Thursday, December 26, 2013

How Facebook thrived in 2013 with a sturdier approach

How Facebook thrived in 2013 with a sturdier approach | Why Google+ is still at the center of Google's strategy | How Twitter plans to grow as a public company
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December 26, 2013
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How Facebook thrived in 2013 with a sturdier approach
Facebook in 2013 continued to move fast while breaking fewer things -- a twist on its motto -- with the company bagging important wins without suffering many major losses, writes Kurt Wagner. Wagner cites Facebook's launch of Graph Search and its post-IPO redemption with investors as reasons to feel good about this year and the year ahead. Mashable (12/25)
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Why Google+ is still at the center of Google's strategy
Google is betting heavily on Google+, and making it harder to get full mileage out of its core Web services without being tied in to its social network. That's only going to increase as the search giant focuses on a new generation of emerging-market Web users, writes Leo Mirani. "Roping those new users into Google+ from the get-go is the company's best chance for coming from behind and defeating Facebook's dominance in social media," Mirani writes. Quartz (12/26)
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How Twitter plans to grow as a public company
Twitter had a big year in 2013 as the social network went public, but that likely means some significant changes are ahead in 2014, Seth Fiegerman writes. Expect to see changes to the profile page and messaging features to highlight visuals and draw in new users. On the ad side, Twitter will be focused on international revenue and its offerings outside the Twitter network, buoyed by its purchase of mobile ad exchange MoPub, experts predict. Mashable (12/25)
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The problem behind Facebook's studies of its own data
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Like it or not, we all seem to have a stake, whether big or small, in what happens at Facebook's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters."
-- Kurt Wagner, writing at Mashable
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 Andy Sernovitz, Editor at Large
Andy Sernovitz is the New York Times best-selling author of "Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking" and the blog "Damn, I Wish I'd Thought of That!" He runs WordofMouth.org, where marketers and entrepreneurs learn to be great at word of mouth marketing, and SocialMedia.org, the community for social media leaders at the world's greatest brands.
 
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