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LinkedIn just unveiled a dramatic revamp that transforms it from a dry resume service into a serious competitor of Facebook and Twitter. David Kirkpatrick on how it will disrupt the social media landscape. LinkedIn has been the stealth social network, but today it finally started to make waves.
Huge LinkedIn Revamp Puts It Into Direct Competition With Facebook And Twitter
Recommendation engines are among the hottest properties on the web. These sites make make recommendations by mining the pattern of links that crop up in social networks.
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A simple typo gave Michael Ivey the idea for his company.
Last year , SawHorse Media, a Twitter aggregator that pioneered the concept of lists , put together the Shorty Awards .
The Oscars of Twitter: Shorty Awards to Honor Creators of Short-Form, Real-Time Content
In an article for BusinessWeek , communications skills coach Carmine Gallo outlines some ways to incorporate Twitter into your presentations, taken from consultant Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Backchannel .
How To Incorporate Your Audience's Twitter Use Into Your Next Presentation
Facebook U.S. Visits Increase 194% Over Past Year; Tagged is Beating Twitter?
New data released from Experian Hitwise reconfirms what we've known for some time: Facebook is killing the other social networks. Nowhere is that more true than here in the U.S. where they found that the visits to the site have increased 194% from September of last year to September 2009.
apophenia: Some thoughts on Twitter vs. Facebook Status Updates
My name is danah boyd and I'm a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, a Visting Researcher at Harvard Law School, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales. I received my PhD from the School of Information at UC-Berkeley . I spend 1/3 of my time in Cambridge, MA, 1/3 in New York, NY, and 1/3 in the air.
TweetMixx, the newly launched service from social voting site Mixx that allows you to find relevant links on Twitter, is venturing into new territory today with the launch of TweetMixx Channels. The service basically lets brands, celebs and companies consolidate their Twitter traffic and mentions on one page. TweetMixx Channels features branded, customizable pages, with the brand’s current Twitter feed, tweets and updates from fans, and links relevant to content about the brand, company or topic posted automatically.
TweetMixx Launches Branded Twitter Channels
Sean Parker , a managing partner at Founder’s Fund , gave an interesting talk today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. The key to it is simple: Facebook, Twitter, Apple, and eBay will dominate the web going forward. One company of note that won’t?
Sean Parker: Twitter/Facebook Will Soon Dominate The Web — Not Google.
I may be a scruffy, untrained blogger but I can still appreciate the work of traditional professional technology analysts. SageCircle is an analyst analyst firm, they track the analyst industry.
How to: Follow Hundreds of Tech Analysts on Twitter With 3 Clicks
About 72 hours ago I decided that I was going to start publishing blog posts directly from TextMate instead of writing in TextMate and posting with MarsEdit (more on this in a bit). This did present a problem for me though, it would be nearly impossible to post linked list items (which are far more frequent and fast paced).
⌘+1 (How I Blog with Keyboard Maestro and TextMate) — The Brooks Review
If the ongoing social networking revolution has you scratching your head and asking, "Why do people spend time on this?" and "How can my company benefit from the social network revolution?"