Study: Links from other news sites matter more than social networks

Measuring social media success takes more than a fast start Globe and Mail There seems to be a new measure of success in the social network game: it's called “who can get to 10 million users first?” You obviously have to go through 10 million in order to get to 100 million, or more, and faster is probably better, ... See all stories on this topic » Globe and Mail

Study: Links from other news sites matter more than social networks Poynter.org 10, 2011 11:58 am A new study of Web referrals to online publishers shows links from other content sites are more important than those from social media. Links from content sites (including other news publishers or aggregators) drive 56 percent of ... See all stories on this topic »

City launches Community Link social networking site Fayetteville Flyer By Todd Gill Fayetteville community outreach coordinator Julie McQuade, discusses a new city-operated social network called Community Link during a kickoff presentation Tuesday morning at the Fayetteville Public Library. ... See all stories on this topic » Fayetteville Flyer

Lockerz Opens Up Social Commerce And Sharing Network To Non-Members, Signs ... TechCrunch Learn More Social commerce network Lockerz is opening its up the site to non-members. As you may know, Kleiner Perkins-backed Lockerz, which just raised another $36 million from Live Nation, Dag Ventures, Kleiner, and Liberty Media; revolves around the ... See all stories on this topic »

SocialGuide Launches New Social TV Ratings System - The Social 100 at Summer TCA PR Web (press release) First comprehensive rank of the most social TV programming on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis positions VH1's Basketball Wives as the most social primetime program and FOX as the mostsocial network for month ending July 31. We developed The Social ... See all stories on this topic »

Operation Facebook video is likely fake, but Anonymous' mission to 'kill' is not Digitaltrends.com According to the video, Anonymous' primary complaint about Facebook is that the ubiquitous social network invades users' privacy, uses their personal information for financial gain, and acts as an appalling spying machine that helps governments from ... See all stories on this topic » Digitaltrends.com

Why Google+ could land you in hot water with your network Know Your Mobile We investigate The Google+ social network is off to an absolutely blistering start. Over 20 million users have signed up to the service so far and that figure is likely to have increased substantially in the time it takes you to read this feature. ... See all stories on this topic »