Is it Time for Apple to Get Social?

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Thursday, January 19, 2012
SOCIAL MEDIA TOP STORIES Orkut App Finally Arrives for iPhone, iPad Facebook Announces Tight Integration of 60 Apps to Timeline, More on the Way Pinterest Fans Rejoice: Facebook Adds Pinterest Plus 59 New Apps ALL STORIES SOCIAL MEDIA Is it Time for Apple to Get Social? 1:16:07 PM Jennifer Burnham Over the past decade, many have pondered Apple's closed-door, top-down culture, and now with the passing of its CEO, Steve Jobs, some speculate whether that culture will continue. In the context of the meteoric growth of social platforms like... Social Media Campaign Finds Tech Entrepreneur a Bone Marrow Donor 12:55:46 PM Joann Pan Amit Gupta, founder of photo-resource Photojojo and telecommuters social network Jelly, successfully found his perfect bone marrow match through an online-supported search that included several social media campaigns coordinated by friends. The... Foursquare Will Bring 250,000 Restaurant Menus to Your Phone 12:32:54 PM Joann Pan Check-in enthusiasts can embrace creative eating (read: eat something other than lunchtime burritos) thanks to a new integration of SinglePlatform to the Foursquare mobile app and Foursquare Explore, the location service's desktop app.... Google+ Now Lets You Share Straight From Search Results 12:22:30 PM Peter Pachal Google just beefed up the search capabilities on Google+ to allow users to start conversations directly from search results. The change makes it easier for Plusers to join or start discussions on specific topics. For example, if you were to... Orkut App Finally Arrives for iPhone, iPad 10:22:15 AM Samantha Murphy Popular Brazilian-based social networking site Orkut has finally gotten its own app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The free app for Orkut - a site launched by Google in 2004 which now has 66 million active members - allows users to post... SOPA Explodes on Twitter, Generates 2.4 Million Tweets 9:00:46 AM Stan Schroeder More than 2.4 million SOPA-related tweets were sent between 12 a.m. and 4 p.m. ET Wednesday, Twitter announced. The top five terms that day were SOPA, Stop SOPA, PIPA, Tell Congress and #factswithoutwikipedia. The surge of tweets were related to... Pinterest Fans Rejoice: Facebook Adds Pinterest Plus 59 New Apps Wednesday, January 18, 2012 10:22 PM Kate Freeman Your Facebook news feed is about to become a bit more crowded. Facebook's big announcement on Wednesday evening was the unveiling of 60 new apps that will function with Facebook and let users share more of their lives on the social networking... 5 Fun Ways to Find New Videos on YouTube Wednesday, January 18, 2012 9:40 PM Amy-Mae Elliott With nearly eight years' worth of content uploaded every single day, it can be hard to cut through the crud to find great content on YouTube. That's why we've found five native tools that will help you discover great new clips -- from topical... Facebook Announces Tight Integration of 60 Apps to Timeline, More on the Way Wednesday, January 18, 2012 9:05 PM Charlie White In a press event in San Francisco, Facebook Director of Platform Products Carl Sjogreen announced further extension of the Open Graph, which will now allow developers to build a variety of apps that let users add anything they want directly to... Rob Lowe Tweets QB Manning Will Retire, Ignites Hysteria Wednesday, January 18, 2012 8:39 PM Sam Laird Actor Rob Lowe apparently failed in an unexpected bid to break major sports news on Wednesday when he tweeted that legendary NFL quarterback Peyton Manning plans to retire. But Lowe's tip from, in his words, "my people" did set off a minor bout...		TOP STORIES TODAY Foursquare Will Bring 250,000 Restaurant Menus to Your Phone SOPA Explodes on Twitter, Generates 2.4 Million Tweets Google+ Now Lets You Share Straight From Search Results Is it Time for Apple to Get Social? Social Media Campaign Finds Tech Entrepreneur a Bone Marrow Donor TOP TOPICS Trending 3,633 followers US 532 followers US & World 239 followers Tech 6,675 followers US & World 73 followers Business 29,881 followers Politics 1,072 followers PIPA 40 followers Twitter 47,596 followers World 375 followers
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