Twitter Vine launched earlier this year, giving Twitter users the ability to capture six seconds of mobile video and share on Twitter through its app for iPhone and iPod touch (with a newly released Android app).
Also added: in-app ad targeting by time of day, location, device, demographics, interests, topics, and remarketing. Google Crashes Facebook Home’s Easy Updating Party, Now Requires All Play Apps To Be Updated Through The Play Store – TechCrunch"An...
And, with the immersive imagery of our virtually endless newsfeed, the new Yahoo app has both great technology and beautiful design front and center. Yahoo has launched an iPhone app using Summly's technology less than a month after buying the firm.
Now playing: Twitter #music – Twitter BlogTwitter teams up with iTunes, Spotify, and Rdio for launch of new music discovery app. Android PoliceGoogle Glass companion app has some interesting finds. Windows 8 App Refresh – Bing Search BlogBing News...
This comes soon after the Comscore/Neustar/15Miles study that showed Facebook has the second largest app usage for local search, behind only Google. We've been investing to have SMBs exposed, but the local search product is still under development...
This gives your app a fixed width of 760 pixels. If you have a custom app for fans, the favicon on the side of their Newsfeed will display at just 16 x 16 pixels. Larger images will display from the center of the image, meaning some of the edges...
The report of growth for mobile social advertising revenue comes as Facebook begins to roll out its Facebook Home app. The Android software allows users to skin their smartphone with a Facebook overlay that puts social networking front and center.
LinkedIn buys Pulse for $90M as its publishing ambitions take shape – VentureBeatPulse, a news reader app, has 30 million users and aggregates updates from social networks and 750 news publications. Google Updates Search iOS App With Minor Bug...
Fans are invited to submit images of Australia via the Photoboard app on Facebook. In order to facilitate story-telling, Tourism Australia allows you to find places in Australia that your friends have visited using the Discover app on Facebook.
Quick stats about local mobile use:
percent of mobile search is local.percent of local searches result in purchases.percent of smartphone shoppers use a GPS/mapping app to find a retail location. Proximity of address to city center (centroid)
Google search has technical issues listing iTunes app pages – CNET App rankings suffered as Google had some technical issues fetching iTunes pages. A redesigned resource center for businesses offers basic and advanced tips on promotion and making...
Business that don’t believe their financial services product set aligns well to mobile behaviors (completing a mortgage app on a phone), and therefore avoid prioritization of their mobile strategy. This includes the call center, and branch/agent...
Mobile App Extensions Mobile App Extensions Apple's App Store isn’t very marketer friendly. Google answered the call of advertisers looking to promote their apps for download with new Mobile App Extensions.
App Promotions There is an app for that. Advertisers can promote their apps to app users with a target CPA. These campaigns don’t require keywords or text, but are directly linked to a Google Merchant Center account.
Windows 8 is set for an October 26 release date, but Microsoft introduced its Bing for Windows 8 app last week. Similar to the Bing for iPad app, the Bing for Windows 8 app includes Snap, the ability to search from anywhere.
Landing pages can be used for PPC ads, mobile app downloads, promotional campaigns and more. Re-center and zoom maps to the user's location Yet with so many companies "not ready to do mobile", the mobile landing page experience has basically been...
I'm very proud of our recent accomplishments in our platform and mobile products, from Open Graph and AppCenter to Facebook Camera and our iOS integration. Facebook's Chief Technology Officer has announced his resignation from the company.
Facebook has unveiled plans for its AppCenter service, which will allow developers to offer their applications to users as both free and paid applications on the iOS and Android mobile platforms, as well as desktop- and web-based applications.
Not long ago Bing quietly launched Bing Linked pages for users signed into Facebook via Bing's own Facebook app. The fact that all your activity is shared via the Bing app means that it is fairly easy to spot when you, or someone else, is spooofing...
The app is built around "spatial browsing" and puts images at the center. Trover is a mobile local discovery app (iOS and it's backed by General Catalyst, Ignition, and Benchmark Capital. Images are automatically geotagged when uploaded, then...