Link Post for March 2nd through March 3rd

This is the A2SM Link Post for March 2nd through March 3rd. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed.

  • Narus Develops a Scary Sleuth for Social Media – PCWorld – Narus is developing a new technology that sleuths through billions of pieces of data on social networks and Internet services and connects the dots.<br />
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    The new program, code-named Hone, is designed to give intelligence and law enforcement agencies a leg up on criminals who are now operating anonymously on the Internet.
  • Can This Rutabaga Get More Fans Than…? – ClickZ
  • Social Media Today | Developing an Authentic Social Media Personality for Your Brand – Social media has revolutionized the way that companies are now interacting with their target market. However, in order to be a successful player in the social media field, you must be seen as a thought-leader with a personality. This is not an easy task to accomplish, since so many companies are now invading social sites every day. I believe that creating an impressionable personality through your social media communications is a huge key to good relationship building.
  • Twitter Location API to Support Places – I know what you may be thinking: Twitter location API already supports places; that’s why they call it the location API, right? Well, yes and no. Currently, it supports latitude and longitude, which tells the world where, exactly, you were located when you tweeted.
  • Apple Eyes HTC in Latest Patent Lawsuit – Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, gather round for the latest round of: Patent Lawsuit Theater! The players in this round are Apple and HTC. Apple is alleging that HTC infringes on 20 of its patents related to the iPhone user interface.

Link Post for February 25th through February 26th

This is the A2SM Link Post for February 25th through February 26th. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed.

  • New U.S. Military Policy Opens Up Social Media to the Troops – A new policy released today by the Pentagon has reversed multiple bans on social media websites and tools, effective immediately. This policy includes YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Google Apps, and other social tools.
  • Facebook to Say Goodbye to App Notifications on March 1st – Last month, we reported that Facebook was transitioning from application notifications to e-mail notices. Today, the Facebook Developer blog has added further information about this new method and announced that as of March 1, 2010, app notifications will be discontinued.
  • HTML5 Knocks Out Adobe Flash in Reader Vote – A few weeks ago, tensions between Adobe and Apple rose to all-time highs after Apple prominently left Flash off of the iPad. A lashing by Steve Jobs, calling Adobe lazy and Flash buggy didn’t help matters at all.
  • Facebook Formally Announces Payment Terms for Its Universal Virtual Currency, Credits – We’ve been covering Facebook’s experiments with its Credits virtual currency closely here on Inside Facebook over the last year. Today, Facebook has officially released some details about the payments terms of the program for the first time. Although Facebook isn’t giving developers a roadmap for what to expect in the future, it’s another step in Facebook’s gradual process of becoming the currency merchant of record for virtual goods transactions on the Facebook Platform.
  • Pants And Pickles Are The Surefire Way To Get Millions Of Fans – Want to get millions of fans on your Facebook Page? You have a pretty good shot if your page involves pants or pickles. The latest Facebook Page phenomenon is one set up for the pants of the Norwegian olympic curling team. While the page probably wouldn’t have put Facebook in a pickle (I know, I know, corny pun!), the company decided to take it down for terms of service violations before being restored hours later following a protest.
  • Facebook Patents The Feed – On Tuesday, Facebook was awarded a major patent for “Dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network”. This is a huge deal for a number of reasons, most significantly that it grants Facebook the opportunity to pursue other social networks which are infringing on their patent. Included in the patent are additional claims including feed filters, feed advertising, searching the feed, and more.
  • Webtrends Launches Analytics for Facebook Marketers – Webtrends, a company that offers marketers detailed web analytics, has rolled out new measurement capabilities for Facebook, including the ability to view Facebook data alongside data for other channels.