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Gogobot, a Facebook travel app that just launched in January 2012 announced on Wednesday that it has passed the 1 million registered users mark. Gogobot officially launched in private beta 18 months ago but came out of beta in January. The company now claims that a new users signs up for the program every 15 [...]..

Details: http://www.blogherald.com/2012/05/16/facebook-app-gogobot-attracts-1-million-users/

Foursquare users checking in with Facebook permissions synced to their accounts will now find their check-ins plotted across their Facebook Timeline maps thanks to deeper integration announced by the location based service on Tuesday. Until this point in time only Facebook check-ins and Instagram geo-tagging options were plotted on the Facebook Timeline maps. Using the [...]..

Details: http://www.blogherald.com/2012/05/15/foursquare-check-ins-now-integrated-with-facebook-timeline-map/

Before the days of LinkedIn and the Facebook app Branch Out recruiters looking for employees had to rely on resume websites (Monster, CareerBuilder), emailed resumes from interested parties and even headhunting agencies that specialized in finding resumes online. Now thanks to digital recruiting platforms employers can quickly and efficiently find potential employees with the skills they [...]..

Details: http://www.blogherald.com/2012/05/14/social-recruiting-on-the-web-a-hiring-infographic/

The Google+ App for iPhone was updated on Thursday and with its upgrade comes larger profile images, easier photo and video browsing and new visual cues that makes looking for options far more simplistic. In a blog post Google says the app has been upgrade to “focus on the most personal of personal computers: your [...]..

Details: http://www.blogherald.com/2012/05/10/google-for-iphone-gets-updated-adds-new-features/

Just one week after announcing its organ donor program Facebook is once again jumping into the “public good” sector with a new crisis tool meant to flag the profiles of military personnel when they post content deemed to be harmful or suicidal. The new tool is an extension of the suicide prevention program Facebook launched [...]..

Details: http://www.blogherald.com/2012/05/09/facebook-launches-crisis-tool-to-combat-military-depression-and-suicide/

Social video sharing app Viddy wants to be the Instagram of mobile video sharing and the company is on its way to reaching that goal after attracting more than 26 million users and a market valuation of $200 million. A recent report by The Wall Street Journal has also found that Viddy is currently signing up 1 [...]..

Details: http://www.blogherald.com/2012/05/08/viddy-reaches-26-million-users-receives-200-million-valuation/

In May 2011 LinkedIn launched its IPO among plenty of buzz and questions from investors over the networks ability to turn a profit as a social media network, fast forwards to Q1, 2012 and LinkedIn may be proving the viability of such networks.  Sales at the network for the quarter reached $188.5 million, $10 million [...]..

Details: http://www.blogherald.com/2012/05/07/linkedin-releases-q1-2012-earnings-report-has-best-quarter-ever/

As most Blog Herald readers probably know, I am a full-time guest blogger. I have at present written approximately 440 guest articles that have been scattered over almost 130 different blogs. Now I am not here to brag about how great this is—if it was your full-time job, you would be in the exact same [...]..

Details: http://www.blogherald.com/2012/05/07/my-top-15-favorite-places-to-submit-a-guest-article/

Google News on Friday added some new upgrades to its platform including larger thumbnail photos that dynamically expand when stories are selected and the ability to more robustly share information via Google+. Speaking about the company’s new Google+ integration a representative for Google wrote in a blog post: “Many news stories inspire vibrant discussions on Google+, [...]..

Details: http://www.blogherald.com/2012/05/04/google-news-buddies-up-to-google-with-further-integration/

It seems like everyone these days loves the ability to Tumblr to attract new readers but Google+ might not be included in that group, especially after Star Trek actor and geek superstar Wil Wheaton took to his Tumblr account on Thursday to flip out on Google+ over a forced registration request while watching a YouTube video. In [...]..

Details: http://www.blogherald.com/2012/05/03/wil-wheaton-uses-tumblr-to-go-on-google-attack-rant/

Foursquare wants to keep its location-based service fresh by offering the most up to date POI (points-of-interest) data possible and in an attempt to ensure those POI numbers keep rolling in the company on Wednesday announced a new verification process for businesses that makes it easier for them to hop on the company’s system and [...]..

Details: http://www.blogherald.com/2012/05/02/foursquare-now-offering-fast-track-verification-for-business-pages/

Facebook on Tuesday rolled out an update to its Facebook Timeline setup that allows users to list whether or not they are an organ donor. The move is meant to help more than 114,000 people in the Unite States and millions of others around the world who are waiting for transplants for everything from heart [...]..

Details: http://www.blogherald.com/2012/05/01/facebook-timeline-now-offers-organ-donor-option/

LinkedIn isn’t just a big publicly traded social network in the United States, it’s one of the fastest growing internet company’s in India, growing by more than 300% in the last three years. According to recent numbers from company CEO Jeff Weiner, 14 million people in India use LinkedIn with the company excited to target [...]..

