Keeping an eye on events and musings on the web, we’ve run across these gems … just a few of the more interesting ones. When you discover interesting, informative or entertaining passages on the web, please pass them along at UGNN or Facebook! Here you go …
* What Happens When Facebook Goes Down?
* Social media – Few rules. Powerful tools. Endless opportunities.
* How to Back Up Your Social Media Accounts
* Universal Search: Not All Blends are Created Equal
* If Facebook Were a Country?
What Happens When Facebook Goes Down?
More than a million websites around the web are looped into the world’s largest social network via Facebook Connect. Its social plug-in — the increasingly ubiquitous “Like” button — generates at least 3 billion clicks a day. And for many brands, a Facebook presence has outstripped their own web sites.
With Facebook providing sharing tools, authentication, and even commerce for so many sites and brands, what happens when Facebook goes down, as it did on Sept. 22 for more than two hours? 
Full story : Irina Slutsky — Ad AGE
Social media – Few rules. Powerful tools. Endless opportunities.
Social media has changed the face of how we do business – no question, and dramatically so. At one level social media and its impact is easy to understand.
Take the age-old ideas of earned media and community dynamics – add to that the requisite poise of corporate and personal transparency and you have the outlines of the core social media building blocks. Very few rules and seemingly simple. Full story : socialmediatoday.com
How to Back Up Your Social Media Accounts
What would happen if you lost all of the data you share on social networks? Here’s why, and how you should back up your favorite social tools.
Imagine if your Facebook account were suspended and deleted. What would you do if your entire LinkedIn network suddenly disappeared? If your Flickr photos were no longer accessible or if Twitter crashed yet again, only this time for good? Full story : www.inc.com
Universal Search: Not All Blends are Created Equal
Universal search — or blended search — has been an integrated part of the search experience since 2007.
Heralded at the time as a revolution for searchers and marketers alike, the ensuing popularity has led to virtually every search engine today delivering blended results. Full story : Eli Goodman – searchenginewatch.com
If Facebook Were a Country?
By the numbers, Facebook is well over 500 million members strong. As a community, its members spend over 700 billion minutes a month and share over 30 billion pieces of content (per month) in the Facebook environment (via status updates, comments, videos, links, etc.).
If you compare Facebook to the populations of the largest countries around the world it would rank 3rd behind China and India. Full story : socialmediatoday.com
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