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Social media news: Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Wikipedia

September 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment

See on Scoop.it – Social Media Tips and News A lot of great announcements from major social media sites this week, including: – The release of a new metatag for Google news – A new programme for nonprofits on LinkedIn – A new guide for journalists using Twitter – A new tool allowing Wikipedia users [...]

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Can we stop bashing Google+ now?

September 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment

See on Scoop.it – Social Media Tips and News A few days ago, I read an article from a self-proclaimed Social Media Rockstar who was literally bashing Google+. His claim? The platform is fake because only marketers use it. His conclusion? G+ is hopeless, and he prefers losing clients rather than reconsidering his position. Writing [...]

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The Collage Tells The Story and The Curator Skillset That’s Yet To Come

June 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment

See on Scoop.it – Digital Marketing and Social Business Robin Good: Krishna Bharat, creator of Google News and now Principle Scientist at Google, spoke at the News World Summit in Bangalore, India.   His focus was on the future of news and on the impotance of curation as well as on what the news will look [...]

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Google News Gets Deeper Ties to Google+

May 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment

See on Scoop.it – All things Google+ Google’s news aggregator just got a makeover, adding conversations from Google+ about major news stories. See on mashable.com

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DON’T PANIC! Facebook Places And Deals Live On

September 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards In addition to the standard user complaints following any change to the site, we’ve seen loads of confusion over Facebook’s latest changes to places and deals. Allow us to set the record straight: Neither is completely disappearing!The changes to the news feed, privacy settings and the new location tagging represent an [...]

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News360 2.0 Personalizes News Aggregation

August 22, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Via Scoop.it – Content Curation, Social Media and Beyond I just ran across this post from August 10th, I didn’t see this before and maybe some of you didn’t.  The new personalization layer in News360 is still automated, but it harnesses the user’s own human qualities. Here’s an intro:   “News360, a news reader app [...]

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Google News: Humans Beat Robots, at Last!

August 15, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Via Scoop.it – Content Curation, Social Media and Beyond Lots of people might know about this, some do not, no matter what, it’s still good to see it in print.  Human curation works and will play a significant role on the web. Excerpt:   After almost a decade, Google is somewhat sheepishly admitting that humans [...]

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Google News Brings Editor’s Picks To Home Page

August 5, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards More than a year after the experiment began, Google News has brought Editor’s Picks to the home page of its US site– marking the first real human-curated… content on what Google has proudly said was always a completely algorithmic way of presenting news. It could also be seen as something of [...]

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Google News Launches Real-Time News Curation With Humans

July 26, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Via Scoop.it – Real-Time News Curation Late this afternoon, Google News rolled out a new experiment: Editors’ Picks. Starting today, a small percentage of Google News users will find a new box of content with that label, curated not by Google’s news algorithm, but by real live human news editors at partner news organizations. Here’s [...]

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Beligian Newspapers Claim Retaliation By Google After Copyright Victory

July 17, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Perhaps the lesson is: be careful what you sue for. The French and German-language Belgian newspaper consortium that successfully sued Google for copyright infringement got more than it bargained for this week. The newspapers’ content has been removed not only from Google News (as desired) but the entire Google index. Now [...]

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