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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The Irony: MySpace Okay, so in my previous paragraph, I mention that you should be an early adopter of social networks. However, I joined MySpace in 2006 to network with individuals who refused to use Facebook and to return to my liberal ways of accepting a lot more friend requests than I normally would.

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Twitter is Dead Pls RT

Taylor Marek

Remember MySpace? I remember when Myspace was “talked up&# all the time in mainstream news, whether it was good or bad. Sure, the media shined more of a negative light on myspace, which accounts for most of the traffic, but the instant myspace hit the airwaves and everybody heard about it is when it hit its high point.

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#95: Now is the Hour, 5 Branding Mistakes, and Facebook breaks 250.

Taylor Marek

link] Technology : Facebook breaks 250 million Facebook has broken 250 million users and is crushing MySpace in terms of page views, you’ll want to listen to this one! Business : 5 Branding Mistakes Don’t make the same mistakes when building your brand. and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar !

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First Steps Toward Becoming a 21st Century Educator | always learning

Buzz Marketing for Technology

ve all heard of MySpace and Facebook , and while those are great ways to connect with friends and colleagues, an even better place to start is a social network with a focus, like Ning. Date : 2 April 2008. Create a free edublog to get your own comment avatar (and more!). always learning. teaching technology abroad. Philosophy.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. “Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.&# “Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.&# It’s not hard, it’s complicated.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Even though we're all just the text of our name or a simple avatar/pic to each other, we're all real people inside. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. And thus, a relationship starts to grow. And like all relationships it has to be nurtured and such. All rights reserved.

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Tweet Spinner Review: A Powerful Application to Manage Your Tweets

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Why follow someone who last tweeted in January of 2008? You can save your profile (bio, URL avatar, background color scheme, and background graphic) to the server and upload a custom one at will. Tweet activity. You might want to follow users who have sent tweets recently. You can set a day here. User-filtering/pruning. Answers Yahoo!