Dave Haft

What Your Facebook Likes Say About You

Dave Haft — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:32:29 +0000

What do your Facebook Likes really say about you? According to a study, the pages, posts and public figures you Like on the social networking site can reveal surprisingly accurate information about your political and religious views, drug use, IQ and ...

Mass Relevance CEO Discusses Sports’ Social Media Takeover

Dave Haft — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 02:02:12 +0000

Austin-based Mass Relevance may be more deep-rooted in the sports social media space than any company not named Twitter or Facebook The two-year-old startup curates and analyzes social chatter to highlight relevant posts and analyze overall conversatio...

Twitter Will Decide the Value of Your Tweets

Dave Haft — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:07:14 +0000

Twitter is about to start attaching value ratings to users' tweets The value judgements will be assigned to the public metadata of tweeters' posts, and used by Twitter's streaming API to help developers more selectively curate massive amounts of status...

Facebook Educates Developers With New Live Video Series

Dave Haft — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:46:32 +0000

Facebook launched Developers Live Wednesday, a new way for developers to stay on top of everything Facebook.

An extension of Facebook’s existing developer’s site, Facebook says the new live portion of the site will be a “central place to learn about the latest tools and to get access to product manager and engineers who created them.”

The curated video channel will include live as well as recorded broadcasts, often with an interactive element for developers to get questions answered by Facebook staff. Videos on growing your mobile app and Graph Search have already been added to the site's video library

The Future of Community Management

Dave Haft — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:24:51 +0000

Community management has come a long way since the first Community Manager Appreciation Day in 2009. We're interacting with our audiences in new formats and on new platforms, such as Instagram and Pinterest. Our online conversations have become more s...

Twitter Can Help Health Officials Track Outbreaks

Dave Haft — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:39:58 +0000

Sharing your health woes on social media can be beneficial for tracking disease outbreaks, a new study says Researchers at Brigham Young University found that Twitter's speed and volume can help health officials use the site as an early-warning system...

Twitter Makes Embedded Tweets More Detailed, Easier to Embed

Dave Haft — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:47:20 +0000

Twitter introduced several enhancements to embedded tweets Tuesday Now embedded tweets look more like tweets you see on Twitter.com. Embedded tweets include photos, videos, and article summaries below the text of the tweet, and the embedded version wil...

Storify Loophole Publishes Private Facebook Updates

Dave Haft — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:53:54 +0000

Your private Facebook statuses aren't as private as you thought — when it comes to Storify.

A vulnerability in the popular online content-curation platform allows individuals to pull and publish statuses from any Facebook account or group regardless of privacy setting.

The first to notice this was Julie Pippet, a communications and public relations professional who stumbled into the privacy breach by accident. Using the Storify extension for the Google Chrome browser, which helpfully adds a Storify button to Facebook and other social Web pages, Pippet was able to add a friend's Facebook status about Superstorm Sandy into her public Storify feed.

Twitter: The Safest Place for Citizen Journalists in Mexico

Dave Haft — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:51:16 +0000

A cohort of Twitter users with fake names and profile pictures have become a trusted source of information regarding drug cartel violence in Mexico

These citizen journalists choose to remain anonymous to avoid violent backlash from gang members, but their reports have become increasingly influential.

On Jan. 8, a team from Microsoft Research published a paper called "The New War Correspondents: The Rise of Civic Media Curation in Urban Warfare," which details a social media study conducted over the past two years. Their main finding was that as Mexicans increasingly turn to Twitter for reports of violence, a core of mostly anonymous yet trusted curators have led the dissemination of public safety information.

9 Ways Your Startup Can Use Social Media Lists

Dave Haft — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:54:07 +0000

Scott Gerber is the founder of Young Entrepreneur Council, a nonprofit organization that provides young entrepreneurs with access to tools, mentorship and resources. The YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs grow businesses.

From Foursquare to Facebook, using social media lists as a personal curation tool is an increasingly easy and fun way to sort through the noise on your favorite network.

Business owners can also use social media lists to curate content on behalf of their customers, whether it's to emphasize nearby neighborhood hotspots for brick and mortar businesses or to maintain high-touch relationships with super fans