Tonight’s show may have started out like most of our regular ones where we covered the latest happenings in the Social Media world but it quickly heated up when we broke into discussion regarding the reported censorship happening at the social news site digg.com. Before we got into that though we had good news on how Social Blade and Urgo helped make some changes on happen at YouTube, we learned just what tumblr is and why its actually kind of cool, we found out about some cool social media tools that you probably never heard of, and lots more! If you watch one Social Blade episode this week, this is the one to watch!
Social Blade Success: YouTube’s Auto-Play has been disabled
[via socialblade & socialblade]
Official Research Proves You Waste Way Too Much Time on Facebook
You know, when I was a lad, we were always accused of spending too much time “in front of the computer playing games“. Then came email and its capacity to swallow hours of your day. Then, when broadband rolled around, it was just ‘mindless surfing’ that killed your online time.But now, recent research by Nielsen has proved what only the people still stuck on the island in Lost don’t know: these days, when people waste their time on the web, it’s on social media.The stats? Apparently, we spend about 23% of our time online twittering, poking and liking versus about 8% on email. One imagines that the rest of that time is spent doing constructive things or, maybe more accurately, looking at porn.
[via techi]
Five Tools To Manage Social Media For The Franchise
[via socialmediaexplorer]
Media Companies Try Getting Social With Tumblr
By now, plenty of traditional media companies have hopped on the social media bandwagon, pumping out news updates on Facebook and Twitter. David Karp, left, the founder of Tumblr, Mark Coatney, the company’s “media evangelist,” and John Maloney, its president. But do those companies have the time and resources to work yet another Web outlet into their daily routine?
Mark Coatney certainly hopes so. Mr. Coatney, a 43-year-old journalist, is the latest hire at Tumblr, a fast-growing blogging service based in New York that says it has 6.6 million users.
Until last month, Mr. Coatney was a senior editor at Newsweek, where as a side project he headed up the magazine’s social efforts on Twitter and Facebook. Last year he decided to add Tumblr to his repertoire.
[via nytimes]
MySpace Getting All Sexy for Possible Reboot
This first paragraph was going to be a joke about how nobody uses or knows about MySpace anymore – you know, like, “this ancient thing called MySpace lolol”. But honestly, I think you’ve heard that joke enough. So instead, this paragraph is about that joke, which I’m not going to tell. Yeah.
[via techi]
RIP Google Wave
Google Wave, a product once heralded by many as a massively disruptive communication tool (heck, invites were even selling for $70 on eBay), is no more. In a blog post this afternoon, Google says they “don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product,” though the code for it will remain available as open sourceThe move isn’t much of a surprise; adoption never seemed to materialize for Google Wave — even after it dropped its invite-only status — as users struggled to find meaningful use cases for the service (though we found a few)
[via googleblog & mashable]
Massive Censorship Of Digg Uncovered
A group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com have just been caught red-handed in a widespread campaign of censorship, having multiple accounts, upvote padding, and deliberately trying to ban progressives. An undercover investigation has exposed this effort, which has been in action for more than one year.
[via alternet]
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Thanks for giving me an opportunity to speak about this. I am told that EMFK and MrBabyMan are actually *not* mutuals, and that is the reason she had not dugg all of his submissions – but if there were any question she had buried anything, she could certainly prove otherwise.