Two months after About.me ‘bought itself back’ from AOL, spinning itself out as an independent company again, the personal-profile platform has announced that users can now embed YouTube, SoundCloud, Vimeo and blog content in their personal bio box. Today’s announcement falls a month after the company rolled out its first significant post-AOL feature – Facebook…
Facebook announced today that it is rolling out improvements to the way users help express what they find important to them. Included in this update are redesigned sections that now allow you to have one place to add music, movies, TV shows, and books that are of interest to that user. Additionally, starting today, the…
Over the course of the last week, Facebook has started to roll out a small improvement to Facebook profiles, increasing the size of a user’s profile picture on their Timeline, a move that comes just days after Google updated Google+ profiles to sport a larger photo. Previously, a Timeline photo measured 130 x 125 pixels,…
If you’re still on the look out for a new and different way to share your photos through an iOS app, WeHeartPics is definitely worth a look. While the app is currently iOS only, an Android version will be available by May. WeHeartPics is a social network unto itself, and also makes it easy to…
Tweetbot for iPhone and iPad has gotten a nice update with iCloud sync for Timeline, DM, mute statuses and more. Previously, the Twitter client only had support for the Tweet Marker syncing service, but has added Apple’s official iCloud sync as an option. This gives it the ability to sync other data besides timeline location.…
Facebook published some interesting numbers and facts about the growth that certain partners have had since adopting the Open Graph platform that the social network launched late last year at f8. One of the most interesting factoids that we’ve seen is the success that music video site VEVO has had since moving to Facebook-only registration,…
Spotify is ramping up its revenue efforts by launching its first branded advertiser page across Europe, in cahoots with 20th Century Fox, to promote the release of Titanic 3D. Thus far, the music-streaming service has seemingly been banking on monetizing through subscriptions and advertising (on the free accounts), but with this latest campaign it’s taking…
Facebook’s Timeline is coming to your profile today. Already as people are switched from the old layout, streams of comments, queries and update advice are running through Twitter and of course on Facebook itself. The immediate and striking changes are the banner photo at the top and the switch to a two-column layout with activities…
Digg might be seeing a nice burst of new traffic thanks to Facebook’s recent Timeline and Open Graph initiatives. In a post titled “How Facebook Changed our Mobile Traffic“, Digg’s team discussed how mobile traffic to the site has risen since it launched its Timeline app in December. Depending on which source you trust Digg’s…
According to comScore, US Internet users watched nearly 38 billion videos of online video content in February. This is one of the findings about online video in the US that the research firm released today. In total, 179m Americans watched online content last month – 83.3% of the Internet audience. As expected, Google Sites is the most popular…
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