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Welcome to #Hashbook.
Today, after a much anticipated holdout, Facebook hashtags are now a real thing.
As we have previously written about here on Social Fresh, the hashtag has become a connective thread for users to share their thoughts to a larger audience on social networks.
Largely popular on Twitter, Facebook joins a number of other social media sites using hashtags to connect discussions including Instagram, Pinterest, and most recently Google+…

Being Liberal has 600,000 fans on Facebook. Coca-Cola has 65 million fans — a following 100 times bigger.
Coke has an astronomical annual ad budget and marketing machine.
Being Liberal is just one guy posting content — zero ad budget.
But one of these pages has 800,000 active users. And the other has more than 900,000 active users…

Vodio has released an Android version of its video discovery app, the company announced today.
Created in 2011, Vodio organizes videos into channels like tech, entertainment, and sports; and serves up new ones based on what’s already being shared on social networks as well as the user’s personal taste…

As more Facebook users check their News Feed from their phone, the mobile app install advertisement is becoming the hottest trend for developers. But it takes more than just a screenshot of the app to get a user to download it.
Leah Na’aman, the marketing manager for SocialClicks, talked at the Inside Social Apps conference recently in San Francisco to share some best practices for really reaching customers and potential app users through the News Feed…

Ampush
Ampush, a Preferred Marketing Developer for the Facebook platform, has recently hired Andrew Hersam as its new Director of Sales. Formerly at Facebook as a Global Marketing Solutions, Client Partner, Hersam’s migrates from Facebook to a Preferred Marketing Developer. CEO Jesse Pujji adds, “Andrew brings invaluable experience to Ampush during a time of continued growth and sales expansion…

Social healthcare is the hot button topic of the year, and Twitter is scientists and sociologists’ dream as a petri dish of research data.
Twitter has helped track flu outbreaks, source vaccine research, and fight obesity in kids.
And companies are paying attention. Twitter and Everyday Health, Inc…

Couch potatoes of the world: Meet your idol. The man you see above is a real hero, as evidenced by the La-Z-Boy recliner he appears to have converted into an automobile. This means one thing, and one thing only: He is a genius who figured out a way to avoid ever getting off the couch.
It appears the video was recorded in China — further proof the rest of the world has some serious catching up to do…

Microsoft today announced it has added optional multi-factor verification to Windows Azure Active Directory identities, allowing enterprises to secure employee, partner, and customer access to cloud apps. The feature is another layer of protection when accessing Office 365, Windows Azure, Windows Intune, Dynamics CRM Online, and many other tools that are integrated with Windows Azure AD…

If you’re hoping to make a splash with your latest Vine video, you’re not alone. Just over a week has passed since it launched on Android, and already Vine has surpassed Instagram in its total daily shares on Twitter.
According to metrics provided by San Francisco-based Topsy, Vine has amassed 2…

Taylor Swift is this week’s top gaining musician and band page. The country music artist led the way with over 200k more engagements as the next gaining page. It was almost reached one million total engagements and outranks the closest page by over 350k engagements.
This list of top gaining musician and band pages is compiled with PageData, which tracks page growth and engagement across Facebook…

Is LinkedIn working for you? Do you want to generate more business from LinkedIn? When used properly, LinkedIn can be a gold mine for your business. Here are five steps to improve your efforts to generate more business from LinkedIn. As a business, the foundation of your success on LinkedIn begins with your LinkedIn profile…

July 9-10, 2013
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Dataminr wants to break news faster than the speed of light. Or at least faster than news outlets.
Dataminr has closed $30 million for its real time analytics service that helps enterprise clients keep tabs on the pulse of their industry.
The company takes social media data and analyzes it for “hotspots of activity…

“[Twitter bird logo] #brand” just became an endangered species. Hashtags are becoming universal as Facebook will start supporting them. That neutralizes an important growth vector for Twitter. Before, each print or tv ad mentioning a hashtag nagged people to join Twitter. Now they can join the real-time conversation through the social network they already use…

Hashtags were rumored to be coming to Facebook earlier this year, but the site officially announced Wednesday that it has added support for the popular Twitter and Instagram staple. Now whenever a Facebook user puts a hashtag in their status update or comment, it connects it to others talking about the same thing…