Greg Finn is the Director of Marketing for Cypress North, a company that provides world-class social media and search marketing services and web & application development. He has been in the Internet marketing industry for 10+ years and specializes in Digital Marketing. You can also find Greg on Twitter (@gregfinn) or LinkedIn.
A new global survey from Pew Internet shows social and mobile information from around the globe. While the U.S. is among the leaders of each category, Israel takes the top spot for both social networking and mobile internet usage (tied with Japan). The study also shows that GDP correlates with both social and mobile usage. Here’s a […]
Today Google announced several Google+ features that will affect profiles, pages and notifications. These features will be rolling out over the next few days, just in time for the holidays! Here’s a look at the main enhancements included in this update: Volume Control In Stream [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRakr5BgkB0[/youtube] One of the main gripes that users complained about […]
The newest iteration of Facebook Ads, sponsored stories, has got the popular social network into hot water in California. A California based lawsuit was brought against Facebook stating that sponsored stories violate state law and are fraudulent. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh rejected Facebook’s bid to dismiss this lawsuit stating: Plaintiffs have articulated a coherent theory […]
The popular bookmarking site Delicious rolled out a new look this week. A major change to Delicious occurred in September, and the new look helps to enhance the new changes and is a byproduct of user feedback. Delicious was re-purchased by its original founders in April, and has been working on major feature upgrades since the transition. […]
Today Microsoft has announced So.cl (pronounced Social,) an “experimental research project” geared towards students. This project is currently active for a group of selected schools, users outside of these schools join a waiting list. The active schools are University of Washington, Syracuse University, and New York University. So.cl offers a few different benefits for students […]
Today, Facebook is launching its new “Timeline” functionality out across the globe. Announced at f8, Timeline allows users to display information in a much more visual format, one that reads like a newspaper. The top banner on Timeline is expandable, providing a very visual queue for users: [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzPEPfJHfKU[/youtube] Before you sign-up for Timeline, there are a few […]
Another promising Facebook test has been uncovered, this time around the always hot-topic: coupons. While Facebook currently has check-in deals for local businesses, no functionality exists to offer discounts and savings to non-local users. Screen shots have surfaced showing how these coupons may integrate into the current Facebook environment: One of most interesting elements to the new coupon […]
A “7-minute survey” released by Google polls users for their thoughts on the social network and asks some odd exam-like questions about the site’s funcationality. When running through the survey, it seemed that Google was quite concerned with two things: if users understood the privacy aspects of Google+, and if users understood how exactly Google+ […]
New messaging capabilities for Facebook pages have popped up recently and would be a big boost for brands/companies/organizations. Currently all communication between pages and fans occurs publicly via posts or comments on the fan page. This new functionality gives pages the ability to respond privately to those users who are commenting and posting on walls. Here is […]
The continued push for Google+ integration across all Google products continues. Google created significant enhancements to Gmail that tie in Google+ data for contacts, messages and media. A month ago, Google introduced a new look for Gmail and these Google+ features may have helped to drive the redesign. Here are some of the new functionality: Add […]
Today the familiar light blue ‘tweet’ and ‘follow’ buttons have been updated and de-saturated. This change has been rolled out for all types and sizes of buttons and are automatically updated if you have the buttons installed. The old tweet buttons displayed both the Tweet button and the tweet count in blue: And the new button […]
In mid-September, Facebook announced the “subscribe” feature that allowed people subscribed to personal page to receive every post from those pages. Now, a subscribe button for personal pages is coming to support this further. Joanna Shields — vice president and managing director for Facebook Europe, Middle East and Africa — announced this information today at Le Web. […]
Today Twitter announced the Top Tweets per Second in 2011, part of its ongoing Year In Review. Back in October we complied a list at Search Engine Land, which is strikingly still similar. The top Twitter events displayed in “tweets per second” (or TPS) for 2011 were: 8,868 TPS: MTV Video Awards (Beyonce announces pregnancy) – August […]
Today StumbleUpon, the most popular social “discovery engine,” is releasing a new and improved version complete with new features and rebranding. Much like Pandora or Netflix, StumbleUpon uses collaborative filtering to serve relevant web content to users. The purpose behind the new enhancements is to improve the ability to filter content while making it quicker […]
In a new redesign launched last night, YouTube made large changes to the layout and overall look while adding advanced social integration to the site. Some of the biggest functionality changes include deeper social integration with Google+ and Facebook, new themes, better channel recommendations and an increased prominence of YouTube channels in general. Here’s the statement from YouTube on the new look: […]
Today Twitter quietly released a self-serve ad platform to a small group of advertisers. Previously either a direct sales team (larger accounts) or inside sales team (smaller accounts) were required to advertise on any of their products. Current Twitter ads include Promoted Accounts, Promoted Tweets and Promoted Trends. This service is a long-time coming for Twitter as they […]
The Google+ vs Facebook competition keeps getting fiercer. Yesterday Facebook announced that the post character limit would increase by 1100% to more than 60,000 characters. Why “more than” 60,000 you may ask? Facebook software engineer Bob Baldwin explains: I set the exact limit to something nerdy. Facebook … Face Boo K … hex(FACE) – K … […]
A little over two months ago at f8, Mark Zuckerburg announced new Open Graph features that were created to make reading article more social. Some early adoption and usage results from the initial media partners are in. Facebook reports that the results are encouraging for both existing websites and Facebook apps. Here are some quick […]