, Chatroulette was down, displaying nothing but a blank scr...
Read More
Teachbook Says it Doesn’t Know Why Facebook Wants to Impede Teaching
Update: See comments section for comment from Facebook. Original Article: WebProNews reached out to both Teachbook and...
Read More
“Photo Memories” Tab Spotted Attached to Facebook Places
It's become clear that check-ins are becoming about more than just locations. While location is obviously a big part of it, we've seen several examples of non-place "check-...
Read More
Cheezburger Network Offers to Buy Reddit
Ben Huh, who runs the Cheezburger Network, has offered to buy Reddit. This comes after Condé Nast, which owns Reddit, rejected Prop 19 ads on the site (Facebook also reje...
Read More
Measuring Social Media Effectiveness May Have Just Gotten Easier
Everyone knows that social media provides some great opportunities for marketing, but measurement issues continue to plague businesses. You know content is being shared, but you...
Read More
Google Acquires Social Startup Angstro
A company that was founded for the specific purpose of addressing one of Google's weaknesses has now been acquired by the larger corporation.  Angstro should help Google (a...
Read More
Google Gives Realtime Search a Homepage
Google has given its realtime search feature its own homepage at google.com/realtime. Searches from...
Read More
Facebook Talks Questions, Lists, Mobile
As usual, Facebook is making its way into a lot of headlines for a lot of reasons. While many of them have to do with...
Read More
Get the WebProNews newsletter delivered to your inbox

Get the free daily newsletter read by decision makers

Subscribe
Advertise with Us

Ready to get started?

Get our media kit

Advertise with Us