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Gartner: fake social media reviews

Sherrilynne Starkie

As the FTC begins to crack down on this practice of fake reviews/ratings, some social media sites identifying fake and defaming reviews and requesting they be taken down. Related posts: Users flee MySpace. Related articles. Social Media Reviews: 10 percent to be paid for by companies in 2014.

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MySpace: The OSINT Left Behind For Collection

Forbes Social Media

MySpace is sometimes referred to as the "Forgotten Social Network." This article is a survey of what could be found. Users abandoning it in favor of other platforms does not mean that it is immune to information gathering.

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5 Helpful Social Search Articles

Firebelly

Here are 5 articles to help you understand social searchs relevancy to your business. Social Search Optimization A search engines ultimate mission is to serve the most relevant information it can. But from a search perspective, the emergence of social media has essentially expanded whats relevant.

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Debunking Five Social Media Myths

Socialized

Social media, particularly its use in business communications, is still in its early days, and like anything new and different, there’s plenty of mythology surrounding it. The blogosphere has been buzzing recently in response to a Wall Street Journal article declaring that e-mail is dead. E-Mail Is Dead. But its reign is over.”.

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Debunking Five Social Media Myths

Socialized

In fact, it indicated e-mail use was growing, just not as fast as social network adoption. And MySpace is for “young people&# right? In my November Talent Zoo column I attempt to debunk five social media myths. In my November Talent Zoo column I attempt to debunk five social media myths.

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The State of Social Media In The UK

Mindjumpers

Another chance to look at the social media universe, analyse the trends and make the strategies. Our data sources for this article were Xposure and Nielson. Last.fm, Bebo and MySpace continue their steady decline, while image-sharing site Flickr maintains its user base of around four million. UK Facebook statistics.

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Facebook considers competing with Myspace on the music front

Freelance Social Media

The surging social-networking giant is talking to a number of song-streaming services and music community sites, including Rhapsody.com, iMeem.com, iLike.com and Lala.com, about an outsourcing deal that would more deeply integrate their music experience into Facebook, sources familiar with the situation said, the NY Post reports.

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