It's time for another episode of the social media monthly round-up. Last month the internet and online market was busy with a flurry of activity.  Google’s shift into social search and relevant areas topped the news in February.  More specifically, there was a lot of buzz going around about Google's new product Google Buzz.
Google Introduces Google Buzz
Google has [...]

For any business that wants to keep on top of their industry beware — 2010 will be about realizing the burgeoning power of social media to support business branding. Emerging as a major internet marketing channel, social media is one of the most challenging but most rewarding source for businesses online. Businesses that figures it [...]

There has been a lot of talk recently about location aware services such as Foursquare, so we thought it was time to let you know our thoughts on how they can help local business. Foursquare is a location aware social game that allows users to “check in” when they arrive somewhere using their GPS enabled [...]

It seems Google is continuing its acquisition spree. It is reported that Google has gained Flickr's default photo editing suite Picnik.
The acquisition news was announced by Google on Monday in their blog post by Product Management Director Brian Axe.The post says: "We're not announcing any significant changes to Picnik today, though we'll be working hard [...]

After lots of speculation and rumours Google announced the purchase of Aardvark last week.   Techcrunch reported that Google acquired Aardvark for $50 million dollars. The agreement was announced officially by Google through their blog. Aardvark CEO Max Ventilla stated that   “We have signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aardvark, but we don't have any additional details to share [...]

Welcome to the January 2010 edition of Social Media Monthly Round Up. In recent years the web and especially social media has started a communication revolution that has changed the way we live and work on web. Since its birth and over the last few years when it has grown in both stature and [...]

Search continues to get more social at Google. Thats right – Google has just embedded a customized 'Social Search' feature in its search results. Tagged with a beta label, this new 'Social Search' facility will be available to all users on Google within a few days. Google recommends everyone to create a Google profile. In the [...]

With 2009 now behind us and 2010 upon is there is little doubt that the biggest buzzword in reviewing the last year was the impact of social media. You might have witnessed lots of promises, expectations, resolutions and predictions pertaining to different online marketing segments in the year. But none of them were talked [...]

It seems  we are all about to get pulled into the magical trance of yet another holiday season that is just around the corner. Before bidding goodbye to another year lets have a peek into the monthly news that turned the social media world last month.
11% Of Online Customers Use Social Media For Sharing Their Bad [...]

Straight from the deep depths of spooky October I bring you the October Social Media Monthly Roundup!
Twitter Results Moving To A Search Engine Near You!
Finally realizing the power of real-time search, both Google and Bing are including tweets in search results. The search engine mainstays have entered into an agreement with the hot social media [...]

Its time for the September Social Media Round Up, covering events, developments, and statistics for the month. September saw its share of controversies and rumours and generated a lot of buzz. There were tremors being felt across the social media network with the Obama assassination pollster on Facebook. Though this shock survey was removed by Facebook, [...]

Promoting a local business on the internet is something a great number of people have taken to doing, and many are using the social media strategies that are available to them online. The problem is that there are many more online marketing strategies that do not work online, then those that do. This includes specific [...]

Social media marketing has exploded over the last 24 months.  Sites promoting visitor interaction have helped showcase the power of viral content on the web today.  Early social media sites such as Digg, Stumble Upon, Delicious & MySpace showed us that we can learn a great deal more from other people and do not have [...]