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Danger: It is Fashionable To Bash Facebook and Twitter - BusinessWeek
It is officially hip to bash Facebook.com and Twitter.com This was inevitable. Just as AOL chatrooms came in and out of favor in the mid and late 1990s, giving way to Yahoo Groups. Just as Myspace.com was all the rage...
Twitter Dominates CMO Social Network Plans - BusinessWeek
It's here, there and everywhere. The popularity of social networking is climbing by the week with virtually every age bracket, right up to seniors. Today 110 million Americans, or 60% of the online population, use social networks, according to a...
Microsoft Adds Some Twitter Updates to Bing Search - BusinessWeek
In a nod to the increasing importance of real-time search, Microsoft has started adding Twitter updates to its Bing search engine. For now, the Twitter-related results are limited only to searches on prominent Twitterers themselves, not nearly all tweets, according...
Twitter Guide Book – How To, Tips and Instructions by Mashable
"Twitter is a social network used by millions of people, and thousands more are signing up every day to send short messages to groups of friends. But where's the user manual for Twitter? Where do new Twitter users go to learn about Tweeting, retweets, hashtags and customizing your Twitter profile? Where do you go if you want to know all about building a community on Twitter, or using Twitter for business? How can you find advanced tools for using Twitter on your phone or your desktop? To answer all these questions and more, we've assembled The Twitter Guide Book, a complete collection of resources for mastering Twitter. Happy Tweeting!"
- Pete Cashmore, @Mashable
Beware the Social Media Charlatans - Business Center - PC World
There's no gold rush happening in social media. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
15 Fascinating Ways to Track Twitter Trends
One of the great things about TwitterTwitter reviews is that it is a great place to track emerging trends. When major events or big stories occur, people tweet
MySpace expects huge growth in mobile social network users
Just about every application is going mobile, as the App Store for iPhone has shown with its 1 billion-plus downloads. MySpace is no exception.
SPECIAL REPORT: Content-Sharing Agreements Gain Traction
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Putting the "Twit" in Twitter - PC World
Analysis: This video sums up the Twitter phenomenon quite succinctly.
SXSW: Facebook’s Morin on Twitter - BusinessWeek
Earlier this month, Facebook senior platform manager Dave Morin shot an e-mail to TweetDeck founder Iain Dodsworth, asking him if he could build a new version of his program that would pull in Facebook status updates in addition to...
Pew Research Center: Stop the Presses? Many Americans Wouldn't Care a Lot if Local Papers Folded
A nonpartisan fact tank that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world through public opinion polling, social science research, reporting news, analyzing news coverage, and holding forums and briefings.
Twitterfall
The site delivers you a live stream of Twitter talk, where you can control the speed of the flow to as fast as a seizure-inducing 10 tweets per second. You can also check off a box for any of the top trending topics and Twitterfall will give you a stream for that specific topic,
Americans’ Online Search Behavior Points to Significant Increase in Personal Financial Turmoil
How to Reach Baby Boomers with Social Media - ReadWriteWeb
A new report from Forrester Research revealed some surprising information: apparently Baby Boomers aren't exactly the technology Luddites that people think they are. In fact, more than 60 percent of those in this generational group actively consume socially created content like blogs, videos, podcasts, and forums. What's more, the percentage of those participating is on the rise.
In 2007, the percentage of Boomers consuming social media was 46% for younger Boomers (ages 43 to 52) and 39% for older Boomers (ages 53 to 63). By 2008, those number increased to 67% and 62%, respectively.
White Paper: "Physicians and Web 2.0" from Manhattan Research
Manhattan Research is a healthcare market research firm, laying the <br />foundation for strategic planning for global pharmaceutical, biotech, and life sciences companies.
TRENDS: SOCIAL NETWORKS
Long hours at work and increased mobility are eroding our social support systems
Shannon Proudfoot , Canwest News Service
Published: Friday, January 16, 2009
Our friendship networks are shrinking, a mounting body of evidence suggests, a social erosion that's linked to factors ranging from longer work hours to a population on the move.
"I don't think there's any doubt that the intensity and the number of face-to-face interactions is decreasing," says James White, a professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia.
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