- Leading social media management company Hootsuite has announced their acquisition of the popular Seesmic product. Hootsuite spokespeople have said that the Seesmic brand will slowly be faded out and Hootsuite will integrate popular features into their dashboard. For more information on this story, a CNET news article can be found at http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57507040-93/hootsuite-swoops-in-on-seesmic/
- Kraft Foods has announced that they are unveiling two new Cadbury chocolate bar products via social media, including new hashtags, promoted tweets, a Twitter word scramble contest, Facebook fan pages, and Google+ announcements. Marketing Magazine has an article about the use of social media in these product rollouts that can be found at http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/news/1148783/Cadbury-launches-two-Dairy-Milk-bars-via-social-media/
- Jibberin.com has announced a "revolutionary" new all-in-one social media marketing platform that integrates Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and Foursquare into one marketing dashboard that is cloud based. For more information on this new tool please visit http://www.onrec.com/news/news-archive/jibberincom-announces-revolutionary-all-in-one-social-media-suite-for-smes
- PR News is offering a webinar exclusively focused on Pinterest and how you can use the social site to help with marketing, e-commerce, and brand awareness. Speakers include the social media manager for Travel Channel. For more information on this webinar, please visit http://www.prnewsonline.com/webinars/2012-9-13.html?hq_e=el&hq_m=2516189&hq_l=1&hq_v=3286d50732
- Social radio? Yes, it is true, a new app called Social Radio uses text-to-speech technology to integrate your Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn feed updates directly into your music library as well as integrating with Spotify and Pandora. The new app automatically keeps you updated with new tweets and Facebook posts coming into your stream by converting them to short audio clips that can be listened to in between songs on your music player. For more information visit http://www.socialradio.com or read the story at http://www.psfk.com/2012/09/social-radio.html
- Hoping to boost its sagging stock, Zynga has released an updated version to its wildly popular Farmville game. This is Zynga's first game entirely built in 3D and also is utilizing Zynga's new next-generation gaming platform. More information can be found at http://www.pingzine.com/zynga-reimagines-social-games-with-the-launch-of-farmville-2-18168/