http://blog.iclimber.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:24:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Facebook is continuing to influence entertainment, as proven by the latest news from the New York Daily News. A campaign launched on Facebook to convince “Saturday Night Live” producers to have Betty White on the show has apparently been successful, as the 88-year-old actress confirmed that she will be appearing ... http://blog.iclimber.com/facebook-snl-campaign-for-betty-white-pays-off/ Access to social media sites via smartphones has increased 8.3 points in the past year, from 22.5 percent in January 2009 to 30.8 percent in January 2010, according to recent data from comScore. Access to Facebook via mobile browser increased 112 percent in the same time frame, while Twitter experienced ... http://blog.iclimber.com/social-media-access-via-mobile-browser-sees-triple-digits/ “American Idol” producers have pulled the plug on individual contestant Twitter and Facebook pages. According to the Los Angeles Times, they have all been consolidated into one shared social media page used by all of the contestants. Followers of individual contestants on Twitter received the following message on Wednesday night as ... http://blog.iclimber.com/%e2%80%9camerican-idol%e2%80%9d-pulls-plug-on-twitter-facebook-pages/ If you have ever been invited to a company meeting and wondered the title, role and background of the other attendees, now you can find out. LinkedIn announced yesterday that it has integrated its services with Tungle.me, a calendaring application company, making it easy for meeting attendees to view the ... http://blog.iclimber.com/linkedin-partners-with-calendar-application/ GigaOm.com reports that CoTweet, a Twitter management tool used by major companies like McDonald’s, Microsoft, Ford, Dell and Pepsi, has been purchased by email marketer Exact Target for an undisclosed sum. This move could create an interesting intersection of social media and traditional email-based marketing and might give some clues ... http://blog.iclimber.com/email-marketing-company-exact-target-acquires-cotweet/ CNN reports that U.S. military personnel are now allowed tweet. According to the article, the Pentagon announced Friday that military personnel can use social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube “from non-classified government computers as long as the activity does not compromise operational security or involve prohibited activities ... http://blog.iclimber.com/us-military-can-now-use-social-media/ Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, whose reputation for speaking his mind has gotten him into trouble before, now has a new platform to share his thoughts with the world. The Chicago Tribune reports that Guillen has started to use Twitter, a move that has already drawn concern from team ... http://blog.iclimber.com/white-sox-manager-guillen-joins-twitterverse/ Yahoo! today announced a partnership with Twitter to integrate the micro-blogging service’s real-time tweets in Yahoo!’s global network. The partnership will allow people to access their personal Twitter feeds across various Yahoo! properties including the homepage and Yahoo! Mail; update their Twitter status and share content from Yahoo! in their ... http://blog.iclimber.com/yahoo-announces-twitter-deal/ An email claiming that Facebook users will soon have to pay to play the popular game Farmville is a hoax, according to Caroline McCarthy at CNET. A fan site had posted an email that a reader said had come from Farmville parent company Zynga, claiming that the game was moving ... http://blog.iclimber.com/farmville-monthly-subscription-a-hoax/ Twitter announced today that its micro-blogging service experiences 50 million tweets per day (TPD), an increase of 1,400 percent from 35 million TPD in 2009. In an effort to track the company’s growth over the past few years, the Twitter analytics team has posted a TPD report on the ... http://blog.iclimber.com/50-million-tweets-per-day/