Red Hot Dating App Tinder Officially Arrives On Android, Begins Hooking Up With Big Media + MORE

With summer in full swing, now is the perfect time to accessorize for the season
But if you’ve grown tired of wearing the same old uniform of Wayfarers and jorts, there are other, erm, unique ways to show your summer spirit.
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Facebook’s fastest-growing page in the U.S. (in terms of likes) celebrates Instagram’s biggest competitor. The page Best Vines — which started June 1, 2013 — hit 5 million likes on July 10 and is charging hard toward 6 million likes.
Best Vines, which does not appear to be sponsored or managed by Vine, posts to Facebook the most popular videos from Vine, Twitter’s six-second video sharing network…

Are you looking for creative ideas to help launch your next product (or company)? Want some actionable tips to employ social media in your next launch? If so, keep reading as I explore nine ways we used social media to help launch a new project. You’re sure to find unusual tactics that will help you […

Facebook updated its Android application for members of its beta testing group Monday, giving a sneak peek at features that could be made for all Android users in the future. One of the more notable features of this update is the ability to save photos directly from the Facebook mobile photo viewer…

The Digital Dating World has seen its fair share of companies come and go over the years, and few have been able to give the usual suspects, like eHarmony, Match.com and OkCupid, a run for their respective monies. However, since bursting onto the scene in October of last year, Tinder has been making a play to become the next digital dating giant by focusing on an area where few (if any) of its predecessors have excelled: Your phone…

The co-founder of location app Gowalla, which Facebook acquired in 2011, as well as an Instagram designer are reportedly leaving Facebook, according to AllThingsD. Gowalla co-founder Josh Williams and Instagram designer Tim Van Damme will pursue other ventures, but the departures are not related, sources told AllThingsD…

Did you know that 64 percent of consumers search for online reviews before making a purchase decision? And that 50 percent of consumers are more likely to use a local business after reading positive online reviews?
Good or bad, right or wrong, the information that’s found on the first two pages of your search results paints a vivid picture of who you are — one that’s challenging to alter…

Why should your small business be on Twitter?
How about this for a reason: one third of people on Twitter follow at least one brand. Still not convinced? What if I told you that studies have shown that the vast majority (67 percent) of Twitter users are more likely to buy from the brands that they follow on Twitter, that almost four in five (79 percent) recommend those same brands and 69 percent go to follow other brands based of the recommendations of others…

Twitter recently opened up their analytics product to anyone with a Twitter login. Previously it was reserved for Twitter ad customers only.
The Twitter Analytics product is actually only accessible through the Twitter ad tool. Not the best user experience, but better than nothing.
To access your Twitter Analytics, go to ads…

There’s a reason why Facebook users can’t see exactly how many people have seen their posts, and it’s not out of malice, as BuzzFeed recently suggested.
Facebook wants interactions on the social network to be positive, which is why there will never be a “dislike” button on the site…

If you follow the old adage and believe that a picture is worth a thousand words, then how much must a video be worth? Even a very short video would be worth tens of thousands of words. In the succinct world of social media, where an entire message needs to be communicated in just a few seconds, the communication power of video can’t be denied…

Satish Polisetti is cofounder of AdsNative
There’s no question that native advertising has a bright future.
Research by MandLoys indicates that 70% of users want to learn about a company or a product through content.  And, let’s face it: the old models just aren’t working. Seven in 10 pre-rolls are skipped, and people rarely click on banners by choice…

Nestivity has released version 1.0 of its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for hosting live conversations and discussions on Twitter, adding new support for Google+ Hangouts and YouTube video playback.
The startup first launched its public beta in April and has since added “tweetcast” functionality, which brings a central hub for live Twitter conversations, panels and Q&As, to supplement its core project and discussion service…