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Eight oddball Twitter utilities

Twitter is a great personal and social communications platform. But that's not all you can use it for. I've dug through countless services to find some interesting, loopy, and just plain cool tools that allow you to do more than talk to friends.

Just What is Social Media, Exactly?

What is social media, and is social media actually media in the traditional sense of the word? This is the question Jeffrey and Brian Eisenberg take on and try to decisively answer at their marketing firm's company blog.

Top Six Social Media Markets in 2009

It's apparent that we're in for a deep, long recession. As our leadership rallies to fight the economic tide, those of us with businesses (or individual careers) need to continue moving forward.

MTV to MySpace: Post Our Content, Please

From the moment people had the ability to upload video content to the Web, they took the liberty of posting anything and everything they could find - whether they owned the rights to the content or not.

Camcording in movie theater results in 21-month sentence

A man caught recording movies in a theater with a camcorder has been sentenced to almost two years in prison following his guilty plea earlier this year.

Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

Think you know what you're doing every time you engage in social media? Neither do I, and neither do the social media gurus I spoke to about their biggest social networking blunders.

How Many Web Services Can One Person Use?

How many more new social networking or micro-blogging or video-sharing site can one person use? Most of us don't have time to respond to voice mail and e-mail every day, let alone check our Twitter updates and Facebook accounts and Flickr friends.

Zuckerberg Addresses Facebook Nation About the New Design

In a rare blog post, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg addresses those that have been critical of the social network's new design, which has now been rolled out to nearly all of the site's 100 million members. As we noted earlier this week, more than 7 million users h …

MySpace Music Sounds Like Advertiser Heaven

As we noted last Friday, MySpace Music will be stepping up its content offerings substantially later this month, with partnerships made between itself and the major record studios Sony BMG, Universal and Warner going further than an ordinary "commercial deal."

Brave New World of Digital Intimacy: I'm So Totally, Digitally Close to You

On Sept. 5, 2006, Mark Zuckerberg changed the way that Facebook worked, and in the process he inspired a revolt.

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