Social Insider Top 10 - July 2012

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Social Insider Top 10 - July 2012 What You Need to Know to Make Your Site More Social

Check out our latest Top 10 list of must-read social media stories. Each of these articles has been hand picked to help you and your team save time and understand the latest social media trends and analyses from across the web. Enjoy, and please feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions or feedback: info@gigya.com, @gigya, or (650) 353-7230. Search and Social: How the Two Will Soon Become One Catch a glimpse into the future, a world where social and search will be one.  - via TechCrunch Facebook Launches App Center Be sure to add your app to the Facebook App Center to promote awareness and openness around your brand. You can also view the App Center Tutorial on Facebook to find out how to apply.  - via Facebook The New New Web: Ask Not Who Needs It, Ask Who Wants It Learn how user identity and social data will play key roles in the framework of the “New New Web.” - via AllThingsD How Much Data is Created Every Minute This nifty infographic provides some perspective to the scale of data (and social data) created across the web every minute. - via Mashable Social Media Is A Part Of The User Experience Go beyond share and follow buttons to create a website that is social by design. - via Smashing Magazine Social Integration Study 24% of the top 10K websites feature some form of official Facebook Integration. Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn integrations are also well represented in this study. - via Pingdom Bringing Like to Mobile Facebook’s new like action allows developers to build custom like buttons for mobile and web apps. Ask us how we can help enable this feature on your app. - via Facebook 5 Tips for Making Your Website More Social Learn how to optimize your site for more sharing, engagement, and feedback. - via Entrepreneur Google Launches +1 Recommendations Across the Web Google adds social recommendations to the +1 button to make it more meaningful for users. - via Google Integrate Data into Products, or Get Left Behind Why every company should incorporate an "informationalization" strategy to make existing products and services more relevant for customers. - via Harvard Business Review Recent Gigya Coverage TechCrunch - Gigya Grabs $15M from Benchmark, Adobe to "Socialize your Business." Fortune - How to Save Social Readers from Extinction TechCrunch - Gamification: Insights and Trends Know someone who would be interested in this newsletter? They can Sign-Up Here. Not interested in receiving the updates like these? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.

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