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Since we launched Mashable’s 3rd Annual Open Web Awards this past October, you’ve cast over 349,000 votes for your favorite nominees. Over the past few weeks we’ve continued to track the leaders in each category, and now, with just two days left in the nominations period we thought it would be appropriate to take a look at (Read More)
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Shashank Nigam is the CEO of SimpliFlying.com, an award-winning blog on airline branding. He tweets at @simpliflying. Special thanks to @Z_simpliflying for his contribution to this article.Twitter has a huge aviation community — from airlines and airports, to cabin crew and aviation enthusiasts. Whether you like to fly plan (Read More)
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Clay McDaniel is the principal and co-founder of social media marketing agency, Spring Creek Group. Find him via @springcreekgrp on Twitter.The Internet has already radically changed the way we shop. Googling for promotion codes, free shipping, free return shipping, virtual models, live chats with sales associates – it’s al (Read More)
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Popular social media destination Digg is no stranger to video production. In fact, they have five different video shows that go out mostly on a weekly basis, best known of which is Diggnation, where Digg founder Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht discuss most popular stories on Digg.Now, at DiggTV, you can follow all five shows a (Read More)
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Any news organization’s web site can get a story picked up by popular sites such as Drudge Report, Huffington Post, Digg, or even Fark, resulting in a bump in page views. But that’s a traffic anomaly. A key metric media companies want to grow is their local audience, because local traffic is where the money is.“Local advert (Read More)
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It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish a media partnership.Ma (Read More)
TechCrunch:
As we prepare for our next RealTime CrunchUp on November 20th in San Francisco, we're seeing if anything an acceleration of the phenomenon known as RealTime. Startups, cloud platform vendors, the open standards community, and virtually every software and hardware category are being refreshed and reinvented in the new model. (Read More)
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Melissa Jun Rowley is a freelance entertainment correspondent for CNN, a writer for Causecast, and producer for “That Morning Show” on E! Entertainment. She is @MelissaRowley on Twitter and blogs at melissajunrowley.com.A cultural and corporate shift is taking place in the world. The result of things like the current econo (Read More)
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This series is supported by Grasshopper, the Virtual Phone System designed for entrepreneurs. Learn more about Grasshopper at Grasshopper.com.Let’s face it: as an entrepreneur, the odds are stacked against you. Most businesses fail after the first few years, and even if you do manage to survive, that doesn’t mean your busi (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
The wildly popular nonprofit fundraising application Causes emailed users of its MySpace app on Tuesday to tell them that all Causes will be removed from MySpace on Friday morning, in three days. Causes was co-founded by Sean Parker, co-founder of Napster, the Comcast-acquired Plaxo and Founding President of Facebook. MyS (Read More)
VentureBeat:
I’ve started three companies, and now I’m an angel investor. So I’ve been on both sides of the table.There are lots of good articles out there about pitching, and surely everyone who pitches me has read some of them. Still though, a few problems appear over and over again. If you’ve ever had to sort through resumes and cove (Read More)
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This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.Name: SplurbQuick Pitch: Splurb is a cross-referenced list of the social web’ (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
While the Kodak Theater in Hollywood typically plays host to actual celebrities at the annual Academy Awards, last week's 140 Characters Conference in Hollywood brought together a different set of notable names: the Twitterati. Jeff Pulver's first event in a series taking place around the world drew together entertainment f (Read More)
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It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish a media partnership.Ma (Read More)
Scobleizer:
I’ve been doing online communities for more than 20 years, starting in 1985 when a friend had a BBS. One thing I’ve noticed over and over again is that chat rooms and forums start out fun and then devolve over time for various reasons. But in 2000 I discovered that blogs had the opposite effect. They got more interesting ov (Read More)
: An interesting perspective @scobleizer. I still love Google Reader and Friendfeed for various reasons. In the interest of personal productivity, picking one platform for your attention may be good. What value is it adding to your personal and professional goals? I find value for most of my time in Google Reader, Friendfeed, Facebook, then Twitter, with LinkedIn trailing back there somewhere. Each has a different purpose for me. Tech news, then informal networking and , followed by B2B style networking.