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Back in August, The Huffington Post asked their readers to help identify the top game changers across 10 different verticals to “honor and celebrate people who are using new media to reshape their fields and change the world.”Today, after 1.7 million votes, the top 10 has been revealed, and our own Pete Cashmore has made th (Read More)
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Twitter announced it would be adding locations to your tweets back in August, and they’ve been making changes to their API to enable the functionality since late September. The geolocation functionality is now complete, and a number of developers of third-party apps who have been working on building location support into th (Read More)
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This post is part of Mashable’s Fab Five series with Jalen Rose, which highlights trends in the social media space. Jalen Rose is a former 13-year NBA star and current ESPN basketball analyst but may be best known for being a member of the famous University of Michigan Fab Five.Until a couple of years ago, social media did (Read More)
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David Spinks is a graduating senior in NY that is utilizing the power of social web communities to pursue a career in social media/marketing. He authors a blog at DavidSpinks.com.There is an almost overwhelming number of options on the social web for businesses to create and participate in communities. You hear a lot about (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Salesforce.com is offering the capability to integrate Facebook and Twitter into its sales and customer support offerings, another sign the company is making a full-shift to the social web.How deep is this move? On stage this morning at Dreamforce, Mark Benioff called Facebook and Twitter a "phenomena," going on to say that (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Research firm Gartner has just put out a list of the top ten mobile applications of the future. Well, not the distant future, but the far off year of 2012. Nothing on the list is all that surprising or, in many cases, even all that new. Instead, the list includes the sorts of technologies that are just now coming into their (Read More)
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After 450,000+ nominations for 80,000+ nominees, we’re left with just 5 finalists per category in The Open Web Awards: Social Media Edition, our annual contest highlighting the very best the social web has to offer.To find out if your favorites made it, and to vote for the winners (limited to one vote per category per day), (Read More)
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Megan Berry is an evangelist for Mobclix, the industry’s largest mobile ad exchange, working on social media and marketing. She also blogs at The Huffington Post and the Mobclix blog. You can follow her on Twitter as @meganberry, or through the @Mobclix handle.My iPhone is my baby, my constant companion, and I think it’s sa (Read More)
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Last month, we wrote about Coca-Cola’s Expedition 206 campaign, in which the company uses social media to pick three individuals to travel the world in 2010, who in turn visit all 206 markets where Coca-Cola has a presence. Along the way, the “Happiness Ambassadors” will take photos, make videos, send out updates on Twitter (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
At Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference, Seesmic's's founder and CEO Loic Le Meur just announced that the company will release a native Windows client of its popular Twitter client later today. Seesmic developed this client on top of .NET. As Le Meur told us yesterday, the new client will be faster and use signific (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Before there was an iPhone, Android and App Store, there was Yahoo! Go. Launched in 2006, Yahoo! Go was an application offered news, mail, weather, traffic, and Yahoo! search from a mobile device. Today, Yahoo is announcing that Yahoo! Go will be shutdown on January 21, 2010. The app seemed to be ahead of it’s time when it (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Three iPhone application developers are cited in an online petition which asks Apple to approve their apps, all of which have been sitting in limbo for months on end. The developers are awaiting word about their new DJ applications which let users mix loops of their own iTunes tracks stored in their iPhone or iPod Touch's m (Read More)
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Among Twitter desktop apps, Seesmic and TweetDeck are the two biggest, built using Adobe AIR, which allows them to work on multiple operating systems. However, AIR has limitations, since it essentially helps port rich Internet applications onto the desktop. Adding plug-ins and drag-and-drop functionality are just two exam (Read More)
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At the end of October, the iPhone finally came to China, albeit without WiFi. China represents a huge area of potential not just for the iPhone, but for the smartphone market in general.The biggest area of growth in the smartphone market — and a key part of iPhone’s success — are mobile applications. So how are iPhone app s (Read More)
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Adobe’s AIR platform has been a major boon to bringing Internet applications to the desktop across all of the major operating systems. TweetDeck, Seesmic, and an array of other popular social apps run on the platform.While AIR has been around since 2007, it’s never received an update like this one. Today, Adobe announced (Read More)