Game consoles rising fast as connected-TV platforms

The 2011 edition of Deloitte http://www.deloitte.com/ and Harrison Group’s “Changing the Game: State of the Media Democracy” report shows usage of video game consoles as TV viewing devices rising at a rapid pace, eMarketer reports.

Gary Vaynerchuk: Why you should care about the ‘interest graph’

In this video from The Daily, Gary Vaynerchuk explains the “interest graph” and why the future of social media is not about who you’re friends with, but what their interests are.

Make Every Ad Perform Like a Super Bowl Ad

If you are curious how social media analytics firms are helping brands, Networked Insights, a social media analytics and marketing start-up, has published a free report, tied to the Super Bowl, on how you can use  real-time social data to understand your audiences and deliver them relevant content. Using Super Bowl-related examples, the report offers ideas on [...]

Meet Facebook’s new app partners

Facebook has announced 60 new partners who have created apps in new categories, ranging from travel to entertainment. Users can add the apps to their timeline and share their activities with the friends on Facebook. This is the next step from the apps released a few months ago, such as Spotify and Washington Post Social [...]

Top 10 Twitter Trends of 2011

From  What the Trend, via Mashable - click graphic to enlarge.

Major media sites dominate Facebook’s 2011 most-shared list

November hasn’t even ended yet and the time for 2011 list season has begun! Today Facebook published a list of the 40 most shared articles on Facebook in 2011. Perhaps what’s most interesting about this list is not the headlines themselves but the fact that all of the stories are from major media brands — [...]

Facebook Comments four times as valuable as Likes

Facebook Comments are four times as valuable as Likes, according to a recent study by EdgeRankChecker.

Highlights from the Social TV Summit

SnappyTV, one of the companies presenting at this week’s Social TV Summit, used their technology in real-time to pull together this excellent collection of highlight video clips from the summit.

How mainstream media outlets use Twitter

News organizations are primarily using Twitter to distribute their own headlines, rather than engage with their audiences or curate information from other sources, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and The George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs. This isn’t that surprising to anyone [...]

Wall Street Journal launches Facebook social news app

Discovering and reading the news is now an inherently social experience, and more and more people are getting their news directly through their friends via social media. The Wall Street Journal has launched a new social news sharing application on Facebook that attempts to take advantage of this and do so in a few creative ways.