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Twitter Launches Web Intents To Make Embedded Tweets Interactive

by Shabbir Akhtar on 31. Mar, 2011 in Social Media Tools, Twitter

Twitter has released a new API tool — Web Intents. The purpose behind pushing out this developer tool is to increase the interactivity of embedded tweets. Web Intents will leverage site publishers. Using this tool will allow publishers to provided their visitors all the functionalities of Twitter while staying on their own blogs or websites. [...]

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Flickr Upgrades Sharing Options With Twitter And Facebook ‘Share This’ Features

by Shabbir Akhtar on 31. Mar, 2011 in Facebook, Social Media Tools, Twitter

Flickr, the photo sharing site has made available the chance to share photos seamlessly on various sites for its users. It could be social networks like Facebook, Twitter or an individual’s blog, Flickr’s update to its share functionality will let users upload their photos on Flickr for once and have these photos shared on many [...]

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Foursquare Gearing Up For SXSW

by Shabbir Akhtar on 24. Feb, 2011 in Social Media Tools

This year’s SXSW event, scheduled to take place in Austin, Texas is just weeks away. Many startups are lined to come up with something exciting in the event. Foursquare, which was once such a startup and lucky enough to get the breakthrough, is also tying its shoelaces to join the race. Foursquare has a new [...]

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Facebook Places Crushes Foursquare As Facebook Takes Down Google

by Shabbir Akhtar on 23. Feb, 2011 in Facebook, Social Media Tools, Twitter, social media marketing

Facebook doesn’t want to leave anything on the plate for others. The Facebook Places feature was launched not more than five months back, but within such a short period of time, they started outbalancing the so called pros in the arena like Foursquare and Gowalla.

That’s what Financial Times points out in their official blog. The [...]

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Twitter Reinstates API Access Of UberMedia For Twidroyd, UberSocial

by Shabbir Akhtar on 21. Feb, 2011 in Social Media Tools, Twitter

On Satuday Twitter had suspended UberMedia’s UberTwitter and Twidroyd apps for violation of Twitter’s policies. UberMedia’s CEO Bill Gross had said, “We started making the changes…Whatever it is we will change it.” It seems they have done the needful as yesterday night Twitter has reinstated the API access of UberMedia.

The update on the Twitter help [...]

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Twitter Suspends UberTwitter, Twidroyd For Policy Violations

by Shabbir Akhtar on 19. Feb, 2011 in Social Media Tools, Twitter

UberTwitter and Twidroyd have been suspended by Twitter. Both of them are products of UberMedia, a company that has been acquiring third-party Twitter clients for sometimes an building an army of its own. Other than UberTwitter and Twidroyd, UberMedia also acquired TweetDeck for around $30 million, which is a direct competitor of the web and [...]

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Digg Discontinues RSS Submission For Publishers

by Shabbir Akhtar on 15. Feb, 2011 in Social Media Tools

Digg will no longer allow RSS submitted content, the product manager of Digg, Mike Cieri, announced in an email sent to publishers. Earlier, publishers were able to submit content on Digg in an automated way, through RSS feed. But as Cieri put, “Most RSS-submitted content is not performing well on Digg,” so the company has [...]

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Now Share Videos On Twitter With TwitPic

by Shabbir Akhtar on 09. Feb, 2011 in Social Media Tools, Twitter

TwitPic, the media sharing website for Twitter is launching video support. Users can now log in to TwitPic and from there, they can directly videos on Twitter. Also, if mobiles or desktops of users support TwitPic, then they can directly upload the videos from there. Twitter is all about sharing and unless users get the [...]

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LinkedIn InMaps Allows You To Visualize Your Professional Network

by Shabbir Akhtar on 07. Feb, 2011 in Social Media Tools

LinkedIn is bringing in new tea in a new cup for their users. I am not sure if they were inspired by Paul Butler, who created the data visualization of friendships on Facebook over the world, but I am sure that a whole lot of users would thank the social network for giving them the [...]

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Reddit Touts 1 Billion Monthly Page Views

by Shabbir Akhtar on 04. Feb, 2011 in Social Media Tools

Reddit! They are on their way to become a hand-picked name in the realm of social media. Just a year back and they basically had no existence. And now they are dishing out the story of their achievement with the tag-line, “Our monthly Google Analytics page has a new comma that we’d like to show [...]

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