It feels like social media is easier to use than ever before. With new features that auto-hashtag content, allow users to buy products right from videos, and provide tailored content recommendations to users on mobile websites, things are definitely changing for the better.
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YouTube Makes Some Videos ‘Shoppable’ and Other Marketing Stories of the Week
Facebook is Feeling “Emotion” About Watching “Film”
Facebook has brought out a brilliant new addition to status updates that was desperately needed. Prepare for your news feed to be flooded with emoticons and more than likely irrelevant adjectives.
Without being too cynical, I’d like to bring to the forefront that MySpace had this feature back in the day, and if I remember correctly, there were a lot more emotions too choose from. In fairness, I think there are too many choices as there is. Please someone explain the definition of feeling…
Wi-Fi Network Breaks Speed Record
Think your network is fast? Getting a gigagbyte-sized movie over your local wireless network to your hard drive in a few seconds is old hat. Now there’s a network that can push a 2-hour, high-definition movie to a computer a mile away in less time than it takes to read a single word.
At the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, a new record has been set: 40GB per second over a distance of about .6 of a mile. That’s like sending 10 high-def feature films
What makes this possible is a…
LinkedIn Bans Users From Promoting Prostitution, Escort Services
LinkedIn is used by professionals of all types, but it looks like prostitutes and escorts will have to find another social network to promote themselves.
The social network updated its user agreement terms on Monday, adding an interesting clause, which caught the attention of one of our readers. Under a section entitled “Don’t undertake the following,” LinkedIn now includes this statement:
Upload, post, email, InMail, transmit or otherwise make available or initiate any content that: Even…
Amazon Gives Away ‘Tens of Millions’ of Dollars in ‘Coins’
If you own a Kindle Fire, you’re now $5 richer — sort of.
Amazon on Monday rolled out Amazon Coins, a virtual currency for Kindle Fire, by giving all registered users of the device 500 free coins, each of which is valued at $0.01. The currency, which Amazon first teased in February, can currently be used to buy games, apps and in-app purchases
In total, Amazon says it has added “tens of millions of dollars” in Amazon Coins to the accounts of Kindle Fire customers — if you’re eligible, you…
Reports: Facebook Is Buying Social Mapping/Traffic App Waze For Up To $1B To Court Mobile Users
Facebook appears to be close to making another billion-dollar acquisition to once again ramp up its mobile efforts: according to three reports in the Israeli press at Calcalist and sister publication Ynet and The Marker (all in Hebrew), Facebook has approached Waze, the social mapping and traffic app maker, and is now in advanced due dilligence on a deal that Calcalist puts at between $800 million and $1 billion. The negotiations between the social network and crowdsourced mapping app…
HealthTap Lands $24M From Khosla Ventures And Keith Rabois To Take Its “Quora For Doctors” Global
Since launching in 2010, HealthTap has been on a mission to bring the proverbial “house call” back to healthcare — virtually speaking, of course. With more than 80 percent of people turning to online resources (and to Dr. Google) for health-related information — from insurance to basic diagnostics — HealthTap set out to give people a better alternative to using Google or WebMD for their health queries.
Capitalizing the increasing ubiquity of mobile devices, HealthTap created an interactive…
Wander Launches Days App, Looks To Change Your Perspective Of Photo-Sharing Entirely
You’ve likely heard whispers of a company called Wander in the past year. They nabbed $1.2 million, launched out of TechStars, and have since gone relatively quiet.
Until today.
Today Wander is launching a mobile app called Days, which aims to change the way you think of photo-sharing on every basic level.
To start, Days asks you to stop thinking of the moments that are “share-worthy.” On Days, every moment is share-worthy, because the idea is to share the normal, everyday routine of your…
Skydog Lets You Remotely Monitor Your Kids’ Internet and Facebook Use
If you’re looking for some serious control over your family’s Wi-Fi use and home network, a Palo-Alto, Calif., company has developed a new cloud-based solution.
PowerCloud Systems‘ Skydog Wi-Fi router and mobile companion site lets parents monitor Internet access and even receive text notifications for certain network activity.
The system works by signing up with Skydog and replacing your existing wireless router with Skydog’s 802.11n wireless router. From there, you can monitor all the…
