Social Media

PALO ALTO — Facebook has 80,000 sites using Facebook Connect in addition to the 500,000 applications on Facebook, according to Ethan Beard, who heads up the company's developer network.

PALO ALTO, CA — Facebook has become the “ultimate tool for achieving viral distribution,”  says Ethan Beard, the director of the Facebook developer network in this interview with Beet.TV.

PALO ALTO, CA — With more than 400 million worldwide users, Facebook has become a critical partnership platform for media companies including all of the major television networks.

Twitter has a deep integration with NBC Sports for its Winter Olympics coverage. You can find Twitter throughout the site and on the "Olympics Pulse" page.  This is the most significant media integration for Twitter to date, but is just one of many to come, according to Chloe Sladden who heads up media alliances for […]

MILPITAS, CA — With social media usage across Facebook, Twitter, and niche social sites continuing to climb, it's inevitable that a number of start-ups will emerge to piggyback on the opportunity.

Break.com, the Los Angeles-based video portal for young men, has expanded into social games, the company announced earlier this week.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — Google recently introduced real-time search functionality to Google searches on PC's, the iPhone, and Android devices.  

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — Do a Google search for your favorite (embattled) celebrity or hot news story and the results will likely include Web sites, articles, recent blog posts, and FriendFeed and Twitter updates.

What's the next big thing in new media?To answer that question, I turned to Bill Tancer, author of of Click and the research guru at online audience measurement firm Hitwise.

Facebook's introduction of Ajax and an e-mail importer functionality were among key factors in Facebook's ascent over MySpace as the preeminent social network, according to this big feature published in the Financial Times,  entitled "The Rise and Fall of MySpace."

Facebook integration around video got its first high profile exposure with CNN and the Inauguration of President Obama, but the first was last year's collaboration with Joost.

CNN.com has nearly 6 million followers on Twitter, KC Estenson, Sr. VP and General Manager of CNN.com. told Beet.TV in this video interview.    

NBC Local, the network of 10 regional U.S. Web sites created around television stations, is expanding its microblogging platform called SoMyCity to the iPhone with a new app which launched this week.

SAN FRANCISCO — Because a comment has become currency in the social media world, a company that's built out commenting technology for the Web is now profitable. 

So, its official, Twitter has raised $100 million in venture funding.  It will be interesting to see how funding will change the company. 

Particle, the San Francisco based start-up funded by Justin Timberlake, launched a product called Robo.to in May, which is a Web application that allows users to upload a four second video created on a mobile device or Web cam and share it on various social network sites .

Interesting first-person story today by Meetup founder Scott Heiferman in The New York Times.

Collaboration is the new watchword in the advertising, production and online video businesses.

HOLLYWOOD, Calif — There’s more money to be made in creating communities for programming online than making the content itself, Sarah Szalavitz of social design agency 7 Robot told Beet.TV at the NATPE LA TV Fest.

HOLLYWOOD, Calif — After inking a deal with portal DailyMotion to fund the pilot for his latest online series, Web star Hayden Black tells Beet.TV the site is now pitching potential sponsors for the show.