Guest Post: Campaigns Don’t Always Need To Be Integrated To Be Successful + MORE

Wired is debuting a new look for its June issue, which hits newsstands Tuesday. The magazine has been completely made over by Scott Dadich, who before being named editor-in-chief last November worked as creative director of Wired from 2006 to 2010.
There was something about the previous version of Wired — the bright colors, bold fonts, perhaps the splashy photos and graphics — that made it feel distinctly like a magazine about science and technology for men…

This is a guest post by Mario Zelaya, Managing Director at Majestic Media, a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer & digital marketing agency, specializing in custom apps and promotions for web and mobile.
Marketers are starting to focus more on social media efforts, realizing that it’s an important piece of the marketing puzzle…

References to hashtags in Facebook’s code suggest the social network could be working on bringing the feature — popular on Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr — to its own platform.
Developer Tom Waddington from Cut Out + Keep, who has discovered a number of unreleased Facebook features in the past, today pointed us to a mention of the word “hashtag” in Facebook’s Javascript SDK…

Are you wondering how your peers are using social media? Wondering if you should focus on Pinterest or podcasting, or put more effort into Facebook? In our fifth annual social media study, more than 3000 marketers reveal where they focus their social media activities, how much time they invest, what the rewards are and where they’ll […

Internet connection while travelling overseas is a huge boon – you can find your way with Google Maps, suss out must-eats nearby you, and check the weather so you don’t get drenched in rain while hiking up a mountain.
Taiwan’s government has just made it easier for tourists by extending free Wi-Fi services for travelers island-wide…

Pinterest is not just a place to collect and organize inspiring images. The powerhouse social site has improved its enviable good looks and upped the IQ of its pins so that everyone, including businesses, can get more out of pinning and Pinterest, in turn, can get money from businesses.
The company that made it possible to organize and collect (aka “pin”) things from around the web has worked hard to make pins useful by adding relevant information to certain types of pins and making it possible to pin from mobile apps…

Who wants to be a social media marketer?
Heck, who doesn’t? All that wealth, influence and respect. And did I mention the women? Trust me, if there’s one thing that impresses a supermodel, it’s telling her all about the amazing cost per engagement rates on your latest Twitter ad campaign…

Facebook has found yet another way to notify Page owners when an opportunity to use Promoted Posts arises. Some admins are now receiving notifications when one of their page posts perform better than average.
These recommendations are unlikely to be missed, as they’ll appear alongside more traditional notifications, such as new comments and Likes…

Pinterest just became a whole lot more useful to businesses with the announcement of new “Rich Pins” on the official Pinterest blog today.
Instead of just linking back to the pin’s origin, each new Rich Pin will provide users additional information about that item aimed to better put them in a position to make a purchase…

Less than a week after Google launched a service that allows private individuals to transfer money by email, Square has launched a similar product in a private beta.
If a user cc’s Square in an email promising money and puts an amount in the subject line, the payment processing company will transfer the funds into the recipients debit card account…

Facebook today announced the availability of a new native share dialog for iOS, which will give developers an easy way to incorporate Facebook sharing — including Open Graph actions — in their apps.
The mobile share dialog is a standard tool that enables users to post something back to Facebook…

Browser maker Opera’s first WebKit browser has exited beta. The full launch for the browser previously code-named Ice adds a few additional minor updates to the meaty feature-set demoed at the Mobile World Congress tradeshow back in February.
The new updates in this full launch version of the Android browser are as follows:

Toggle navigation bar from top to bottom
Wrap text when you zoom
View active tabs in full screen
Search and navigate with a responsive address bar

The Android browser represents a huge shift for Opera as it moves its business from technical development to product-focused development, leaving its Presto framework behind and adopting the de facto standard WebKit engine, plus Chromium — a move Opera confirmed in February…

As part of the social network’s continuing efforts to build out its location database, Facebook now allows users to upload and suggest photos for unadministered place pages.
Facebook’s location platform relies heavily on user-generated content and community editing. Anyone can create a place or edit the details of an existing place, such as the category, business hours, website or other information…