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Let’s say you need to assemble a piece of IKEA furniture. You dislike doing it so much that you would be willing to pay somebody $50 to put it together for you. http://mashable.com/2011/05/18/zaarly/

Put Your Neighbors To Work With Zaarly, A Local Market for Odd Jobs

It’s a feature you probably wouldn’t find on Facebook, the most popular social network in the world, because it could pull users away from the main Facebook website or mobile application. But that’s because Yammer’s business model is quite different from Facebook, which relies on having users on the Facebook.com website as long as possible to generate advertising impressions. Instead, Yammer makes money by charging companies for premium features and additional control over the enterprise social network.

Breaking free: Yammer announces embeddable activity streams | VentureBeat

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http://mashable.com/2011/05/15/small-business-digital-resources/ As a small business owner, your time is limited.

73 Essential Social Media & Tech Resources for Small Businesses

Startup School to inicjatywa dzięki której, korzystając z naszej wiedzy i doświadczenia, możesz stworzyć własny biznes internetowy - przełożyć swój pomysł na gotowy produkt i sprawnie działającą firmę. Przez ostatnie 3 lata organizowaliśmy warsztaty dla 51 osób dzieląc się z nimi swoim doświadczeniem, zapewniając szkolenia, wsparcie merytoryczne, biuro i nocleg oraz finansowanie. http://www.startupschool.pl/

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If you’re a workaholic at a tech startup (or anywhere else), it’s probably a challenge to make sure you’re eating tasty, healthy meals, at least if you aren’t being fed by the chefs at a company like Google. So a startup called Gobble just launched an online marketplace where you can order home-cooked meals for pickup and delivery. http://venturebeat.com/2011/05/11/gobble-raises-1-2m-for-%e2%80%9cpeer-to-peer-lasagna%e2%80%9d/

Gobble raises $1.2M for “peer-to-peer lasagna” | VentureBeat

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Foursquare Checkins Get Customers Gas Discounts

http://mashable.com/2011/05/11/foursquare-gas-discount-2/ Here’s one way to bring location-based checkins to the masses — use them to shave off a few dollars at the gas pump.
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark .

Startup Tweets You Offers Based On Where You Check In

http://mashable.com/2011/05/11/local-response/
Social data is an emerging new industry and enterprises are applying social data to solve challenges in both the business world and the public sector. And while there are a wide range of conferences to discuss big data or social media marketing, there hasn’t been a place for the people and organizations working with social [...]

Gnip is the Social Media API

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http://mashable.com/2011/05/10/social-media-pr-tips/

5 Killer Social Media Tips for PR Pros

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Top Prospect, a startup that helps members find jobs for their social network friends, is enhancing its social recruiting service Tuesday with improvements for job seekers and job matchmakers alike.

Get Hired With Help From Your Social Network Friends

10 Proven Strategies for Greater Likeability on Facebook

Dave Kerpen is the CEO of Likeable , a social media agency that has worked with more than 200 leading brands including 1-800Flowers.com, Verizon and Neutrogena.
Airbnb , the vacation rentals site where users can rent couches, countries and everything in between, is personalizing the rental search experience with the help of Facebook’s social graph starting Tuesday. “Social Connections completely transforms the search experience on Airbnb,” the startup says .

Airbnb Taps Facebook, Lets You Crash With Friends Of Friends

One of the big shifts in online shopping last year was the emergence of social e-commerce. Brands and retailers started to realize that social networks aren’t just a means to extend their visibility but also a way to pull in more revenue. The infrastructure of the Internet now enables the sharing of information among networks at a velocity and scale that has been impossible in the offline world.

How retailers and brands will evolve through social e-commerce | VentureBeat