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Major Social Media Acquisitions: 3 Must-Reads

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Billion Yammer Buy, Microsoft’s Social Enterprise Strategy Takes Shape. By Colleen Taylor and Ingrid Lunden The Yammer deal also puts Microsoft further into the game of developing social media services specifically for enterprises, an area where companies like Oracle, Salesforce and IBM have been actively playing, too.

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Bing Adds Facebook Integration

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Enter Bing , Microsoft’s search engine (or “decision engine,&# ) that just added a whole slew of Facebook integration features. As Facebook is growing from just being a social network to almost being a lifestyle, a lot of websites are starting to develop around it.

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Klout’s Effect On The Classroom, Your Career & More

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Q&A With CEO of Klout, Microsoft’s Latest Big Investment. By Matthew Lynley Microsoft has invested an undisclosed amount of money in Klout, a San Francisco-based start-up that measures social influence on sites like Twitter and Facebook.

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Facebook’s IPO: 5 Must-Reads

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But Facebook has many of the traits that made Apple, Microsoft, and Google great in the long run. Facebook future? By Charles Arthur Facebook IPO generated no big stock gains on its first day of trading. The Failure of Facebook’s IPO.

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Looking Into The Social Media Past

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… People all over the world will be able to have more meaningful mobile experiences, better internet applications (read: the end of Microsoft world domination), and easier-to-use interfaces.&#. . “What does that mean for us in digital marketing? Tech Alliance Announces Android Open Platform For Mobile Devices , November 2007.

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Social Curation Will Not Cure Your C.P.A.

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Linda Stone, a leader in the digital revolution (headed up the social computing group at Microsoft in the early 90′s) and digital bon vivant coined the term in 1998. Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today. It is different from multi-tasking.

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Social Networking Meets Game Consoles

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Microsoft's game console, the Xbox 360 , has announced that it will be officially rolling out its latest Dashboard update, which includes Facebook , Twitter , and Last.fm. These days it is all different. The PS3 has also announced it will be officially rolling out its latest Dashboard update, which includes Facebook.