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Facebook moves fast. On January 21st, the company broke ground on a custom data center in Prineville, Oregon. Now, it's named the facility's manager, and proven with...

Hitwise Dubs Facebook “Most Searched On Brand In U.S.”

It looks like Mark Zuckerberg is going to have to make more room in his trophy case. Hitwise has devised a new metric termed "breadth volume," and Facebook is be...

ConnectU Founders Claim Facebook Fight Not Over

After a false start or two, it appeared that an argument about the founding of Facebook was resolved in 2008, with an out-of-court settlement ending the quarrel between Facebook...

FTC Promoting Online Child Safety

The Federal Trade Commission reported to Congress it is getting the word out about Internet safety for children by heavily promoting a new free booklet, "Net Cetera: Chatti...

Social Media Changes Event Planning

It used to be you spent five minutes registering for an event, and then showed up on the big day, went to a few workshops, drank two free Coronas, and went home. Social...

The Next Big Thing in Social Media – Using Your Brain

What's the next big thing in social media? Is it Google Buzz? Is it Chat Roulette? Is it Foursquare? Is it Gowalla? Is it something you won't hear about until tomorrow, next wee...

Twitter “Share” Button Most Common Among Top Blogs

Many blogs depend on the practice of sharing for survival, or at least profitability; they can't count on millions of people to find their own way to every article. And it...

Could Forums Be More Valuable to Your Brand Than Facebook/Twitter?

Social media marketing is largely about engaging with your audience, and a big part of that is knowing where your audience is. A lot of brands may find that their audience is ea...

Social Network Users Improve Privacy Habits

As the amount of activity on social networks continues to increase, more users are taking steps to protect their privacy but security risks remain, according to a new report rel...

Twitter Tests New Home Page

Twitter is testing a new home page, aimed at showing more of the information that "flows through Twitter." "This builds on a series of changes sta...

First Open Cross-Communication Between Social Networks?

Cliqset shared some pretty interesting news with WebProNews today. They say that for the first time ever, the users of two independent, public web entities are able to communica...

Tips For Conference Attendees

Every year in March I make my annual trek to Austin to be part of the South By Southwest Interactive show, one of the biggest gatherings...

Nearly Three-Quarters Of Internet Users Visit Social Networks

Globally, 72 percent of Internet users are members of at least one social network, which translates to 940 million people worldwide, according to a new study by InSites Consulti...

UK Kids Ignoring Facebook Age Limits

A quarter of children in the UK aged 8-12 who use the Internet at home say they have a profile on Facebook, Bebo or MySpace, although the minimum age is 13, according to new res...

Twitter Business Lessons from Justin Bieber

If you're not familiar with Justin Bieber (you're excused if you're not a 12-year-old girl), he is 16-year -old singer, who was discovered by his manager on YouTube, apparently...

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