Facebook geo-location service Facebook Places is now live in the United Kingdom. Yesterday Facebook UK Product Manager Michael Sharon had a breakfast briefing at 8AM to go over Facebook Places. This is Facebook’s fourth biggest Facebook Places launch so far. The first in the U.S. and Canada and then Paris and Japan. [TechCrunch]
“As the marketing manager for social media, my job is to use these two words a lot” states the square in a Dilbert comic. Scott Adams has hit it right on the money. Whenever I attend social media meet-ups, people talk mainly about Facebook and Twitter too. [Holy Kaw]
According to comScore, Americans spent more time on Facebook and Yahoo! for the first time in August. Users spent 41.1 billion minutes on Facebook and 39.8 billion minutes on Google. Users spent 37.7 billion minutes on Yahoo!, but Yahoo! edged Google in monthly traffic by a little bit.
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Sanyo announced a new Xacti camera that is perfect for social media video enthusiasts. The Xacti VPC-GH4 is a full HD 1080 video recording camera that supports Facebook, YouTube, and Picasa uploads. You can also send out Twitter notifications through the camera. Still photos are running at 10 megapixels. The retail price of this new camera is $200. It will be available on the shelves later this month. Full press release below.
Tim Tebow is a quarterback that plays for the Denver Broncos in the National Football League. He played college football at Florida and won the Heisman Trophy. Now the prominent athlete has decided to create a social media presence.
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After the Labor Day weekend, Stephen Colbert returned with a new episode to discuss the rally that Glenn Beck had on August 28th called “Restoring Honor.” About 87,000 people attended the rally in Washington D.C. The Reddit community then started an online petition of their own for Stephen Colbert to have his own Truthiness Rally to counteract Glenn Beck’s rally.
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General Motors is working on bringing new content services to OnStar according to a source with BusinessWeek. The new OnStar system will have a connection to Facebook that allows users to automatically convert speech into text. This way you can update your Facebook status while you are on-the-go using OnStar.
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Facebook is testing out a new feature that lets you subscribe to all of the actions of a specific user. This means you won’t miss any notifications whenever a user does an action. Right now Facebook picks and chooses what shows up on your News Feed using an algorithm.
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