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Google Updates Friend Connect to Match Up Content, Ads with Uses Interests
Google has released updates to Friend Connect that will help the tool be more, um, friendly to both web developers and their site visitors. They're using the interests that users note in their profiles to help deliver a more personalized experience. Custom newsletters - Friend Connect now offers newsletters. You can select to send them to your entire Friend Connect audience - or send newsletters according to interest. Google Ads - If you have AdSense on your site, Google Friend Connect will now use the interests of a Friend Connect visitor to help serve up more relevant ads. Personalized Content...
7 Google Updates: Custom Search, AdWords API, Maps, Search Appliance and More
Google had another busy week pushing out updates. That's really no surprise considering Apple released product refreshes and Microsoft released Windows 7. Google hasn't let any major update from any competitor go by without their own news and this week was no different. We've already covered Google getting a deal with Twitter (similar to Bing's deal with Twitter) as well as a new social search experiment set up in Google Labs. Here are 7 updates that are slightly minor but you'll still want to know about: Custom Search is now available for mobile search experiences on smartphone and higher-end devices....
Yahoo!'s New Ad Campaign: It Really Is All About Y!ou
Today, Yahoo! unveiled their forthcoming branding campaign: Y!ou. Next Monday, the internet company will be building on their strength of having some of the most visited properties on the web. "Our vision is to be at the center of people's online lives--to be at the place where their world meets the larger world," said Elisa Steele, Yahoo! executive vice president and chief marketing officer, speaking at the IAB MIXX Conference and Expo in New York City. "Our new branding will focus on people--the power and promise of 'you.'" Yahoo! has spent two months launching initiatives leading up to the new...
A Chat with Michael Fischer of Coldwell Banker Real Estate
I have seen the future of YouTube, and it works! Last week, I had "A Chat with Michael Fischer" at the Social Media & Video Strategies Forum in San Jose. Fischer is the Senior Vice President of Marketing at Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. We talked about coldwellbanker's Channel on YouTube, which offers consumers a new way to search for and interact with real estate information and listings. Named Coldwell Banker On Location, the channel was created back in May. On Location is the first branded YouTube channel to use dynamic IP lookup to search for videos, which automatically serves...
It's So On: Facebook Rolls Out Live Feed Search to All Users, Includes Real-Time Updates
Just hours after announcing its acquisition of FriendFeed, Facebook came out with more big news: it's rolling out its new search to all users. Now, you'll be able to search the live feeds of your friends and everyone. Of course, everyone only includes those who allow their updates to be visible to the public. Also, since the search is rolling out, some users will have access to it sooner than others. Expect this to resolve within a few days. Like the newly acquired FriendFeed and Twitter-the-competitor, one of the best features about this is real-time updates of search results. If...
CitySquares Incorporates Facebook Connect
Fast-growing local search engine CitySquares has incorporated Facebook Connect. Now, you can use your Facebook account to sign into the site. When you do, you can invite Facebook friends to CitySquares and control which information from Facebook you want visible on the local site (name, hometown, birthday, etc.) The CitySquares teams plans further integration of Facebook Connect in the future. It will include enabling users to update their Facebook accounts when they rate a business. Ben Saren, CitySquares CEO, says it's all part of recognizing the close relationship between social and local. "The Local Web and the Social Web are...
Google Reader's New Sharing Options (Plus a Shared Items Twitter Sharing Tip!)
Google Reader unleashed new sharing options this week, continuing the slow but steady trend of turning the newsreader into a social media platform. Let's say I'm reading the Search Engine Watch expert column feed. I now have the option to "Like" the post. Google Reader tracks the number of people doing so and places the tally under the subject line. If you click on the number of people liking a post, you'll get a list of those people. Click on a name and you'll be taken to their Google Profile page. From there, you can connect with that person depending...
Facebook Boasts 250 Million Members Worldwide
Facebook just keeps growing and growing and growing.... They've reached the milestone of 250 million members. That's a global number, but it's still very impressive - even more so considering it took just a year to double their numbers. I was thinking just yesterday about Google Connect versus Facebook Connect and how the latter probably makes more sense. A greater percentage of my friends use Facebook than either Google or Twitter (Google Connect supports Twitter). So many of my friends use non-GMail emails such as Yahoo!, Hotmail or their work account. With Facebook continuing to grow at skyrocketing numbers, it's...
Google Friend Connect Adds Support for 47 More Languages
Google Friend Connect has announced support for 47 new languages. (It's already supported in English.) The new languages are......(drum roll please)..... Arabic Bengali Bulgarian Catalan Chinese Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Filipino Finnish French German Greek Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Kannada Korean Latvian Lingala Lithuanian Malay Malayalam Marathi Norwegian Oriya Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese Google Friend Connect launched last year and is a tool for web developers to add social networking to websites. It simply allows people to log into the network via their Google account....
Video about NACA's Save the Dream Tour Wins TELLY Awards
On Friday, I posted a story about the "Search and Community Track at SES San Jose: NACA's Save The Dream Tour." It seems to have connected with readers of the Search Marketing News Blog on Search Engine Watch because there were 75 Tweets about it on Friday and Saturday. Well, the YouTube video embedded in my blog post just won two TELLY Awards. The documentary video chronicles the background and success of a the Save the Dream events in cities across America, in which homeowners with unaffordable mortgages can renegotiate or restructure their home mortgages and keep their homes. The...
