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The Top 3 Social Media iPhone Apps

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Earlier this year, Facebook said it “had 665 million active users each day on average in March, up 26 percent from a year earlier, and 751 million using Facebook from a mobile device each month, up 54 percent,” Yahoo News reported. Coming in third is the online photo and video sharing app Instagram.

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What is Reddit, and Should Your Brand Be Using It?

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Reddit isn’t often mentioned alongside the “big” social networks, though it’s one of the most influential. Reddit is a social network with a forum-style discussion structure. Reddit launched in 2005 and sold to Conde Nast less than a year later for $10 million USD. R.I.P. Yahoo Groups.). What is Reddit?

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A Pinteresting Story

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With rumors swirling of Facebook 's pending IPO (and the billions at play that go along with it), it does seem like the most opportune time for the online social networking behemoth to go public. Delicious got acquired by Yahoo in 2005 and became the defacto destination to share one's bookmarks online. social bookmarking.

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Twitter, Facebook, Denial of Service Attacks

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These large sites ( Google, Apple, Yahoo, Microsoft ) have complex back end programming that make the site run as expected as well as front end programming to control the incoming traffic and direct it to available servers, known as load balancing. Large popular sites are typically the victim.

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Paid Bloggers Still Get Google Downgrades

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To its credit, Google also penalized its own Japan division who used the pay per post tactic in an attempt to compete against Yahoo. Carnival of Social Networking Tips : Buzz Networker - Social Networking Tips and News for Your Business, Product or Yourself June 19, 2009 at 6:19 am [.]

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Going from Free to Fee Part 2

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Instant messaging has stuck around through the ages as a free service but most of those services are supported by bigger businesses making money in other ways (MSN, AOL, Yahoo…) Maybe Google should/could buy out Twitter. :) And then again, sometimes businesses simply fail. In a way Twitter is like instant messaging.

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GoHawaii's A Thousand Reasons to Smile Makes Me Frown, Not Smile.

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I would have liked to point this campaign to my San Francisco friends, who also happen to be active web users, who themselves have a large “following&# via blogs, social networks, Twitter, et al. 34,000 people submitted 1-minute videos from all over the world. I have been giving free talks on this stuff since early 2005.

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