Social Networking News
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LinkedIn, the social networking site aimed at so-termed career professionals, is extending its advertising reach. Users of the service will start to see adverts based on their profile when they visit other websites.
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According to a recent study, our addiction to gadgets may be interfering with many of out relationships, and causing much angst to our partners.
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Not satisfied with just improving photo quality, Google+ will now automatically enhance videos added to Google's social platform.
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Plague is a new social networking app with a fun twist that could just work.
Plague is all about discovering "viral" content, but the way you discover the next viral video or hilarious photo is what's unique.
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Having difficulty relating to the hoi polloi crowding social media networks like Facebook and Twitter? Got heaps of money, but not so much time, to burn? Then Netropolitan Club might just be for you.
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The new app, LinkedIn Connected, aims to turn contacts into connections and give users what they want on their mobile devices.
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Toronto -
Ever wondered what happens inside Dx3? On March 5 and 6, Canada’s largest digital media conference filled the Toronto Metro Convention Centre with people eager to glimpse the future of online advertising.
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Years ago when you attended a conference or event, your networking was limited to your confidence level, the number of hands you shook and business cards you exchanged. Not the case anymore with the use of hashtags.
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After an online suicide pact on a social networking site, the bodies of three women were discovered in a cabin in a popular beauty spot in western Germany on Wednesday afternoon.
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Despite the range of different media and opportunities for social networking, the typical person has a social network equivalent to the number of people that they would be in regular contact with if social networks did not exist.
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New study findings released about online dating and relationships show that not only are social networking sites the place to find your next date, check up on past partners and but also that attitudes towards internet dating are becoming more positive.
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Toronto -
Search and Social Rank Symposiums are web marketing secret sharing groups; the fifth event just happened on October 15, 2013, in the Distillery District of Toronto. It was remarkable event thanks to its charismatic and knowledgeable speakers.
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While the number of Facebook accounts continues to grow, interest continues to decline among teens who have started turning to Twitter and Instagram.
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Austin -
As news continues to transition away from traditional paper platforms, different age groups continue to turn to social media for news.
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Facebook released the hashtag feature to make live TV interaction easier, Twitter announced Twitter Amplify, and Nielsen reports that social TV use is growing.
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Social media is everywhere, and a new study shows a link between it and narcissistic personality in both adults and college students. A social media marketing professional and study details help shed some light on the issue.
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A recent study from Experion Marketing Services reported that Americans spend on average 58 minutes a day on their smartphones, but television viewing habits remain the larger concern.
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A new study by researchers from Tel Aviv University in Israel, based on case studies of individuals, says Facebook and other social media can induce psychotic symptoms and delusional states in vulnerable lonely individuals.
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The social networking site Twitter could be about to launch a music site. Twitter has been reported as buying the music discovery site We Are Hunted.
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Tech sites are reporting that Facebook will soon be announcing its own branded smartphone, to be launched in 2013 to stake a challenge in the crowded mobile market.
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LinkedIn, the social networking site for 'professionals', has seen a 10% rise in profits for the last quarter of 2012. This has led to an increase in its share price.
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Previously limited to invite only last month, now the newly revamped MySpace is open for all to join. The website's open membership launch coincides with the release of Justin Timberlake's new song. Timberlake is a financial backer of MySpace.
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Astoria -
A teen who was out drinking and driving on New Year's Eve found himself in trouble after he posted about his evening on Facebook. He was subsequently arrested by local police after Facebook friends turned him in.
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Are parents bothered about their teens online activity and privacy? Do they keep tabs on their kids’ online? New research from Pew says yes.
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Menlo Park -
Facebook is currently testing a new project that would give shoppers free wireless Internet access. If successful, it might not be long before Facebook Wi-Fi comes to a store near you.
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In a public post on their official Facebook page the social network states that spending too much time on Facebook is as bad for you as eating too much birthday cake.
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Facebook has begun the process of deleting numerous "fake" user accounts in order to increase transparency and authenticity of the network.
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No longer will Twitter users have to turn to third party applications in order to save their best or funniest tweets for posterity.
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Limavady -
A Facebook page with over 1000 followers has published pictures, names and addresses of alleged paedophiles living in the Limavady area of Northern Ireland.
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The Obama campaign seems to have understood the power of social networking over traditional media. They are tweeting away over the network at almost four times the rate of the Romney campaign.
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The Google+ project aims to break in to the social networking market in a big way, and it just might succeed. Screengrab
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