More Google Updates Than You Can Shake a Stick At
I don't know if Google is trying to distract you from Bing's launch or if it's just that they're just this huge of a company (or more likely both), but they've released a ton of updates on many of their products this week. Today alone, there are 11 updates. Normally, I like to try and give each one a single post, but I don't have that kind of time! So, here they are in consolidated form: Webmaster Central released a tool called Page Speed which works in conjunction with the Firefox extension Firebug to give suggestions for improving loading time....
Q&A with Miriam Warren, Director of Marketing at Yelp
Miriam Warren of Yelp is speaking at SES Toronto on June 9, on the panel "Follow the Carrot: Cool Mobile Apps" in the Geek Track. Miriam is director of marketing for Yelp, and is based in New York. She was gracious enough to respond to my detailed questions. I have to admit, along with dishing the dirt about the ins and outs of building the Yelp user community, Miriam is possessed of an uncanny instinct for all things Toronto! The pub recommendation of the Village Idiot is inventive and quirky, and the other hotspot recommendations are right on. Plus, her...
Microsoft Teams Up with Tech Partners for Social Networking Enterprise Solution
Microsoft has teamed up with Telligent and speakTECH to form the Social Enterprise Alliance. Via the Alliance comes an enterprise social networking solution for manufacturing and consumer goods sectors companies. The Social Enterprise Solution is designed to be a robust solution, integrated with a company's site instead of than simply copying and pasting code from Google's Friend Connect or Facebook Connect (which leaves a site co-branded with Google or Facebook). "The Social Enterprise Alliance with Telligent and speakTECH demonstrates Microsoft's commitment to recognizing partners that collaborate to offer a higher level of solutions and services offerings that are more relevant...
Omniture Launches Facebook Analytics Solution
Omniture has created a new tool designed to measure the success of Facebook applications. Dubbed App Measurement for Facebook, it utilizes the reporting capabilities of the company's online analytics solution SiteCatalyst. With App Measurement for Facebook, marketers can view users by how many members they have, see which parts of the app are most popular, monitor video sharing, and observe which users invited their friends to the app. Check out more screenshots of the tool at Omniture's Flickr stream. Facebook apps are an increasingly popular way for companies to leverage social media in their online marketing campaigns. "With more than...
Google Friend Connect Launches Recommendation Widget
One of the foundations of the social web is viral content, which is, at its core, based on recommendations. It's why sites like Digg are so popular. That's why it's no surprised to see Google Friend Connect launch a recommendation widget. Via the new widget, sites using Google Friend Connect to enable social networking now have a vehicle to support content recommendation. This can help give the networking on a given site momentum - and act as a magnet to attract new and repeat visitors. Here's a video explaining more:...
Google Friend Connect Adds Translation to Comments Gadget
Google Friend Connect has added a new feature to its comment gadget: Translation. This is designed to help people understand comments written in languages they don't speak or understand. To use the feature, look for the "Translate" link at the bottom left corner of the comments gadget. When you click on it, a list of languages will pop up. Select the language you would like to see the comments in. Related Reading: Google Friend Connect Adds Event Widget Google Friend Connect Launches API...
Google Profiles Offer Some Control and Visibility for Name-Based Results
Google has launched a new feature to allow users to gain some visibility in searches conducted on their name. It's called Google Profiles is similar to many social network profiles. You can add as much or as little information as you wish. At the bottom of name-based searches in the US, links to these public profiles will be shown. The links feature a name, job title and location, which will hopefully help searchers find the person they're looking for. As you can see, also included in those social profile listings are links to the same name-based searches on social networks...
Google Friend Connect Adds Event Widget
Google Friend Connect has added an event widget to help site administrators harness social media for event planning. When the event gadget is set up, visitors can RSVP for the event and view a map, if the event is in a physical location (aka not online). Here's a video to show you how to do it: Google Friend Connect launched last year as an easy way for site owners to add social networking to their websites. Related Reading: Google Friend Connect Launches API Google Adds Friend Connect to Blogger Google Friend Connect Launches "Social Bar" Google Friend Connect Adds Twitter...
Blogger Gets in Microblogging Game with New Mobile and Email Publishing Options
If you have a blog on Blogger, you can now publish via SMS, MMS and Email on your mobile phone. This can essentially turn Blogger into a microblogging platform, if you want it to be. Actually, the great thing about this update is that it allows your Blogger blog to be both traditional blogging mixed with microblogging. Not that you couldn't do that before. But the mobile phone options give it that "on-the-go" feel. To set up SMS/MMS 1. Go to your Blogger dashboard 2. Click the phone icon next to the blog you wish to use the option on...
Think Microblogging is Hip? Try Nanoblogging!
With all the hype surrounding Twitter these days, it was only a matter of time before someone tried to outdo them and come out with an even faster and more efficient method of communciation. Enter Flutter. Flutter claims to be a nanoblogging service. Like all good Web 2.0 companies, they launched out of a Stanford dorm room. Ok, ok this is all a joke. But at the same time, it is a bit of commentary on the current state of social media. Even ABC News was asking last week if anyone is sick of social networking yet? My personal answer...