Details: http://www.blogherald.com/2012/04/30/linkedin-is-huge-in-india/

It’s not every day that a mobile app is acquired by a social media giant for a cool one billion dollars- which explains why Instagram’s acquisition by Facebook was one of the hottest topics a few weeks ago. Infographic Labs, which previously created an infographic on the Rise of Instagram, tracks Instagram’s journey to $1 [...]..

Details: http://www.blogherald.com/2012/04/30/how-instagram-got-to-1-billion-infographic/

Pinterest is still in closed beta but that hasn’t stopped the relatively new social network from racking up 4 million unique visitors a day with 2.3 billion pageviews. In celebration of the new social network darlings achioevements the team at Tamba has created an infographic that highlights the increased amount of interested in the Pinterest system. Launched [...]..

Details: http://www.blogherald.com/2012/04/30/pinterest-interest-skyrockets-soars-over-2-3-billion-pageviews-infographic/

The landscape for major league sports is changing, not in board rooms and locker rooms but rather online. As social media has become more prevalent players are taking to social media networks like Facebook and Twitter in droves and their fans are following right around, creating a fast acting, viral system of support and camaraderie [...]..

Details: http://www.blogherald.com/2012/04/27/sports-and-social-media-a-changing-landscape-of-fanatical-fans-infographic/

As a full-time guest blogger, I sometimes feel like I’ve seen it all—fake names, odd responses, rude comments, the absent-minded who forgot who I was—but the majority are, of course, normal. However, editors asking me, the writer, to pay to put my content on their site has been a growing trend. Quite frankly, I found [...]..

Details: http://www.blogherald.com/2012/04/27/should-a-blogger-pay-to-post-content-on-a-website/

Social network LinkedIn on Friday rolled out a new iPad app which provides LinkedIn users with the ability to take advantage of the new iPad’s “retina display” while accessing most major functions found on the company’s website. Currently serving more than 150 million users per month users formerly had to download the iPhone version of [...]..

Details: http://www.blogherald.com/2012/04/26/linkedin-ipad-app-brings-full-force-of-business-network-to-the-masses/

Facebook is attempting to make its community safer for 901 million active users and to reach that goal the company announced on Wednesday that it would block malicious URLs, spam messages, phishing attempts and viruses. The company also announced that it has partnered with various virus protection firms including Microsoft, McAfee, TrendMicro, Sophos, and Symantec. In [...]..

Details: http://www.blogherald.com/2012/04/25/facebook-offering-free-anti-virus-trails-blacklists-bad-urls/

Facebook’s reliance on social gaming company Zynga to drive in massive revenue for the company has actually decreased since 2011 with the company reporting that the social gaming platform made up just 15% of Facebook’s revenue in Q1 2012 compared to 19% in 2011. Facebook receives 30% of the revenue Zynga draws from the social [...]..

Details: http://www.blogherald.com/2012/04/24/zynga-made-up-15-of-facebook-revenue-in-q1-2012/

In some parts of the world mobile data networks, wi-fi and other basic internet connections are not readily available, even when carrier towers are within reach, it is for that reason that the Google India Blog announced on Monday that users in various parts  of the world can now begin updating their Google+ status using SMS (text [...]..

Details: http://www.blogherald.com/2012/04/23/google-status-updates-with-sms-now-available-in-africa-middle-east-and-some-asian-countries/

Facebook professional growth app BranchOut has caught on with Facebook users at a rate of 3 new users per second and now in celebration of the company’s 25 million users milestone the company has released an official infographic that celebrates BranchOut’s growth and its recent $25 million in Series C financing ($49 million to date). [...]..

Details: http://www.blogherald.com/2012/04/20/branchout-facebook-app-reaches-25-million-users-raises-25-million-infographic/

In 2010 Tumblr CEO David Karp told the Los Angeles Times that his company was “pretty opposed to advertising. It really turns our stomachs.” Fast forward to 2012 and a system that receives more than four and a half billion pageviews per week and that stomach turning attitude seems to have disappeared. Speaking at the Ad Age Digital [...]..

Details: http://www.blogherald.com/2012/04/19/tumblr-to-add-dashboard-ads-into-the-mix/

Social coupon service Groupon has acquired Ditto which specialized in connecting users with other local customers interested in the same type of food and entertainment options. At this time it appears that Groupon purchased the company as part of a “talent acquisition” and will shut down the company’s iPhone app. The possibility of integrating Ditto [...]..

Details: http://www.blogherald.com/2012/04/18/groupon-acquires-location-based-services-provider-ditto-me/

While Foursquare has never quite had the hold on most social users daily routines as Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, it is the largest location based service in the world and on Monday the company celebrated that fact by announcing 20 million users and more than 2 billion check-ins. The New York-based company held [...]..

Details: http://www.blogherald.com/2012/04/17/foursquare-celebrates-20-million-users-2-billion-check-ins-video/