As per a recent post on Business Week, Super Bowl fans are now using Twitter along with the Super Bowl running on TV to create a true “two screen” experience.
An estimated 144 million Americans own tablet computers or smartphones, said Roger Entner, an analyst at Recon Analytics LLC. Of those, 40 percent use the devices daily while watching television, according to Nielsen. Of that tally, half of the tablet owners and 42 percent of the smartphone users also visit social sites such as those run by Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. while watching TV, media- viewership tracker Nielsen Nielsen noted.
Commercials now instruct viewers to “Like this on Facebook” or to “Tweet with this hashtag.” The iPad allows for a seamless experience without the burden of a keyboard.
For some time now there has been a rumor circulating the tech world that Facebook wants to launch its own smartphone.
Yesterday AllThingsD announced “After years of considering how to best get into the phone business, Facebook has tapped Taiwanese cellphone maker HTC to build a smartphone that has the social network integrated at the core of its being.
It’s official: Facebook is competing with Google Plus (+) by partnering with Skype, the video conferencing giant. In an announcement on July 6th, CNN Tech reported that Mark Zuckerberg announced in a Palo Alto, CA conference that Facebook will add a video chat feature powered by Skype.
The big players of the social networking sites are bigger than they’ve ever been and continuing to grow.
Today LinkedIn went public, the first social networking site to do so. “LinkedIn opened at $83 on the New York Stock Exchange, up 84% from its initial public offering price of $45. It was recently changing hands at $85.99 a share, up 91%, valuing the company at more than 8 billion.”
In an effort to show the world how modern they are, an Israeli couple recently named their baby “Like,” after the popular Facebook feature, the Israeli newspaper Maariv reported on Monday.
“We named her Like because it’s modern and innovative,” father Lior Adler told the mass-circulation paper. “I checked that the name does not exist elsewhere in the country, that was the main condition for me,” he said.
The Facebook team does it again. They have started a major upgrade to their mobile version. There’s really no denying that Mark Zuckerberg , the CEO of Facebook is pretty good at what he does. Mobile usage will continue to boom over the next year so it’s important to make the Facebook user experience as engaging as ever. This is the kind of stuff that makes Facebook so successful. Zuckerberg has an uncanny ability to stay one step ahead of the game in the Social Networking world.
Welcome back to Social Media News. We bring you the latest updates in social media from Toronto and the world. This past week in Social Media news and events the following items stood out:
- Apple’s Mac App Store ready to be launched on January 6th
- Mozilla’s Firefox overtakes Microsoft’s Internet Explorer in Europe
- Google isn’t the most accessed site on the web, Facebook is
- Toronto based newspaper Globe and Mail launches iPad app
Welcome to Social Media News. We bring you the latest updates in social media for Toronto and the world. This past week in Social Media news and events you might have missed out on the following: Facebook’s New Profile page Gowalla, location based social media, “joins” its main competitors CityVille, Zynga’s new social game For all [...]
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