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Social Media Briefs: Self-Censored Posts, Customized Vine URLs
In the last week before Christmas, social media proved there's no rest for the weary. Vine users can customize their URLs, while Facebook tests out video ads in your news feeds. Facebook Wants to Understand You You knew that Facebook was watching you, but did you know it seriously
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Got Jobs? Top 15 U.S. Cities for Social Media
Two years ago we examined the blurred lines that existed in job postings for social media managers and community managers. Now, a recent survey shows that social media is declining as a general job title as roles get more specialized to specific platforms. Social Media, Indeed The folks at
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YouTube Creators Unleash MixBit for Editing Short Clips into Movies
Move over, Vine. The creators of YouTube have created an app for people to collectively edit their own or other people’s videos into one shareable movie. The free iOS app, called MixBit, became available in Apple's App Store this week, and will soon be followed by an Android version and
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Social Media Briefs: IFTTT for iPhone, Facebook Says No More Questions
Now that it's officially summer, social media updates get more subtle, but continue to pack a punch. If This Then iPhone App One of our favorite social media services, IFTTT, has released an iPhone app. Users can unlock three new Channels for iPhone: Contacts, Photos, and Reminders, as well as
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Instagram Video + Photo Posts Can Now Be Embedded
Even though it’s mainly known as a photo -- and more recently, video -- sharing site, Instagram has been making a few changes to improve its functionality, with the most recent update being that posts can now be embedded. More Social, More Integrated While Instagram has become a popular content sharing tool, it was limited
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Yahoo Acquisitions Continue With A Qwiki for $50 Million
Yahoo continues to throw its money around to attract features and talent to the company. This time adding a short-video service, in response to the success of Vine and Instagram. Keep Calm and Carry On Unlike some recent Yahoo (and other) acquisitions, where the app or service has been discontinued
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Social Media Briefs: Tools for Twitter Chats, Video & Customer Service
Instagram's video announcement was the big news this week, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t anything else social media related to talk about. Twubs is Twitter Compliant You may have noticed that we’ve been using Twubs for our monthly Tweet Jams. This week, the 5-year-old hashtag platform that aggregates
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Can Mobile Apps Eliminate the Need for Blogging?
You may have noticed an interesting trend recently. As the popularity of visually engaging sites such as Pinterest and Instagram rise, and many mobile apps with user-generated content continue to launch, users are choosing to share on these sites rather than creating blogs.
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Twitter's Vine Video App Proves a Useful News, Ad + Creative Outlet
Vine, the video sharing app from Twitter that looks to be the Instagram of video, is quickly finding relevancy in the news, advertising and creative industries And why shouldn't it? Six second videos have already become massively popular in the form of GIFs, so Vine has taken the idea and
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Facebook Not Being So Friendly, Blocks Yandex, Voxer and Vine
Is 2013 the year social media goes to war? We've already seen Twitter disrupting Facebook's Instagram app integration, now Facebook is blocking access from Twitter's newly-launched Vine app and other services to further muddy the social scene.
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Twitter Adds Short Video Clips With Vine iOS App
Looking to expand on brief messages and snapshots, a new iOS app allows users to create short, six second, looping clips ideal for those candid camera moments to share with your Twitter friends.
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Microsoft Vine: Social Networking Now Saves Lives
Pretend for a minute that you’re not already up to your ears in social networks and take a look at a new offering from Microsoft (news, site ).
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