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Teens & Young Adults Prefer Facebook Over Blogs

Firebelly

Blogging by teens (ages 12-17) has been cut in half - from 28 percent in 2006 to 14 percent in 2009. Where did they go? Social networking sites (SNS). 73 percent of teens and 72 percent of Gen Y are now active on at least one SNS. 71 percent of young adults prefer Facebook while 66 percent of younger teens prefer Myspace.

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A Brief History of the Evolution of Social Technology

Social Media Marketing

Used to rally demonstrators, Facebook postings, mobile phone images and SMS messaging played a huge role in organizing a thus-far loose-knit regime opposition. David Murton has been helping companies build and maintain their online relationships with customers since 2006. Cases in point are the recent uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.

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Five Benefits to Using Twitter Â? Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

When email is unavailable, there’s almost always SMS. Buzz YouTube Tamar Weinberg is a social media enthusiast with a passion for all things tech and productivity. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Last week, when I went to Seattle, I was in a timezone that put my family three hours ahead of me. Answers Yahoo!

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

SocialFish

We have a robust social media presence on all the sites you’d expect: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and our blog. Patrick Meier is a director of crisis mapping at Ushahidi, which is a platform that unifies data gathered from multiple sources (SMS, e-mail, web) and distributes it onto a visual map or timeline.

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Plutter Kite: The Ultimate Micro-Blogging Service

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Brightkite: Email and SMS – mobile web is definitely the wave of the future. Buzz YouTube Tamar Weinberg is a social media enthusiast with a passion for all things tech and productivity. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Favorite – making things easily accessible is one of the tenants of the Internet. Answers Yahoo!

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

For example, when someone posted a video parody on YouTube, it was featured in local Philippine television. This then drove even more traffic to YouTube. We can depend on masses in places like YouTube and Digg for a mass filter, but it’s still way different than the old model. We can make our own front page news.

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Dear YouTube – You Broke My Heart – An Open Letter to @YouTube

ProBlogger

Today I was ‘suspended’ from YouTube with no warning and no explanation of why. As a result I’ve followed the procedure to ask for reconsideration that YouTube give and have written this open letter to YouTube. YouTube – I’m not sure what to say. When did this happen? Heart brokenly yours.

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