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When you think about traffic-driving social networks, LinkedIn may not be the first thing that comes to your mind, and truth be told, there's a good chance it will not drive the...

Facebook’s Plans to Take Over the Web

So, earlier in the week, we talked about how absorbed the web is going...

Twitter Promoted Tweets – Advertising With or Without Them

Twitter has finally unveiled its business model in the form of "Promoted Tweets". The company refers to this as a "non-traditional" and "easy" stra...

6.7 Billion Tweets Forecast For January 2011

Forecasters of all sorts have been working overtime the past week or so, discussing floods in the U.S., Greece's economy, and elections in the U.K. Now here's a little som...

LinkedIn Continues Adding Features to Recruiter

LinkedIn has added several features to its Recruiter platform. These include real-time profile matches, mini profiles, and fr...

ChaCha.me Now Mobile

Question and answer social network ChaCha has added mobile functionality to its ChaCha.me service that launched in March. Users are now able to ask and answer qu...

Facebook Measures More of the World’s Happiness

You may recall Facebook's Gross National Happiness project, it which it tried...

Believe it or Not, Self-Promotion Can Hurt You

The interesting thing about online self-promotion is that it can be vital to your success, but can also make you look horrible, tarnish your reputation, and alienate people. The...

Battle.net To Integrate With Facebook

Blizzard Entertainment said today it will integrate its Battle.net gaming service with Facebook in an effort to improve the social side of the company's online platform....

Facebook Announces Seattle Expansion

Less than two months after Facebook made its decision to open a sales and operations office in Austin, Texas official, the company is on the move again. Facebook's announc...

Spindex – Microsoft’s Stab at Social Media Organization

At the Web 2.0 Expo, Microsoft announced a new product from its FUSE Labs division: Spindex, a social tool to bring activity from sources like Facebook, Twitter, RSS, and of cou...

Twitter Tweet Frequency on the Rise

Last month at Chirp, Twitter's Developer Conference, the company announced that it was up to 105,779,710 registered users, confirming Twellow...

MySpace Puts Former Googler Over Games, Dev Platform

Fresh off News Corp.'s quarterly earnings report, MySpace has added a new member to its team, and he looks more than capable of helping the site move forward. In fact, the...

Embeddable Tweets Could Increase Visibility for Twitter and Twitterers

Update 2: Robin Sloan from Twitter, who created and announced the Blackbird Pie tool to embed tweets is...

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