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What Could Kill Google and Facebook

Webbiquity SMM

Yet we tolerate exactly that type of behavior from leading search and social media sites every day, and even reward them with growing traffic and more of our precious time. A potential Google killer , Facebook killer or even Twitter killer may not do it with superior technology, but simply with a better user experience. And listens.

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This Week in Social Media – 6/26/13

Social Media Marketing

If you have additional links, sources or ideas that might be helpful, I''d encourage you to add some via a comment below or tag me in Google+. And if you’re on Flipboard, you can get these links in the This Week in Social Media Magazine. Is Google betting against the future of the TV commercial? Content Stuck for what to post?

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Every Social Network is Different: Here's What You Need to Know

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. As Chris Garrett explains in his post, if you follow numerous feed bots, you can get the news all the time. The right news will hit the front page of Digg quickly.

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Traffic Rises 350% Year-Over-Year For Social Publisher BuzzFeed

The Realtime Report

Calling itself “the social news and entertainment company,” BuzzFeed demonstrated last month that whatever the publisher’s formula may be, it’s working. Referrals from Twitter, Facebook and Google hit record highs; Facebook is easily in the lead, but referral traffic from Twitter grew 180% in the last year.

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Social Media News Ticker: Facebook Launches FB Newswire, Acquires Motion Tracking App Moves

The Realtime Report

Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Linkedin and Pinterest: Facebook. Any social media updates that we missed? Related Stories Which Social Networks Drive the Most Engaged Referrals?

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This Week in Social Media – 8/7/2013

Social Media Marketing

If you have additional links, sources or ideas that might be helpful, I''d encourage you to add some via a comment below or tag me in Google+. eMarketer''s new report " The Global social Network Landscape: A Country-by-Country Guide to Social Network Usage " takes a look at the differences around the world.

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What’s the Best Social Media Monitoring Tool? It Depends

Webbiquity SMM

A simple tool like Google Alerts would pick up most stray citations. The explosion of social media has led to a corresponding need for more sophisticated monitoring tools that can crawl the hundreds of social networking and bookmarking sites and millions of blogs across the globe. Social Mention.

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