Link Post for December 8th

This is the A2SM Link Post for December 8th:

  • Social Media News and Web Tips – Mashable – The Social Media Guide – Page 2 – The sheer size of Apple’s app store makes it difficult for independent developers to stand out from the crowd. Some developers come up with creative concepts to get the word out, others rely on scamming and gaming different iTunes policies.
  • Why Facebook Chose to Limit Google and Spare Twitter Search – Google really unleashed a torrent of news and updates today. While events such as the launch of Google Goggles are very interesting, the big news is clearly the launch of real-time search within Google. Now as events unfold, Google will capture the chatter about it in real-time from sources such as Twitter, Yahoo Answers, news media and Facebook.
  • HOW TO: Start and Run a Successful Twitter Chat -
  • Dell Rides Twitter to $6.5 Million in Sales – They’ve now generated a total of $6.5 million in revenue from their Twitter (Twitter) presence, where they have nearly 1.5 million followers on their @DellOutlet account (and 3 million “connections” across all social sites).
  • Twitter Deal: CelebrityTweet Acquired by Russell Simmons – But apparently, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons doesn’t think so, as his Web site GlobalGrind has just acquired CelebrityTweet, a site that aggregates the tweets of famous people, both on the Web and via mobile applications.
  • Google Real-Time Search Live Now (Video, Links) – Google held a major search product event today and among many incredible new products and features displayed was real-time search. Fresh search results pushed live to the search results page, with a pause button above that section of the page.
  • Facebook Will Be Google-able (If Your Profile is Set to Public) -
  • 5 iPhone Apps to Get You Ready for Le Web – If you haven’t already heard, this week is the Paris-based Le Web Conference. ReadWriteWeb will be live blogging the event in the next couple of days, with startup writer Dana Oshiro attending with the Social Media Club House and news writer Frederic Lardinois attending as a TravelingGeek. The event will showcase some of Europe’s best and brightest tech companies. Below are a few resources for those attending the event:
  • Google is Beating Bing & Yahoo Again, Now In Real-Time Search – Google unveiled its real-time search interface today and it looks much, much better than what rivals Yahoo and Bing have done so far. The new Google real-time search functionality will appear on selected search results pages, below News results, above or below top ranking natural search results – sometimes just above the fold of the page.

Neal Wiser to Present about Facebook at NSA Social Media Lab

Social Media Lab

Social Media Lab

When: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 8:30AM-4:30PM
Where:
Penn State Great Valley, 30 East Swedesford Road, Malvern, PA 19355

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