If you’re an online marketer and your Facebook application just isn’t generating much fan engagement, Vitrue’s powerful ‘Wall Apps’ tool just may be what you need. Wall Apps is a new feature that’s part of Vitrue’s existing SRM (Social Relationship Manager) software suite.
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his evening LifeStreet Media has announced the acquisition of Social Cash’s ad network business, one of the leading monetization providers for application developers. In an effort build up the company’s position as “the largest social media ad network”, the company has decided to acquire all the assets of SocialCash. Given that it’s an asset acquisition, Social Cash will continue to operate as an independent company as they ramp up for a new product offering later this year.
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While Australians are reeling from the recent deaths of an 8 year-old girl and a 12 year-old boy, virtual lynch mobs are forming on Facebook and other social media sites, calling for the death of one of the accused killers. Unfortunately, if justice is to take its course, such social media actions might hinder criminal cases or result in mistrials.
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Consumers spent more than five and a half hours on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter in Dec, 2009, according to a report by Nielsen. The amount of time spent on social media sites has increased by 82% from the same time last year, when users only spent three hours on social media sites each day.
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A growing number of young men in UK prefer checking emails and browsing through social media sites like Facebook over sex, according to a new study conducted in UK by Sparkler for Microsoft Advertising.
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Twitter users are now now sending 50 million tweets per day, which translates to an average of 600 tweets per second, according to new stats released Twitter.

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The home insurance premiums of Facebook and Twitter users could be raised by as much as 10%, according to a recent report. Social media and location aware services such as Facebook, Twitter, Buzz, Foursquare, Gowalla and others can alert criminals when a user is at a specific spot and not at their home.
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Banks and other financial organizations are collecting and archiving information such as status updates that users post on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, according to a recent ABC News article.
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Richard Garriot, creator of the famous Ultima series, has started a new social games company called Portalarium. Portalarium will be creating a social games platform that will allow games to increase their production quality and be easily publishable to various social networks. The company’s focus is on publishing higher-than-Flash quality games, and Portalarium also has interests in “open learning, open health, open science/environment, open government and more”.
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TweetPhoto, the real-time social web photo sharing platform, just announced numerous options for developers, as well a new “link account” feature that will improve user experience. Developers now have the option of client libraries for Objective-C, Java, or .Net, in addition to the previous PHP and Python options. As well, user authentication support has been added for Twitter OAuth and Facebook Connect.
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