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ReadWriteWeb The social media data company Rapleaf has just released the final parts of their 3-part study involving the demographics and online behavior of webmail users. In the first part of the study, gender and age data was examined and revealed some interesting findings...like the fact that Gmail has more female users than male, fo (Read More)

Oct 28, 2009

Submitted by The Funky Agency from blog: Wow!  Don’t things change fast.  Not so long ago, no serious marketer would’ve let senior executives talk off the cuff on a video and slap it up on the internet for all to see.  But after reading this article in US Advertising Age, that’s just what’s happening at MasterCard no ... (Read More)

Oct 27, 2009

Submitted by Doug Caldwell from YouTube: Edited video of presentation by Miguel Richards on using advanced features of Facebook. To contact Miguel: Miguel.richards@gmail.com, 817-822-8266, http://www.facebook.com/miguel.richards, http://www.linkedin.com/in/miguelrichards Distributed by Tubemogul. (Read More)

Oct 19, 2009

Mashable! The desktop version of Waveboard for Mac, although in a very early stage, is already available for download. Official info on the app is very scarce, but some users have tried it out and called it “simple and practical”.The same developer is currently waiting for Apple’s approval of a Google Wave client for the iPhone under (Read More)

Oct 18, 2009

Submitted by Mogston from blog: Verizon and Motorola finally lifted the curtain on their new Droid Android phone yesterday. Make no mistake, this is Android's flagship product, and the first phone that will pose a significant threat to Apple's iPhone... (Read More)

Oct 13, 2009

TechCrunch Google Wave, the search giant’s latest experiment in post-email communications, is hardly out the gate, with some of the first 100,000 private beta testers still waiting for their invites. (I just finally got mine today, two weeks after launch). But Google Wave already has a few secrets. The one that surprised me is that (Read More)

Oct 13, 2009

Social Media Explorer As you know, I’m involved with a startup called LifestreamBackup.com. Well, today we are officially rebranding ourselves Backupify! As it turns out, when you say “lifestream backup” to people outside the social media world, they think you’re an environmental product or nature preserve. We hug trees as much as the next guy o (Read More)

Oct 12, 2009

ReadWriteWeb SocialSafe, the Facebook backup tool which launched earlier this summer, has now added a new feature that allows you to backup your Facebook Wall Posts using the company's desktop application. The $2.99 program runs using Adobe AIR and accesses your account via Facebook Connect functionality. Once logged in, you can downloa (Read More)

Sep 23, 2009

louisgray.com This morning, Google introduced a feature called SideWiki for Google Toolbar users that lets people add comments and annotations to Web sites. This is not a new approach, and it has been tried with varying lacks of success in the past, as most people without an agenda don't want to spend time marking up third party Web page (Read More)

Sep 17, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Recent research by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) professor Vassilis Kostakos pokes a big hole in the prevailing wisdom that the "wisdom of crowds" is a trustworthy force on today's web. His research focused on studying the voting patterns across several sites featuring user-generated reviews including Amazon, IMDb, and B (Read More)

Jul 02, 2009

FriendFeed Blog One of the coolest things about FriendFeed is how you can see everything that's happening on the site in real-time. Starting today, this is even more true with real-time search.Just enter a search query as you always have, and see new results instantly stream in at the top of your screen in real-time. No need to constantly (Read More)

Jun 27, 2009

Micro Persuasion Here's how I've set up my lifestreaming flow...Capture:: This is where I collect my inspiration for content and create it. I am increasingly using Friendfeed as a front-end filter for all my social network content. I read feeds in Google Reader. I build mindmaps using Mindmeister and Mindnode. Finally, I create media on my (Read More)

Jun 26, 2009

Web Strategy by Jeremiah Top Bloggers Spend Less Time BloggingI’ve noticed a gradual change in what we know as blogs when Scoble and Shel wrote the book on Naked Conversations. Both of them are now focused on micromedia: Shel has an upcoming book on Twitterville, and Scoble spends more time promoting Friendfeed than his own blog. Secondly, I just (Read More)

Jun 24, 2009

readwriteweb One of the most anticipated days in the history of social networking site Facebook has finally come: the company announced today that it has begun making status messages, photos and videos visible to the public at large by default instead of being visible only to a user's approved friends.Private by default has been a hallm (Read More)

Jun 22, 2009

Mashable! Twitter is one of the most viral platforms on the social web. One link can be spread to millions of people in a matter of minutes. Perhaps the primary reason for this is the Twitter retweet. A retweet (or “RT”) provides Twitter users and easy way to share interesting updates from people they are following. We even wrote a g (Read More)

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