#EvianBabyAndMe Brings Out The Baby In You [VIDEO] + MORE

Someecards are some of the most shared pieces of content by Facebook users, but brands are getting into the mix too. Facebook users love to talk about pop culture and crack jokes, and someecards has been a vehicle for companies to get into that conversation without appearing as if they’re trying to make a sale…

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Facebook Launches Verified Pages and Profiles: The new verified Pages are “to help people find the authentic accounts […

If you’re an outgoing person, planning your schedule can feel like a full-time job. Quixplore is launching its shared social calendar today to improve the process of discovering things to do and coordinating and sharing your social life.
Finding cool stuff to do is time-consuming. It involves emailing, texting, checking Facebook, and browsing through various event listings…

Nasdaq fined for Facebook IPO – Nasdaq has been fined $10 million by the Securities Exchange Commission for alleged securities laws violations related to its mishandling of the Facebook IPO. The $10 million fine is the largest ever imposed against a stock exchange and comes into addition to the $62 million Nasdaq owes trading firms due to sustained losses during the botched IPO…

Love babies? Who doesn’t, really – except maybe cats (babies pull tails and compete with cats for Internet supremacy).
People are sharing their #EvanBabyAndMe pics on Twitter and we thought you’d want to be among the first to get in on the fun. You know, before it goes all Harlem Shake and everyone’s doing it – followed by The Today Show a week later…

Jacob Bijani, Tumblr’s first designer, has left the company, he said today in a blog post.
Bijani first worked for Tumblr as a freelancer, beginning in the summer of 2008. He joined the company later that year. He was, founder David Karp said at the time, “the first person we’ve hired who’s younger than me…

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Nick Kishfy, CEO of MojoTech, a design and development agency with offices in Providence, RI and New York, NY. Nick has been launching startups, leading teams and shipping products since the first Internet gold rush, and he’s passionate about helping founders finish what they start and turning ideas into products that win…

While other file formats have faded, the lowly Gif has stubbornly stayed alive for more than 25 years through sites like Tumblr. Other apps like Vine and Cinemagram have also popped up to support the short-looping video.
Coub is doing the same and it’s starting to pick up some real traction. Over the last few months, the site, which lets people take YouTube or Vimeo videos, clip them to 10 seconds and loop them with music, has started attracting upwards of 1 million visitors a day from virtually nothing at the beginning of the year…

Look what Indonesian artist Ichwan Noor has done to a heap of car parts, a few scraps of aluminum and some carefully crafted pieces of polyester. This tightly compressed sphere resembles a brand-new 1953 Volkswagen Beetle that was somehow balled up into a globular mass of shiny yellow goodness.
Part of the Art Basel show that recently took place in Hong Kong, the artwork is a strong statement by Noor that’s resonating worldwide…

While you’ve been busy updating your company’s Facebook page, keeping your customers up to date through Twitter and posting the latest corporate video on YouTube, we’ve been reporting on the latest in social media news for businesses large and small.
In case you’ve missed any of it, here’s a recap of this week’s breaking stories…