Tuesday was a busy day in the social media world. Here is a quick overview of what happened on Facebook, Google,Twitter and YouTube.
Facebook
Facebook released Facebook for WordPress. The new plugin allows bloggers to take their sites to the next social level with a wide range of features:
- Cross-posting to Facebook Timelines and Pages
- Customizable Like, Send and Subscribe buttons
- A Recommendations bar
- An Activity Feed Box
- A Comments Box with SEO support
- Open Graph Protocol integration
Users can also choose to mention Facebook friends or Pages in their posts. Further, the plugin also works on mobile devices and supports internationalization.
For more information on Facebook for WordPress, visit https://developers.facebook.com/wordpress/. To install the plugin, click here.
Google
Google introduced its improved Hot Searches list in Google Trends.
This list, which gives Internet users access to the fastest rising search terms in the United States, now boasts a more visual and interactive experience with rich images and links to news articles. It also provides greater information about queries, and lumps related search terms together.
"Unlike the previous version of Hot Searches, which always provided 20 daily results, the new page introduces a filtering system that helps us make sure that the list includes only the truly hottest news stories of the day," says Nimrod Tamir, from the Google Trends Team, on the Google Blog. "[...] [T]he new list also provides an indication of how many searches have been conducted for each topic in the 24 hour period when it was trending."
Twitter
Twitter announced the launch of Tailored Trends. With this new feature, users can now access the most relevant conversations based on where they are and who they follow.
"These Trends lists are tailored for you by default on twitter.com and mobile apps like Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android," says Sara Mauskopf, Product Manager, on the Twitter Blog. "If you don’t wish to see tailored Trends, but instead want to see a more general list of Trends, just change your location on twitter.com. Of course, anytime you want a glimpse into the conversations that are happening on Twitter around the world, you can always select individual countries and cities to see Trends in those locations."
YouTube
Voting is now open for the Your Film Festival, a contest launched in January 2012 by YouTube, Ridley Scott and Scott Free London to find the best storytellers in the world.
The Scott Free team selected the 50 semi-finalists from more than 15,000 short film submissions, and it is now up to YouTube users to vote for their 10 favourite filmmakers.
The finalists will travel to Italy in September, where their work will be screened during the opening days of the 69th Annual Venice Film Festival, and then judged by a jury of industry professionals, including Ridley Scott and actor Michael Fassbender.
The contest winner will be announced at a Your Film Festival ceremony, streamed live from the festival. He or she will receive a $US500,000 production grant to work with Scott Riley’s team to create a new story.
Users have until July 13 to vote. For more information, visit the Your Film Festival channel.
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