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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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Report: Social Media Responsible For Only 3 Percent of Web Site Visits

Bill Hartzer

There is a new report from ForeSee Results that details research that they performed showing that social media is responsible for only three percent of web site visits to retail web sites. Apparently, according to a report that I wrote about recently, social media spending is going up. But is this really a good decision?

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9 Surprising New Facts About Social Media in America

Convince & Convert

This point was driven home in The Social Habit II, a new report from Edison Research and Arbitron that follows up on their landmark study in 2010 (and their 19th study about the Internet overall). 52% of Americans have a profile on Facebook, Linkedin, MySpace or elsewhere. 98% of super socials use Facebook, and 45% use MySpace).

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9 Surprising New Facts About Social Media in America

Convince & Convert

This point was driven home in The Social Habit II, a new report from Edison Research and Arbitron that follows up on their landmark study in 2010 (and their 19th study about the Internet overall). I encourage you to peruse the entire report, which you can access for free in a day or so. Tweet me or Tom ( @webby2001 ) to get the URL.

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Facebook Isn't (Just) A Destination

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There's this feeling of Facebook becoming the next Friendster of MySpace. He wants them to connect anywhere (online, mobile, tablet, etc.) The feature is also reported to include threaded comments that can also be "liked" and the comments can also be synched on the publisher's site and their Facebook page. e-commerce.

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How Social Media Has Become a Tool For Clinical Research

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Custom Social Media Reports for Google Analytics. PatientsLikeMe developed its own approach that they call “clinical trial awareness,” delivering anonymous data reports that have been compiled from the discussion forums and patient profiles. Google Analytics. Twitter Analytics. 3)Target Specific Patient Groups.

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6 social media marketers on the future of social messaging

Sprout Social

Ten-cent text messages, AIM chat rooms with your best friends and glittery MySpace pages with bulletin boards are just a few nostalgic elements from the early days of social media. Gartner predicts 80% of customer service organizations will abandon native mobile apps in favor of messaging for a better customer experience by 2025.