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A Social Media Status Quo Pt.1-Japan

Mindjumpers

The following post is part of the Mindjumpers Network series t hat examines the state of social media around the globe. Japan’s social media landscape is equally as diverse as the country’s description. We’ve taken a look at some of the leading social platforms and emerging new trends in the land of the rising sun.

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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. Soon enough, features like direct messages and @-mentions arrived, changing the trajectory of social media forever. So what’s next?

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Our Shifting Notion of Search, Social and Mobile.

Direct Marketing Observations

10 years ago seems so 10 years ago in the world of search, social and mobile. Social networks are not what they used to be. Looking back at MySpace, it almost looks like pre-Y2k web Dev. In the world of mobile, the evolution has been nothing short of dramatic. Now the mobile device is an extension of our desktop.

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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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Is Being Too Social Ruining Social Media?

Direct Marketing Observations

Is there a tipping point looming here where eventually everyone tires of being so social? It’s not going to happen yet, but as I was made aware in a comment on a post I wrote about social media bubbles -&# there is a bubble, it’s just different&#. social networks) then demand goes down right?

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How Social Media Has Become a Tool For Clinical Research

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The exceptional growth and adaptation of social media networks represents an ideal opportunity to overcome one of the most challenging aspects of the clinical research industry. The effective implementation of social media has the potential to overcome these challenges. Custom Social Media Reports for Google Analytics.

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The International: Taking Social Media Overseas

Waxing UnLyrical

Such is the challenge I’ve been recently tasked with: not just finding out what social media people are using around the world, but how they’re using it, why and when. It turns out that some people are less than trusting of social media (for shame!) Taking in the social scene overseas can be daunting. That’s right.