- DataSift has launched a new social media financial based service that provides prepackaged social feeds tracking stock symbols and social sentiment of public companies. The new service aims to help financial professionals make faster and more informed trading decisions. For more information on this new social tool please visit http://www.sys-con.com/node/2355786
- WeVideo has released a new social marketing and social video engagement platform aimed at putting the "power of creation in the customers' hands" and allows users to customize and edit their video clips prior to sharing their creations online. A story written about this topic can be found at http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/News/Online-Video-News/WeVideo-Launches-Social-Video-Engagement-Platform-84870.aspx
- The wildly popular commenting service offered by Livefyre has announced a new product called StreamHub offering liveblogging, live chats, and social widgets. The product launches today and is targeted at large brands and publishers looking to engage with their audience directly through social video, chatting and liveblogging. A TechCrunch story about the new offering is at http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/livefyre-streamhub/ and you can also get more information from their website at http://www.livefyre.com/
- As social networks continue to search for ways to generate revenue, more and more are using targeted ads as a method to get there. A great story in Ad Age describes how both Twitter and Facebook are going about the quest for revenue in different ways. You can read the full story at http://adage.com/article/digital/pursuit-revenue-social-networks-ramp-ad-targeting/237096/
- The .me registray, which allows anyone to purchase domain names ending in the hyper-personal extension of ".me" is holding a 5-day social media contest, starting September 17 giving those that take part in the contest on a daily basis a free, one-year .me domain name registration. For more information on the upcoming contest visit http://www.sacbee.com/2012/09/10/4805506/me-registry-announces-five-day.html