A2SM Podcast #42 – The Holiday, Year End Recap and 2011 Prediction Episode

In This Episode

Social Media Podcast
Internal AOL Email Announcing About.Me Acquisition – http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/20/internal-aol-email-announcing-about-me-acquisition/
AOL Acquires Personal Profile Startup About.Me

The new Facebook Fan pages are live. No tabs, cleaner interface and more features. – http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2010/12/16/the-new-facebook-fan-pages-are-live-no-tabs-cleaner-interface-more-features/

Facebook Rolling Out Redesigned News Feed Filtering Options – http://mashable.com/2010/12/22/facebook-news-feed-filtering/

Foursquare Adds Photos and Comments – http://mashable.com/2010/12/20/foursquare-photos/

Another Year Of Free Calling To The U.S. And Canada – http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/20/gmail-calling-free/

THIS JUST IN: Santa being tracked by Norad – http://lifehacker.com/5717029/track-santas-journey-across-the-globe-with-google-and-norad

2010 Recap: 3 Top Stories

Neal: iPad

Seth: Skype Going Down

Jody: Facebook’s “exploding”…huge impact – Movie – The Social Network, Man of the Year… “Zuck”

Our Predictions for 2011

Neal: Cyberwar.

Seth: The Year of the Tablet Computer Finally Arrives with Android and Honeycomb; Blackberry and of course Apple. Maybe even HP and Web OS.

Jody: The Year of the MOSH of Social Media…Convergence of platforms, streamlining the social-scape.

Picks

Neal: http://inceptiontheapp.com/ – The movie app for the iOS

Seth: http://www.pinboard.in – Delicious Replacement – Not Free But Affordable!
http://pinboard.in/u:sethgoldstein

Jody: http://www.marketsamurai.com – affordable keyword research tool and more.

Outgoing Music Auld Lang Syne by Friction Bailey

Happy Holidays from the A2SM Editors Neal, Jody and Seth