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Social Networking

How Users Can Get Back to “Digging” Digg: New Features Promise Smoother Experience on Site

April 15, 2010

Digg CEO Jay Adelson talked about the new features offered by the popular social bookmarking site at the “Bigg Digg Schindigg” hosted by the South by Southwest Interactive Conference (SXSWi). Despite being unavailable at the moment, users can sign up for the Alpha version of the site by visiting Digg New. 
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The Value of Twitter and Facebook in the Classroom

April 9, 2010

Last fall, Australia’s Griffith University jumped on the social media bandwagon by making a class on Twitter a mandatory requirement for journalism students. University officials noted the importance of social media in terms of potential employment opportunities and the role that “tweets” played in global events like the Iran elections. Students, on the [...]

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Facebook Improves Search Result Feature in an Attempt to Make It More User Friendly

April 5, 2010

Last Tuesday, Facebook announced on its blog an important improvement to its Search feature. In the past, queries were limited to a member’s inner circle of people, events, groups, and Pages. The development, which has now been finalized, provides more relevant results by including the connections of your friends and global events that [...]

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Social Media Networking For Pets: Have Businesses Successfully Tapped This Market?

April 3, 2010

Animal lovers of the world unite! Applications like Dogbook, and websites Catster and Dogster , connect precious pooches and finicky felines with other pets online with the help of social networking. In addition to providing helpful information and advice, the sites allow dog and cat owners to post blog entries, update their pet’s [...]

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HootSuite a Popular Social Media Tool Teams Up with Foursquare and MySpace This Week

March 8, 2010

Earlier this week, March 8th, the extremely popular and useful social media tool, HootSuite has decided to integrate MySpace and Foursquare this week. 
HootSuite was initially launched as a Twitter application and has quickly gworn due to its ease of use, sleek interface, and customization.  It is a time saver for any internet marketer who manages [...]

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Facebook Has Decided to Take 30% of App Developers Revenue

February 25, 2010

In an attempt for Facebook to make even more money off their insanely successful site they have switched their developer rules.  Facebook will now offer facebook credits to developers.  This is treated as cash and when profits are made facebook is not entitled to 30% f their revenue.
Facebook credits are their vitural currency traded amoungst [...]

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