SMO in the News

From Mashable!
Social software and social networking 2.0.

• PhoneTag Builds Bridge To Google?s GrandCentral for Voicemail-to-Text
  Do you use Google?s GrandCentral call management service? Would you like to have the option to read transcripts of voicemail messages recorded through the service? Today PhoneTag - formerly known as ...
  
  
• New Google Reader for iPhone: Still Neat, Not Very Social
  There’s a new (beta) version of the Google Reader for iPhone out, and it’s still one of the most important iPhone apps for any RSS junkie such as myself. You can try it out by pointing you...
  
  
• Sprout Raises $5 Million For Web-Based Flash Creation Tools
  Sprout, the WYSIWYG tool for creating flash applications and widgets, has raised a $5 million Series B round led by Polaris Venture Partners. The company launched back in January at DEMO, and has sin...
  
  
• SGN Raises $15M to Build a Platform on Top of Facebook?s Platform
  The platform on top of a platform approach. SGN is looking to perfect it. Thanks to Facebook’s platform, Open Social, and the ability for third parties to develop applications, associated ad ...
  
  
• Web 2.0 Invites for May 13th, 2008
  New Web 2.0 services await; all you need to do is grab your free invites over at Mashable Invites! ---Related Articles at Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog:Web 2.0 Invites for January 2nd, 200...
  
  
• Web 2.0 Marketplace Listings for May 13th, 2008
  The Web 2.0 Marketplace is a place to list Web 2.0 and ?New Media? websites for sale, job offers, consulting services, Facebook development services and more. ---Related Articles at Mashable! - The ...
  
  
• How Investors Feel About Green Tech, and How You Feel About Investors
  Green tech is something that’s becoming more and more mainstream, thanks to television programs, Al Gore, and the upcoming presidential election. And a slew of web-based services are helping t...
  
  
• Mochila and Innovation: New Video Player and Comments on Reuters API
  Mochila isn’t announcing a new partner (per say), but the new player has kicked in a lot more functionality. This new player, version 2.0, offers multiple related videos within the same player...
  
  
• Opera Mini 4.1 Is Blazing Fast
  The folks at Opera claim huge speed improvements for almost every new version of their software, but one can’t deny that there’s always some truth to it. This time they say that the new v...
  
  
• Realmatch Relaunch: e-Harmony Applied to Job Search
  If you as a randomly selected group of people what they think the biggest problem with online job search is, you’re likely going to get a small range of answers, spanning the gamut of lacking m...
  
  

From Social Media Optimization
Merging of Traditional Media, SEM and Social Marketing

• Finally Back Online
  After four days I am finally back online! Lasy Thursday I was trying to upgrade to a newer version of WordPress and something went wrong. Luckily I had backed up my database before I started the insta...
  
  
• Mobile Social Networking Is Taking Off
  Recently I wrote about my new iPhone and how that Yelp was well positioned to take advantage of the mobile component of social networks. eMarketer forecasts that mobile social networking will grow fro...
  
  
• Teen Social Networking Still Growing
  Harris Interactive reported in its April 2008 issue of Youth Trends that more than half of US girls ages 13 to 15 used social networking Web sites in 2007. Overall more than twice as many children age...
  
  
• News Updates
  This last month or so has been crazy with travel and deliverables, but I anticipate that I will be back on a normal posting schedule this month. A couple of interesting things I have come across recen...
  
  
• Dilbert Does Social Media
  Dilbert creator Scott Adams is adding some social media components to Dilbert.com (http://www.dilbert.com). In the “Cartoon Mashups” section, Adams has opened his strip to the editorial ch...