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Texas Tech Head Coach Outlaws Twitter from Team
Unless you are a college football fan (hang in there social media geeks, we’ll get to your stuff soon enough ) you…
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Google Hot Trends Come to Results Pages
Google has released an extension of its Hot Trends feature, which brings some of its components to the results page when a user searches for one of the "hot trends." Now when a user's query matches one of the top 100 trends (or fastest-rising search terms), Google will show them a graph and further information about how popular the query is.
Pizza Hut Aims to Feed Hungry Through Twitter
Pizza Hut, a brand that has been in social media-related news in the past when they sought a Twittering intern, has now launched a campaign combining social media marketing with philanthropy.
Washington Post Cracks Down On Journalists’ Social Media Activities
What is probably most ironic about the story that you are about to read is the fact that an journalistic icon, the Washington Post, is trying to maintain control of its staff while it can’t even keep an internal memo from going public. Having made that observation from the start you can see that this is not going to get any better for them.
Online Video Viewing Sees New High in August
In August, online video reached a record high, with over 25 billion videos watched during the month, according to data from comScore. A pretty good chunk of these were watched via Google sites (hardly surprising, considering the enormous popularity of YouTube). Google sites accounted for over 10 billion videos watched in August.
YouTube Insight, Content ID Come Together
YouTube's done a decent job of winning over content creators and rights holders, and its Content ID system, which lets them identify and profit from user-uploaded clips, has been a big part of that. Content ID may become an even more popular feature, too, now that a quirk has been ironed out.
