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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)
: I agree that Facebook could stand to create a similar system, but I'm sure they're tired of taking flack for trying to "be like Twitter." We shall see what they come up with.
: If facebook and textilesinfomediary.com dot not able to cop up with twitter. Then Facebook and textilesinfomediary.com have equal option to start with retweet.A sequal of twitter.
: twitter's powerful because it's simple and public. FB is not. There's no war, the two services are different, for different purposes. MIcro-blogging, vs Social Network.
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TwitterTwitter reviews updates are used to communicate everything from birthday wishes to political opinions. But there are some special, shining cases where the status update has been used to do some extraordinary things, from marriage proposals to breaking news, and much more.The following are 10 of the most extraordinar (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Skype does not get the respect it deserves, because eBay not only publicly admitted to overpaying for it but is making a mess of its core business. Another reason may be that Skype flies in the face of conventional Valley wisdom that says it has to be all about social media. Or maybe the fact that Skype came from Europe, an (Read More)
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There are endless ways to use Twitter: from posting what you’re doing, to sharing links, to organizing fundraising drives. But did you know there are also a growing number of games you can play on Twitter?Although many of the Twitter-based games listed here are quiz or trivia-based Twitter accounts, they are still fun dist (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
In a recession, budgets are tightened, jobs are cut, and those who remain are expected to do more with less. Given this type of economic reality, it's surprising to hear of an industry reporting an increase in spending on anything, much less on something as new as social media. Yet that's exactly what's occurring. According (Read More)
: interesting but not really clear who the survey group was. >250 employees could mean 250-100,000. a $100k budget for a fortune 500 company to spend on social media is nothing.
: "According to a new Forrester Research survey of 145 global interactive marketers in both B2B and B2C companies with more than 250 employees, the use of social media as a marketing tool is on the rise. What's more, Forrester reports that over 50% of marketers said they will be increasing their spending on social media marketing in the coming months."
Submitted by Panda88:
It started with a single tip, emailed to a single website.Day One - Sunday, February 15thThe Consumerist, a consumer advocacy website, posted an article entitled Facebook's New Terms of Service - 'We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content, Forever.' The article was picked up by several other blogs and found its way quick (Read More)
: Why would Facebook want to change their TOS to something so draconian? I get an image of the evil ring master saying to the clown in the circus "I OWN YOU now that you agreed to the TOS" mwaahahahah!..as he plays with his pointy mustache. Not that the Facebook members are clowns. I know, it's not a perfect analogy. But the outcome was pretty impressive.
TODAY ON BUZZ3R - Web 2.0 STORIES
I've been sharing articles I've read in Google Reader for the better part of two years. I don't know exactly when I started, but I'm fairly sure I'm nowhere near finished. And while I admittedly started sharing to a link blog without having a clear goal in mind, I'm finding that this massive shared items repository is beco (Read More)
Submitted by Kevinwhalen:
With Google removing the "Beta" label from its Chrome web browser, we not only get some enhancements to the software, but we also get some insight into why Google’s products stay in beta sooooo long. (Read More)
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WordPress 2.7 has finally hit, and the first thought on most people’s minds might be, “Will my favorite plugin work with it?” What follows is a list of over 20 great plugins that have already shown to work with 2.7 without any problems.Some of these you are sure to have heard of, others may be new to you, (Read More)
Submitted by Louisgray
from Google Reader:
I am still surprised when many of my friends bring up the fact that they cannot use social media (Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIN, etc) in their offices. Most of them work for corporate America and their bosses still view Facebook as playtime.Jason Falls has a great post today on How To Be The Social Media Champion At Your Offi (Read More)
: "I am still surprised when many of my friends bring up the fact that they cannot use social media (Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIN, etc) in their offices. Most of them work for corporate America and their bosses still view Facebook as playtime."
: Productivity comes from keeping employees engaged and happy anyway. You can block websites all day and the fact is if people aren't motivated they will find another way to be unproductive, like conversation.
: Amazon CloudFront is a web service for content delivery. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments.
Amazon CloudFront delivers your content using a global network of edge locations. Requests for your objects are automatically routed to the nearest edge location, so content is delivered with the best possible performance. Amazon CloudFront works seamlessly with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) which durably stores the original, definitive versions of your files. Like other Amazon Web Services, there are no contracts or monthly commitments for using Amazon CloudFront – you pay only for as much or as little content as you actually deliver through the service.
The Guardian
Hillary Clinton plans to accept the job of secretary of state offered by Barack Obama, who is reaching out to former rivals to build a broad coalition administration, the Guardian has learned.Obama's advisers have begun looking into Bill Clinton's foundation, which distributes millions of dollars to Africa to help with deve (Read More)
: I also supported Hillary during the primaries and have high hope she'd run again in 4 years. Nobody can predict what would happen in 4 years and I think Obama's presidensy would be like Carter's. Being state of secretary would take her out of the presidential arena, and if she makes mistakes, that would damage her stocks and I have no doubt that Obama will throw her under the bus like he has done to people who have been in his way. I also wonder what John Kerry thinks about this development as his name was mentioned as a possible contender, especially when he was the person who introduced Obama to the national stage in 2004. I also wonder what Hillary and Bill Clinton haters who fiercely support Obama think about Obama's cabinet that so far has been mostly filled with Clinton's people. To me, that does not look Change of new Washington he promised during his campaign.