Social Media Story of the week – week ending 20th November.

Here are the stories/ articles that were nominated for this weeks poll   -

1. Facebook Comes to the PlayStation 3 Soon

November 12th, 2009 | by Barb Dybwad

“We caught wind of some sort of Facebook integration coming to Sony’s flagship Playstation 3 console last week, and now the news is official. Facebook support will be introduced to the console in the next firmware update, version 3.10,…”

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2. STUDY: Most Fortune 100 Companies Don’t Get Twitter

November 17th, 2009 | by Vadim Lavrusik

“In August we reported that a large number of Fortune 100 companies have embraced Twitter, but how well are they actually using it? A study released today (PDF) by Weber Shandwick says the answer is not very well,…”

3. Social Media in Search: User-Created Content Dominates the Brand Message

November 17th, 2009 | by Jennifer Van Grove

“One of the most commonly repeated phrases in the era of the social web is that you don’t control your own message, your customers do. While those of us working in the social arena can cite a number of examples where this has proven to be the case, more traditional brands can be reluctant to embrace this ideology. However, some interesting new search data from 360i might convince them otherwise…”

4. Twitter Launches in French

November 19th, 2009 | by Jennifer Van Grove

“Twitter’s translation project is rolling along rather quickly now. Earlier in the month Twitter launched in Spanish, and as of today, Twitter is now available in French…”

5. Retweet This: Twitter Retweets Now Live For Everyone

November 19th, 2009 | by Jennifer Van Grove

“Sandwiched in between monumental feature releases like Twitter Lists and the geolocation API has been Twitter’s most controversial feature yet: native support of retweets…”

Got your own idea for the ‘Social Media Story of the week’ ? then post it in the comments below.

Voting for the weeks stories begins every Friday evening.

This is going to be a new series of posts – one per week.
What do you think is the Social media story of the week ? Post it in the comments section and, every Friday, the best stories will be chosen for the ‘story of the week’ – weekend Poll.

Our choice for this week comes from mashable (and others)….

Twitter and Facebook Come to Xbox Live

November 12th, 2009 | by Barb Dybwad

“According to Major Nelson, the new Dashboard Update will be going live to everyone next Tuesday, November 17. The update also includes a new Zune video area that picks up where the Xbox Video Marketplace left off, adding the ability to stream a number of purchases instantly instead of having to wait for them to download….”

Social media by definition is a social platform and the introduction of a new (and in the case of xbox) massive user base to the party, is in our opinion, worth the ‘social media article of the week’ mantle.

From Twitter to TV: Sh*t My Dad Says Gets CBS Deal

November 9th, 2009 | by Barb Dybwad

Another mashable story. This time about the owner of a twitter account @ShitMyDadSays getting a television deal on top of the book deal he already has.

For those people how don’t know, @ShitMyDadSays tweets the funny stuff his live-in 73-year-old dad says. Apparently Will & Grace creators, David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, will produce the show.

Mashables list of the week can be found here -  http://bit.ly/1zx6DN

Of course, you may have other ideas so tell us about them in the comments….

Google continues to work to address the threat posed by the real-time search capabilities of services like Twitter and Facebook.

In May, they launched “Search Options” to allow users to refine search results by content type and time (within the past day was the timeliest you could get), but today, they’re launching a “past hour” filter to make its index even fresher.

Along with this key update, Google is rolling out 8 other search options which should be available to everyone at some point today. Those include the ability to search within a specific date range, shopping site filters, a visited pages filter, and an option to see only results from Google’s book, blog, and news search tools.
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