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Social Media News Ticker: Foursquare Launches Swarm, YouTube Reportedy Buying Twitch

The Realtime Report

YouTube is reportedly buying video game live streaming site Twitch for $1 billion – YouTube is about to announce the acquisition of live-gaming site Twitch for $1 billion; in the last three years Twitch has become “immensely popular with video gamers and their fans” (GigaOM). Foursquare. Let us know in the comments below.

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iGoogle Finished – what’s your favourite RSS Dashboard social media monitoring?

Laurel Papworth

And yes, FREE, I’m pretty sure I’ve reached 10,000 companies in Australia in the last few years and convinced them NOT to buy Radian6 etc until they’ve started with a free service! It can’t be a purely RSS play as we need gadgets/widgets for API only based services. Really grumpy ! Let me know what you think.

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How to Turn Social Connections Into In-Person Sales

Convince & Convert

Alix Hart, Best Buy @trahla. Alix Hart , Brand Marketer at Best Buy , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss integrating social into all aspects of customer service and battling the “showroom” effect as a brick-and-mortar retailer. The RSS feed is: [link]. via Best Buy on Facebook. Listen Now .

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Is SMS Marketing Still a Viable Strategy?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As most brands and organizations now have a mobile optimized version of their website, the focus is now on encouraging users to travel to your site and interact with the brand itself in order to push increased revenue. Here a few examples: 77% of the population of the world own a mobile phone. This is a guest post from James Bentham.

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Social Media Trends in 2010

Freelance Social Media

Corporations look to scale Here Armano talks about Best Buy’s Twelpforce and how they use employees as customer support on Twitter. Social business becomes serious play “Relatively new networks such as Foursquare are touted for the focus on making networked activity local and mobile. This just makes sense.

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5 Current Internet Marketing Trends With Staying Power | Small.

Small Business Mavericks

Mobile Search – Seriously, mobile phones have hit the market big time. People are buying on their phones, reading blogs on their phones, and updating their social media on their phones. Mobile search is big and I predict it will get bigger. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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10 Ways to Position Your Blog Above Copycats

Kikolani

Craft your RSS feed content to avoid making it easy for content thieves. Michael Martinez published this post about how scraper blogs exploit RSS feeds like Feedburner by sending out links to blogs on a buy list. However, I do agree with his suggestion to post just a paragraph and not the entire article in your RSS feeds.

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