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Hawaii Tsunami Proves Social Media Power Again: Information is a.

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via @KaimanaPine ) Extended Family: Online communities like Twitter and Facebook serve as extended families – smart and caring to boot! Via @JohnGarcia ) Hashtag Aggregation: People create hashtags to help aggregate related content from disparate sources so the world (and all of its relevant subsets) can be easily informed.

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A Pinteresting Story

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With over 800 million users and talk that it will hit a billion connected people by the summer, it doesn't seem like Twitter is a true competitor. Delicious got acquired by Yahoo in 2005 and became the defacto destination to share one's bookmarks online. or that any other competitors are waiting in the wings. business column.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

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2005 marked the apex of Myspace. Gaining traction: LinkedIn, YouTube, and WordPress (and more) arrive (2003-2005) In 2003, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facemash, described as Harvard University’s answer to Hot or Not. Registering its one-millionth user that same year, the site became just “ Facebook ” in 2005.

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Boycott Facebook & Related Sites | Bare Feet Blog

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But the way that Facebook’s Beacon is setting cookies and sending my very specific online behavior (at selected sites) back to it’s databases not in the aggregate but assigned to my personal data, is going too far. I am here right now, due to Twitter being down. I am going to boycott Facebook for now. .

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Best Social Media Monitoring Tools

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Facebook and Twitter are some of the main outlets for social media, but there are numerous types of social media like blogs, wikis, forums, chat rooms, etc. Sentiment Metrics – founded in 2005, Sentiment Metrics has helped businesses listen to the growing world of social media. You can even monitor all of this in real time.

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Friday Buzz Report for Bare Feet Blog 080725

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Of course I Twitter and FriendFeed too, so this mea culpa is now pau! It is a great time saver, as I can upload one file and Tube Mogul will send it to as many as 12 other video aggregation sites. at the Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunset May 28-30: Social Media Skills for Musicians: Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, & Podcasting at the N?

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Tweet-Book with Toby Bloomberg Video Chapter

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Here is how Toby defines a tweet-book: It’s a book written using Twitter as platform and distribution channel. This Twitter-book is structured as a “real&# business book and includes: a foreword, introduction and chapters. Each tweet must include that tag or label to be aggregated , or automatically collected, online.

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