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AOL said today it is launching Patch.org, a charitable foundation to support access to local news and information in underserved communities. Patch.org will part...

Twitter “Contributors” Feature Spotted on Salesforce Account

Back in December, Twitter announced that it began beta testing a n...

New Digg Buttons Keep Traffic With Publishers

Digg has launched some new Digg Buttons and a widget generator for publishers, which the company refers to as updated tools to improve speed, usability and flexibility of integr...

Blogging vs. Twitter: It Shouldn’t Be About the Format

In case you were wondering, Twitter is not killing blogging. No matter how many times this is said, there is still this notion out there that blogs aren't needed when you can si...

SES Keynote: New Rules Of Marketing

David Meerman Scott, author, of "World Wide Rave," gave a keynote on the new rules of marketing and PR. Coverage of SES New York continues at...

Use Social Network Services To Send Gift Cards

If you are like me and you spend quite a bit of time hanging out on social networks and...

ChaCha Introduces Q & A Social Platform

Online answers service ChaCha has launched ChaCha.me, a social platform that includes answers directly from individuals and businesses. ChaCha.me allows anyone wh...

Brands On Facebook And Twitter Favored By Consumers

People who are Facebook fans and Twitter followers of a brand are more likely to buy the brand's product or recommend it to a friend, according to a new study by Chadwick Martin...

Nielsen: Time Spent On Social Networks Up ~60% YOY

Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other such sites are - in general, anyway - doing quite well on a global basis, according to new stats from Nielsen. Nielsen reve...

Detailed Look at Reasons People Visit Various Social Sites

As with traditional media, it’s different strokes for different folks on social media sites. And knowing your audience’s needs and preferences is just as valid...

Twitter Responsible For Very Little Visits To News and Media

The latest post from Hitwise discusses where users travel after leaving T...

Twitter Announces @anywhere Platform

Twitter should soon become more ubiquitous across the Web. Today, the company's cofounders announced something called @anywhere that should help integrate the Twitter expe...

Liveblogging: Twitter CEO Evan Williams Keynote at SXSW

We're here at SXSW Interactive waiting for the keynote with Twitter CEO Evan Williams who will discuss "The Next Generation of Social Media." There has been...

JetBlue Runs an Interesting and Successful Twitter Promotion

In the social media world, it is so important to try to do things that haven't been done before. Why? Well, since social media is so new and the applications of it have not even...

How the Crowd is Changing the News (SXSW)

Here at SXSW, we attended the session "CrowdControl: Changing the Face of Media or Hype?" At the end, one of the speakers asked the crowd, which they thought it was. A...

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