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10 social sites you might have missed

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Though you will have to download Microsoft’s Silverlight to really see it in all of its glory. Pay attention to this post by Coree Silvera titled 36 Twitter Resources: Advanced Twitter Search for Business, It’s loaded with advanced Twitter search tips you probably don’t know about. So here we go.

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On Dependence of 3rd Party Platforms and Leaving the Grid

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We use Twitter to let people know what we’re doing right now. What happens if Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Youtube, Pandora, Verison, Spotify, Evernote, Amazon, Google and Microsoft were to go away? We use Facebook to connect with our past. Without technology, how would we connect with people?

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The Problem with the Social Web

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In the larger picture of the social web though-there is Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, YouTube and blogs. “We have a Twitter account, follow us we may say something insightful&#. Recently I read where, First it was AOL, then it was Microsoft, then it was Google and now it’s Facebook. I’d say that was pretty safe.

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Social Media is the Back Channel for Teen Angst

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First I want to quote a paragraph from the abstract of a 2011 paper by danah boyd , a renowned expert on teen culture and social media at Microsoft Research. Initially I thought it was amusing to see how middle school and high school students use Twitter and Instagram. The paper is titled, The Drama! It’s different, to put it mildly.

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10 lessons Twitter should have taught you in 2009

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You know we’re all amazed at the power of Twitter and the numbers don’t lie. But if Twitter went away tomorrow what would you do? As we have all seen when Twitter does goes down for any prolonged amount of time, the silence is deafening. Here’s my take on Twitter and real time conversations. I know I am.

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