Posts About ‘Social Media Tools’

SocialSafe, the Social Network Back-Up Tool

Where you keep your social bits nice and safe

A few weeks back Bas approached me with a trial for a tool called SocialSafe for State of Search. Due to the nature of the tool, I had to wait a little while to build up enough data to access its analytics features. So, after a bit of a wait, here is what I found out. (more…)

UPDATE: Hootsuite Acquires Seesmic, Adds more Tools

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Earlier this week we reported about Hootsuite and how it had added SocialBro and Needtagger to their products (see below). Today the news reaches us that that was just a setup for bigger things to come. Today Hootsuite acquires Seesmic.

Seesmic is a direct ‘competitor’ of Hootsuite, which was originally founded by LeWeb organiser Loic LeMeur. It started out as a video tool which should be the ‘Twitter of video’, but soon turned into a Social Media tool. Seesmic hasn’t been doing too well in the past year and even had to let go half of its employees last March. (more…)