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User whoppervirgins should stop using that name. But the best part? "What is your motivation by the way?". (Read More)
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Mashable!
2Vouch is a new job site that has launched today enabling employers to find employees in what is billed as Australia’s first social recruiting web site.2Vouch works through member referrals, automatically matching the job requirements to members and their extended networks. When a match is found, a member can choose t (Read More)
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ReadWriteWeb
A one year follow up on a study of social media adoption at 500 of the fastest growing companies in the US has found that familiarity with and use of blogs, podcasting, wikis, online video and social networking has skyrocketed in 2008 to nearly double what it was in 2007. 77% of respondents now report at least some use of (Read More)
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Submitted by Kullin:
The hurricane Gustav -- which is creating an urgent need for instant, broad-based information from a wide range of locations -- has proved something of a "perfect storm" for Twitter. Tune in to CNN, and it's likely they'll be showing you a Twitter feed. (Read More)
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louisgray.com
There's no question the lifestreaming space has just exploded over the last year, with services like Plaxo Pulse and FriendFeed leading the way, accompanied by MyBlogLog, SocialThing, Profilactic and others. Practically all services aggregate your social activity across networks and let you display it in one area, with the (Read More)
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: If you can get a strong presence on Social Median, FriendFeed and Strands all at once, I'm sure there's some sort of prize. Strands is just getting started, but they've got some great features worth checking out.
Submitted by J Deragon:
Business networking website LinkedIn has published a series of guidelines to help prevent users damaging their careers by mixing professional contacts and friends online.LinkedIn claimed 47% of the UK's web users are mixing their social and professional lives by accepting networking invitations from "frolleagues" - colleagu (Read More)
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: This sounds like a spin from LinkedIn vs. Facebook. They're using scare tactics to try to convince people to keep their professional vs. friend networks apart.
: I'm confused with the issue. Colleagues are inherently part of my network on LinkedIn so whether they are friends are not are irrelevant. Maybe I'm misreading the article but I don't know many who add just friends to LinkedIn like they would facebook. What's the benefit for anyone?
: I'm not doing anything in my personal life that I'm ashamed of so for me mixing the two makes no difference. LinkedIn has been great as a means to add connections to, but to locate potential business partners etc i've found people very unfriendly and not willing to co-operate.
I like Facebook as it allows me to connect with people from all walks of life
ReadWriteWeb
ShareThis reports that it is now. How do website readers prefer to share stories they find with friends? According to the company behind the widely used sharing widget ShareThis, after emailing a link, the most popular method of sharing is now Facebook. The numbers are interesting - but there are also some big caveats to (Read More)
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: It would be interesting to know which method "Other 19%" is since it is more popular than Facebook. Facebook and Myspace may be outdoing the regular social bookmarking sites due to apps that now allow you to automatically share it with your friends on those sites, something that until recently, had to be manually done.
Web Strategy by Jeremiah
This post is not about Thomas vs Simon B, this post is about the long term online impacts to personal and corporate brands.A focus on online reputation and brandsI’m hesitant to publish this post, not because I don’t think it’s important, but instead, I don’t want to be caught in the cross fire betwe (Read More)
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FriendFeed thePuck
I think that to succeed in the social media world, a key concept is social density. I work towards this by constantly looking for new sites and services to maintain a presence on and being active in many different microblogging communities. (Read More)
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Submitted by Webfox:
Mloovi is a new app that runs any RSS feed through Google Translate. This may not be perfect, but there’s is a clear need for such a service so we’re pretty excited about it.... (Read More)
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