LinkedIn Enhances Mobile Experience: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What’s New This Week?
LinkedIn Announces Their Next-Generation Mobile Experience: Their latest mobile app is available on iPhones and Androids and helps professionals be even more productive on the go.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-VARh15ZJE
Google Adds Public Google+ Posts in Google Search Results: When your Google+ friends share public updates on Google+ about the topic of your Google search, you’ll see this in your Google search results.
The person making this search is connected to Andrew Hyatt on Google+. This is why Andrew's update is mentioned in this Google search result.
Foursquare Now Has Events: Foursquare is starting to pull major events into their database. This means that when you check into an event’s location you will also be able to check into the event and tell your friends.
Each event appears in the Foursquare app a couple hours before it starts.
Say Hi to Foursquare Lists: Foursquare adds a list function and makes it easier for you to keep track of interesting locations.
Share a blank list with your friends and ask them for tips.
StumbleUpon Introduces the Explore Box: StumbleUpon unveils “a beta version of our Explore Box, a new way for you to explore even more of the things you love. Now just type a word or phrase into the Explore Box and we’ll bring you to community-endorsed content related to your specific interest or passion.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIu7BMKruAY
Skype Lets Users Find WiFi Hotspots: Skype just launched a new iOS application for iPhones, iPads and the iPod Touch that allows users to find WiFi hotspots—and only pay for the minutes used, which is nice when traveling.
Click through to find out more about the free Skype WiFi special from Saturday, August 20, 00:00 until Sunday, August 21, 23:59 BST.
Here’s a social media tool worth noting:
Bizo Switchboard: This URL shortener gives users business demographic insights and is currently in public beta.
"Are your shared links reaching your target audience
? Understand in real time the business demographic or 'bizographic' makeup of people who click your shared links (company size, industry, job function and seniority)."
And don’t miss this:
Social Media Examiner presents Facebook Success Summit 2011! (online conference)
Watch this video from Mike Stelzner (founder of Social Media Examiner).
Join 19 Facebook marketing experts at the web’s largest Facebook marketing conference. This is a special online conference designed to help you master Facebook marketing (brought to you by Social Media Examiner). Join Guy Kawasaki; Mari Smith; Dave Kerpen; Paul Dunay; Jesse Stay; Robert Scoble; Michael Stelzner; experts from Intuit, PETCO, Applebee’s and Intel; Jay Baer; Chris Treadaway; Amy Porterfield and Andrea Vahl—just to name a few. Go here to learn more.
What social media news caught your interest this week? Please share your comments below.
Read MoreNews Over Wireless and Beat the Traffic Partner to Deliver Premium iPhone Content
News Over Wireless and Beat the Traffic Partner to Deliver Premium iPhone Content
Las Vegas (Vocus) April 11, 2010
News Over Wireless (NOW) and Beat The Traffic® announce a breakthrough partnership to deliver premium vehicle traffic information content on the iPhone and iPod touch.
The market-specific, up-to-the-minute traffic information will be available to users through an “In App purchase” inside iPhone Apps created by NOW for local television stations across the country.
This intelligent content will translate to new revenue opportunities for NOW’s existing station network as well as new station partners.
“NOW’s iPhone Apps are best-in-class apps featuring video, breaking news, weather and are used by millions of consumers already,” said Andre Gueziec, president & CEO of Triangle Software LLC d/b/a Beat the Traffic®. “They allow our premium, actionable traffic information content to reach a large audience of sophisticated users.”
The interface will allow users to browse live color-coded traffic flow/speed maps, incident listings and camera images in participating markets, as well as instant point to point trip times.
“We are excited to offer this exceptional traffic content to our end users in addition to the local content already in our apps.” said Sam Matheny, NOW general manager. “Beat the Traffic® does a wonderful job and this premium information is well suited for our In App Purchase capability. We are the only local news solution provider to offer this important In App Purchase functionality and our station partners are delighted about launching new ways to enrich the user experience and drive revenue.”
NOW is the leading provider of mobile solutions for nearly 150 local and national media companies across the U.S. Station partners have content available via mobile web sites, iPhone applications as well as on-deck applications and video channels with the nation’s largest mobile carriers. Mobile advertising and SMS solutions are also supported by NOW.
Beat the Traffic® and NOW’s parent company, CBC New Media has already been collaborating on WRAL.com’s traffic reporting section, delivering a new level of personalized content to WRAL’s huge online audience in North Carolina.
Beat The Traffic® content for NOW’s iPhone Apps will be launched in the second quarter of 2010.
About News Over Wireless and Capitol Broadcasting Company
News Over Wireless is part of CBC New Media Group, LLC, a division of Capitol Broadcasting Company. News Over Wireless works with broadcasters and wireless phone carriers to provide news and information on mobile phones through video channels, downloadable applications and mobile web sites. For more information, visit http://www.newsoverwireless.com.
Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc. is a diversified communications company which owns and/or operates WRAL-TV, WRAL Digital, WRAL-FM, WRAL-HD2, WCMC-FM, WDNC-AM, WCLY-AM, Microspace, CBC New Media Group and Wolfpack Sports Marketing in Raleigh, NC; WJZY-TV and WMYT-TV in Charlotte, NC; WILM-TV and Sunrise Broadcasting in Wilmington, NC; WRAZ-TV and The Durham Bulls in Durham, NC; and real estate interests including the American Tobacco Project and Diamond View office buildings in Durham, NC.
About Beat the Traffic®
Based in Santa Clara, CA, Triangle Software LLC d/b/a Beat the Traffic® is the fastest-growing provider of vehicle traffic reporting solutions. Acclaimed for its visually-striking graphics, simple setup and user-friendly interface, Beat the Traffic® received the Television Broadcast magazine’s NAB Top Innovation Award. Triangle Software is a National Science Foundation funded early innovator in traffic prediction and presentation science. For more information please contact Andre Gueziec at (408) 777-6517 or visit beatthetraffic.com or trianglesoftware.com. The Beat the Traffic® technology is protected by U.S. Patents Nos. 6,989,765, 7,161,497, 7,221,287, 7,375,649, 7,508,321, 7,557,730 and 7,610,145.
Visit our http://www.youtube.com/BeatTheTraffic channel and follow us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/btt3d and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/beatthetraffic.
For more information please contact:
For Beat the Traffic®/
Triangle Software LLC
Andre Gueziec
408-777-6513
For News Over Wireless
Laura Blake
919-821-8524
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