Every week, we have a look at some of the biggest social media stories that are out there, sift through the thousands of articles on offer and bring you 25 stories that are worth your attention.
These are never breaking news stories, but rather some of the deepest thinkers and smartest minds from the world of technology and social media, offering their thoughts and views regarding the biggest stories of the week.
You won't make it through them all in one sitting, but it'll bring you up to speed with this week's happenings. So just sit back, grab a coffee and enjoy.
- Is the homepage dead? (Via Colombia Journalism Review)
- How the legal system failed Aaron Swartz - and us (via The New Yorker)
- What if Microsoft exited the search business? (via The Daily Caller)
- Google Nexus 7 tops iPad in Japan: Is this a trend? (via C|Net)
- How President Obama's inaugural app mines data for Democrats (via Politico)
- Facebook's bold, compelling and scary engine of discovery: The inside story of graph search (via Wired)
- Facebook is no longer flat: On Graph Search (via John Battelle's Searchblog)
- How marketers can use Facebook's Graph Search to understand consumers (via Inside Facebook)
- Is Facebook finally useful (via Slate)
- With free voice calling, Facebook is just covering its bases (via The Verge)
- What creativity will look like in 2013 (via AdAge)
- The truth about Aaron Swartz's "Crime" (via Unhandled Exception)
- Microsoft's Bing wins with Facebook's graph search - or does it? (via ReadWrite)
- No, Google did not run over a donkey in Botswana (via The Next Web)
- The death of HMV - The social media and SEO autopsy (via Social Media Today)
- How Apple sets its prices (via MacWorld)
- The 'Facebook Phone' might already be here (via The Wall Street Journal)
- Back to the future: how to fund a 21st century startup (via Forbes)
- The rise of the mobile strategist (via VisualLoop)
- How Aaron Swartz helped build the Internet (via CNN)
- Inside a successful celebrity ad campaign (via Inc.)
- The unforgivable sins of bad content (via The Content Strategist)
- Internet of things: Hype or reality? (via AllThingsD)
- How GM lost - and found - the path to innovation (via Forbes)
- Internet 2012 in numbers (via Pingdom)
Bonus Content
Some blog posts from earlier this week that you might have missed.
- The Twitter redesign we would all love to see.
- How simple psychology can help increase brand engagement.
- Getting yourself started with B2B content marketing.
- Improving your social media networking capabilities the right way.
- Simple ways to keep yourself organised and on top of your workload.
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