Microsoft Offers Decision Engine, Unveils Bing

Microsoft recently unveiled a new form of search engine, Bing. It seems that Microsoft is trying steer as clearly away as possible from the term ‘search engine’, opting for the term ‘decision engine’. What is a decision engine, and how will Bing compare to larger search engines? Bing will not have an official release until [...]

ClearSpring Reaching New Heights

It seems as though ClearSpring is gaining more and more traction with its innovative social media analytics. ClearSpring is keeping ahead by introducing an array of new functions and offerings, allowing for more options on what aspects of social media campaigns companies are able to track. Most recently, ClearSpring released a new API which lets [...]

ViralHeat Steps up for Social Media Analytics

Social media has been one of the hardest marketing platforms to track and analyze.  Companies have been hard at work on creating tools which attempt to successfully track a social media marketing (SMM) campaign. A new startup, ViralHeat is taking a shot at SMM analytics. TechCrunch writes that ViralHeat is a “social media measurement product [...]

Streamy on Deck to Become Next Big Player

Released as a Beta in 2007 and recently released publicly, Streamy is quickly getting the attention of many users looking for a central hub of news mixed with social capabilities. TechCrunch describes Streamy as “a real-time news reading and sharing site and social activity aggregator”. Streamy is also described as a cross between Google Reader [...]

Google Sees Twitter Gain Traction

Not long ago, very few users knew about Twitter, let alone, Microblogging. These days, many face-to-face conversations and online conversations revolve around Twitter. Businesses and organizations are all gravitating towards Twitter, updating various times a day. So it comes to no surprise that as Twitter gains traction, other resources lose attention. Who would have believed [...]

Meebo and Social Sites Come Together for Increased Traffic

IM provider, Meebo, seems to be gaining speed in the Internet space. Meebo brings together messenger providers such as AIM, Google Talk and Yahoo! messenger (among others)and puts them all on one site. Meebo’s large success has been incorporating their services with those of social sites. Most recently, the product has gone live on MyYearbook [...]

Google News Introduces Video Results

Google News has been criticized for its lack of timeliness. While Google works on getting real-time updates, it has incorporated other features. Most recently, Google News has added a video feature. In efforts to attract more media, Google is adding on links to news clips related to the articles on Google News. These links to [...]

Users Embracing Website Redesigns

User feedback is one of the many advantages in social media. But what happens when users go against what the website designers have brought to them? This has been the ongoing debate for sites like Facebook, which has gone through many site redesigns in the last year. There have been several groups and movements against [...]

Google Attempts Viral Campaign

It seems that with all Google does, some of its efforts have gone unnoticed. One of the larger innovations that had drawn a large buzz around it was the introduction of Google’s browser, Chrome. However, Chrome has not gotten off to the strongest start. Google is taking its browser to the masses by implementing a [...]

Social Search on the Horizon

It seems that the social aspects of the web are reaching all corners of the industry. While recently discussed issues like web browsers gaining traction on social networks, the web is becoming more social in other ways. One of the ways in which the web is getting more social is through social search. What is [...]

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