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The storefront windows of tech-savvy businesses may be getting rather crowded before long. Perhaps following the example set by "People love us on Yelp" stickers...

Study Finds Twitter Matches Facebook In Awareness

Twitter isn't some strange new thing anymore, according to a fresh report. In fact, if you reference "Twitter" in front of someone, the odds of you getting a str...

Half Of People On Social Networks Use Their Real Name

Just over half (51%) of the people on social networks use their real name, according to a new survey by Opinion Research and sponsored by Chubb Insurance. The sur...

LinkedIn Gets Major Upgrade in Usefulness

LinkedIn has introduced a new "Follow Company" feature as a way to (you guessed it) follow companies on LinkedIn. Now LinkedIn users can simply follow organizations to...

Addressing The Problem Of Bullying On Facebook

Yesterday, Tony Orsini, my son's middle school principal sent a blunt letter to all parents telling us that we should ban social networks for our middle school children. I was...

Foursquare, The Next Social Up-And-Comer

It’s funny how early adoption works and how you start to see recurring patterns. When I started using Twitter there were num...

Microsoft Previews New Windows Live Messenger Beta

Steve Ballmer just previewed the new Windows Live Messenger beta during his "Five Dimensions of Clou...

Brands Get New High-Speed Moderation Tool For Facebook Walls

Social network marketing company LiveWorld, has introduced a high-speed moderation tool for brands' Facebook Walls and WebProNews spoke to Peter Friedman, Chairman and CEO of Li...

MySpace’s VP Of Corporate Communications To Leave

Today is not likely to be remembered fondly by members of MySpace's PR department. One of the most visible people on MySpace's payroll announced this afternoon that she is...

Nicorette Launches Facebook Contest Promoting Mini Lozenge

Nicorette has launched a Facebook contest promoting its new mini lozenge. The contest called "mini Moments" ask smokers to share their most important re...

Papa John

Papa John's has launched a social media campaign on its Facebook page, called "Papa's Specialty Pizza Challenge," asking customers to create and name its next specialt...

Do You “Like” How Facebook Phrases Your Likes?

Now that most of the web is scrambling to get like buttons and/or recommend buttons on their sites, there is going to be more "liking" and "recommending" on...

Majority Of Facebook Users Don

A majority of Facebook users say they connect to the social networking site from work, but 73 percent have not "friended" their boss, according to a new report from F-...

Twitter Acquires SMS Specialist Cloudhopper

Life is good - and rather Twitter-centric - for Joe Lauer and Kristin Kanaar. Not only did they get to see Twitter hero Conan O'Brien perform last night, but today, Twitte...

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