Watch for a beefier processor, sleeker display, and perhaps a smaller sibling -- but when? Via Gladys Pintado 
Beijing authorities ordered internet microblogs to require users to register with their real names, a tightening of rules aimed at controlling China's rapidly growing social networks. 
STRATEGY:HAVE YOU considered that one in four Irish people will post online about bad customer service? According to the 2010 Accenture Global Consumer Study, people are more than twice as likely to buy (or not) based on a friend’s recommendation. 
Image via Wikipedia A couple of weeks back I asked who are the top ten social media influencers and shared a list that I drew up using PeekYou's analytics tools. 
Just imagine of Santa had to deal with Social media in the workplace. What might he be saying? ![How to Make Friends and Influence People in Social Media [Infographic] | Peak Sales Recruiting | Media Tapper | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/PbUHxk7VUqYDbrXOfdzAjjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
Now more than ever, sales and marketing are tied at the hip, with marketing driving leads and the sales function, particularly in small companies, engaging customers online. 
We all know about the high profile Google+ users such as Mark Zuckerberg or Sergey Brin, but what about the average user? We take a look at the demographics of Google+ and just how active they are. (INFOGRAPHICS) Via Morten Myrstad 
A top UK judge is to make it easier for journalists to use Twitter in court, with the press no longer required to seek permission to live-tweet during court cases. Via Luca Baptista 
Top 10 Social Media Blogs 2012: Please nominate your favorite blog here for our third annual Top 10 Social Media Blogs contest. 
Each year at this time, I look forward and predict trends in social media for the coming year. But first, I look back at my predictions from last year. How'd I do? Not bad. 
Communication between people has been the quintessential attribute of humanity since civilization began. It unites us as a species. 
At the rate it’s growing, we’re going to have a Fantasy Klout league and people will go head to head weekly. (http://t.co/k6fxVWPO ^JF Do you obsess over your Klout Score? 
Google Currents is a new tablet app that launched today. It makes reading of syndicated web content easier, faster and more enjoyable than almost any other interface you can imagine. It's like Flipboard but for RSS feeds. |
Dell’s 10-inch Mini netbooks have disappeared from sale online, and shoppers are instead offered the likes of an Inspiron or a Latitude. Via Gladys Pintado 
For a long time now, Spotify has had its own Radio experience, but, to be honest, it hasn't been very good. 
Journalists, think tanks, spies and governments need to take their expertise online. 
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Last week, in writing about the top social media influencers I was struck by the sheer scale of connectivity that leading influencers create for themselves. 
The social networks including Facebook and Twitter are increasing the velocity and the virality of information and global brand discovery. Including social sharing buttons can significantly increase traffic to blogs and websites. 
Terametric delivers social media measurement and optimization solutions that empower marketing executives to maximize the return on their marketing investments. 
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales wants to blank out all pages of the online encyclopedia to oppose the pending SOPA anti-piracy bill in the US. Via Luca Baptista 
Gianluca Fiorelli writes on YOUMoz/SEOMoz: "must admit that lately Google is the cause of my headaches.
No, not just because it decided I was not going to be not provided with useful information about my sites.
And neither because it is changing practically every tool I got used since my first days as an SEO (Google Analytics, Webmaster Tools, Gmail…).
And, honestly, not only because it released a ravenous Panda.
No, the real question that is causing my headaches is: What the hell does Google want to go with all these changes?"
And that's a damn good question indeed, to which he answer with a fabulous guide to review and pinpoint what are the key elements of an up-to-date SEO strategy that fully includes Google's recent updates and changes:
"From the point of view that Google has of User, that means that a site to rank:
1) must be fast;
2) must have useful content and related to what it pretends to be about;
3) must be presented to Google so that it can understand the best it can what it is about."
...and then he goes into detail into each one of these elements to explain how and why Google strategy is deeply changing.
This sentence sums up his research and analysis:
"As we can see, Google is not trying to rely only on the link graph, as it is quite easy to game, but it is not simply adding the social signals to the link graph, because they too can be gamed.
What Google is doing is creating and refining a new graph that see cooperating Link graph, Social graph and Trust graph and which is possibly harder to game.
Because it can be gamed still, but – hopefully – needing so many efforts that it may become not-viable as a practice."
Recommended. 8/10
Read the full article: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/wake-up-seos-the-new-google-is-here Via Robin Good 
LinkedIn, the social networking site for people with business cards, has released its list of the year's most overused professional buzzwords, culled from the profiles of its 135 million members. 
We perceive past, present and future in different ways, and somehow also tend to relate to people that think just as we do. This applies in the real life as well as in the circleverse of Google+. 
Some of you might remember the old anti-drug campaign that showed your brain on drugs. Today's social graphic pokes fun at that image. Any questions? 
In a recent post on my blog I listed "28 Reasons Why The CEO Is Afraid Of Social Media" which received comments from around the world from consultants and advocates within companies, about their experiences and the feedback they had received from ... |
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