Google Unveils Social Search Beta

Last year, Google announced it would be incorporating the social web into search. Users can incorporate their social connections into search. For instance, if you wanted to search a product review within social search, you could find your friend’s latest review of that product, as well as what experts are saying. The [...]

SalesForce Gets Social

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) site, Salesforce.com, is integrating new features into its tool that will help users integrate social aspects into their accounts. Salesforce is offering the capability to integrate Facebook and Twitter into its sales and customer support offerings. This will take place within Salesforce’s application, Salesforce Chatter, which ReadWriteWeb describes as [...]

Social Search Comes to Google

Social media continues to make waves as search is placing more and more emphasis on the social aspects of the web. Last week Microsoft announced partnerships with Facebook and Twitter, only to have Google make the same announcement hours later. Now, Google is expanding its use of search by announcing the launch of social search. [...]

Blip.tv Partners with Mainstream Media and Social Web

Blip.tv, which is a video startup company made many announcements today. The site, which is known for its emphasis on independent television, has partnered with several big name sites. ReadWriteWeb states, “Thanks to all the new partnerships announced, including those with YouTube, Vimeo, Roku, and NBC, content creators can send their videos straight to [...]

The Importance of a User Review

While social media continues to grow, and more and more companies are seeing the importance of having an online presence, there is a different medium for companies to capitalize on—the user review. User reviews are shaping the way in which companies run their businesses. Adage reports that, “The feedback is altering not just how [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]