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Facebook Open Graph: Washington Post and Future of Social News

Laurel Papworth

Though of course, it does appear on Facebook as well (on the wall, “the Face of Social News comment I made on Washington Post): Forget my leaving a Digital Footprint on the ‘net – more like Digital Hobnail Boots Wonder what Murdoch and his paywalls thinks of all these changes, hmm?

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Social Media Newsroom- Intel debuts social news hub

Proactive Report

Intel debuted their social media newsroom last month after eight months of development. It has all the features one would expect in a social news hub: commenting. SMR (social media releases). discussion areas. special access areas. Facebook and Twitter plug-ins. SEO friendly attributes.

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How Embedded Social News Grew My Content, Traffic, and Engagement, and Saves Me Time [Case Study]

ProBlogger

As creator of GSTV, I was looking for a social news platform that could deliver top guitar content from across the Web directly to our blog and allow users to participate on a social level. Our research led us to new social platform, ROCKZi. A social news platform. Have you tried ROCKZi?

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Traffic Rises 350% Year-Over-Year For Social Publisher BuzzFeed

The Realtime Report

Calling itself “the social news and entertainment company,” BuzzFeed demonstrated last month that whatever the publisher’s formula may be, it’s working. Comments I''m not too sure about Buzzfeed. What’s your take? I read in a couple of articles.

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Social Media News Ticker: Facebook Launches FB Newswire, Acquires Motion Tracking App Moves

The Realtime Report

Facebook launches a newswire so it can help the media — while it competes with them - the FB Newswire is designed to give media outlets and journalists a realtime feed of news-worthy content; the service debuted on Thursday and is partially powered by social news verification service Storyful (GigaOM).

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Why Reddit Continues to be Relevant

Idaconcpts

Way back in August 2010, the social news website Digg.com updated to version 4 – more or less sealing its doom. Comments sections – which can also be voted on – encourage interaction, discussion, and debate. So why did these Digg users embrace Reddit as their new social news website home? Reddit is (was?)

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Publisher Survey: Reddit Traffic Way Up, Digg Way Down

Adam Sherk

Has this translated into a significant change in social news referrals for publishers? I intentionally chose sites from several different publishers and focused on those with content that is a reasonably good fit for social news sites. billion pageviews in December), an impressive feat.

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