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Social Networks Leak Personal Information

Social Networks Leak Personal Information

By Social Editors • on August 26, 2009

InformationWeek, By Thomas Claburn — Internet users are revealing information that identifies them through the use of social networking sites, a research study claims. Online social networking sites leak personal information, a new study has found, raising the possibility that users of such sites can be tracked everywhere they go online. The study,

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Twitter Tool: Progressives Gather Forces On Twitter!

Twitter Tool: Progressives Gather Forces On Twitter!

By Social Editors • on August 25, 2009

The Huffington Post — Launched (8/23/09), TweetProgress.us, already has nearly 1,200 registered progressives and counting. Created by Jim Gilliam (@jgilliam), Tracy Viselli (@myrnatheminx), Jon Pincus (@jdp23) and Gina Cooper (@ginacooper) as a directory for progressives on Twitter, TweetProgress.us

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Social Media Expert Alex Murashko says…”Stay Current With Your Message!”

Social Media Expert Alex Murashko says…”Stay Current With Your Message!”

By Social Editors • on August 24, 2009

by Alex Murashko — One of my clients, real estate expert and author Chuck Salisbury of TenPercentDown.com, sends out a monthly e-mail newsletter to his members. Salisbury does a good job of staying current with his basic message that real estate investment property is still a much lower risk than

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Facebook Cedes Content to Twitter for Facebook Pages, Not Profiles!

Facebook Cedes Content to Twitter for Facebook Pages, Not Profiles!

By Social Editors • on August 24, 2009

eWeek — Facebook allows administrators of Facebook Pages to post Facebook photos, events, links and status updates to Twitter. However, this sharing feature won’t work for individual users who want to take Facebook content to Twitter. So, users can still bring tweets into Facebook, but can’t

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For Twitter, Sharing Data WIth Google Would Be Suicide!

For Twitter, Sharing Data WIth Google Would Be Suicide!

By Social Editors • on August 23, 2009

The Washington Post ‘n TechCrunch by Edo Segal — He has launched and sold several companies. In 2000 he founded eNow, a search engine for the Real-time Internet in an age that predated RSS as a popular medium. As such he has had a decade to think about its implications. He ultimately sold

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Corporate Twitter Toolbox: Twitter Tools for the Enterprise

Corporate Twitter Toolbox: Twitter Tools for the Enterprise

By Social Editors • on August 20, 2009

Mashable – Twitter is a great listening post for companies to monitor conversations related to their brand and engage with customers; and there are a variety of tools available to help groups and corporations tweet, collaborate, and generally manage their Twitter work flows. From tweeting and responding

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40 Percent of all content on Twitter is “Pointless Babble!”

40 Percent of all content on Twitter is “Pointless Babble!”

By Social Editors • on August 18, 2009

Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld — The death of social media is upon us. How do I know this? I read it on the InterWebs. Let’s start with a report by the BBC about a study of random tweets by Pear Analytics, which shows some 40 percent of all content on Twitter is “pointless babble.” [

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Facebook Aims to Become the Next Google Instead of the Next MySpace

Facebook Aims to Become the Next Google Instead of the Next MySpace

By Social Editors • on August 16, 2009

PCWorld – Facebook is making strategic moves to evolve into something greater than a Classmates.com with silly quizzes. It purchased FriendFeed, a popular niche social networking platform, and the talented development team that built it. It has rolled out new search functionality, and a new ability

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Fight to Own Social Media Is Heating Up – Facebook Cornering Market on E-Friends!

Fight to Own Social Media Is Heating Up – Facebook Cornering Market on E-Friends!

By Social Editors • on August 15, 2009

The Washington Post — Fight to Own Social Media Heating Up Facebook just bought the rights to nearly everything you do online. And it cost them only $47.5 million. Facebook’s purchase of FriendFeed, an obscure social-media platform, is potentially momentous. To understand why, we must understand

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Looking for a job? Try LinkedIn or Twitter

Looking for a job? Try LinkedIn or Twitter

By Social Editors • on August 15, 2009

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) By Sue Zeidler — Job-seeking in this 21st century recession may just have gone viral and mobile. Since the start of the recession in December 2007, about 6.7 million workers have been laid off according to latest statistics — at a time the popularity of social networking

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