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A Pinteresting Story

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Delicious got acquired by Yahoo in 2005 and became the defacto destination to share one's bookmarks online. Pinterest Becomes Top Traffic Driver for Retailers - via Mashable. Delicious was created by Joshua Schacter in 2003 as the notion of tagging (or labeling) content to make it findable by others begun to take hold.

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Social Media the One Bright Spot for PR Hiring

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At Indeed.com the number of social-media job postings has increased by more than 600 percent, from roughly 3,000 in 2005 to 21,323 as of May 2010. Yahoo HotJobs has also seen a significant rise in positions with a social-media component, says a Newsweek article. Online recruitment sites are being flooded with social medial positions.