Tag Archives: Social Media

Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr Talks the Latest Social Media News on G4 [VIDEO]

Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr made an appearance on G4’s “Attack of the Show” on Wednesday to discuss some of the latest news in the social media space. Among the topics: the feds using social media to catch criminals , the battle of competing location networks at SXSW, and Twitter’s new @anywhere platform . Check it out in the video below: Reviews: Twitter Tags: attack of the show , g4 , video
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The Current State of Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC]

Muhammad Saleem is a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on multiple social news sites. Follow him on Twitter for more social media insights. There is no doubt that Twitter has been a runaway success. Add to their rapid growth the recently announced @anywhere platform, and plans for further international expansion , and it comes as no surprise that the company is not looking to sell — at least within the next 2 years.
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It’s Time to Get Video on Wikipedia

Wikipedia is one of the most amazing knowledge resources on the Internet, featuring millions of articles and images, but it sorely lacks a certain (very important) type of content – video. For this reason the Open Video Alliance is launching a mass campaign to bring video to Wikipedia. The central site for the project is Let’s Get Video on Wikipedia , featuring a tutorial on how to post videos to Wikipedia as well as a gallery of some of the recently posted videos. There’s also good news for those who were struggling to convert videos to Theora, which is the open video format used by Wikipedia.
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6 Ways Law Enforcement Uses Social Media to Fight Crime

Lon S. Cohen is a freelance writer and is @obilon on Twitter. He’s also the Director of Communications at @ALSofGNY . From felons on Facebook to tips through Twitter, social media is being used more and more by law enforcement agencies, and not just to fight Internet-related crimes.
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Track Your Favorite Band’s Online Buzz with Next Big Sound

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here . The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: Next Big Sound Quick Pitch: Next Big Sound is a tool that gauges the popularity of bands and artists via fan activity on a variety of social networking sites. Genius Idea: As the music industry and the online world become more and more enmeshed, tracking band popularity via album sales — and even digital downloads (Hello, piracy!) — seems rather arcane.
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Posterous Now Lets You Schedule Posts for Later

Posterous — the e-mail-to-blog-to-everywhere platform — has just introduced a new feature that will let users schedule posts to be published in the future via e-mail, web or bookmarklet. The appeal of Posterous is that every blogging behavior can be completed via e-mail with little to no thinking involved; this feature is no different. To schedule posts, users simply need to add “delay” or “publish” commands to e-mail subject lines and specify time constraints. To publish a post on a specific date add “((publish: on mo/day/year))” or to delay publishing add “((delay: in x minutes or hours))” after your post title in the subject line of the e-mail. The “schedule later” option is also available in the Advance Settings portion of the bookmarklet or the Manage Page section on the web (see below).
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YouTube Launches Partner Program for Musicians

YouTube has helped launched the career of many an awesome band (and Justin Bieber ), now the video-sharing site is taking active steps to help out struggling artists by launching a YouTube Partner program at SXSW called Musicians Wanted . If you’re a band or musician on the brink, you can head to YouTube’s partnership page to apply for the program, which already counts bands like now-totally-indie OK Go among its denizens. According to the YouTube blog , only U.S.-based artists can currently apply, but it’s planning on expanding in the future (so keep your ears peeled, Fully Sick Rapper ). This is good news for many a musician
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Still Using Firefox 3.0.x? Time to Move On

After many months of testing, five beta versions and two release candidates, Firefox 3.0 was released in June 2008 . The 3.0.x branch was the major stable branch of Mozilla’s web browser for a long time, and it’s been updated to version 3.0.18 so far. Now, however, it reached the end of the line, as Mozilla’s development plans include only one more update for it. The users who have moved on to the current stable branch, 3.6 , are probably wondering what we’re talking about, but many users still use the 3.0.x version; with this move Mozilla is indicating that it wants these users to upgrade, too. Mozilla has recently been more aggressive about upgrades , reminding users of old versions of Firefox that an upgrade is available.
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