Below is a run-down of social media news that we've found interesting from the past week:
No sooner is the Stream opened up than an application is created to allow you to publish everything you and your friends do on the web. And no sooner is it possible to publish everything you and your friends do on the web than Facebook shuts it down for (we presume) privacy reasons.
Facebook page administrators are going to be given another level of access to demographic data on fans and details on page interactions. These kinds of tools should help with the reporting upwards that large organisations expect to see.
The headline is more interesting than the underlying story, but anything involving robots is surely a good thing.
Pages are now an even more tempting proposition for business promotion as conversations started by fans on Page walls can be commented on and liked. This is really going to push interaction but also prove a moderation challenge to some brands.
Ning is used to create niche social networking sites and apparently has over 700,000 sites running off it. The ability to develop applications accessible to a new audience could be very tempting to developers. The platform has around 90 applications at launch.
Slowing growth from March but still going upwards.
Revenues from advertising and virtual goods could top half a billion this year, putting paid to the idea that Facebook development isn’t a real business.
Log in to Facebook and press: up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, enter to get a lense flare effect on the screen.