Extra! Extra! Learn all about Facebook's mobile TED coup, Samsung's smart LinkedIn collabo, and what campaigns and videos roused the crowd this week. (Because if you watch nothing else today, you have to see the world from a GoPro on Superman's head.) Skim to fly high!

Flying high with Superman. Corridor Digital produced a parody both of superheroes and of GoPro videos, which have featured perspectives ranging from eagles to Felix Baumgartner as he jumped from space. In Corridor's spin on the genre, Superman straps the socially contagious camera to his head and flies through the city to return it to its real owner. Along the way, he even finds the time to make a rescue. The video's racked up 7 million views.

How do you match up? It isn't easy to find creative ways to advertise on LinkedIn, but Samsung's succeeded for its Knox solution, created to ensure tighter mobile security for people whose phones are for both play and work. The How Do You Match Up? subsite uses LinkedIn data to show how you rank among similar professionals: Do your recommendations, volunteer hours, education or experience levels match or exceed the norm? What are all-stars in your industry reading? Who do they follow? It's all here in this calculator, which also does a nice job of toting Knox's relevance to the always-on networker.

Welcome to the influence market. How much would you pay for Kim Kardashian to tweet about you? Izea's launched the Sponsorship Marketplace, which is exactly what it sounds like: now bloggers, celebrities, social gurus, and other influence-peddlers can sell their "advertising services" on an auction-style platform. The FTC demands that sponsored content be marked as such, so sponsored Tweets, for example, will include the hashtag #ad. Expect to be seeing more of those.

Facebook Paper scores a TED exclusive. The world's favorite social network's going hard or going home with its Paper app in a deal to provide exclusive TED content in Paper's Ideas section during the TED 2014 conference, March 17-21. Content includes posts, TED presentations, and photos from the event. This is the first exclusive content deal that's been consigned to Paper, but it likely won't be the last, as the app seeks to reinforce its position as home base for all the news that's fit to skim.

The ultimate FB marketing dashboard. Facebook quietly launched Business Manager, a dashboard that lets you control everything related to your Facebook marketing from one place. You can add admins and change roles more easily, and create new ad accounts. If you're managing multiple brands, this tool's a godsend—less so if you're a third-party Facebook ad planning service.

There's a #FirstTweet for everything. To celebrate its 8th birthday (and just in time for #tbt, or Throwback Thursday!), Twitter released an app that lets you find your #FirstTweet. Some, like Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's, are truly epic. Others, like Soundcloud's, read like portents of things to come. What was yours, and how have you evolved since?

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Angela Natividad is a social media strategist, copywriter, and journalist based in Paris. A Bay Area native and lover of vending machine candies, she co-founded AdVerveBlog.com and is a frequent guest on marketing podcast The Beancast. You can follow her on Twitter at @luckthelady.