It took long for Facebook to adapt to this user-invented phenomenon: hashtags.

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Excellent piece  out of the UK explaining a plausible version of why G+ exists.  It's not a social network, and to think of it that way is to mislead yourself.  The article suggests

Want a job then watch out what you post on social media!

It most likely the images and videos that put potential employers/hr off. 

 So,  that is no suprise: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/12/net-us-google-social-idUSBRE94B04W20130512 .

Dan Zarrella loves to dissect vast numbers of social media posts to determine which language seems to be the most effective. His latest effort is summarized here:

Social networking users get tired of Facebook & seek alternatives The Guardian re

The power of a single twitter account has hit an all time high with the hacked tweet yesterday from @ap saying "Breaking:Two Explosion

Still trying to make G+ relevant, Google has rolled out G+ comments for Blogger blog users. It's a simple turn on in the Blogger admin panel. 

As we continue to embrace social media in our daily lives, we often forget how it can be misused.  This editorial from CNN caught my eye this morning.

Bing image search and Pinterest have much in common: Most importantly lots of copyright infringement complaints (we are unha

Google launched a new feature today, with which you can decide what happens to the data contained in your various Google properties, should you become "inactive" for a period of time.

This whole argument reminds me of the one about bounce rate: There are solid reasons why some content needs to be short or long (as well as the bounce rate of some types of pages can to be low or h

The Google Reader is about to die.

CNET thinks Facebook is rapidly losing their younger audience, not least because teens want something toca ll their own, without being snooped on by parents:

Lee Odden just shared an eBook today talking about social media predictions and he has a

Great use of a widget! Also great use of links and social data to analyse entities..

Excellent post by Kev Strong about an employee at HMV who tweeted live as her and 60 other employees got fired.

The thing is... she did it on the @HMV Twitter handle!

Xanga are having problems with spam overloading their servers:

http://thexangateam.xanga.com/771268436/fighting-splogs-and-some-proposed-tweaks-to-the-r%e2%80%a6/

Here's a decent write up on how to get Facebook likes on the cheap.

I am running an informal discussion thread in a few places, including right here, asking people about what SEO skills they're glad they have from their SEO days for marketing in our social search m