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Google Adds Inline Annotation to +1 Button
Google announced yesterday that it is rolling out a new feature where faces and names of “friends” (people among your various Google contacts) who have …
Google+ iPhone App Update Adds Custom Circle View in Stream
Google announced today an update to its iPhone app (iTunes link). The headline grabber in the social media press today has been the added ability ...
Virante Orange Juice Blog Added to AllTop Index
Holy Kaw! We got notice just last night that this blog’s social media feed has been picked up to be indexed on Guy Kawasaki’s AllTop.com ...
Google+ Offers New Opportunity for Brands to Do Social Right
I was in the process of adding Mashable staff to a new “Mashable Staff” circle in my Google+ (using “How to Add Mashable Staff to ...
Buffer Helps You Tweet More Without Annoying Your Followers
If you are a Twitter-holic–and especially if you tweet for a brand or organization–you’ve probably found that your tweets and re-tweets come in bursts. You’re ...
Tracking Social Interaction in Google Analytics
You have probably already bought into the idea that social media matters to your business. If you haven’t you may just be living under a ...
Google+ and Google Search Engine: The Real Reason for Google Plus
We are beginning to see confirmation of what I suspected was the real reason Google invested so much time and money into Google+ and now is ...
Why Your Business Should Plan to Be on Google+ (Google Plus)
I had this post all set out in my mind, and then I read “Why Google Has the Hammer to Make Businesses Use Google Plus” ...
Should Your Brand Be on Google+? Yes (But Not Quite Yet)
The social media world is all abuzz this week (forgive me, GOOG, for throwing a “buzz” in there) with the introduction of Google+, Google’s long-awaited ...
How to Increase Your Facebook Page’s Fan Base
In my social media consulting for clients of Virante Inc., by far the most frequent question I get is “how can I increase my number ...
Social Media Tools: Trunk.ly Archives and Indexes Your Shared Links
UPDATE: Since this post was written, Trunk.ly was acquired by AVOS, the new owners of Delicious, and the Trunk.ly service was discontinued. It’s happened to ...
Facebook Introduces the Send Button
Today Facebook significantly upped the ante in its bid to dominate the way people share content on the Internet. The Facebook Like button (as an ...
Facebook iPhone App Update: Check-in to Events, Unfriend on the Go, But Still No Share Button
Yesterday Facebook announced an update to their popular iPhone app. The principle new goodies in this update are: Check-in to events using Facebook Places. See checked-in ...
Google +1 Is Google’s Like Button: Social Sharing of Search Results
Google’s +1 button allows Google search users to “like” both individual search results and AdWords ads in the search results. +1 shows up as an ...