- Ford, a demonstrable leader in corporate social media success, has announced a partnership with the NHL's Florida Panthers to expand existing marketing to include more integrated social features. The new social campaigns include Twitter, Facebook, and the WhoSay platform. More information can be found at http://www.sportspromedia.com/news/ford_adds_social_media_focus_to_panthers_partnership/
- Ericsson Consumer Labs have released the results of their TV & Video Consumer Trend Report, revealing that social TV is becoming a mass-market phenomenon. A story in Information Week about the results can be found at http://www.informationweek.in/Software/12-08-29/Social_TV_becoming_a_mass-market_phenomenon_says_Ericsson.aspx and a PDF download of the report is at http://www.ericsson.com/res/docs/2012/consumerlab/tv_video_consumerlab_report.pdf
- A new report from ReportLinker.com announces the results of the 2012 Global Social Gaming Industry. The report analyzes the worldwide market for social gaming and includes more than 70 companies. A download can be found at http://www.reportlinker.com/p0960390/Global-Social-Gaming-Industry.html
- 30 Digits announced a new update to their award winning Web Extractor platform providing tools to allow companies to "scrape" social content for brand monitoring, competitive intelligence, and product analysis. The 30 Digits website can be found at http://www.30digits.com/ and more information about their new release is at http://www.30digits.com/web-extractor_harvesting-scraping-and-mining-the-internet-2.htm
- Witmer Group has launched a new social curation platform for VAZATA to assist with integrating curated content in a visually appealing format. The new product, News Cloud, is designed to "continually integrate fresh SEO'd content" and more information can be found at http://vazata.com/newscloud
- A new social network for the "top 1% of Internet users" was launched today by Swedish social media entrepreneur Erik Wachtmeister called the Best of All Worlds. A story highlighting the announcement can be found at http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/social-media/Social-network-for-internets-top-1-users-launched/articleshow/15934987.cms