Many businesses utilize social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to communicate their brand message. This marketing method has worked so well that a lot of businesses have even dropped some of their traditional marketing practices to focus more on their social efforts. But, does this make a business social?

Today’s video round-up features a vintage Steve Jobs clip, some location-based marketing advice from social media guy Chris Brogan, some thought-provoking discussions from Mashable’s Social Good Summit and a few other goodies. View other daily video round-ups here. Steve Jobs …

Most of today’s infographics are social media-related, but even the White House is in on the infographics trend, so we’ve included one about the American Jobs Act as well. Oh, and there’s the obligatory deals infographic. View other daily infographic …

We have some very interesting videos for you today. I won’t give away too many spoilers. Just peruse them at your leisure. View other daily video round-ups here. First off, the stuff that will blow your mind. UC Berkeley scientists …

Is LinkedIn one of the first sites that you visit each day? If you’re like me, it’s not. (That is, up until this report! ☺) The reason for this is not because LinkedIn isn’t valuable. Instead, it’s just hard to make time for it, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and all the other sites that demand so much time.

Spotify joined Facebook yesterday at f8 to talk about its new Facebook integration. While, there, CEO Daniel Ek reportedly said that Spotfiy will no longer be invite-only in the US, and that unpaid users will get six months of free …

People really love their Instagram. The photo sharing app has amassed more than 7 million users in under a year’s time and recently announced that there have been over 150 million photos shared on the network. And I love my …

We’ve been in Facebook land all afternoon, so naturally there are some videos related to Facebook’s big news today. If you’re excited about all of that, watch those. If not, scroll down further and find some other interesting items. Spoiler …

The first f8 announcement is the Timeline. It’s Facebook’s way of putting your whole life on your Facebook profile. Not just the recent stuff. “That would just be your wall,” says Zuckerberg. “Tell the whole story of your life on …

The whole thing started with a comedy routine of Andy Samberg impersonating Mark Zuckerberg: Key joke: “Take a crazy big number 2, don’t share it with your friends….that’s for Twitter.” Pretty sure he was reading a teleprompter. Then Zuckerberg came …

If you haven’t noticed, Facebook has been making a whole lot of changes lately. Many of them – and certainly the most talked about ones – have been based on the main news feed experience. However, there have been some …

Twitter has acquired Julpan, a social search company founded by Ori Allon, who is credited with the creation of the Orion Search Engine, and an algorithm Google bought the rights to for use in search refinements. He left Google last …

Twitter is now letting users send photos via text messages. In a post on the Twitter blog, the company announced that you can enter the text of your tweet as you normally would, and attach a photo and send it …

Facebook is expected to make a lot of big announcements this week at f8. More on those here. The company is hardly waiting, however, to go ahead and get other changes to the user experience out there ahead of time. …

One of the reasons we thought it would be nice to do a daily roundup of infographics is that it is a quick way to take in a lot of information in a very visual way. Doesn’t it make learning …

Last week, Demand Media announced Pluck 5, the latest version of its social platform, which is used by brands including the NFL, Kraft, NPR, Target and USA Today. Steve Semelsberger, SVP and GM of Social Solutions at Demand Media told …

Just as we were discussing how dead or not dead Google+ is, Google has gone and announced new features and opened the service up so you no longer need an invitation. Among the new features is a search feature, which …

“Google+ is dead,” proclaims Dan Reimold, writing for PBS MediaShift. “At worst, in the coming months, it will literally fade away to nothing or exist as Internet plankton. At best, it will be to social networking what Microsoft’s Bing is …

Facebook users should prepare for some major announcements this week as f8, the company’s developer event, approaches on Thursday. A new music-related offering has long been expected, but also expected are more media-related announcements around movies and TV shows, as …

There are a lot of videos hitting the web on any given day, so we’ve been curating a daily round-up of some of the most interesting ones we’ve come across. In a similar spirit, there have also been a lot …

In Chicago, 250,000 different users have checked-in to 80,000 different venues 10,000,000 times using Foursquare. With those stats, it’s one of the most Foursquare-loving cities in the world. That’s why Foursquare teamed up with the Mayor’s office to launch a …